Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: The Home Front in Western Minnesota: Interview with Nancy Magloughlin

Titles: Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: The Home Front in Western Minnesota: Interview with Nancy Magloughlin (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Nancy Maglaughlin was born in 1901 in a town close to Dale and Hawley, Minnesota. Both her parents emigrated from Sweden and married in the United States. She attended a country school in Hitterdal, went to Moorhead to finish eighth grade, and later took a business course. She married in 1927 in Moorhead. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: Her attitude towards World War II; her experience in school during the war; her nephew being drafted into World War II; sources of news and information during the time; rationing and stamp system; returning soldiers' attitude to war; events during World War II in the Red River Valley; the effect on business and others; mention of a prisoner of war camp in the area.

Dates

• 06/22/1977 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Magloughlin, Nancy
• interviewer: Oian, Janet

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 111
• Accession Number: AV2007.25.5

Holding Type: Oral History - Interview

Project

• Oral History - Project, MHS Collection, project: 'Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: The Home Front in Western Minnesota' <OH 111>

Quantity: 1 hour sound cassettes 15 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 51 minutes length

Subjects

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