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Foster, Edward Shields, 1901-1973, Undated

 Item — transcript box: 5 - Trans. 146

Scope and Contents

Cornell Class: 1925Occupation: Farm organization officialInterviewer: ColmanDescription: Childhood experiences; student activities at Cornell; county agent work in Chautauqua and Suffolk Counties; Long Island agriculture in the 1920s; work as executive secretary of New York Farm Bureau Federation; Farm Bureau policymaking; relationships with American Farm Bureau Federation; political activities of organized agriculture in New York; Irwin roads law; rural electrification; separation of Farm Bureau and Extension Service in NY; development of “new model” Farm Bureau organization; poultry disease laboratories; brucellosis eradication; relationship of NYFB to commodity groups and other farm organizations; expansion of NYFB staff; development of marketing program; work with educational organizations; comments concerning New York State School Boards Association; impressions of H. E. Babcock, George F. Warren, Archie Wright, Earl Smith, Ed O’Neal, E. R. Eastman, Joe Barnum, Frank Gannett.See also collection #3690

Dates

  • Undated

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

60 volumes. (60 volumes.)

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

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