Photographs, ca. 1920-1960.

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Photographs, ca. 1920-1960.

Includes ca. 2,000 professional-quality black and white prints and negatives of extension work from the 1920s to the 1960s and ca. 600 black and white prints and negatives illustrating the work of an extension agronomist from the 1940s to the 1960s. Appended to the collection are ca. 800 35 mm. color slides taken by the extension agronomist (1940s-1960s) and 63 35 mm. negatives and proof sheets of photographs copied from the Negro county agents reports found elsewhere in Record Group 71.

9.25 lin. ft. (18 archives boxes, letter, and 1 half-size archives box, letter)

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SNAC Resource ID: 7257140

Auburn University.

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Alabama Cooperative Extension Service

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Corn and tomato clubs, which became the 4-H Clubs, were significant in the development of cooperative extension. The clubs involved boys and girls in competitive growing of stocks and crops, and exposed them to progressive farming techniques. From the description of Oral History Interviews, 1983. (Auburn University). WorldCat record id: 27990566 The Alabama Cooperative Extension Service is headquartered at Auburn University, with offices in each of the state's 67 counties. C...

Auburn university

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East Alabama Male College, sponsored by the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, was chartered in May 1856. Classes opened in 1859 in Auburn, Alabama, but the college closed during the Civil War. Reopening in 1866, the college became a land-grant institution in 1872 and changed its name to Agricultural and Mechanical College of Alabama. The college was known as Alabama Polytechnic Institute from 1899 to 1960, when it became Auburn University. From the description of Founders Day collec...