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Archives at Cornell

Agriculture -- New York (State)

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 52 Collections and/or Records:

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.

Farmers Union of the New York Milk Shed records

 Collection
Identifier: 1858
Abstract Correspondence of Archie Wright, president, and Alfred C. Kuchler, secretary-treasurer of the Farmers' Union of the New York Milk Shed; copies of speeches and articles; mimeographed letters and bulletins; reports, minutes, broadsides, scrapbooks for 1940-55, and miscellaneous papers. Correspondents include persons prominent in New York agriculture and politics. Other materials are papers of or about County organizations of the Farmers' Union, annual conventions, the Dairy Farmers' Union, and...
Dates: 1939-1957.

Farmers' Week and Farmers' Field Days miscellany

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065176350]
Identifier: 21-24-460
Scope and content

One volume of programs, broadsides, catalogs, and statements for Farmers' Week, 1908-1913, and two volumes of clippings from New York State newspapers on Farmers' Week activities on the Cornell University campus, 1924. Program from 11th Annual Farmers' Week, 1918. Also, correspondence and publicity items relating to Farmers' Field Days at Cornell, June 30-July 2, 1920.

Dates: 1908-1924.

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.

Fruit culture miscellany.

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1325
Abstract

Scrapbook of clippings pertaining to fruit cultivation made by Crissey of Fredonia, New York; miscellaneous loose clippings, pamphlets, and other material on grape culture and related agricultural problems; also, periodicals pertaining to fruit and grapes.

Dates: 1874 - 1896; Undated

Gould Colman papers

 Collection — Box 7: [Barcode: 31924113961746]
Identifier: 13-6-1958
Abstract

Drafts, interview transcripts and other materials relating to a book project on family farming. Correspondence, materials relating to Rural Sociology courses he taught on Farm Families. Other materials relating to his time as the Cornell University Archivist.

Dates: 1954-1996.

Harold L. Creal papers

 Collection
Identifier: 4326
Abstract Correspondence, notes, speeches, memoranda, certificates, clippings, financial records, photographs, and printed material concerning the American Agriculturist, Inc.; Century Farms in various New York counties; GLF and the New York State Grange; the New York State Council of Farmer Cooperatives, Inc.; the New York State Fair; and the New York Farm Bureau. Personal papers include materials pertaining to the Cornell University Alumni Association, YMCA, church work, and the Homer, New York,...
Dates: [ca. 1916]-1986.

Helen Tooke Butler, collector, family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2306
Scope and content Papers of the Tooke (Tuke) family and various relatives include diaries of Isaac P. Richmond, his son, and other family members, who lived in Knoxboro, Oneida County, and nearby, mainly concerning school days, hop growing and other farm work, and the activities of family and friends; accounts, 1897-1909, of Isaac Richmond, a licensed preacher, with the Vernon Center Methodist-Episcopal Society and the Hector Union Society, a recipe and remedy book, 1887, of Mary E. Tooke and announcements...
Dates: 1819-1963.

Iden family papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064937141]
Identifier: 1653
Scope and content

Four farm account books, 1855-1913; a notice of appointment as Overseer of Highways, 1858; lease, 1907 with extensions to 1917; and a stock certificate, 1899, of George W. and Jane E. Iden of Sherwood, N.Y.

Dates: 1855-1917.

I.L. Richer Company credit sale slips

 Collection
Identifier: 39C
Scope and Contents

Credit sale slips from the I.L. Richer Company.

Dates: 1898 - 1899