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 4 Collections and/or Records:
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 - 1892
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
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
