16 July 2022
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1927-2021 (Vol. 1, No. 1 - Vol. 95, No. 4), by the Agricultural History Society.
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Ancestry.com - Gloucestershire, Hulbert Farm Day Books, 1894-1950 $
Original source: Farm Day Book: Hulbert, J 1894-1950 Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.
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Clemson University - Clemson’s Cooperative Extension Service Photographs 1880-1979
The physical collection consists of more than 11,000 positive and negative images produced by the Cooperative Extension Service and South Carolina Agricultural Experiment Station from the 1920s until the 1970s. This selection of images document segregated extension agents and their work with African American communities. The bulk of images documents activities relating to agriculture; the remainder relates to economic development, home demonstration, and Clemson College. Pictures of Extension Service personnel are included in this series. Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives, Series 51.
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Clemson University - The Agrarian
The Agrarian is an official student publication of the Clemson University College of Agriculture and Biological Sciences. Starting in December 1938, this college-wide publication focused on all aspects of agriculture with a main audience of agricultural leaders – county agents, specialists, agricultural teachers and instructors and leading farmers. It was published semiannually until the Spring/Summer of 1965. Clemson University Libraries Special Collections and Archives, Series 76.
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Diary of an 1892 Farmer's Wife
Josephine Jordan was a potato farmer's wife in Aroostook County, Maine.
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Finnish American Heritage Society of Maine
The Finnish-American Heritage Society is organized for the purpose of promoting, in a social setting, a cultural and educational appreciation of Finland and to explore the traditions of the Finnish families who settled here.
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First Families of Pennsylvania | Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania
First Families of Pennsylvania (FFP) is a lineage society open to any GSP member who can prove descent from a resident of what is now Pennsylvania, beginning in 1638.
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Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania
Our mission is to provide leadership and support in promoting genealogy through education, preservation, and access to Pennsylvania-related genealogical information. Founded in 1892 as a non-profit organization, the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (GSP) was among the first in the United States to recognize the value of collecting and preserving the vital and personal records of those ancestors whose lives now comprise our American History. GSP is committed to preserving and publishing heretofore unpublished primary sources. The continuing dedication to this service enables the Society to make an increasingly significant contribution to the cultural life of our city, state, and country. immigration into and out of Pennsylvania.
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Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania - Programs and Events
GSP's website lists all of our upcoming events, as well as lists genealogy events happening around the state of Pennsylvania.
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Harbison Agricultural College Photograph Collection
South Caroliniana Library, University Libraries Special Collections.
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A search tool site for exploring the Library of Congress Chronicling America database for information on the farming organizations, technologies, and practices of America’s past.
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Illinois Digital Newspapers - Farm, Field and Fireside Collection
Together with the introduction of rural mail delivery, the telephone, and the automobile, farm newspapers played a key role in the modernization of rural America. The Farm, Field and Fireside collection contains historically significant U.S. farm weeklies published in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These titles document a time of transition in American agriculture, politics, family life, and technology.
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Irish in the American Civil War
Exploring the experiences of Irish emigrant men, women, and children in the 19th century United States.
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Massachusetts Historical Society - William P. Wharton Diaries
This collection consists of 30 diaries of farmer and conservationist William P. Wharton, kept primarily at his farm (Fiveoaks Farm) in Groton, Mass., each year from 1910-1939.
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Michigan State University Libraries - Orson Ingalls diary
This collection contains a farm diary of Orson Ingalls of Almont, Lapeer County, Michigan, giving prices of stock and produce. The diary also contains personal notes about daily agricultural activities, weather conditions, health, church attendance, visits to friends and attendance at funerals.
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Pennsylvania Agricultural History Project
The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC), the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) and the Pennsylvania State University (PSU) created the Pennsylvania Agricultural History Project in 2010 to develop and share information about Pennsylvania’s agricultural history and the places that reflect that history.
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Pennsylvania Civil War Conscientious Objectors | Genealogical Society of PA
Database of names of Pennsylvania men who refused military service during the American Civil War for reasons of conscience. Arranged by surname and by county.
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The site dedicated to every victim of the Mother & Baby Homes in Ireland.
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Purdue University - Indiana Farmer Newspaper
The Indiana Farmer was a monthly publication detailing news and events about and for Indiana's farming community. The Farmer gives a rare view of rural Hoosier life from 1851 to 1917.
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By Marian L. Smith for Prologue Magazine, NARA
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Thomas Jefferson Papers: Farm Book
From the collections of the Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston, Massachusetts.
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UMass Amherst Libraries - Robert S. Cox Special Collections - Agriculture
Founded under the Morrill Land Grant Act of 1862 as the Massachusetts Agricultural College, UMass Amherst has long been dedicated to the study and teaching of agriculture and the natural sciences.
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UMass Dartmouth - Portuguese Oral History Projects
This collection began with a group of 74 personal narratives created as the result of a UMass Dartmouth Sociology Department student project which took place under the direction of professors Donna Huse and Bela Feldman-Bianco between 1987 and the early 1990s. It includes interviews of a wide variety of individuals from southeastern Massachusetts of Portuguese descent, many of which immigrated from the Azores, but also many who were born here of immigrant parents.
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United States congressional districts and data, 1843-1883 (Internet Archive)
This volume, the second of a multi-volume reference work, presents county and district demographic data and the geographical location of American congressional districts between 1789 and 1942. Volume II is considerably different from its predecessor, United States Congressional Districts, 1788-1841 (Greenwood Press, 1978), largely due to the increasing amount of census information available during successive decades in the 19th century.
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USDA Census of Agriculture Historical Archive
The USDA Census of Agriculture Historical Archive is a collaborative project between Albert R. Mann Library at Cornell University and USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). The site serves as the public archive of all historical agricultural census publications.