Records, 1922-1993.

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Records, 1922-1993.

Includes office files and correspondence (1940s-1975); audio tapes of speakers at annual meetings (1959-1969); newsclipping scrapbooks (1940-1942); photographs of Bureau activities (1940s-1970s); video and audio tapes and films promoting Bureau programs (1967-1988); oral history (1993) with J.D. Hays, Alabama Farm Bureau President from 1961-1979; and publications (1959-1993). While the bulk of the office files/correspondence series span the 1960s and 1970s, the series includes correspondence of Walter L. Randolph, Bureau President, 1940-1961. Notable correspondents include James B. Allen, George Andrews, Glenn Andrews, John Bankhead, Tom Bevill, John Buchanan, Jr., William Dickinson, Jack Edwards, Carl Elliot, Walter Flowers, George Grant, Lister Hill, George Huddleston, R.E. Jones, Jr., John Martin, Bill Nichols, Edward A. O'Neal, Albert Rains, John Reswick, Kenneth Roberts, Armistead Selden, John Sparkman, and George Wallace. Also includes the Alabama Farm Bureau News (1922-1980) and the minutes of the Executive Committee (1922-1970).

60 cu. ft. and.15 microfilm reels : negative ; 35 mm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7256837

Auburn University.

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