| Title | Oral history interview with Iris Schwobe by Diedra Northern [Transcript] |
| Creator | Schwobe, Iris; Northern, Diedra |
| Publisher | Utah Historical Society |
| Date | 1977-11-18 |
| Access Rights | Utah Historical Society |
| Date Digital | 2024-05-02 |
| Spatial Coverage | City of Vernal, Uintah, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/7174628/city-of-vernal.html |
| Subject | Bear dance; Books; Carpentry; Dance halls; Death; Education; Great Depression; Horse & Buggy; Hot Toddies; Housekeeping; Libraries; Main Street; Native Americans; Parents; Personal narratives; Picnics; Reading; Siblings; Smoking; Softball; Teachers; Works Progress Administration (U.S.); Fort Duchesne (Utah); Uintah County (Utah); Vernal (Utah) |
| Description | Oral history interview by Diedra Northern with Iris Schwobe. Topics include: The donor's Aunt smoking a pipe; House cleaning for the Aunt; The nearest house being 2 blocks away; Businesses on Main Street such as saloons, banks, and stores; Attending school with a stove in the classroom; Teaching school for thirty-one years; Going on picnics and buggy rides; Teacher vs. Student softball games; Attending a Native American Bear Dance; Missing school all winter because of illness; Her father being a master carpenter; Her parents meeting at Fort Duchesne; Her parents building a house on Main street; Coming from a large family; The death of three siblings as children; Dance Halls; Effects of the Great Depression; Having her tonsils removed; Working for the WPA one summer; Getting books from the library and reading in apple trees; Playing in the ditch water; Her mother's Hot Toddy treatments for illness; The different houses, schools, and mills her father built; Field Trips with students; and classroom expectations. |
| Collection Number and Name | Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002 |
| Type | Text |
| Genre | oral histories (literary works) |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Extent | 9 leaves |
| Language | eng |
| Rights | |
| Source | Mss B 1637 Uintah County (Utah) Oral Histories Collection, 1974-2002 |
| Scanning Technician | Michelle Gollehon |
| Metadata Cataloger | Amy Green Larsen |
| ARK | ark:/87278/s6625kff |
| Setname | dha_uhsoh |
| ID | 2535925 |
| Reference URL | https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6625kff |