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 |