Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: The Home Front in Western Minnesota: Interview with William and Faith Evers Sprung

Titles: Minnesota's Greatest Generation Oral History Project: The Home Front in Western Minnesota: Interview with William and Faith Evers Sprung (Supplied title)

Description: BIOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION: Faith E. Sprung was born in 1911 on a farm in Big Stone County, Minnesota. She finished high school and had one year of training in teaching school at Aberdeen, South Dakota. William Sprung was born in Steamboat Rock, Iowa in 1908. He moved to South Dakota at the age of nine and spent most of his life there on a farm. He attended a rural school. The couple married in 1936. SUBJECTS DISCUSSED: The Great Depression in the 1930s; the effects of depression; prisoners of war camp in Ortonville; rationing and its effects; people's reaction to the war; shortages of some supplies during the war; prosperity during the war.

Dates

• 12/27/1973 (Creation)

Creation

• interviewee: Sprung, William
• interviewee: Sprung, Faith Evers
• interviewer: Conrads, LaDona

Identifiers

• Library Call Number: OH 111
• Accession Number: AV2007.25.10

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 22 pages transcript

Format

• Content Category: sound recordings
• Content Category: text

Measurements

• 45 minutes length

Subjects

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