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Mf121 Maine Organic Farmers And Gardeners Association (Mofga), Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University Of Maine

Northeast Archives of Folklore and Oral History Finding Aids

This collection contains interviews with people associated with the Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association (MOFGA) and the Common Ground Fair in Unity, Maine. Themes include the process of beginning to farm organically, the early development of MOFGA and its growth; the Common Ground Fair and its expansion; marketing organic food; farming strategies; raising livestock; and MOFGA's interactions with conventional farmers and the wider community.

Solutions Human Centered Approach To Conservation, Illustration Department, History, Philosophy, + The Social Sciences Department

Illustration Course Work & Materials

"These essays were were written and illustrated by students at the Rhode Island school of Design in February, 2021. Their perspectives are entirely personal and reflect their efforts within a 5.5-week fused studio/seminar course that was centered on the Sixth Mass Extinction and how biodiversity is changing because of humans. Discovering that science communication is more than delivering just the facts, students were invited to research a topic of personal interest that is relevant to human impacts on biodiversity. Through analysis of data and other scientific information, each sought to synthesize their research and opinions on their topic through a …

A Round Indiana: Round Barns In The Hoosier State, Second Edition, John T. Hanou

Purdue University Press Book Previews

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 …

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

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

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

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

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

Farming in Arkansas

Black and white photograph of Jane Justus Richardson feeding hogs in a barnyard.

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"

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.

Cotton At Sunset

Farming in Arkansas

Full cotton bolls at sunset in Arkansas.

1912 - The Missions And Missionaries Of California, Vol. Ii, Upper California, Part I, General History, Zephyrin Engelhardt

Franciscan Publications

Volume II was a general accounting of the missions and missionaries in Upper California. Section I addressed the establishment and administration of the missions by Fr. Junípero Serra. Section II covered the administration of Fr. Fermín Francisco de Lasuén and Fr. Estevan Tapis. The author posited that the real object of the conquest and occupation of Alta California was not the establishment of the Catholic faith in California but rather to fund expeditions and secure the land from the Russians and others who were making expeditions in the region. Engelhardt's evidence was the fact that the Spanish government seized and …

1897 - History Of California, Volume 3, Theodore Henry Hittell

Miscellaneous Documents and Reports

Hittell dedicated the first portion of Volume 3 to early mining times in California including Pioneer mines, miners and mining appliances, Northern California mines, Southern California mines, gold distribution and gold rushes, struggles for organization and order, evolution of mining laws, and the lynch-law in the mines. Hittell wrote at considerable length about the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1851 and 1856, progress made in San Francisco, city debts, land sales, bank failures of 1855, growth of the State of California, People's Party reform, squatters, Land Commission Act, Joaquin Murieta and his banditti, Californian Filibusters, discovery of Humboldt Bay, Yosemite, …

1915 - Monterey County, California - Lands For Wealth, Fruit For Health; Arthur Dunn

Miscellaneous Monterey and San Luis Obispo County Documents and Reports

It was the aim of this booklet to direct attention to the advantages and opportunities found in Monterey County in 1915 for those who were seeking homes. The hope was that the publication would induce further settlement, for there was a vast amount of territory awaiting development. A marketing publication prepared by Sunset Magazine Homeseekers' Bureau for the Monterey County Board of Supervisors, the publication described in detail the bountiful agricultural opportunities, especially when irrigation and pumping were utilized. The document contains a: 1) description of existing irrigation systems, as well as a vision for the future of irrigation and …

1998 - Salinas Valley Water (Preliminary Analysis Of) The Cause And Cost Of Seawater Intrusion

Miscellaneous Monterey and San Luis Obispo County Documents and Reports

An analysis of the historical cause of seawater intrusion in the Pressure Area of Monterey County. An annual overdraft of groundwater resources near the coast coupled with a seasonal cycle of over pumping created a reversal in the groundwater gradient and associated cones of depression. "Marine intrusion has occurred in the 180-foot aquifer in recent years as a result of overdrafts." (Bulletin 52, 1946, p.27). The only overdrafts on groundwater in the Salinas Valley were in the East Side and Pressure Areas. "There was no shortage of groundwater in the remainder of the basin and no threat of deficiency under …

1872 - Report To The California Surveyor General From W. V. Mcgarvey, Monterey County Assessor

Reports to California Surveyor General

Reports submitted by the Monterey County Assessor to the California Surveyor General between 1859 and 1875 regarding county resources covering a variety of topics including, but not limited to, surveyed lands, roads, population, crops and livestock

1871 - Report To The California Surveyor General From W. V. Mcgarvey, Monterey County Assessor

Reports to California Surveyor General

Reports submitted by the Monterey County Assessor to the California Surveyor General between 1859 and 1875 regarding county resources covering a variety of topics including, but not limited to, surveyed lands, roads, population, crops and livestock