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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (2): 119–121.
Published: 01 April 2012
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Agricultural History (2020) 94 (1): 24–60.
Published: 01 January 2020
...Mark Aldrich Abstract Beginning in the 1870s, kerosene stoves became fixtures in many farm kitchens, as households shifted from wood or coal to oil fuel. Surveys during the 1930s reveal that, outside of cities, oil was afar more common cooking fuel than gas. Yet the literature on farm and rural...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 451–464.
Published: 01 April 2000
..., 74; Pooreinterview. Women on Homesteads / 455 shelves where she stored her dishes. A cook stove provided heat. In short, "everything was pretty quaint."10 Such primitive living conditions provided a strong incentive for women to become involved in building more substantial homes. Although husbands...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (2): 147–186.
Published: 01 May 2024
... days in July, the women cooked on electric stoves, laundered shirts, and tested electric irons—all of which was made more enjoyable through the novelty of air-conditioning through a water-cooled window unit. The report notes that “many of the women commented on the fact that even $39.50 wasn't...
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Agricultural History (2016) 90 (2): 195–208.
Published: 01 April 2016
... of this important type of farm food is unusual and hard to explain. it could be an act of quiet rebellion against spending summer days over a hot stove and a pot of hissing fruit, or it could be that the person in charge of collecting those recipes for the book fell down on her job. it would be a mistake, however...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (4): 532–533.
Published: 01 October 2001
... pea-sheller. Electric stoves never caught on and were eclipsed by bottled gas appliances, and, except for dairy and poultry operations, farmers did not buy much electrical farm equipment. The period after World War II witnessed the more thorough adoption of electricity and other modernizing...
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Agricultural History (2024) 98 (4): 723–725.
Published: 01 November 2024
... mushrooms and herbs were drying above the stove. The samovar, used to brew tea, allowed Russians to quickly prepare the hot beverage for family and friends day or night, and it became a symbol of Russian hospitality in the nineteenth century. The introduction of tea was only one of the many culinary imports...
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Agricultural History (2008) 82 (1): 116–117.
Published: 01 January 2008
... to a detailed look at cooking-the link between the slaughter and consumption ofmeat. How and why has theway inwhich Americans cooked meat changed over time? This takes us quickly into the rise of certain technologies (fire, iron stoves, gas ranges, etc.) as well as methods of preparation, cooking...
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Agricultural History (2022) 96 (3): 471–474.
Published: 01 August 2022
... of women in energy historiography, Karen Sayer discusses in chapter 2 the ways in which English women used and adapted candlepower prior to the introduction of gas and electric lighting. In chapter 3, Sandwell examines Canadian women's concerns about kerosene lamps, gas-powered stoves, and other...
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Agricultural History (2002) 76 (4): 706–708.
Published: 01 October 2002
... of the telephone, electric stove, indoor plumbing, and toilet. Her correspondence praised furnace heat, modern lighting, and refrigeration for the home, although she dreaded the additional expenses engendered by the modern conveniences. She celebrated the virtues of democracy while critiquing the march...
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Agricultural History (2001) 75 (4): 533–535.
Published: 01 October 2001
... farm households only used their refrigerators in the summer, and one Missouri farm wife found her electric clothes-wringer to be a dandy pea-sheller. Electric stoves never caught on and were eclipsed by bottled gas appliances, and, except for dairy and poultry operations, farmers did not buy much...
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Agricultural History (2006) 80 (3): 336–357.
Published: 01 July 2006
.... Archaeologists surveying the Birdstone Valley region of Navarro County, Texas, documented African-American preferences for building new struc? tures of log up to 1900. The residents also used the hearths for cooking and heating into the twentieth century, two generations after stoves be? came widely available...
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Agricultural History (2023) 97 (4): 677–684.
Published: 01 November 2023
... they have studied into their own interpretation of a plow or a plot of land or a pot of stew simmering on a stove in an agricultural museum or living history farm near you. figure 1. Students at the Edison Institute School studying plows on exhibit at Henry Ford Museum, 1945–47. From...
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Agricultural History (2007) 81 (4): 464–470.
Published: 01 October 2007
... or television. This was the early 1950s, and, at the time, I did not realize that save for an occasional trip toNevada City, therewas little to distinguish the ranch from theway itmust have looked when the house and barn were built in the nineteenth century. There was a wooden stove, kerosene lanterns...
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Agricultural History (2013) 87 (2): 144–169.
Published: 01 April 2013
... or southeast. The glass let in the energy from the sun, while preventing the warmer air from escaping the box. A tight fence on the north side of the bed prevented cold wind from drawing energy and heat out of the frame.22 In a hot frame, farmers used either decomposition or coals from the stove to keep plants...
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Agricultural History (2012) 86 (3): 77–103.
Published: 01 July 2012
... that burned the skin on their hands. They had to heft flatirons back and forth to the stove for reheating and feed the stove regularly with supplies of wood. At the threshing Johnson was expected to serve three huge meals a day for up to twenty workers. Yet looking back on these difficult years when she had...
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Agricultural History (2003) 77 (4): 557–581.
Published: 01 October 2003
..., wood- or oil-burning stoves, and extensive spraying sys? tems to combat frost. However, these systems generally proved either too expensive or too ineffective to be worth the effort. Florida orange growers have usually preferred just to lose oranges to freezing. Rather than try to push Mother Nature...
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Agricultural History (2000) 74 (2): 241–257.
Published: 01 April 2000
... with Raper that stuck with me over the years were not about policy debates, but about talking to women who lived in shacks: women who spent hours in Georgia summers over wood stoves, using the "precious cookers" and glass jars bought with their Farm Security Administration (FSA) loans in order to meet...
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Agricultural History (2015) 89 (1): 57–74.
Published: 01 January 2015
... in a snowbank and were late coming home. Once when they had come in and were warming up by the stove she got to tickling Henry and his elbow struck the stovepipe, which ran through the house. Noticing the noise, her mother appeared at the top to the stairs to see what had happened, so I knew she was keeping...
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Agricultural History (2017) 91 (1): 39–54.
Published: 01 January 2017
.... Although few renters achieved the Robinsons success, historians have since discovered a class of landless farmers who survived the depression. ON MARCH 9, 1927 ED ROBINSON rose early, ate breakfast, and chopped wood for the cook stove and then carried seed corn to Mr. Zeb Hammonds. A white, renting...