William I. Rockefeller and Paul N. Rockefeller oral histories, 1966-1968.

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William I. Rockefeller and Paul N. Rockefeller oral histories, 1966-1968.

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In these interviews, the Rockefellers discuss their family farm and their decision to grow sugar beets. Topics include: their sources of information about sugar beet production; the cultural practices they adopted and how they modified those practices with experience; their use of Mexican and southern black migrant labor; their participation in the Finger Lakes Sugar Beet Growers Association; and designing cultivators for thinning and weeding their beets.

2 tape recordings.

Cornell University Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 7904730

Cornell University Library

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Colman, Gould P. (Gould Patchin), 1926-

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Archivist, historian. Cornell University Class of 1951, Ph.D., 1962. From the description of Gould Colman papers, 1954-1996. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64072786 ...

Finger Lakes Sugar Beet Growers Association.

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Rockefeller, William I., 1939-

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The Rockefellers own and operate a farm in Phelps, N.Y. Paul is William's father. From the description of William I. Rockefeller and Paul N. Rockefeller oral histories, 1966-1968. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63934409 ...

Bateman, Theodore,

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