Oral history interview with Wilbur and Fern Peterson, 1978 August 8.

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Oral history interview with Wilbur and Fern Peterson, 1978 August 8.

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The Petersons discuss their courtship and marriage; family history; the acquisition of the farm; attending rural schools in Marathon and Rembrandt, Iowa; club memberships; acquisition of the farm by homesteading; drilling wells; milking cows; farm animals; mechanization of farming activities; accidental poisoning of livestock by fertilizer contaminated grain; growing hybrid corn; threshing parties; livestock diseases; dealing with economic adversity; and soil and tree conservation.

Transcript: 39 leavesSound recording: 2 sound cassettes

Iowa State Historical Society

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Iowa State Historical Society

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Earthwatch-SHSI Oral History Project.

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"Folklife in Rural Iowa" was an oral history project conducted in the summer of 1978 and funded by Earthwatch, a national organization encouraging public participation in field research. Interviewers worked in 2 teams under the direction of field director Rebecca Conard and assistant field director Michael Mendelson. Peter Harstad, director of the State Historical Society of Iowa, served as the project's principal investigator. From the description of Oral history interviews of the E...

Peterson, Fern, b. 1917,

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Conard, Rebecca

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Peterson, Wilbur

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Stoyan, Rachel,

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