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Taking The Fair Deal to the Fields: Truman’s Commission on Migratory Labor, Public Law 78, and the Bracero Program, 1950–1952
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (3): 381–402.
Published: 01 July 2010
... institutionalized in the form of Public Law 78 and remained in effect for more than a decade thereafter. Taking The Fair Deal to the Fields: Truman's Commission on Migratory Labor, Public Law 78, and the Bracero Program, 1950-1952 ROBERT S.ROBINSON From 1950 to 1952Harry S Truman investedsignificantpersonal...
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A “Bovine Glamour Girl”: Borden Milk, Elsie the Cow, and the Convergence of Technology, Animals, and Gender at the 1939 New York World's Fair
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Agricultural History (2014) 88 (4): 470–490.
Published: 01 October 2014
...Anna Thompson Hajdik Abstract This essay examines the introduction of the Borden Company's brand mascot “Elsie the Borden Cow” at the 1939 World's Fair. Through an extensive visual analysis of Borden's fair time publicity stills and advertisements, it argues that the creatively conceived “spokes...
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Carnival in the Countryside: The History of the Iowa State Fair
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 454–456.
Published: 01 July 2017
...Sarah Egge Carnival in the Countryside: The History of the Iowa State Fair . By Chris Rasmussen . Iowa City : University of Iowa Press , 2015 . 230 pp., $27.50 , paperback, ISBN 978-1-60938-357-2 . © 2017 Agricultural History Society 2017 454 Agricultural History example, he...
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A Fair-Ribbon Quilt: Crafting Identity and Creating Memory
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (2): 227–243.
Published: 01 April 2018
...Jodey Nurse-Gupta Abstract This article investigates a fair-ribbon quilt crafted by Bernice, Irene, and Edna Rudd to reveal the multiplicity of meanings that exist in a single artifact. The quilt was pieced together in 1901 from a variety of prize ribbons won by their father, William James Rudd...
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Cultivating Community: Women and Agricultural Fairs in Ontario
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (2): 343–344.
Published: 01 May 2023
...Victoria Seta Cosby [email protected] Cultivating Community: Women and Agricultural Fairs in Ontario . By Jodey Nurse . Montreal : McGill-Queen's University Press , 2022 . 360 pp. $39.95 , paperback, ISBN 9780228009153. Copyright © 2023 the Agricultural History Society...
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The Honey Pond and the Flapjack Tree: The USDA at Two World Fairs, 1933–1940
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (1-2): 1–28.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Adrienne Monteith Petty Abstract This article analyzes and compares the vision for the future of agriculture presented at two Depression-era world fairs—the 1933 Chicago World's Fair and the 1940 American Negro Exposition—to highlight double standards in agricultural policy. An examination...
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Purebred and Homegrown: America’s County Fairs
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (2): 272–273.
Published: 01 April 2010
...Angela Firkus Purebred and Homegrown: America’s County Fairs . Drake Hokanson and Carol Kratz . © 2010 Agricultural History Society 2010 AgriculturHalistory Spring ofAmericanagricultureT.hese analysesare not overlycomplex- readers withan understandinogf basic economicsand...
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The Corn King of Mexico in the United States: A South-North Technology Transfer
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Agricultural History (2004) 78 (2): 155–165.
Published: 01 April 2004
... States, speaking to groups of farmers and agricultural scientists about his methods of dry farming and corn propagation. He exhibited at agricultural fairs and exhibitions, attended Farmers’s Institutes and conferences, and published a manual for use by average American farmers. Like many agricultural...
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“Tired of Being Exploited”: The Grassroots Origin of the Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916
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Agricultural History (2018) 92 (4): 512–540.
Published: 01 October 2018
...Christopher W. Shaw Abstract The Federal Farm Loan Act of 1916 repudiated the creed of laissez-faire by declaring that government had a responsibility to assist ordinary citizens economically. Farmers had made affordable credit a political issue well before the Panic of 1907 thrust banking reform...
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Interactive miniature model of the gamma field at the CNRN's pavilion at th...
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in Atomic Spaghetti”: Durum Wheat and Mutation Breeding in Italy (1950s–1970s)
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Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 4. Interactive miniature model of the gamma field at the CNRN's pavilion at the Trade Fair of Milan in 1959. Mannino Patané, “Possibilità presenti e future,” 157.
