Finding Aid for the Memories of Mississippi Essay Collection
(MUM00592)
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Finding Aid for the Memories of Mississippi Essay Collection
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Descriptive Summary
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| PURL: |
http://purl.oclc.org/umarchives/MUM00592/ |
| Title: |
Memories of Mississippi Essay Collection |
| Dates: |
1994 |
| Collector: |
University of Mississippi |
| Physical Extent: |
1 box (0.5 linear feet) |
| Repository: |
University of Mississippi. Department of Archives and Special Collections. University, MS 38677, USA |
| Identification: |
MUM00592 |
| Location: |
General Special Collections
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| Language of Material: |
English |
| Abstract: |
The collection contains first-person essays about life in Mississippi during the Great
Depression, written as entries in an essay contest titled "Memories of Mississippi."
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Administrative Information
Processing Information
Collection processed by Archives and Special Collections staff. Finding aid encoded
by Kathryn Michaelis, April 2012.
Additions
No further additions are expected to this collection.
Subject Terms
Depressions -- 1929 -- Mississippi
Farm life -- Mississippi
Families -- Mississippi
Mississippi -- History -- 20th century
Education -- Mississippi -- History
Formats
essays
Historical Note
The "Memories of Mississippi" essay contest, held in 1994, solicited writings from persons age 60 or older who
lived in north Mississippi between 1929 and 1941. The essays contain personal reflections
of their authors on topics such as farm life, the economy, family life, education,
and various others. The contest was sponsored by the University Museums at the University
of Mississippi; the Mississippi Humanities Council; the Friends of the Museums; the
Graduate School of the University of Mississippi; Northeast Community College; Itawamba
Community College; Tate County Historical Society; Coahoma Community College; and
the H.W. Durham Foundation.
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains 163 essays received as entries in the "Memories of Mississippi" essay contest.
User Information
Preferred Citation
Memories of Mississippi Essay Collection, Archives and Special Collections, J.D. Williams
Library, The
University of Mississippi
Access Restrictions
The Memories of Mississippi Essay Collection is open for research.
Copyright Restrictions
The copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) governs the
making of photocopies or other reproductions of copyrighted material. Under
certain conditions specified in the law, libraries and archives are authorized
to furnish a photocopy or other reproduction. One of these specified conditions
is that the photocopy or reproduction is not to be "used for any purpose other
than private study, scholarship or research." If a user makes a request for,
or
later uses, a photocopy or reproduction for purposes in excess of "fair use,"
that user may be liable for copyright infringement.
Related Material
Resources at the University of Mississippi
A selection of the essays in this collection have been bound and cataloged as Memories of Mississippi, Call number F341 .M53 1994
Arrangement
All of the essays have been numbered and arranged in groups of approximately 20 per
folder.
Container List
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Folder 1: Essays 1-20 |
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| 1) "A Child of the Depression" by Mary Sherwood |
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| 2) "From Delta to City Life" by Henrietta Shaw |
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| 3) "Memories of my Childhood" by R.D. Davis |
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| 4) "The Flood of 1934" by Mary Luckey Ainsworth |
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| 5) "Growing Pains" by Dessie Bryant |
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| 6) "Life ain't no Chrystal Stair" by Jean P. Ford |
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| 7) "Hardtimes" by Beatrice Peace |
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| 8) "A Gift to Remember" by Rose Cade |
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| 9) "All One Family" by Frances Darby |
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| 10) "Pigs and Pidgeons" by Sam C. Hudson |
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| 11) "Christmas Day at Parchman" by George Rives |
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| 12) "Memories on a 1929 MS Farm" by Jessie Zeigler |
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| 13) "Wedding Present Pigs" by Floy Manning |
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| 14) "Growth Experience" by Annie Ruth Brown |
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| 15) "Sawbriers, Biscuits..." by Ross Collins Robinson |
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| 16) "Memories" by Dorothy Russell |
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| 17) "Life in the Thirties" by Dale Hollingsworth |
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| 18) "The Depression" by C.L. Kendrick |
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| 19) "House went with the Job" by Lee Dell Dowdle |
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| 20) "Depression and a Delta Teenager" by Dorothy Gregg |
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Folder 2: Essays 21-40 |
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| 21) "Great Depression" by Van Milam |
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| 22) "Schools Helped Us" by Mabel Shaheen |
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| 23) "Development of a Cattleman" by Hayley Dandridge |
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| 24) "Why did God make me..." by Aline Wagner |
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| 25) "Farm Life" by Eva Ellzey |
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| 26) "Last Real 4th of July" by Evelyn Flint |
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| 27) "Thank You, Mr. Mac" by Emily Humphrey |
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| 28) "Farm Life" by Jean Polk |
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| 29) "Doom, Gloom and the Alibi Club" by May Belle Bartlett |
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| 30) "Memories of Uncle Stark" by Marguerite Williams |
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| 31) "Education at Courtland School" by Jane Seale |
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| 32) "Uncle Buck's Back Yard" by Annie-Glenn Howell |
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| 33) "Memories of the Depression" by Blache Aldrich |
