Oral history interview with Mabel Brewster, 1978 August 9.

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Oral history interview with Mabel Brewster, 1978 August 9.

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Mabel Brewster discusses her parents' farm in Minnesota and how she came to live on an Iowa farm with her brother's family; her experiences teaching in rural O'Brien County schools; her early years of marriage when she learned to cook; the years she and her husband lived in Fresno, California; the impact of the Depression; farm chores; and family history and the history of the farm and farmhouse.

Transcript: 11 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...

Ongley, Elizabeth A.

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Brewster, Mabel M., b. 1889,

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Conard, Rebecca

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