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Farm life

 Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Here are entered popular works on farms and works on manners and customs on farms. Theoretical works on the social organization of rural areas are entered under Sociology, Rural. Works on the social conditions of rural areas are entered under Rural conditions. Popular works on living in the country and works on manners and customs in rural areas are entered under Country life.

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

Alabama Extension Homemakers Records

 Collection
Identifier: 0653

John Horry Dent Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0477
Scope and Contents This collection contains photocopies of twenty-one journals (1840-1891), nine account books (1856-1887) descriptive of 19th century agricultural and rural life in Alabama and Georgia, and the October 3, 1836 Conveyance and Trust Agreement that transferred control of the land and slaves inherited by Mary E. Harrison, wife of John Dent, to John Horry...
Dates: 1836 - 1891

Bessie Grayson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 0032
Scope and Contents

This collection contains Bessie Grayson's reminiscences concerning African-American life in rural South Alabama during the 1930s to 1950s. Includes stories of picking and ginning cotton, canning, making syrup and molasses, quilting, school, and religious life, as well as segregation prior to the Civil Rights movement of the 1960s.

Dates: 1930 - 1960

William O. Holmes Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0410
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of seven Civil War era letters. Six were written by William O. Holmes, and one was written by James Ammerman. Holmes' letter on April 4, 1865, describes the emotional impact of the fall of Richmond. There is also a small diary by an anonymous farmer from 1867.

Dates: 1861 - 1941

D. B. Jones Diary

 Collection
Identifier: 0596
Scope and Contents

This collection contains D. B. Jones's diary which covers the years 1896-1909. Diary includes records of weather, livestock, crops, household hints, local events, and visits. Some store accounts included.

Dates: 1896 - 1909

Margaret Kirkland Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0985
Scope and Contents

This collection contains newspaper and magazine clippings, manuals, and pamphlets largely from the 1950s and the 1960s pertaining to hog farming. Every aspect of hog farming is included; from Henry County, Alabama.

Dates: 1948 - 1969

Lewis - Plant Letters

 Collection
Identifier: 0613
Scope and Contents This collection includes photocopies of letters. They are mostly concerned with family life and farming. Very good descriptions of life on working farms by people of the "yeoman farmer" class. Many details of cooking, quilting, home remedies, as well as church and social activities.An interesting source for agricultural history, women's history, and social history of the "New South."Calender lists and describes 37 dates letters and 17 undated or fragmentary...
Dates: 1883 - 1892

Wellborn Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: 0050
Scope and Contents This collection contains correspondence (1860-1891) and financial records (1836-1891) of John Horry Dent; plantation journals (1876-1891) in which Dent recorded weather conditions and daily activities; biographical information on Wellborn's maternal great-grandfather, Commodore John Herbert Dent, who served aboard the U.S.S. Constitution. Correspondence...
Dates: 1836 - 1957