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[Detail] Charles Todd at the recording machine

Lesson Preparation

If computer time or printer access is limited, you may wish to print out these primary sources in advance:

• Life History Manuscripts from the Folklore Project, WPA Federal Writer's Project, 1936-1940
  • About the Folklore Project and the Life Histories;
  • WPA Life Histories: About the Federal Writers' Project; and

• Working Women in the 1930s
  • I Ain't No Midwife
  • Packinghouse workers
  • Italian Feed
  • Miss Henrietta C. Dozier
• Dancing as a Form of Recreation, 1890s to 1930s
  • Charles Cole
  • Mrs. Charley Huyck
  • Old Time Dance Calls
• Americans and the Automobile
  • Roy A. Morse
  • Yankee Innkeeper
  • Dunnell #13
  • Transportation