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Agriculture -- New York (State)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:

Century Farm Awards manuscripts and pamphlets

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064947512]
Identifier: 2766
Scope and content

Typewritten manuscripts of Century Farm Award citations for farms in New York State from 1949, 1951-54, and 1957. Also, pamphlets containing award citations from 1942-1982, under various successive titles including Century farms and farmers, Century farms of New York State, More century farms of New York State, and Century Farm Awards.

Dates: 1942-1982.

Charles Harley business records

 Collection
Identifier: 39E
Abstract

Farm account books, feed sale books, day books, and notes for payment in trade for the Harley Grocery (Harley General Store).

Dates: 1855 - 1927

Charles Harold Riley the first ninety years

 Collection — Manuscript box 64 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065257747]
Identifier: 4194
Scope and content

Privately published autobiography, one folder of published photographs.

Dates: 1984.

Cornell Cooperative Extension Teaching and Information Department recordings

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-24-950
Abstract

183 twelve and sixteen inch records of speeches, interviews, and informal talks by such figures in the field of agriculture and related professions.

Dates: [ca. 1937-1955]

David L. Call papers

 Collection — Mu 1743
Identifier: 21-2-1620
Abstract Records of Dean David L. Call include materials pertaining to various departments of the college; other colleges at Cornell University; the Agricultural Experiment Station in Geneva, New York; the Cornell Board of Trustees and administration; Cornell Plantations; SUNY; CALS Alumni Association; Isles of Shoals; the Sea Grant Institute; Boyce Thompson Institute; New York State Department of Agriculture and Markets; New York State Council of Farmer Cooperatives; the Council of Agricultural...
Dates: 1977-1995.

E. R. Eastman papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3105
Abstract

Correspondence, pamphlets, and clippings concerning or authored by Edward Roe Eastman. Also, speeches, radio talks, notes, scrapbooks, reports, and surveys. Printed material includes New York Artificial Breeders Co-operator, 1948-1970; The Dairymen's League News (30 volumes); University of the State of New York, Regents Minutes (volumes 25-30); and other items concerning education.

Dates: 1923-1970.

Edgar Brewer papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064924297]
Identifier: 2340
Scope and content Papers include a farm journal, 1849-59; a recipe book for ointments (animal and human), cider, and cured meat; abstract of town bonding laws, 1869-80; receipts and bankbooks of Railroad Bonding Commission of Enfield; agricultual pamphlets; and a list of voters in District No. 1, Enfield, 1859. Microfilmed materials include schedules of real and personal estate valuations and taxes levied for towns in Tompkins County, New York, 1832-35, 1837-58; and minutes of school district No. 8,...
Dates: 1832-1887.

Ezra Cornell papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1-1-1
Scope and content The earliest papers, 1828-1843, cover the years when Cornell worked in Ithaca and travelled for Barnaby and Mooers plows. They include letters, accounts, and other papers concerning his employment by Jeremiah Beebe, the owner of a flour and plaster mill on Fall Creek in Ithaca, N.Y. and his other business interests in Ithaca. Family letters contain information about his work, plans and opinions; news about his growing family; and reports of events in Ithaca. After 1838, there is...
Dates: 1746 - 1888; Majority of material found within 1844 - 1870

Fall Creek Milling Company records

 Collection
Identifier: 39L
Content Description

Records from two mills, one in Binghamton and one in Ithaca, NY. Material includes sales receipts, account books, letter books, cash books, order and shipping books.

Dates: 1862 - 1925

Farm account books

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 8429
Scope and content

Records include "Dairy Herd Improvement Association Herd Record Book," 2 volumes: 1949-1952; 1949-1957; Lodi farm assets and liabilities ledger, 1955-1979; ledger of inventories, income, and farm expenses, 1947-1974; ledger about horses and ponies, 1960-1967; binders of tax records, house expenses, work sheets, milk receipts, profit and loss comparisons, etc.

Dates: 1947-1975.