Oral History Interview with Jean Stillman Long, 1974
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Title: Oral History Interview with Jean Stillman Long
Inclusive Dates: 1974

Creator:
  • Long, Jean Stillman, 1891-
Call Number: SC 1115; Audio 589A

Quantity: 0.1 cubic feet (1 folder) and 9 tape recordings

Repository:
Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:
Wisconsin Historical Society (Map)
COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

Abstract:
Interview conducted by Dale Treleven of the Historical Society staff with Mrs. Jean Long, Dunn County, Wisconsin, concerning her experiences as a school teacher in Montana in the 1910s, a Wisconsin farm wife in the 1920s, and educational leader of first the Central Cooperative Wholesale then the Wisconsin Farmers Union, 1930s-1960s; with much information on the cooperative movement in Wisconsin, Farmers Union and other farm organization leaders, and the role of the Works Progress Administration. One folder contains publications used by Jean Long in the Farmers Union education program. Long discusses her personal activities, fund-raising pageants, the WPA rural workers education program, Ho-Chunk (Winnebago) Indian activities, Finnish-American cooperative members, communist activities, Farmers Union youth camps and activities, the work of the University of Wisconsin Extension, her friendship with Gladys Talbott Edwards and Kenneth Hones of the Farmers Union, and others she encountered such as Hilton Hanna, E.A. Stillman, and M.W. Thatcher.

Language: English

URL to cite for this finding aid: http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/wiarchives.uw-whs-audi00589a
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