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Man Inside Agricultural Exhibit

Date: 1916
Description: African American man sitting inside an agricultural display of corn, potatoes, canned goods and International Harvester agricultural lecture charts. A bann...
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Pupils Studying Corn

Date: 1913
Description: A group of children studying ears of corn outside small wooden shacks or corn cribs.
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Teacher and Classmates Ready to Pick Seed Corn

Date: 1917
Description: A group of boys from the Walkenhorst School holding fabric bags while posing in a field with their instructor on their way to select seed corn.
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Agricultural Extension Lecture

Date: 1932
Description: Adults sitting in chairs in a classroom to hear an agricultural extension lecture given by a man standing behind a table or podium at the front of the room...
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Teachers Constructing Germination Box

Date: 1917
Description: Rural school teachers working outdoors using tools to construct a sawdust germination box for corn.
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Two Students in Iowa Cornfield

Date: 07 22 1915
Description: Two students standing in a cornfield. The boy on the right is holding what appears to be a hoe while completing work as part of a high school agriculture c...
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Men Shaking Hands over Contract

Date: 04 1913
Description: Professor Perry Holden and Governor Luther Egbert Hall shake hands over a contract to grow 100,000,000 bushels of corn in Louisiana in 1913. A group of men...
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Agricultural Lecture

Date: 1919
Description: View from back of room of man standing at the front of a classroom to deliver an agricultural lecture to a group of seated men and women. There are bundles...
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Students Preparing for Corn Testing Lesson

Date: 1913
Description: View from rear of a group of students approaching a school where lessons in corn testing are to be given. Several students are sitting on a wagon, and five...
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School Children at Corn Testing Lesson

Date: 1913
Description: Group of school children gathered outdoors with a teacher examining corn kernels after germination.
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Children at Corn Germination Lesson

Date: 1913
Description: Class of children gathered outdoors around a table for a corn germination lesson. Original caption reads: "after the rag dolls are prepared they are immers...
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Group Gathered for "Corn is King" Lecture

Date: 1917
Description: Group of men and women seated on the front steps of a building (possibly a school) with corn cobs and other items used for an Agricultural Extension lectur...
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Hanging Up the Corn

Date: 1914
Description: A man is hanging up strings of corn to demonstrate corn testing in front of a group of children (students?).
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Students Returning to School with Corn

Date: 1919
Description: Small class of students and their teacher carrying sacks full of corn. Original caption reads: "Returning with trophies, Elm Grove School." The writing on ...
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Field Trip

Date: 1923
Description: “Station Day” (agricultural demonstration) field trip party walking out into a half-grown cornfield.
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McCormick-Deering Power Farm Equipment Demonstration

Date: 1939
Description: Three-quarter view from front left of a man driving a two-horse team pulling a Buckeye wagon in a cornfield. Behind the wagon is a group of men watching a ...
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Short Course

Date: 02 14 1916
Description: Elevated view of a group of men attending an Agricultural short course in Madison, Wisconsin. There are samples of ears of corn on the tables. Two men stan...
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Group of Men and Boys Harvesting Seed Corn

Date: 10 04 1916
Description: Superintendent K.C. James, Club Leader Walter Cowan, and County Agent, R.A. Chitty, checking upon the ears selected by the boys.
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Ear Test for Ears of Corn

Date: 1916
Description: Group of men working inside a large room with samples of corn. Original caption: "Several hundred bushels were given six kernels every ear test, the averag...
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Crowd of People

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Description: Elevated view of a crowd of people gathered for a demonstration or lecture on corn or alfalfa. Lantern slide.

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