Alamo (Tex.)

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Elma Krumdieck Koch Dutschman tells of her youth in Minnesota, her arrival in the Lower Rio Grande Valley, the 1933 hurricane, view of Ebenezer (Alamo, Texas), land parties, and farming.

Interview conducted on 11 April 1992 by Robert E. Norton. Digital transfer completed on 29 October 2013 from the analog cassette tape. Hidalgo County Historical Commission. Recording abruptly ends.

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Howard Smith was born in 1905. He talks about the hurricane damage in Galveston, life in the early days of San Benito, the development of Alamo and San Juan.

Interview conducted on 4 October 1985 by Robert E. Norton. Digital transfer completed on 11 March 2014 from the original analog cassette tape.

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Includes prints from Nick Doffing Co. excursion party panoramic photograph (1927 February 14), young citrus orchard in the Morgan Olson farm, and shipping cabbage at Alamo, March 31, 1920

Scope and Contents Maurice Boyd Cramer born on 12 December 1916, in Sarcoxie, Jasper, Missouri, tells of early life in Missouri, an excursion train to the Valley, Hidalgo County Irrigation District #2, pump house in Hidalgo, Camp Ebenezer (Alamo), dairy and cotton farming, early San Juan schools, and flood control. He died on 3 July 2004, in Corpus Christi, Texas. Interview conducted on 8 March 1993 by Robert E. Norton. Digital transfer completed on 23 October 2013 from the original analog cassette tape....

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Roy Lester Ryde was born in 1908 at Huron, South Dakota. He talks about property ownership in the Alamo area.

Interview conducted in 1987 by Guadalupe Martinez. Digital transfer completed on 3 March 2014 from the original analog cassette tape.