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Author
Publisher
Bantam Books
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
292 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Mildred Armstrong Kalish's Little Heathens is a compelling memoir of her hardscrabble life on an Iowa farm during the 1930s. With no electricity or indoor plumbing and with little heat or money on the farm, Mildred learns to find joy in the priceless blessings of life.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
xii, 229 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
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Description
"Carroll Engelhardt brings us into the world of his fourth-generation farm family, who lived by the family- and faith-based work ethic and concern for respectability they inherited from their German and Norwegian ancestors. The Farm at Holstein Dip is both a loving coming-of-age memoir and an educational glimpse into rural and small-town life of the 1940s and 1950s." -- p. [4] of cover.
Author
Series
Publisher
University of Iowa Press
Pub. Date
c2002
Physical Desc
xx, 137 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Language
English
Description
"At the time of his death in 1976, A. M. "Pete" Wettach left behind an enormous collection - some tens of thousands of images - that provides a breathtaking complement to the work of other American photojournalists of his time. A self-taught photographer who worked for the Farm Security Administration as a county supervisor in southeast Iowa during the 1930s and 1940s, he carried his camera as he traveled across the countryside visiting clients. Although...
Author
Publisher
Pelican Pub. Co
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
95 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 x 29 cm.
Language
English
Description
An illustrated memoir and cookery by an award-winning artist captures country life in America's Midwest in the early twentieth century.
In the farm home of America's past, the hearth of the home-the kitchen-represented the warmth and well-being of the family that met daily to enjoy hearty, homemade food. Award-winning artist Bob Artley evokes this ideal in this beautiful homage to the traditional Midwestern farm kitchen. Filled with heirloom...
Author
Series
Sam McCain volume 2
Publisher
Carroll & Graf
Pub. Date
2000
Physical Desc
225 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Sam McCain volume 3
Publisher
Carroll & Graf Publishers
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
197 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English