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A Round Indiana: Round Barns In The Hoosier State, Second Edition, John T. Hanou
A Round Indiana: Round Barns In The Hoosier State, Second Edition, John T. Hanou
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Rounds barns are architectural phenomena that have graced rural America for over a century. Today the few that survive stand as symbols of another generation’s innovation and ingenuity. To understand the importance of these buildings is to begin to understand the story of farming in America. A Round Indiana: Round Barns in the Hoosier State, Second Edition documents the 266 round barns identified in the history of Indiana. This book contains more than 300 modern and historical photographs alongside nearly 40 line drawings and plans.
Author and award-winning photographer John T. Hanou combed through often-forgotten documents to tell the fascinating …
Photograph, Arkansas State Rice Milling Company
Photograph, Arkansas State Rice Milling Company
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Black and white photograph of the Arkansas State Rice Milling Company with rail cars that carried the milled rice from the rice mill.
Rice Harvesting In Stuttgart
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Black and white photograph showing two men harvesting rice on a John Deere tractor and a mechanical reaper. The way the process would work is one man would drive the tractor while the other one would catch the rice stalks as they came off the reaper's conveyer belt and "bind" them.
Watering Rice Near Mccrory
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Black and white photograph showing well water being pumped into an irrigation canal by a John Deere tractor hooked up to a well pump using a belt drive system. The tractor is hooked up to a secondary fuel tank so it can run longer without needing more fuel.
Newspaper Clipping, Freighting Cotton In The Early Days
Newspaper Clipping, Freighting Cotton In The Early Days
Farming in Arkansas
As part of a special interest column, the Mammoth Spring Democrat often ran old photos. This article depicts horse and mule drawn wagons hauling five cotton bales each from a farm in Camp, Arkansas to a cotton gin in Mammoth Spring for processing.
City Market Stockyard In Mammoth Spring
City Market Stockyard In Mammoth Spring
Farming in Arkansas
This is a photograph of Ben F. Elder seated in a mule cart with an unknown man standing beside him. They are in front of the stockyard. Elder established the City Market Stockyard in Mammoth Spring. Photograph caption says, "Tell the Truth."
Mammoth Spring Milling Company Advertisement
Mammoth Spring Milling Company Advertisement
Farming in Arkansas
This is is an advertisement for the Mammoth Spring Milling Company. The milling company has labels on all of the buildings as well as peak load numbers in order to entice farmers to bring their crops for processing.
Vintage Vineyard
Farming in Arkansas
In this black and white photograph, an unidentified man stands in a vineyard with an old barn in the background. The caption on the photograph says, "In the Thubler Vineyard."
Steam Tractor And Baler
Farming in Arkansas
This is a black and white photograph of an early steam-powered tractor and baler depicted at harvest time along with farm laborers and horses.
Oxen Hauling Logs
Farming in Arkansas
This is a black and white photograph of a team of oxen hauling timber into town across railroad tracks.
Mammoth Spring Milling Company
Mammoth Spring Milling Company
Farming in Arkansas
This is a photograph of the Mammoth Spring Milling Company's main building. Unidentified employees stand by railroad boxcars which would be loaded with processed grains.
Raw Cotton To A Cotton Gin
Farming in Arkansas
This is a black and white photograph of horse or mule drawn carts carrying raw cotton to a cotton gin for processing.
Franz Turkey Farm
Farming in Arkansas
This is a black and white photograph of two Franz turkey farm employees standing in a flock of turkeys.
Cotton Gin
Farming in Arkansas
Black and white photograph of three unidentified men standing in a cotton gin with bales of cotton. This gin was opened by John Michaels in the early 1920s and operated successfully until it burned in 1941.
Postcard, Two Men In Cow-Drawn Wagon
Postcard, Two Men In Cow-Drawn Wagon
Farming in Arkansas
A picture postcard with two unidentified men in a cow-drawn cart on one side and a message to T.H. Raney on the back.
