Oral history interview with Shirley Peterson by Diana Spencer [Transcript]

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Title Oral history interview with Shirley Peterson by Diana Spencer [Transcript]
Creator Peterson, Shirley; Spencer, Diana
Publisher Utah Historical Society
Date 2010-03-23
Access Rights Utah Historical Society
Date Digital 2024-02-13
Spatial Coverage Sevier Valley, Utah, United States https://www.geonames.org/5546670/sevier-valley.html
Subject Agricultural colonies; Alfalfa; Brown, Benjamin, 1885-1939; Children; Cisterns; Eggs; Family; Farms; Ghost towns; Grain--Harvesting; Grandparents; Immigrants; Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919; Japanese American families; Jewish Agricultural Society; Jews, Russian; Midwifery; Milk; Parents; Peas; Personal narratives; Siblings; Sugar beet; Wheat; Gunnison (Utah); Clarion Colony (Utah); Sanpete County (Utah)
Description Oral history interview by Diana Spencer with Shirley Peterson. Topics include: Personal background information including place of birth, parents, siblings, moving to a farm in Clarion, Utah at the age of twelve, and education; Her grandmother's work as a midwife in Clarion and delivering two babies of Russian families; Her grandfather's bakery in Cedar City; Going to school with Japanese American children; Trading farm land with another family; Marriage and moving to Las Vegas; Her grandfather making soup for people daily during the 1989-1919 Influenza Epidemic; Selling eggs and milk; Having the old farmhouse burnt down for fire training; and her mother driving the school bus to Gunnison for a short period of time.
Collection Number and Name Mss B 2028 Clarion Call: Echoes Near and Distant, Bitter and Sweet Oral History Project
Type Text; Sound
Genre oral histories (literary works)
Format application/pdf
Extent 10 leaves; 24:41
Language eng
Rights
Source Mss B 2028 Clarion Call: Echoes Near and Distant, Bitter and Sweet Oral History Project
Scanning Technician Michelle Gollehon
Metadata Cataloger Amy Green Larsen
ARK ark:/87278/s6jj833n
Setname dha_uhsoh
ID 2496782
Reference URL https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6jj833n
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