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| 34) "Rural Churches in MS - 1941" by Lola May Autry |
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| 35) "Life on the Farm 1929-1941" by Fred McGaughy |
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| 36) "Making Ends Meet" by Charline Lowry May |
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| 37) "Thoughts on the Depression" by Tommie Taylor |
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| 38) "Three Stories" by Bettye Galloway |
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| 39) "The Revival" by James White |
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| 40) "Papa's Babies" by Harriet Jackson |
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Folder 3: Essays 41-60 |
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| 41) "Struggle For a Better Life" by Jeanette James |
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| 42) "Rat Killing in the 1930s" by Joe Jim Hogan |
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| 43) "The Tornado" by Bettye Butler |
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| 44) "The Place" by Mary Rose Wilds |
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| 45) "Entertainment and Recreation" by Louise Avent |
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| 46) "The Days of the Depression" by Doris Applin |
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| 47) "Hard Times" by Susie Marshall |
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| 48) "FDR's A-B-C's" by Della Davidson |
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| 49) "Them Were the Good Days" by Mil Murray Hopkins |
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| 50) "Making of a Registered Nurse" by Leora Simpson |
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| 51) "Depression of the 30s and 40s" by Robbie Wiggs |
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| 52) "Happy Jack in 1939" by Frederick Beckett |
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| 53) "Winning over the Trials..." by Mary Hastings Crumby |
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| 54) "Early Memories in Calhoun County" by Margaret Brown Burris |
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| 55) "Education and Cultural Events" by Henry Heggie |
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| 56) "Franklin Delano Roosevelt" by Hazel Briscoe |
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| 57) "My Unique Family" by Gwen Chrestman |
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| 58) "Disaster and Recovery" by Carmen Weatherall |
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| 59) [untitled] by Lou Della Gladney |
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| 60) "The Red Clay Hills" by John Oswalt |
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Folder 4: Essays 61-80 |
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| 61) "Ketchup Sandwiches" by Betty Lundy |
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| 62) "Making Ends Meet" by Sara Raymond |
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| 63) "Memories That Bless" by Marie Lewis Todd |
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| 64) "Making a Little Go a Long Way" by Elinor Bridges |
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| 65) "Growing up during Hard Times" by Kathlyn Martin |
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| 66) "Education and Cultural Events" by Bub and Geneva Epting |
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| 67) "The Depression" by Arlene Melton |
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| 68) "Butter Bean Christmas" by Mary Herndon |
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| 69) "My Gifts From Heaven" by Rebecca Haas Smith |
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| 70) "Memories of Mississippi" by Frances Brenner |
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| 71) "A Depression Farm Memory" by Guy Hopkins |
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| 72) "The Great Depression" by Herman Irwin |
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| 73) "When I was young..." by Janet Kirchhofer |
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| 74) "Life During the Depression" by Martha Davis |
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| 75) "The Depression" by Deree Easterling |
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| 76) "Workin' on the Railroad" by Charles Potts |
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| 77) "Revive us Again" by Catherine Giacometti |
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| 78) "Surviving the Depression" by Dorothy Holley |
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| 79) "Courtship, Marriage, and Family" by Cuple Gray |
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| 80) "Transportation..." by Travis Gray |
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Folder 5: Essays 81-100 |
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| 81) "Surviving the Depression" by Charlice Nanney |
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| 82) "Sharecropping Charades" by Janice Thrash |
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| 83) "Chester Street" by Mable Williams Hurt |
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| 84) "Hard Times" by Eloise Newell |
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| 85) "In Memory of Rolling Stores" by Dovie Owens |
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| 86) "I Remember the New Deal" by Callie Young |
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| 87) "Childhood memories..." by Jane Mapp |
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| 88) "Depression Days" by Annie Lee Warren |
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| 89) "The Guardian Angel" by M.B. Mayfield |
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| 90) "The Cotton was so White" by Bernice Jenkins |
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| 91) "Reflections on the Depression" by Jamie Brigance |
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| 92) "Don't Say Merry Christmas" by Nancy Sharp |
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| 93) "Through College..." by Lourie Allen |
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| 94) "A Day to Remember" by Dorothy Vaughn |
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| 95) "A Dollar's Worth" by Elizabeth Dollar Wamble |
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| 96) "Depression Era Talent Contests" by Helen Crawford |
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| 97) "Recycling 1930s Style" by Sam Crawford |
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| 98) "The Great Depression" by Mary Lowery |
