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Index to taped interview with Mrs. Jane Boone Marshall 20-135 180-220 146-177; 220-235; 315: 415-425 236-314 340-385; 571-667 440-533 679-700 Daniel Wright Boone settles in the Palouse near Wawawai in 1879· Marries Amelia Williams in Illinois. Improvements to homestead; entertainm~nt: family. Description of horse-powered farming. Mrs. Jane Marshall's school days in Pullman (her mother would stay with children in town) Year spent in country school, 'rear spent in Kansas City with cousin. Why younger children went to school in town. Marriage in 1921 to George ~arshall. Moved to present farm in 1927 (160 acres). Short history of George and his family. Talks about all the chores and work that were required to keep a farm house running; gardening, dairy products, bread baking, butchering, sewing & quilting, soap ma¥:ing, and washing. The Marshalls involvement with the Grange at Union Flat and working on War Bond Committee. Hard times during depression, bank sold crop at 23¢ a bushel. Getting electricity on farm in 1936 and concluding remark: about farm life.
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Title | Marshall, Jane Oral History Interview, 1983 |
Interviewer | Afsharirad, Mary |
Date | 1983-05-27 |
Description | 46 minute oral history with Jane Marshall, conducted for a Women in the West (HST 398 course) at Washington State University. Raised on a family farm with a big family where everyone helped out. Education was very important to the family so during school year moved into town then back to the farm for the summer. Married after high school; became a farm wife and mother, a lot of manual work but enjoyable. Self sufficient farm to feed the family with raising cows, chickens, a garden, preserving food and butchering their own food. Did all the domestic work from cooking, to laundry, sewing and quilting - practical usage but enjoyable to do. Family and family social activities were very important to the farming community. |
Subject | Women domestics; Farm life; Canning & preserving |
Coverage | North and Central America--United States--Washington (State)--Whitman County--Pullman |
Type | Sound |
Genre | Interviews |
Publisher | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries: https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Rights | http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
Rights Notes | In copyright. Item is in copyright until 95 years after 2011 publication date. |
Identifier | ua194b05f50 |
Source | Is found in Archives 194, Women in the West Oral Histories https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc/finders/ua194.htm at Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) https://libraries.wsu.edu/masc |
Holding Institution | Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries |
Contributors | Digitization and description funded through a National Endowment for the Humanities We the People grant for Washington Womens History to the Washington Womens History Consortium, a part of the Washington State Historical Society. |
Language | English |
Digitization | Original audio cassettes were converted to wav files using Audacity and a USBPre interface. Mp3 files were then created from the wav files for online access. Film clips were created as mpeg-4 files using Adobe Premiere Elements 9 to add selected images to the wav audio files, and then converted to flv files for online display. Print documents were scanned to 300dpi pdf format using a Xerox Workcentre 5030 copier/scanner. |
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Title | ua194b05f50_Abstract |
Full Text | Index to taped interview with Mrs. Jane Boone Marshall 20-135 180-220 146-177; 220-235; 315: 415-425 236-314 340-385; 571-667 440-533 679-700 Daniel Wright Boone settles in the Palouse near Wawawai in 1879· Marries Amelia Williams in Illinois. Improvements to homestead; entertainm~nt: family. Description of horse-powered farming. Mrs. Jane Marshall's school days in Pullman (her mother would stay with children in town) Year spent in country school, 'rear spent in Kansas City with cousin. Why younger children went to school in town. Marriage in 1921 to George ~arshall. Moved to present farm in 1927 (160 acres). Short history of George and his family. Talks about all the chores and work that were required to keep a farm house running; gardening, dairy products, bread baking, butchering, sewing & quilting, soap ma¥:ing, and washing. The Marshalls involvement with the Grange at Union Flat and working on War Bond Committee. Hard times during depression, bank sold crop at 23¢ a bushel. Getting electricity on farm in 1936 and concluding remark: about farm life. |
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