An interview with Leland Sweatman / Leland Sweatman ; Michael Maniscalco, interviewer. 2008.

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An interview with Leland Sweatman / Leland Sweatman ; Michael Maniscalco, interviewer. 2008.

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An interview of Leland Sweatman conducted by Michael Maniscalco for the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and the Illinois State Museum. Topics discussed include Virginia, Illinois; one room school house; chores; watering the animals; bailing hay; hand shucking corn; saddling horses; driving a plow; x-ray tech; rented farm; worked as an electrician; Rural Electric Association; supplement income; corn; wheat; beans; drought of the 1950s; infestation of chinch bugs; Allis Chalmers implements dealer; hydraulics; center three point hitch; and horse power equaling more blades on plows.

3 data discs (120 min.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in. + 4 photos.

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library.

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Illinois State Museum

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Sweatman, Leland, 1927-

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Born on Sept. 16, 1927 in Virginia, Ill., and spent his entire life on the farm until his retirement in the town of Virginia. Leland talks about his childhood and going to a school in a one room school house outside of Virginia, Illinois until the 8th grade. His chores consisted of watering the animals, bailing hay, hand shucking corn, saddling horses, and driving a plow. After high school he was drafted into the army in 1945, where he became an x-ray tech while managing to return to the family ...

United States. Rural Electrification Administration

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