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New York State College of Agriculture Department of Agricultural Economics records

 Collection — dvd: 1124
Identifier: 21-10-694

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Mainly administrative correspondence of Carl E. Ladd, Albert R. Mann, William I. Myers, and George F. Warren concerning the Departments of Farm Crops (1907-09), Farm Crops and Farm Management (1909-11), Farm Management (1911-19), and Agricultural Economics and Farm Management (1919-), of which Warren was head, indicating the development of teaching and research in farm management at the New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell, and correspondence concerning general problems in agricultural economics; also, some correspondence of Howard Conklin, Chester C. DuMond, and Edward R. Eastman; papers pertaining to the building of Warren Hall (1933), the new agricultural economics building, including requests for equipment from professors, lists of equipment needed and ordered, invoices, specifications and plans, and questions and suggestions from professors; correspondence, transcripts, and photographs (1931-48) relating to applications for admission to graduate studies and for departmental assistantships; files on milk marketing and prices, vegetable information, cooperative organizations' accounting data, financial statements, bylaws, and monthly and annual reports; seven albums (1908-19) containing photographs of New York State farms, farm buildings, equipment, stock, crops, regional conditions, and farmers' practices, with accompanying comments, and a scrapbook (1910-16), containing examination questions and exercises from farm management courses; travel vouchers and requests,1920-1962.

In addition, a report (1 volume mimeograph), concerning action taken (ca.1929) on proposals made in a 1928 survey of the Agricultural Experiment Station and the New York State Colleges of Agriculture and Home Economics by E. W. Allen, Chief of the Office of Experiment Stations in the United States Department of Agriculture, and Harlan P. Updegraff; an correspondence with the Bureau of the Census in Washington, DC, memoranda, expense vouchers, suggestions, enlarged photocopies of sample census schedules, minutes of the Census Advisory Committee, and other papers (1909-1929) pertaining to the preparation, tabulation, and results of censuses taken during those years and to George F. Warren's work on the Census Advisory Committee and as a Special Agent for the Bureau of the Census.

Poster: "Don't Let Your Work Get Out of Hand... Face It!". prepared by the Department of Agricultural Economics, Cornell University under contract with the Federal Extension Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, n.d.

Agricultural Economics and Farm Management class material from 1921.

The Legacy of Charles H. Dyson DVD produced for the dedication of the School of Applied Economics and Management, October 1, 2010.

Dates

  • 1892-1962,-1892-1988 (bulk)

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

Extent

22.8 cubic feet. (22.8 cubic feet.)

Abstract

Correspondence and other records concerning the Department of Agricultural Economics.

Physical Description

Correspondence, photographs, a scrapbook, reports, census schedules, financial records, and other files.

General

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
B. Huth et al.
Date completed:
1987
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, September 2003RMC Staff, July 2011
Date modified:
Marcie Farwell, January 2018
Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by B. Huth et al.
Date
September 2003
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)