Farm and Home Week (New York State College of Agriculture)
Organization
Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:
A brief, incomplete history of farm and home week
Collection — Manuscript box 17 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065304275]
Identifier: 21-24-m.545
Scope and content
Typescript history of Farm and Home Week at Cornell University, 1907-1961, by Professor Ward, including a description of the trip taken by the Cornell Farm Train in 1912, by M. F. Barrus.
Dates:
1962.
Cornell University Farm and Home Week records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-24-3104
Scope and content
Programs for a variety of events at Farmers' Week including general program, concerts, banquets, judging contests, livestock sales, debates, and dramatic contests and American Farm Bureau Federation events.Also, Farm and Home Week pins for 1922 (MU-44), 1924, 1925, 1929, 1930, 1939, 1940, 1941, 1948, 1952-1954, and 1959 (18 items). "The Stalin Supporter," an anti-Communist political publication designed to look like the Farm and Home Week newsletter and distributed at Farm and...
Dates:
1914-1954.
Farm and Home Special miscellany
Collection — Manuscript box 15 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065304085]
Identifier: 21-24-m.449
Scope and content
Correspondence, photos, and news clippings relating to the Farm and Home Special train.
Dates:
1946.
Farm and Home Special scrapbook
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924093399966]
Identifier: 21-24-3603
Scope and content
Scrapbook includes correspondence, photographs and publicity about the demonstration train used during Farm and Home Week.
Dates:
1946.
Farm and Home Week programs
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-32-494
Scope and content
Programs for Farmers' Week and, later, Farm and Home Week; and programs for the Homemakers' Conference held in conjunction with that week. Also included are programs and flyers for concerts, plays, lectures, debates, art exhibits, and other events that were held at Cornell University in conjunction with Farm and Home Week, such as the New York State Community Dramatics Festival (hosted by Cornell University Theatre), the Eastman Stage in Public Speaking, the Rice Debate Stage, the Kermis...
Dates:
1890-1960-(bulk 1910-1960).
Grace B. Cross recollections
Collection — Manuscript box 13 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065303210]
Identifier: 47-2-m.309
Scope and content
Recollections of early Farm and Home Week programs, student attitudes towards the event, the visitors, and the program's values.
Dates:
1957.