Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

RS 13/12/54
Dorothy Hubbard Schwieder (1931-    )
Papers, 1971-2001, n.d.


Descriptive summary

creator:

Schwieder, Dorothy Hubbard (1931-    )

title:

Papers
dates:

1971-2001
extent:

2.10 linear feet (3 document boxes and 2 shoe boxes)
collection number:

RS 13/12/54
repository:

University Archives, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

 

Administrative information

access:

Open for research
publication rights:

Consult Head, Special Collections Department
preferred citation:

Dorothy Hubbard Schwieder Papers, RS 13/12/54, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

 

Biographical note

Dorothy Hubbard Schwieder was born in Presho, South Dakota as the ninth of ten children, on November 28, 1933. She received her B.A. (1955) from Dakota Wesleyan University in psychology and history. She studied history under George McGovern, later a United States Senator and presidential candidate. Schwieder began her graduate work in 1964, and received her M.A. (1968) from Iowa State University in history, and her PhD. (1981) from the University of Iowa, also in history. Her primary research was in the history of Iowa, touched off by an interest in Iowa's Amish communities.

Schweieder began her teaching career in 1960 as a part-time instructor at Dakota Wesleyan, and in 1966, she became a part-time instructor at Iowa State University. During the 1970s, Schwieder revived scholarly work on Iowa history though her publications and presentations on the subject. She also developed a popular course on Iowa history, the first of its kind at Iowa State University. In 1981, she became an assistant professor in the Department of History at Iowa State, and was promoted to full professor in 1988. Schwieder retired from ISU in 2001.

Schwieder's publications include numerous articles and the following selected books: Iowa's Coal Mining Heritage (1973), A Peculiar People: Iowa's Old Order Amish (1975), Black Diamonds: Life and Work in Iowa's Coal Mining Community (1983), Seventy-five Years of Service: Cooperative Extension in Iowa (1992), Iowa: the Middle Land (1996), and Growing Up With the Town: Family and Community on the Great Plains (2002).

Dorothy Schwieder is married to Elmer Schwieder, with whom she has two children, Diane Schwieder Risius and David Schwieder.

 

Collection description

This is primarily a collection of materials related to two oral history projects. The first is the history of the Iowa State Cooperative Extension Service, which provided material for her book, Seventy-five Years of Service: Cooperative Extension in Iowa (1992). The second oral history project was done for the documentary film, The Last Pony Mine.

Materials for the history of the Extension Service include transcripts, release forms, and cassette tapes of interviews, conducted by Dorothy Schwieder and Tom Morain from 1987 to 1991. Materials for The Last Pony Mine include magnetic tapes (7 inch and 5 inch reels) of interviews collected in the early 1970s. Schwieder's oral histories of coal miners at the New Gladstone coalmine, in Appanoose County, Iowa, formed the basis for the award-winning 1973 documentary The Last Pony Mine. The documentary depicted a day in the life of coalminers at New Gladstone, which was one of the last advancing longwall mines that used ponies for underground haulage. The film won the Gold Camera Award at the U.S. Industrial Film Festival in 1973, and the Cine Golden Eagle Award. A VHS copy of this film is available in the Parks Library Media Collection (Vide 007 881).

This collection also includes a small number of news clippings, manuscripts, and articles written by or about Schwieder.

 

Organization

The collection is arranged alphabetically. Transcripts and audiocassette tapes are also listed alphabetically according to the last name of the interview subject or the title on the tape label (with the exception of the magnetic tapes in Box 5, which are organized numerically). Many of the cassettes and all of the magnetic tape reels do not have labels directly on them, but are in labeled cases. Release forms are located with transcripts.

 

Container list

Box

Folder

Title

Dates

1

1

Manuscript: "Education and Change in the Lives of Iowa Farm Women, 1900-1940"

1985

1

2

News clippings

1981,
1996-1997

1

3

Publication: "A Tale of Two Grandmothers: Immigration and Families on the Great Plains," South Dakota History, vol.31, no.1 (Spring 2001) 26-52.

2001

1

4

Sample Consent forms for the History of the Cooperative Extension Service

n.d.

1

5

Transcript of Group Interview (History of the Extension Service) E. Howard Hill, Bernice Lund, Herb Plambeck, Edith Zobrist, and Esther Whetstone

1989

1

6

Transcripts of Interviews (History of the Extension Service):
Julia Anderson
Marvin Anderson
Floyd Arnold
Paul Barger
Marie Bishop
Don Broshar
Robert Crom

 

1988
1991
1988
1988
1988
1990
1988

1

7

Transcripts of Interview (History of the Extension Service): Jerry DeWitt

1991

1

8

Transcripts of Interviews (History of the Extension Service):
Elizabeth Elliott
Beverly Everett
C.J. Gauger
Bob Hall
Norm Goodwin

 

1990
1991
1990
1988
n.d.

