Memories of Life on the Farm

Memories of Life on the Farm

AngličtinaPevná väzba
Whitford Frederick
Purdue University Press
EAN: 9781557538666
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John Calvin Allen, professionally known as J. C., worked as aphotographer for Purdue University from 1909-1952, and operated his own photography business until his death in 1996. The J. C. Allen photographs represent a historical account of the transition from pioneer practices to scientific methodologies in agriculture and rural communities. During this major transitional period for agriculture, tractors replaced horses, hybrid corn supplanted open-pollinated corn, and soybeans changed from a novelty crop to regular rotation on most farms. During this time, pure bred animals with better genetic pedigrees replaced run-of-the-mill livestock, and systematic disease prevention in cattle, swine, and poultry took place.

Allen'sphotographs also document clothing styles, home furnishings, and the items people thought important as they went about their daily lives. Looking closely at tractors, livestock, wagons, planters, sprayers, harvesting equipment, and crops gives one a sense of the changing and fast-paced world of agriculture at that time.

This volume contains over 900 picturesque images, most never-before-seen, of men, women, and children working on the farm, which remain powerful reminders of life in rural America at theturn of the twentieth century. As old farmhouses and barns fall victim to age, Allen photographs are all that remain. While those people and times no longer exist today, they do remain ""alive"" because of the preservation of that history on film. A camera in his hands and an eye for photography allowed Allen to create indelible visual histories that continue to tell the story of agriculture and rural life from long ago.
EAN 9781557538666
ISBN 1557538662
Typ produktu Pevná väzba
Vydavateľ Purdue University Press
Dátum vydania 30. septembra 2019
Stránky 408
Jazyk English
Rozmery 229 x 305
Krajina United States
Čitatelia Professional & Scholarly
Autori Harmeyer Neal; Whitford Frederick
Ilustrácie 937 illustrations
Séria Founders Series