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New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Historical Documentation Program. New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Historical Documentation Program. Oral Histories, 1962-1965, 1982-1984.

Title: New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences Historical Documentation Program. Oral Histories, 1962-1965, 1982-1984.

Oral history interviews of people involved with the development of the New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. Interviews are cataloged individually. Also research materials, carbon copies of transcripts with corrections, and notes on conversations that were not done as formal interviews, including Amy Whetzel on Carl Ladd and William I. Myers by Laurie Todd, 1983-1984.

ArchivalResource: 4 cubic ft.

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Cornell University. Cooperative Extension. Teaching and Information Dept. Cornell Cooperative Extension Teaching and Information Dept. recordings, [ca. 1937-1955].

Title: Cornell Cooperative Extension Teaching and Information Dept. recordings, [ca. 1937-1955].

183 twelve and sixteen inch records of speeches, interviews, and informal talks by such figures in the field of agriculture and related professions as Bristow Adams, Howard E. Babcock, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Cornelius Betton, Louis Bromfield, Thomas E. Dewey, Edward R. Eastman, Glen W. Herrick, Carl Ladd, Clyde Moore, William I. Myers, Edward O'Neal, E. Lawrence Palmer, James E. Rice, James B. Sumner, and Jared Van Wagenen, Jr.; recordings made by well-known personalities in other fields such as Hans Bethe talking on atomic energy (1945), Edward R. Murrow on V-J Day (1945), and Anthony Eden and Bidault on V-E Day; recordings of important Cornell programs such as the Thurston Memorial Celebration (1939), and the launching of the victory ship CORNELL VICTORY (1945); recordings of other events of regional interest in New York State such as the inaugural program radio station WENY (Elmira), and two recorded programs of the New York State Historical Plays Series; recordings concerning the Nature Study Program at Cornell; numerous agricultural and home economics technical extension programs; and a number of recorded performances of Cornell University choral and instrumental groups.

ArchivalResource: 183 phonograph albums, 7 tape recordings.

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New York State College of Agriculture. Department of Agricultural Economics. Dept. of Agricultural Economics records, 1908-1962, 1908-1980 (bulk).

Title: Dept. of Agricultural Economics records, 1908-1962, 1908-1980 (bulk).

Mainly administrative correspondence of Carl E. Ladd, Albert R. Mann, William I. Myers, and George F. Warren concerning the Departments of Farm Crops (1907-1909), Farm Crops and Farm Management (1909-1911), Farm Management (1911-1919), and Agricultural Economics and Farm Management (1919+), of which Warren was head, indicating the development of teaching and research in farm management at the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell, and correspondence concerning general problems in agricultural economics; also, some correspondence of Howard Conklin, Chester C. DuMond, and Edward R. Eastman; papers pertaining to the building of Warren Hall (1933), the new agricultural economics building, including requests for equipment from professors, lists of equipment needed and ordered, invoices, specifications and plans, and questions and suggestions from professors; correspondence, transcripts, and photographs (1931-1948) relating to applications for admission to graduate studies and for departmental assistantships; files on milk marketing and prices, vegetable information, cooperative organizations' accounting data, financial statements, bylaws, and monthly and annual reports. Seven albums (1908-1919) containing photographs of New York State farms, farm buildings, equipment, stock, crops, regional conditions, and farmers' practices, with accompanying comments, and a scrapbook (1910-1916), containing examination questions and exercises from farm management courses; travel vouchers and requests, 1920-1962. In addition, a report (1 volume mimeograph), concerning action taken (ca.1929) on proposals made in a 1928 survey of the Agricultural Experiment Station and the New York State Colleges of Agriculture and Home Economics by E. W. Allen, Chief of the Office of Experiment Stations in the United States Department of Agriculture, and Harlan P. Updegraff; and correspondence with the Bureau of the Census in Washington, DC, memoranda, expense vouchers, suggestions, enlarged photocopies of sample census schedules, minutes of the Census Advisory Committee, and other papers (1909-1929) pertaining to the preparation, tabulation, and results of censuses taken during those years and to George F. Warren's work on the Census Advisory Committee and as a Special Agent for the Bureau of the Census. Poster: "Don't Let Your Work Get Out of Hand... Face It!". prepared by the Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University under contract with the Federal Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, n.d. Agricultural Economics and Farm Management class material from 1921.

ArchivalResource: 22.8 cubic ft.

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