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Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture. Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture. Honorary certificate. [graphic].

Title: Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture. Honorary certificate. [graphic]. 1825.

An award certificate issued by the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture and presented to Mrs. John Hunter in October of 1825 for a second premium for blankets exhibited at the Brighton Show. An engraving, with the words "Commonwealth of Massachusetts" and a picture of the Massachusetts state seal, a cornucopia, a plow, and other agriculture implements, is printed at the top of the certificate.

ArchivalResource: 1 print on paper : engraving, b&w ; sheet 43 x 34 cm., mount 43 x 35 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/489206466 View

Furman, Moore, 1728-1808. Moore Furman collection, 1793-1808.

Title: Moore Furman collection, 1793-1808.

Consists chiefly of correspondence relating to the Revolutionary War period and some documents concerning Furman's real estate in Pittstown, N.J.

ArchivalResource: .20 linear ft. (1 half-size archival box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64452143 View

Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture. Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture records, 1792-1963.

Title: Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture records, 1792-1963.

Records of the Massachusetts Society for Promoting Agriculture, including correspondence, financial records, membership and trustee records, committee reports, petitions for premiums, records of awards, 150th anniversary materials, records of charitable contributions, Middlesex Agricultural Society papers (1819-73), and Middlesex Society of Husbandmen and Manufacturers papers (1819-50). The MSPA, incorporated 1792, introduced new breeds of stock, sponsored research in animal diseases and pest eradication; supported 4-H Club activities, Arnold Arboretum and Harvard University, the Botanic Garden (Cambridge, Mass.), and other horticultural stations; worked with other Mass. agricultural societies; ran the Brighton Cattle Show (1816-35) and participated in many other exhibitions and fairs. (cont) They offered prizes to farmers for farms, machinery, products, animals, inventions, experiments, domestic manufactures, orchards, salt-marsh reclamation, and horticultural produce. Among the many correspondents are Francis H. Appleton, Peter C. Brooks, Edward Everett, Benjamin Guild, Levi Lincoln, Thomas Motley Jr., Elias Phinney, William Prescott, James R. Reynolds, and George S. West.

ArchivalResource: 32 boxes, 6 narrow boxes and 3 oversize boxes.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/19371593 View