Jane Justus Richardson Feeding The Hogs
Jane Justus Richardson Feeding The Hogs
Farming in Arkansas
Black and white photograph of Jane Justus Richardson feeding hogs in a barnyard.
Brochure, "Roldo Rowden Cotton Seed"
Brochure, "Roldo Rowden Cotton Seed"
Farming in Arkansas
This is an advertising brochure for Roldo Rowden cotton seed bred by Robert L. Dortch of Scott.
Jennings Wood And Wheelbarrow
Farming in Arkansas
Photograph of an old wheelbarrow sitting in front of a large stack of firewood.
Rice At Sunrise
Farming in Arkansas
Photograph of a rice field at sunrise in the Arkansas Delta.
Brochure, "Dortch's Southern Hybrid Seed Corn"
Brochure, "Dortch's Southern Hybrid Seed Corn"
Farming in Arkansas
This is an advertising brochure for Dortch's Southern Hybrid Seed Corn produced by Robert L. Dortch in Scott.
Grandpa's Cultivator
Farming in Arkansas
Photograph of a cultivator hooked to an older model tractor.
Goats By The Hay Rake
Farming in Arkansas
Photographs of goats in a pasture with a hay rake.
Farmer Preparing Fields
Farming in Arkansas
Photograph of a farmer on his tractor working a field in autumn.
Cultivator In Snow
Farming in Arkansas
Photograph of a horse-drawn cultivator resting in a snowy field with corn shocks behind it.
Call (Bert) Photograph Collection, 1914-1939, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Call (Bert) Photograph Collection, 1914-1939, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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Albert Lincoln "Bert" Call, 1866-1963, was a professional photographer in Dexter, Maine, from 1887 to 1953. He started as an apprentice to A.G. Fassett and shortly thereafter purchased Fassett's studio. Call was a portrait photographer but was also known for his artistic photographs of the northern Maine woods. Call also served as the official photographer for the Bangor and Aroostook Railroad's publication, "In the Maine Woods," from 1915 to 1931.
The collection includes 3,376 photographs dating between 1914 and 1939 of outdoor scenes of mountains, lakes, woods and streams in the northern part of Maine. Included are shots from the …
Fish (William) Account Book, 1771-1808, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Fish (William) Account Book, 1771-1808, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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Listings by date of accounts with various individuals and materials purchased or work done. Goods include bushels of barley or rye, pork, rum, coffee, etc. Work includes plowing, use of horses, mowing, etc. Also records sales of large volumes of salt, presumably used for fish processing.
West Peru. Maine Photograph Album, 20th Century, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
West Peru. Maine Photograph Album, 20th Century, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
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A photograph album by an unidentified compiler containing photographs taken in West Peru, Maine. Included are shots of people, businesses, houses, churches, the grist mill, toothpick factory, railroad station, schools, etc. Album is accompanied by a list identifying most photographs. Some photographs appear to be of members of the Woodsum family. Additional family names include Arnold, Kidder Goding, and Curtis.
Mf004 Aroostook Oral History Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf004 Aroostook Oral History Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids
The Aroostook Oral History Project, 1971-1972, which resulted in a collection of 119 cassettes (now digitized), totaling 73 hours. Interviews of more than 150 people were conducted by Helen K. Atchison covering a wide range of topics including early county history, early farming and machinery, the Aroostook War, railroading, lumbering, potato farming, maple sugar making, folk songs, folklore, folk medicine, politics, town meetings, cross-border migration, smuggling, Indians, sporting camps, schools and schooling, tall tales, superstitions, and many other aspects of the county's cultural heritage. Twenty tapes recorded in French and two tapes recorded in Swedish have not been abstracted and …
Mf019 Foxfire Bicentennial Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Mf019 Foxfire Bicentennial Project, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine
Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids
Part of a nationwide project coordinated by E. Wigginton, founder of Foxfire, of interviews with the elderly about their lives and their hopes and fears for the future of the nation.