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Agriculture.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings DO NOT USE

Found in 66 Collections and/or Records:

Lydia Coye Holcomb family papers

 Collection
Identifier: 3488
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries, and other papers of the Holcomb family.

Dates: 1796-1959.

Marius P. Rasmussen papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-10-1011
Scope and content

Includes reading lists for Rasmussen's marketing laboratories, ca.1936, 1940s, 1955; U.S. Department of Agriculture publications; and photographs and other materials related to fruit growing experiments, 1940s.

Dates: 1934-1958.

Miscellaneous pamphlet collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1940
Scope and content

Pamphlets on economic, political, agricultural, religious, and social topics, published mainly in the United States. Topics covered include beekeeping, horticulture, farming equipment, temperance, banking reform, political and military issues surrounding World War I, and others. Also included are pamphlets on various places in New York State and elsewhere, such as Buffalo, Rochester, Niagara Falls, and the Hudson River.

Dates: 1836-1950.

Myron and Sydney A. Dawson diary and farm account book

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064941606]
Identifier: 3225
Scope and content

Diary, April 2, 1860 through August 2, 1862; and account book, December 31, 1859 through February 8, 1862, of Myron Dawson, Tioga County, New York. The diary continues in Sydney A. Dawson's name from 1873-1882.

Dates: 1860-1882.

Nahum (Nach) Waxman Collection of Food and Culinary Trade Cards

 Collection
Identifier: 8573
Abstract The Nahum (Nach) Waxman Collection of Food and Culinary Trade Cards documents the history of food and household product industries through trade ephemera and advertising cards dating from the 1860s to the 1990s. It contains mainly trade cards, along with food labels, menus, advertising samples, culinary-themed print materials, and ephemera related to food, culinary, beverages, household and equipment, retail and commercial, agriculture, cigarettes, and more. The collection also offers...
Dates: circa 1850-1900.

National Federation of Grain Cooperatives records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2940
Abstract Legislation; congressional committee hearings, comments, and press releases regarding agriculture law and legislation; press releases of farmers' associations; correspondence concerning laws, taxation, etc.; material on cooperatives and associations; records of commodity prices; newsletters, reports, memos, etc. concerning import quotas; material on the Uniform Grain Storage Agreement; and other records of agricultural associations and laws and regulations affecting agriculture. Persons...
Dates: 1946-1976.

New York State Conference Board of Farm Organizations records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2840
Scope and content

Includes minutes of meetngs (1918-1963), correspondence, lists of officers and committee members, resolutions of member organizations, legislative recommendations, checkbook stubs, and proposed budgets with rationale (1957-1966) for the New York State College of Agriculture, New York State College of Home Economics, and the New York State Veterinary College, all at Cornell University.

Dates: 1918-1968.

Orville Theodore Fletcher papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064718582]
Identifier: 3674
Scope and content

Manuscript and typescript of Orville Fletcher's "From Plow to Pulpit: An Autobiography..." concerning his boyhood on a farm in McClure Settlement, New York, 1850-1890. Also, photographs of Fletcher farmhouse, 1893, and barn, 1930; the Fletcher children; Fletcher's parents, James and Laura Fletcher; and Patty and Benjamin Fletcher, Jr., 1859, his grandparents. Includes obituaries of James Fletcher, Orville Fletcher's father.

Dates: 1859-1935.

Paul W. Griswold diaries

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065226387]
Identifier: 3939
Scope and content

Diaries containing short daily entries concerning weather, farm work, crops, visits, social activities, and finances.

Dates: 1891-1901.

Paul Wallace Gates, collector, railroad timetables and printed material

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3137
Scope and content

Included are pamphlets, timetables, advertisements (some photocopies), broadsides, maps, serials, photographs and negatives, alphabetical files, land laws, newsletters, newspapers, and reprints. Pamphlets concern the following topics: agriculture, art, government, history, politics, religion, social science, industry, transportation, and education; also, airline, bus, boat, and railroad timetables.

Dates: [ca. 1850]-1983.