Oral history interview with Iris Schwobe by Diedra Northern [Transcript]

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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
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