farms and farming systems

Content Description The Nils Andreas Olsen Collection consists of journals, ledgers, and other account books of the Evans Hardware Company, Princeton, Minnesota, covering transactions prior to 1920; records of Alfred Erickson, Washington County, Minnesota; meeting minutes, payroll book, cash books, and other records of the Golden Valley Creamery Association, a cooperative functioning from 1908 to 1910, and its member groups; crop reports and land development literature from the Great Plains states; some 19th...

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The Oscar Clemen Stine Papers are handwritten and typed notes on wheat history, colonial wheat culture, wheat exports and imports, insects and diseases, business and wheat crops, acreage, consumption, demand, and foreign markets. Additionally, there are publications by Stine and a manuscript of his autobiography, "Reminiscences of O.C. Stine."

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The Paul C. Marth and John W. Mitchell Papers contain biographical information about both men; material gathered for the book Classic Papers in Horticultural Science; 66 of Marth's notebooks; Marth's 1942 Ph.D. thesis; reprints; and negatives of rose photographs. There is correspondence, mostly Marth's and very little of Mitchell's, as well as correspondence from 1987 between J. Ray Frank and Stephen Weller regarding Marth and Mitchell.

Content Description The People on the Farm Program Records include correspondence, notes, drafts, manuscripts, photographs, and contact sheets for the "People on the Farm" leaflet series produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from 1977 to 1982. The collection includes a complete set of the published leaflets.The publication titles are: "People on the Farm: Dairying"; "People on the Farm: Growing Wheat"; "People on the Farm: Growing Vegetables"; "People on the Farm: Black Families";...

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The Philip Vincent Cardon Papers include correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, reprints, unpublished lectures and research papers, outlines and notes for radio talks and skits, and some memorabilia.

Content Description The Photographs of Dairy Farmers at the Graham School consists of two black-and-white formally posed photographs of large groups of dairy farmers attending courses conducted by the Graham School. The photographs are accompanied by numbered keys to the individuals pictured. The keys list names, addresses, names and locations of farms, and the chief breeds of cattle raised. The farmers pictured are chiefly from the United States Midwest and Ontario, Canada. One photograph is labeled "The...

Content Description This item consists of an original manuscript for the Report on Trials of Plows: Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society by Anonymous, 1867, Part I, Volume XXVII, Illustrated. The book is composed of illustrations, which appear to be original art with hand-lettered captions. It appears to have been self-published. The illustrations were inserted in handmade pages, which were hole-punched and bound with a cord inserted through the pages. There are front...

Content Description The Robert Lee Tontz Papers consist of statistics, clippings, and publications related to U.S. and foreign trade, including comparisons between exports and imports from 1790 through the 1970s. Also included are data about projected voting in congressional elections (farm versus nonfarm areas) dating from the 1950s to the 1970s. Other materials include correspondence, reports, membership files on the Farm Bureau and the Grange, and photographs. There is a copy of Tontz's work, ...

Content Description The Schimmelpfennig Family Mill Collection contains materials relating to the family's grain mill and their life in Sigourney, Iowa. Materials include ledgers and account books containing detailed accounting of transactions at the mill for the years of 1899, 1930 to 1958, and 1974 to 1987. Also included are materials from the family's hobby interest in the history and preservation of old mills throughout the United States, including various preservation and tourism ephemera. Of particular...

Content Description The Tayloe Family Journal is a handwritten account book maintained by Edward Thornton Tayloe of the Powhatan plantation in King George County, Virginia, between 1834 and 1849. The journal has entries related to barns, beef, cattle, clover, corn, cultivators, dairying, ditching, drought, fallowing, fencing, grapes, harvesting, hogs, manure, marl, oats, pruning, and sheep, as well as some detailed maps, crop production and slave inventories, and an index. There is also legal background...