Interviewer
Jerri Berg
Description
Peter Berg discusses the Great Depression and its effects on the farming community, as well as economics, Franklin Delano Roosevelt’s politics in the 1930s, and local social events.
Biography
Peter Berg was the son of immigrants from Germany and Austria-Hungary. He began farming in 1926.
Date of Interview
12-23-1973
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Length (Time)
42:18
Original Format
Audio tape
Current Format
Mp3
Named Persons
Clara Berg, Mrs. Fenger, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Alben W. Barkley, Richard Milhous Nixon, Herbert Clark Hoover, Harry S. Truman, Husband E. Kimmel, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, Hubert Horatio Humphrey Jr.
Professions
Farmers
Organizations
Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Republican Party (U.S.: 1854- ), United States. Works Progress Administration
Places
Germany, Austria, Hungary, Illinois, Minnesota—Brown County, Minnesota—Willow Lake Township, Minnesota—Wanda, Russia, China, Korea, Israel
Keywords
Agriculture, Great Depression, Prohibition, New Deal, 1933-1939
ID Number
S272 271
Restrictions on Use
Permission to publish, quote, or reproduce these oral interviews must be obtained in writing from Minnesota State University Moorhead Archives.
Disciplines
Oral History | United States History
Recommended Citation
Berg, Peter, "Oral Interview of Peter Berg" (1973). Oral Interviews. 44.
https://red.mnstate.edu/oral_interviews/44