1

9

Transcripts of Interviews (History of the Extension Service):
Eldon Hans
Cleon Harriott
John Johnson
Ken Littlefield
Roger Lawrence

 

1988
1988
1990
1988
1988

1

10

Transcripts of Interviews (History of the Extension Service):
David May
Dan Merrick
Betty Nicholson
Ron Powers
Louise Rosenfeld

 

1988
1990
1988
1988
1988

1

11

Transcripts of Interviews (History of the Extension Service):
Lois and Merlyn Schmoll
Maurice Soults
Everett Stoneberg
Russ Swenson
Leon Thompson

 

1988
1987
1988
1988
1988

1

12

Transcripts of Interviews (History of the Extension Service):
Elsie Mae Van Wert
Regis Voss
Esther Whetstone
Mary Yearns

 

1988
1990
1988
1990

2

 

Audiocassette Tapes of Interviews (History of the Extension Service):

 

2

 

Julia Anderson

1988

2

 

Marvin Anderson

1991

2

 

Floyd Arnold

n.d.

2

 

Paul Barger

n.d.

2

 

Marie Bishop (Tape 1 of 2)

1988

2

 

Marie Bishop (Tape 2 of 2)

1988

2

 

Don Brashar

1990

2

 

Robert Crom

1988

2

 

Jerry DeWitt

1991

2

 

Elizabeth "Betty" Elliott

1990

2

 

Beverly Everett

1991

2

 

Norm Goodwin

n.d.

2

 

C.J. Gauger (Tape 1 of 2)

1990

2

 

C.J. Gauger (Tape 2 of 2)

1990

2

 

(Group Interview) E. Howard Hill, Bernice Lund, Herb Plambeck, Edith Zobrist, and Esther Whetstone

1989

2

 

Bob Hall

n.d.

2

 

Cleon Harriott

n.d.

2

 

Ann Harrison

1991

3

 

Audiocassette Tape of Interview (History of the Extension Service):

 

3

 

Eldon Haus

n.d.

3

 

John Johnson (Tape 1 of 2)

1990

3

 

John Johnson (Tape 2 of 2)

1990

3

 

Kenneth Littlefield

1988

3

 

David May (Tape 1 of 2)

1988

3

 

David May (Tape 2 of 2)

1988

3

 

Dan Merrick (Tape 1 of 2)

1990

3

 

Dan Merrick (Tape 2 of 2)

1990

3

 

Betty Nicholson

1988

3

 

Ronald Powers

1988

3

 

Louise Rosenfeld (Tape 1 of 2)

1988

3

 

Louise Rosenfeld (Tape 2 of 2)

1988

3

 

Merlyn and Lois Schmoll

n.d.

3

 

Maurice Soults (Tape 1 of 2)

1987

3

 

Maurice Soults (Tape 2 of 2)

1987

3

 

Everett Stoneburg

n.d.

3

 

Russ Swenson

1988

3

 

Leon Thompson

1988

3

 

Elsie Mae Van Wert

1988

3

 

Regis Voss

1990

3

 

Esther Whetstone

1988

3

 

Mary Yearns

1990

4

 

Magnetic Audio Tape: Interviews and Sounds (The Last Pony Mine)

 

4

 

Joe Buyan

n.d.

4

 

Martin Fenton

1971

4

 

Charles Fox (Tape 1)

1971

4

 

Charles Fox (Tape 2)

1971

4

 

Frank (Chesco) Massa (Tape 1)

1971

4

 

Frank (Chesco) Massa (Tape 2) and Louie Nobile (Tape 1)

1971

4

 

Louie Nobile (Tape 2)

 

4

 

Music (Tape 1)

n.d.

4

 

Music (Tape 2)

n.d.

4

 

Lubo Radosevich

1971

4

 

Sound Effects (Hook ups, footsteps, carbide lamp, door slams, etc)

n.d.

4

 

Sound Effects

n.d.

4

 

Sound Effects

 

5

 

Magnetic Audio Tape of Interview and Sounds (The Last Pony Mine):

 

5

 

168-1 (Head House, Wednesday AM)

n.d.

5

 

168-2 (Bringing down slam)

n.d.

5

 

168-3 (Louie loading and Bill far off)

n.d.

5

 

168-4 (Louie intv.)

n.d.

5

 

168-5

n.d.

5

 

168-6 (Long wall)

n.d.

5

 

168-7 (Bottom)

n.d.

5

 

168-8

n.d.

5

 

168-9 (Head house #2)

n.d.

5

 

168-10 (Unloading topside)

n.d.

5

 

168-11

n.d.

5

 

168-12

n.d.