Agricultural laborers.
Subject
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Found in 9 Collections and/or Records:
Archives Organization File Additional records
Collection
Identifier: 5956
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of various pamphlets relating to labor and work.
Dates:
0000-2999
Babcock family papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 2416
Scope and content
Correspondence, 1940-1949, between Howard E. Babcock, Sr., and Howard, Jr. concerning the son's management of the South Springs Ranch, Roswell, New Mexico, a Cornell University property which they bought in 1943; among the topics discussed are details of operation, especially in regard to the availability, tranportation, and wages of German prisoners-of-war employed during the wartime shortage of farm labor; also included are budgets, inventories, and financial reports, as well as blueprints...
Dates:
1859-1978.
Bond and Grayston immigrant letters
Collection — Manuscript box 28 - folder 1: [Barcode: 31924065245734]
Identifier: 861
Scope and content
Included are a series of ten letters (1870s) from Mrs. Catherine (Grayston) Bond to relatives in England commenting on the growth of her family, on living and working conditions, on the master, a Philadelphia business man, to whom she and her husband were engaged as farm-helpers; another series (1879-99) also written by Mrs. Bond from Bunker Hill, Russell County, Kansas, commenting on her family, living conditions, prices of land, wages, and other matters; and two letters (1877-78) by James...
Dates:
1870-1899.
Charles E. Palm papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-2-1478
Abstract
Correspondence, typescripts, reports, drafts, handwritten notes of telephone conversations, and publications pertaining to his deanship of the New York State College of Agriculture from 1959 to 1972 and to his work as Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Agricultural Sciences beginning in 1972. The papers mainly document the administration and growth of the New York State College of Agriculture, its departments, committees, and related activities, including the New York State Agricultural...
Dates:
1956-1986.
Charles E. Williams Farm and Household accounts
Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064920394]
Identifier: 4209
Scope and content
Farm and household accounts for Charles E. Williams, Locke and North Lansing, New York; contain record of farm labor exchanged, 1878-1895. Also includes trustees' records for School District 6, Tompkins County, N.Y., for 1906.
Dates:
1878-1907.
Cornell University Department of Rural Sociology records
Collection
Identifier: 21-33-1085
Abstract
Includes minutes of the New York State Interdepartmental Committee on Farm and Food Processing Labor (1948, 1950-1955); descriptions and reports concerning migrant labor in New York State and various funded projects; requests for information; and other records of Olaf F. Larson at the New York State College of Agriculture Department of Rural Sociology at Cornell University. Also, reports and bulletins (1920-1955), department newsletters (1961-1967), mimeographed proposals, notices, and...
Dates:
1920-2010.
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.
New York State War Council records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 1730
Scope and content
Reports, bulletins, newsletters, and correspondence pertaining to the work of Cornell University in matters of civilian mobilization, particularly that of Donald A. Campbell and Robert Polson, an extension rural sociologist and deputy director of farm labor mobilization for the State of New York; concerns civil defense, civilian mobilization, and other home front activities. Includes pamphlets issued by the Red Cross, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the American Industries Salvage...
Dates:
1941-1945
W. Keith Kennedy papers
Collection — Box 48: [Barcode: 31924079155762]
Identifier: 21-2-2764
Abstract
Administrative correspondence, reports, proposals, financial records, and other material documenting the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University and Kennedy's deanship from 1972to 1978.
Dates:
1971-1978.