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Agricultural laborers -- Minnesota.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 10 Collections and/or Records:

Bertha Wichern Interview

 Item
Identifier: SC 262
Abstract Typed summary of interview with Leonard Sackett (4 leaves) concerning her work on the Lockhart Farm near Ada, Minn. Includes mention of the family's one room sod house, working at age eleven, caring for small children, washing dishes, making beds, long work hours, quality of food, the stingy wife of the Lockhart Farm superintendent, Jack McPhie, a water well, hired men, and making butter.
Dates: 1954

Burr Boatman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 587
Abstract Letter from his sister Mrs. George Wright to Leonard Sackett, a typed summary of an interview with Sackett (4 leaves), concerning his father R.P. (Robert Porter) Boatman, the Loring Farm, and B.B. Boatman's employment with Northwestern Bell Telephone, and obituaries of B.B. Boatman and his sister.
Dates: 1956, 1960

Christ Menge Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 346
Abstract Correspondence, interviews, autobiographical sketch, histories of Lockhart Farm, Lockhart, Minn., and Mylo, N.D., legal materials, blueprint maps of several townships in Norman County, Minn., obituaries, and clippings relating to Finley, N.D., and other topics. Includes information relating to Menge's early employment on Lockhart Farm and his lumber and hardware stores in Lockhart, Minn.
Dates: 1934-1967

Eric and Ellen Forslund Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 273
Abstract Typed summary of interview with Mr. and Mrs. Forslund concerning his life, especially on the Snake River Farm, and her experiences as a cook on the Snake River Farm.
Dates: 1954

George F. Cheney Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SC 272
Abstract Letter, typed summary of interview (4 leaves) with Leonard Sackett with follow-up questions and answers relating to the March-Spaulding Farm near Warren, Minn., farming in the Warren, Minn. area, and some family history material.
Dates: 1954-1955

Olaf Leikvam Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 647
Overview Typed summary of detailed interview (7 leaves) with Leonard Sackett and corrections concerning his employment on the Richards Farm, the main house, farm buildings, livestock, Richards family members, especially father Harry Richards and son John Elliott Richards.
Dates: 1955.

Ole Peter Wiig Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 456
Abstract Typed summary of interview (6 leaves) with Ole Peter and Martha Wiig concerning his life at Lake Park and Perley, Minn. Includes mention of his first jobs in Lake Park, Minn. as a laborer and a farm worker, working on the Walker farm, his wife's job as Walker Farm cook, their wages, their experiences owning a farm and later, owning a hotel in Perley, Minn. Also includes clippings.
Dates: 1950, 1954-1957.

Samuelson Family Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 1471
Abstract Typed summary of an interview by Don Berg with an unidentified Samuelson son, concerning the Corser Farm located near Crookston, Minn. Includes mention of his parents emigrating from Sweden to America, returning to Sweden, and coming back to the U.S., ordering supplies by mail, cheesemaking, threshing, a description of the land on the Corser Farm, other farm equipment, and prairie fires.
Dates: 1966.

Sven E. Ulsaker Interview

 Collection
Identifier: SC 143
Abstract Typed copy of his reminiscence concerning his childhood home in Norway and early years in Kindred, N.D. Includes mention of his education in Norway, his cattle buying job in Norway, immigrating to the U.S., working as a hired man for other Norwegian settlers, a bout of typhoid fever, early settlers around Kindred, N.D. and on the Sheyenne and Wild Rice Rivers, brief mention of James Hill, and the Norman Lutheran Church.
Dates: Majority of material found within [193-].

Tollef Torgerson Collection of Papers

 Collection
Identifier: SC 867
Abstract Typed summary of interview (5 leaves) concerning the George S. Barnes farm. Includes mention of various hired men who worked with Torgerson, horses and cattle on the Barnes Farm, shipping horses to logging camps in northern Minnesota in the winter, working at a logging camp, threshing equipment, buying his own farm land, and Jerry McCarthy, a Glyndon, Minn. farmer who froze to death. Also includes a clipping.
Dates: 1957.