Dakota County Gopher Ordnance Munitions Plant Oral History Project: Interview with Anna E. Wachter

Titles: Dakota County Gopher Ordnance Munitions Plant Oral History Project: Interview with Anna E. Wachter (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Ms. Wachter was a farmer and gardener in Dakota County. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Family history; effect of Gopher Ordinance Munitions Plant; notice to farmers; selling house; moving to a different farm; reasons for the plant; going to court; wasteful goings on at the plant; Halloween; the Depression; Prohibition; WPA; changes since 1910; how to make soap; home life; Indians; gypsies.

Dates

• 06/23/1976 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Wachter, Anna E.
• interviewer: Pilgrim, Nancy
• interviewer: Davis, Helen

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 90

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Dakota County Gopher Ordnance Munitions Plant Oral History Project' <OH 90>

Quantity: 2 hours sound cassette 6 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 01:04:26 running time

Subjects

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