Scope and Contents

Deck discusses her experiences as a young women during WWII on the homefront in St. Louis: marrying a soldier, home life, rationing, coping with the absence of her husband, and children. Also mentions St. Louis before the war, high school, and attending Monticello College in Godfrey, Illinois.

1 tape, 45 mins., 17 pp. Interview by Jeffrey A. Eldred, 1993 OPEN See collateral file

Scope and Contents Long recalls 20th century central Illinois farm life near Chesterfield, Illinois: education in a one room school and in high school; horses, railroads, automobiles, roads and trips to Springfield; parents and family; her husband's mail job on the railroad; WWII homefront in San Francisco; Chesterfield businesses and the Depression; farming machinery, livestock, crops and the farming community; fishing and hunting; living in Alton, Illinois; social activities, friends and neighbors. ...