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Agriculture

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 31 Collections and/or Records:

Liberty Subordinate Farmers Alliance

 Collection
Identifier: 0563
Scope and Contents

This collection contains the Treasurer's book for the Liberty Subordinate Farmers Alliance in Lee County, Alabama, 1887-1893. The book contains lists of dues paid by members, a list of expenditures, and a record of dues paid to the county and State Alliance. It also includes what appears to be nine redeemed promissory notes, 1889-1890, inserted loose in the volume.

Dates: 1887 - 1893

Gaston Joel Lipscomb Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0622
Scope and Contents

This collection contains engineering and business records of Lipscomb's work for the W.R. Grace Co. at their paper and sugar plants in Peru and Chile, as well as photographs and blueprints related to the company.

Dates: 1910 - 1948

Hanchey E. Logue Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0659
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of scrapbooks and 35 mm color slides of 4-H Club material. Scrapbooks include correspondence, leaflets, programs, photographs, and clippings. Scrapbook pages removed and placed in file folders; clippings photocopied. Slides document state and national 4-H Club meetings, 1949-1952, and the history of Alabama Corn, Tomato, and 4-H Clubs, 1914-1970.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1943 - 1980; 1914 - 1980

Nathaniel T. Lupton (State Chemical Laboratory) Journal

 Collection
Identifier: 0567
Scope and Contents

This collection contains a journal listing results of chemical analyses performed at the State Chemical Laboratory located at Alabama Polytechnic Institute. Tests were performed on samples of fertilizers, guano, and soil supplements manufactured in Alabama and other states under the direction of State Chemist N.T. Lupton.

Dates: December 4, 1891 to September 1893

Photographs, 1919 and others circa 1920

 File — Box Short Collection 19
Content Description From the Collection:

Nine photographic prints of the scuttling of the German fleet at Scapa Flow, Scotland, on June 21, 1919. Seventeen photographs of agricultural and industrial sites throughout Alabama, likely taken for the Alabama Extension Service circa 1920s.

Dates: 1919 and others circa 1920

Isaac J. Rogers Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1182
Scope and Contents

This small collection, maintained in original order, focuses predominantly on the life and experiences of Isaac J. Rogers during the Civil War and the late nineteenth century. The collection includes his order book/journal, transcriptions of order book/journal entries, and his obituary. Also included in the collection are newspaper clippings depicting University of Alabama football player, Isaac J. "Ike" Rogers, potentially a younger relative of Isaac J. Rogers.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1861 - 1865; 1836 - 1915

Harriette Delany Stalcup Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 1225
Scope and Contents

This collection contains agricultural catalogs and publications from the 1920s-1940s. It also contains correspondence and notes from Mrs. Stalcup regarding her orders from these catalogs and some personal correspondence.

Dates: 1921 - 1949

Tait Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0345
Abstract Also known as the James A. Tait Collection. Includes diaries, letters received, financial papers, tax records, and slave records of Charles and James Asbury Tait. Papers of the children of James Asbury include letters received as well as freedman contracts, wills, deeds, clippings, maps, and speeches. The Tait Family were plantation owners in Wilcox County, Alabama; active in politics in Georgia, Alabama, and Texas. Family members include Charles Tait (1768-1835), politician and...
Dates: 1798 - 1922

Walter H. Greenleaf Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0655
Scope and Contents The Walter H. Greenleaf Papers consist of Dr. Greenleaf's teaching and research material over a 35-year period (1945-80) with the Auburn School of Agriculture and Agricultural Experiment Station. The collection is arranged into 5 series:Series I: (boxes 1-2) consists of Horticulture Research Files - a mixture of test results, correspondence, and articles on subjects relating to various plants. All material has been arranged alphabetically.Series II: (box 3) consists...
Dates: 1945 - 1981

Welch Family Papers

 Collection — Box Short Collection 5
Identifier: 0087
Scope and Contents Consists of records of the Alpine Baptist Church, a diary of Oliver Welch, and the scrapbooks of Samuel W. Welch on microfilm. The remainder of collection includes photocopied genealogies (1958) of the Darby, Welch and Mallory families, compiled by H. A. Darby; a paper (1942) on the Walker Reynolds' home, Mount Ida, by Margaret Reynolds Smith; a diary (1850-1860) of Rev. Oliver Welch; memorial tributes (1874) to Welch; and two scrapbooks (1900-1951) with clippings of poetry, obituaries and...
Dates: 1832 - 1858