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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.

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.

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.

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.

Farmer Preparing Fields

Farming in Arkansas

Photograph of a farmer on his tractor working a field in autumn.

Refusing To Be Dispossessed: African American Land Retention In The Us South From Reconstruction To World War Ii, Camille Goldmon

Graduate Theses and Dissertations

African Americans in the South were tied to the land during slavery and after emancipation. Many felt that land ownership was the key to freedom. For decades, black farmers strove for land ownership, in many cases falling prey to sharecropping and tenancy agreements in the meantime. Despite this drive toward independent farming, however, since 1920, there has been a steady decline in the number of black farm owners. This trend is especially prevalent in the Southern United States. The black farm owners who persevered through periods of economic, social, and political turmoil were able to, for varying reasons, navigate those …

Muhlenberg County, Kentucky Union Of The American Society Of Equity (Mss 370), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 270. Minute books, account books and organizational papers of the Muhlenberg Union of the American Society of Equity, a farmers collective bargaining organization. Also includes constitution and by-laws, stationery, and other printed ephemera associated with the organization. The Muhlenberg Union was organized on 28 July 1905.

Cotton Harvest

Farming in Arkansas

Color photograph of a cotton farmer clearing the harvesting equipment of the gathered raw cotton.

Rufus Laine And Mule Team

Farming in Arkansas

Color photograph of Rufus Laine, who used a team of mules to pull his plow. Laine was a farmer in Craighead County.

Rufus Laine On A Plow

Farming in Arkansas

Color photograph of Rufus Laine on his mule-drawn, double plow. Laine was a farmer in Craighead County.

Caroline Laine With Waterpump

Farming in Arkansas

Photograph of Caroline Laine, the wife of Rufus Laine, sitting in her kitchen by the water pump.

Rufus Laine Dual Plow

Farming in Arkansas

Color photograph of Rufus Laine using a dual plow drawn by a team of mules. Laine was a farmer in Craighead County.

Rufus Laine With Waterpump

Farming in Arkansas

Color photograph of Rufus Laine utilizing the waterpump on his property. Laine was a farmer in Craighead County.

The Beeson Farmstead: A Study Of The Functional Aspects Of A Black Farm In The Richland Community, Annelen Archbold

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

This study documents the lifestyle on a small, prosperous black farmstead in the Richland community of Butler County, Kentucky. It is based on extensive fieldwork and interviews conducted with Percy Beeson, owner of the farm for aver fifty years. The result of the fieldwork and interviews was the documentation of how this farmstead, maintained without mechanical farm equipment, worked as a functional unit on a year-round basis.

As a functional unit, the Beeson farmstead is described in terms of the Beeson family and their ownership of the farm and the breakdown of the property into two dependent units. In the …

Sara Matthews, Ffa Sweetheart

Farming in Arkansas

Black and white photograph of Sara Matthews. Matthews competed in a beauty competition and was crowned the Future Farmers of America Sweetheart at one of the FFA's galas. Her talent was baton twirling.

Allison Farm Map And Plan

Farming in Arkansas

The Farm Map and Plan was part of the soil conservation efforts that were enacted after the Dust Bowl in the 1920s. In this plan, there is an aerial picture of the Allison farm from the Soil Conservation Service photogrammetry department as well as handwritten descriptions of the land.

Norman Leonard, Bono Ffa President

Farming in Arkansas

Photograph of Norman Leonard. Leonard was president of the Future Farmers of America at Bono High School for the 1957-1958 school year.

Courtney Soil And Water Conservation Plan

Farming in Arkansas

The Soil Conservation District of Lawrence County, under the authority of the United States Department of Agriculture and Soil Conservation Service, assisted local farmers in developing plans to manage their lands. These plans included suggestions for preventing erosion, water pollution, and crop failure. For J.J. Courtney, a plan was developed to manage his farm outside of Walnut Ridge that would prevent soil erosion and promote soil health for good crop yields.

Strawberry Pickers' Camp, Bald Knob

Farming in Arkansas

This is a black and white photograph of a strawberry pickers' camp with tents, campers, and automobiles at Bald Knob.

Seeding Rice Near Lonoke

Farming in Arkansas

This is a black and white photograph of three men in a tractor-pulled machine planting rice in a field near Lonoke.

Binding Rice On The Grand Prairie

Farming in Arkansas

This is a black and white photograph of two men riding a machine that is cutting and binding rice on the Grand Prairie.

Cutting Rice On Willman's Farm Near Lonoke

Farming in Arkansas

This is a black and white photograph of two men on a tractor-pulled harvester, cutting rice on Willman's Farm, near Lonoke.

Loading Fodder Into A Wagon

Farming in Arkansas

This is a black and white photograph of two unidentified men loading fodder into a horse-drawn wagon from a corn shock.

Cotton Gin Near Natural Steps

Farming in Arkansas

This is a black and white photograph of a cotton gin near Natural Steps in Pulaski County.

Cotton Field At Lake Dick

Farming in Arkansas

This is a black and white photograph of an unidentified man working with a cultivator in a cotton field at the Lake Dick Farm Security Administration Project.

Men Picking Peaches In Summersweet Orchard Near Colt

Farming in Arkansas

This is a black and white photograph of several unidentified men picking peaches in Summersweet Orchard near Colt, on Crowley's Ridge.

Pamphlet, "Mississippi County, It's The Soil"

Farming in Arkansas

This is a pamphlet about favorable farming conditions of Mississippi County.

Plowing A Corn Field

Farming in Arkansas

Black and white photograph of Richie and Joe Washam plowing a cornfield using a mule.

Map, "Arkansas Farm Tenancy"

Farming in Arkansas

This is a map of farm tenancy in Arkansas from the Arkansas State Planning Board in 1930.

Maps - "Peaches, Berries, And Apples In Arkansas"

Farming in Arkansas

This is a page of three small maps of Arkansas showing where peaches, berries, and apples were being grown in Arkansas in 1930.