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Farmers.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:

Botsford family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3121
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, deeds, account books, poems and photographs of the Frank Botsford family of the Town of Jerusalem, Yates Co., New York.

Dates: 1792-1974.

Carl E. Ladd papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-2-87
Abstract Includes curricula, budgets, printed material, clippings, and memoranda and correspondence with Cornell faculty and administrators, students, county extension agents, agricultural club leaders, farmers, publishers, state and federal agricultural agencies, credit associations, and state and national politicians. Subjects include administration of the College of Agriculture; appointments, promotions, and resignations of faculty and administrators; Farm and Home Week at Cornell; construction of...
Dates: 1932-1943.

Chaffee family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3889
Abstract

Chaffee family letters; book of remedies; a copy of LOVE LIES BLEEDING by Helen Smith Jordan, a book in which some of the letters are reproduced; a booklet "Civil War Letters Received by the Family of E.F. Chaffee, Attica, N.Y. 1861-1865," also by Helen Smith Jordan; and "Musings and Memories," by Henry Chaffee Abell, 1988.

Dates: 1826-[ca. 1937], 1988.

Farm Family Decision Making Project oral histories and records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-1230
Abstract

Biannual conversations with adults and children eight and older, individually and in family groups, in a panel of thirty-three New York and Iowa farm families concerning how the occupation of farming is organized and conducted.

Dates: 1966-1982.

Frank Woodin Beneway papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065175816]
Identifier: 41-5-2590
Scope and content

Copies of correspondence, primarily with Carl E. Ladd, Dean of the New York State College of Agriculture, and about the Carl E. Ladd Scholarship Fund.

Dates: 1937-1974.

Fred Briehl papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3474
Abstract

Collection includes correspondence with friends and family members, diaries, scrapbooks, and published materials concerning Briehl's activism, communism, socialism, agriculture, pacifism, and radical causes

Dates: 1911-1974.

Henry Cooley diaries

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064937190]
Identifier: 1703
Scope and content

Diaries written by Henry Cooley of Eagle, Wyoming County, New York, an itinerant farm hand, wood chopper, and small scale money lender. Mentioned are a trip to Muscoda, Wisconsin, town and camp meetings, the Geneseo fair, the election of 1876, and work on the State Line Railroad, in addition to accounts of weather, chores performed, recreational activities, and other subjects.

Dates: 1867-1877.

Howard Edward Babcock papers

 Collection — Box 65: [Barcode: 31924065469516]
Identifier: 1618
Abstract

Correspondence, mimeographed pamphlets and other printed material; photographs, and scrapbooks concerning Babcock's career.

Dates: 1907-1950.

J. J. Darrow diaries

 Collection
Identifier: 4431
Abstract

Farm diaries.

Dates: 1885-1924.

Moses Lyon papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065196440]
Identifier: 1295
Scope and content Papers, primarily correspondence, of Moses Lyon and his six children, most of which concern his son Lewis' activities at Cortland Academy, Homer, N.Y., and at Auburn, N.Y., where he was a merchant; other letter to William Dada, a Protestant clergyman, and to the religious attitudes of 1850s and 1860s in Cayuga, Cortland, and Tompkins Counties. The collection also contain eleven family photographs, receipts, menues, a funeral discourse by Rev. W.S. Jerome of King Ferry, and family history...
Dates: 1813-1894, 1813-1864 (bulk)