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Agriculture.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 66 Collections and/or Records:

Purdy family diaries

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3797
Scope and content

Diaries of Isaac Purdy, a farmer and grape grower, and his son J. Harvey Purdey, of Yates County, New York discuss the Purdy's daily chores and social life, and the chores of Isaac Purdy's wife Amelia. Includes much discussion on grape growing.

Dates: 1867-1910

Raymond Family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 2163
Abstract

Farm produce, fruit, crop, labor, pasturage, household and personal accounts of a Penfield, Monroe County New York family.

Dates: 1855-1947.

Robin Bellinder papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-41-4284
Scope and content

Collection contains grant files, publications, subject files, photographs.

Dates: circa 1963-2015.

Royse Peak Murphy papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-28-4359
Scope and content

Research material, correspondence, publications, and grant files.

Dates: 1950 - 1980

Slater, Mason, and Lawyer families papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3620
Scope and content

Land map, manuscripts, legal papers, photographs and photo album, account book, diaries, and printed material, mostly related to farm land in Warren, Herkimer County, New York, and Cobleskill, Schoharie County, New York. Family members represented in the collection include David Lawyer, Marius Lawyer, and Marquis Lawyer.

Dates: 1767-1935.

Stephen Moulton Babcock miscellany

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1762
Scope and content

Papers include typed copy of biographical sketch, pamphlet on Babcock's life, program, photograph, clippings, address about Cornell history, and "Tables for Qualitative Analysis," 1882.

Dates: 1890-1948.

Thatcher family papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3355
Scope and content Includes letters (in part, transcripts), genealogies, diaries, account books and receipts, scrapbooks, photographs, and miscellany of the related families of Vorhis (van Voorhees), Purdy, Patchen, Thatcher, Barrett, and Williams. Letters (1832-1839) to Steven Vorhis from father Jotham, brother Joseph, and friend David M. Underwood touch on religious problems, abolition, friends, and farming in Spencer, New York; from Stephen Vorhis, who served as minister in Akron, Ohio, as pastor of the...
Dates: 1818-1957.

Truman Adams accounts

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064692456]
Identifier: 987
Scope and content

Farm and labor accounts.

Dates: 1807-1810.

Vegetarianism and sustainability publications

 Collection
Identifier: 8716
Abstract

A group of pamphlets, newsletters, and other underground or ephemeral publications focused on the topics of vegetarianism, organic eating and food systems, sustainable forest and land management, collective farming, commune living, survivalism, alternative lifestyles, anti-nuclear efforts, human rights and fair labor practices.

Dates: 1970 - 1980

Verne Allen (Misty) Fogg papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3068
Scope and content Includes personal correspondence; correspondence, reports and other material concerning various organizations in Tompkins County such as the Cayuga Nature Center, the Chamber of Commerce, Ithaco, the Ithaca Savings Bank, the Rotary Club, Tompkins County Foundation, Inc., and the YMCA. Also, talks, reports, correspondence and other material concerning Agway, the Cooperative Grange League Federation, Great American Investors, Inc., Group Enterprises, Inc., the New York State Agricultural...
Dates: 1918-1982.