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Pate Family Correspondence (Sc 3697), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Oct 2023

Pate Family Correspondence (Sc 3697), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid, scans and typescripts of selected letters (Click on "Additional Files" below) for Manuscripts Small Collection 3697. Correspondence of the Pate family of Cloverport and “Brooks Bottom” in Breckinridge County, Kentucky, and of their relatives in the Ramsey and Brackin families (Ohio County), Butler family (Sumner County, Tennessee) and Benton family (Louisville, Kentucky). George L. Pate writes daughter Mary Jane (Pate) Ramsey of conflict with his son Samuel; of his grief over the death of another son in infancy; of the accidental shooting of a young man by his bride-to-be in 1863; and, in 1864, of an attack on …


Merino Wool In America: Migration, Economic Desire And Patriotism, Una R. Winn Jan 2023

Merino Wool In America: Migration, Economic Desire And Patriotism, Una R. Winn

Senior Projects Spring 2023

Senior Project submitted to The Division of Arts and The Division of Social Studies of Bard College.


The Limits Of Financial Equity: The Federal Reserve, The Depression Of 1921, And The End Of Wilsonian Progressivism, Terril Hebert Nov 2022

The Limits Of Financial Equity: The Federal Reserve, The Depression Of 1921, And The End Of Wilsonian Progressivism, Terril Hebert

LSU Master's Theses

The Limits of Financial Equity: The Federal Reserve, the Depression of 1921, and the End of Wilsonian Progressivism is an examination of monetary policy and centralized macroeconomic planning in the American economy during the inflationary spiral of the 1910s that culminated in the Depression of 1921. Put forward for consideration is the successful populist campaign for agricultural credit equity by the burgeoning Federal Reserve System; set against a backdrop of intentional inflation, world and domestic citizens competed against as the price and supply chain distortions perpetuated by the policing of American commerce by the Food Administration, A. Mitchell Palmer’s Department …


Us 31e Heritage Corridor (Mss 727), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Sep 2021

Us 31e Heritage Corridor (Mss 727), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 727. US 31E Heritage Corridor Resource Inventory, 21 March 2003, a report on historic resources in nine counties in Kentucky and Tennessee, prepared as part of a grant-funded project to identify sites along US 31E (the “Jackson Turnpike”) for heritage tourism. Also includes a proposal to develop an agricultural and recreational site on Green River Lake in Taylor County, Kentucky.


Bryant, Hal Farnsworth, 1888-1975 (Mss 716), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives Mar 2021

Bryant, Hal Farnsworth, 1888-1975 (Mss 716), Manuscripts & Folklife Archives

MSS Finding Aids

Finding aid only for Manuscripts Collection 716. News items and features written for syndication by Bryant and his partner James M. Ross, both of the Lexington (Kentucky) Leader; correspondence and papers relating to Bryant’s subsequent career as a statistician with the U.S. Department of Agriculture.


Sweetened Blood, Sweat And Tears, Nathan Celestine Jan 2021

Sweetened Blood, Sweat And Tears, Nathan Celestine

All Theses, Dissertations, and Capstone Projects

Of the transatlantic diffusion of culture, there is no better example than what developed out of Caribbean enslavement. The loss of African identity among slaves with a common, methodically destroyed ancestry, along with the diversity inherent to the different groups of Africans and Europeans and their respective cultural elements and identities resulted in a complex homogeny of culture, race, nationality, and socioeconomic status that has continued its development since the introduction of slaves to West Indian soil. It was this same soil that would cause the demand for slave labor to explode throughout European-controlled Caribbean islands, from the addition of …


Photograph, Arkansas State Rice Milling Company Aug 2020

Photograph, Arkansas State Rice Milling Company

Images

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 Aug 2020

Rice Harvesting In Stuttgart

Images

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 Aug 2020

Watering Rice Near Mccrory

Images

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 Aug 2020

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 Aug 2020

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 Aug 2020

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 Aug 2020

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 Aug 2020

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 Aug 2020

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 Aug 2020

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 Aug 2020

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 Aug 2020

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 Aug 2020

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 Aug 2020

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 Aug 2020

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" Aug 2020

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 Aug 2020

Jennings Wood And Wheelbarrow

Farming in Arkansas

Photograph of an old wheelbarrow sitting in front of a large stack of firewood.


Rice At Sunrise Aug 2020

Rice At Sunrise

Farming in Arkansas

Photograph of a rice field at sunrise in the Arkansas Delta.


Brochure, "Dortch's Southern Hybrid Seed Corn" Aug 2020

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 Aug 2020

Grandpa's Cultivator

Farming in Arkansas

Photograph of a cultivator hooked to an older model tractor.


Goats By The Hay Rake Aug 2020

Goats By The Hay Rake

Farming in Arkansas

Photographs of goats in a pasture with a hay rake.


Farmer Preparing Fields Aug 2020

Farmer Preparing Fields

Farming in Arkansas

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


Cultivator In Snow Aug 2020

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 Aug 2020

Cotton At Sunset

Farming in Arkansas

Full cotton bolls at sunset in Arkansas.