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Top: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru outside a Brookhaven National Laborato...
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in In Pursuit of “Man-Made Evolution”: Peaceful Atoms, Circulatory Knowledge, and Atomic Agriculture in India
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Published: 01 November 2024
Figure 1. Top: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru outside a Brookhaven National Laboratory facility at the World Agricultural Fair. Bottom: J. L. Brewbaker with Indian scientists at a Brookhaven National Laboratory radiation unit. National Center for Biological Sciences Archives.
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Book Notes
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (4): 537.
Published: 01 October 2001
... from approximately 1915 to 1965. Agricultural Fairs in America: Tradition, Education, Celebration. Editedby Julie A. Avery. East Lansing: Michigan State University Museum, 2000. 112 pp., $26.00, paperback, ISBN 0-944311-17-2. A colorful and entertaining look at America's county fairs. This work...
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Agricultural Policy in the Twentieth Century
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 136–161.
Published: 01 April 2000
...-out reform strategies. The 1996 FAIR Act, because it ends ARPs, may reopen to some extent the underutilized squeeze-out path to reform, yet it does so at a time of low rather than high inflation, diminishing somewhat the option of using "decrementalism" to squeeze down the real value of farm program...
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The Amish: A Concise Introduction
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (3): 453–454.
Published: 01 July 2017
... works admirably. Pamela Riney-Kehrberg Iowa State University Carnival in the Countryside: The History of the Iowa State Fair. By Chris Rasmussen. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 2015. 230 pp., $27.50, paperback, ISBN 978-1-60938-357-2. In Carnival in the Countryside, Chris Rasmussen makes a bold...
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In Pursuit of “Man-Made Evolution”: Peaceful Atoms, Circulatory Knowledge, and Atomic Agriculture in India
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 674–701.
Published: 01 November 2024
...Figure 1. Top: Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru outside a Brookhaven National Laboratory facility at the World Agricultural Fair. Bottom: J. L. Brewbaker with Indian scientists at a Brookhaven National Laboratory radiation unit. National Center for Biological Sciences Archives. ...
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From Bread to Cake: A Global History of Pacific Northwest Wheat during the Cold War
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 417–443.
Published: 01 August 2022
... the current wheat market in the Pacific Northwest, where soft white wheat exports dominate. In the past year, WWA had continued to advertise their product in Japan. In August 1963, their employees traveled to the Kiyosato County Fair hosted by the Kiyosato Educational Experiment Project located...
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The Agricultural Extension Service and Non-Whites in California, 1910–1932
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Agricultural History (2010) 84 (4): 506–530.
Published: 01 October 2010
.... Seth Low, a representative of the gov ernor of New York, "was as enthusiastic as a child," as he detailed to the New York Times the horticultural wonders of the exposition, declaring it the best of themany fairs he had visited. "Beautiful beyond words," he said, and all themore so taking...
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Agricultural History Talks to Melissa Walker
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (1): 26–30.
Published: 01 January 2012
... look far afield from their own experience. I fall into the first category. Figure 1. Walker and Lady, Tennessee State Fair, 1974. Lady was a lovely heifer and became a high producing cow. She also loved to eat more than anything. Once at the Tennessee Valley Agricultural and Industrial Fair, the judge...
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The Republic's New Clothes: Making Silk in the Antebellum United States
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (4): 206–234.
Published: 01 October 2012
... , 1836 ), 77 ; Wyckoff , American Silk , 22 – 23 ; Rossell , “Culture of Silk,” 164 – 66 ; Sarah T. Phillips , “Antebellum Agricultural Reform, Republican Ideology, and Sectional Tension,” Agricultural History ( Fall 2000 ): 799 – 822 . 17. Linda J. Borish , “‘A Fair...
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Japanese Americans at Heart Mountain: Networks, Power, and Everyday Life
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (3): 508–509.
Published: 01 August 2024
... of incarceration history followed by a detailed analysis of the Heart Mountain social, economic, and political networks with particular attention on influential families, the Heart Mountain Fair Play Committee, and most significantly women (1). Kekki analyzes data from three large sets of information created...
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