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| 99) "Through the Eyes of a Survivor" by T.B. Rodabough |
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| 100) "Impressions of the Depression" by Dorothy Morgan |
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Folder 6: Essays 101-120 |
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| 101) "Life in the Hatchie Bottom" by Howard Crawford |
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| 102) "My Own Experience" by Valerie Howell |
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| 103) "Farming: A Way of Life" by Robert Scott |
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| 104) "A Day in the Cotton Patch" by Janie Chapman |
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| 105) "Life During the Depression" by Johnnie Willingham |
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| 106) "Farm Life and Recreation" by Mattie Lou Butler |
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| 107) "Hard Times of the Heart" by Alton Meadows |
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| 108) "The Depression" by Mary Alice Holoman |
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| 109) "A Merchant Daughter..." by Virginia Johnson |
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| 110) "Farm Life in Tippah County" by Robert Fryar |
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| 111) "Hardships of Farm Life" by Beatrice Downs |
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| 112) "The Depression" by Henry Meeks |
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| 113) "Working Years" by Charles Wheeler |
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| 114) "My Family" by Hershel Shields |
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| 115) "Finding Employment" by Charlie Davis |
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| 116) "Rural Life During the Depression" by Lila Voyles |
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| 117) "Farm Life" by Effie Hamlin |
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| 118) "The Thirteenth Bale" by Tom Rinehart |
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| 119) "The Depression Era" by Mildred West |
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| 120) "A History Day Wedding" by Rev. and Mrs. Cecil Bennett |
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Folder 7: Essays 121-140 |
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| 121) "Life of Lelia Hughes" by Lelia Hughes Lewis |
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| 122) "Moving to Mississippi" by James Crider |
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| 123) "Share-croppers Life" by James Pounders |
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| 124) "Life in the CC Camp" by Carlie Carson |
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| 125) "The Summons" by Wanda Walker |
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| 126) "The New Primer" by Mary Wynn |
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| 127) "Train Through Mississippi..." by Patsy Clark Pace |
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| 128) "A Teacher Takes Time Out..." by Lela T. Clark |
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| 129) "Mississippi: A Story" by Ruble Leathers |
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| 130) "The Original Boxcar Kids" by Christine Potts |
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| 131) "The Denson Farm..." by Effie Denson Green |
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| 132) "Farm Life" by Conrad Bishop |
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| 133) "It was not as Simple Back Then" by Angie Miller |
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| 134) "From the Perspective of a Teen" by Nell Johnson |
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| 135) "Allen Line" by Juanita Michael |
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| 136) "Memories of the Depression" by C.W. Deaton |
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| 137) "My School Was Special..." by Laura Cartwright |
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| 138) "FDR: Little Man's Big Man" by Ivy Hardy Ricks |
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| 139) "Making Do" by Aileen Ricks Hoover |
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| 140) "Those Depression Years" by R.G. Counce |
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Folder 8: Essays 141-163 |
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| 141) "The Depressed Amory" by Frank Smith |
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| 142) "The Depression" by E.R. Butler |
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| 143) "A Close-Knit Community" by Ruth Johnson |
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| 144) "The Farmer's Will" by William Lowrey |
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| 145) "Heartfelt Memories" by Edith Sims |
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| 146) "Legend of the Eaton Gang" by Gladys Eaton |
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| 147) "Life as I Knew It" by Elizabeth Crawford |
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| 148) "Memories of my Life" by Nettie Cartwright |
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| 149) "A Poor Man's Story" by Ralph Hamblin |
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| 150) "The Depression and Fleet Epting" by Fleet Epting |
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| 151) "The Surprise" by Pansy Shirley |
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| 152) "The Country Doctor" by Elizabeth Gates |
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| 153) "Family Memories" by Libby Savely |
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| 154) "The Great Depression" by Kenneth Denton |
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| 155) "The Storm Before The Storm" by Alice Vaughn |
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| 156) "Farm Life" by Lois Hill |
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| 157) "Memories of my Grandmother" by Dovie Allen |
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| 158) "Farm Life 1929-1941" by David Brown |
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| 159) "Memories of Hard Times" by Euerzie Mosley |
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| 160) "The Depression and I" by Leora Thompson |
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| 161) "Thinking Back" by Charles Treas |
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| 162) "From Dollar Cotton to..." by J.B. Bailey |
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| 163) "School Days" by Bill Rieves |
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Folder 9: Informational brochures and master list of essays |
