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1.
Harvest war crops / [graphic] : the Women's Land Army of the U.S. Crop Corps

Creator:
Morley, Hubert, artist
Published / Created:
[1945]
Call Number:
Poster0313
Image Count:
1
Resource Type:
still image
Description:
Title from item., In lower margin: U. S. Government Printing Office : 1945 O-637277., This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing., and Linen mounted.
Publisher:
War Food Administration and U. S. Government Printing Office
Subject (Name):
Women's Land Army (United States).
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture, World War, 1939-1945, War work, Harvesting, Agricultural laborers, and Peach trees
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > Harvest war crops / [graphic] : the Women's Land Army of the U.S. Crop Corps

2.
The war at home school boys of Connecticut. Help the farmers with the harvest! -- join the U. S

Published / Created:
[approximately 1918]
Call Number:
Poster0335
Image Count:
1
Description:
Title and place of publication from item., Date supplied by curator., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
Committee of Food Supply, Connecticut Council of Defense, 36 Pearl Street, Hartford, Conn and The Manternach Co.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut.
Subject (Name):
Connecticut Junior Agricultural Volunteers. and United States Boys' Working Reserve.
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture, Boys, World War, 1914-1918, War work, Agricultural laborers, Plowing, Horses, Livestock, and Canning & preserving
Found in:
Medical Historical Library, Cushing/Whitney Medical Library > The war at home school boys of Connecticut. Help the farmers with the harvest! -- join the U. S. Boys Working Reserve or the Connecticut Junior Agricultural Volunteers... [graphic]

3.
Henry Ridinger diary : manuscript

Creator:
Ridinger, Henry, 1851-1938
Published / Created:
1878-1882.
Call Number:
WA MSS S-4142
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
112
Resource Type:
text
Abstract:
Manuscript diary in the hand of Henry Ridinger, 1878-1882. Ridinger describes his work as a herder in Colorado, landscapes and topography in Colorado, Navajo settlements, working in the hay trade, a shooting and arrest in Colorado, and his travel through Kansas to Indian Territory (now Oklahoma). Ridinger describes life with a group of Osage, including the construction of buildings, hunting, fishing, agriculture, and Osage funerary and religious ceremonies. Ridinger also records his interactions with other tribes, including Pawnee, Cherokee, Ute, and Waco. He describes relations and treaties between the tribes, as well as the tribes' relations with the United States government, including the disbursement of food and clothing. Other passages describe copies of earlier treaties with France and Spain which the tribes showed Ridinger. A later entry describes the aftermath of the United States Army burning a Jewish settlement in Oklahoma in 1881 and The diary also includes an essay about the history of Native American treaties with the United States government and several pages of accounts listing expenses and sales of hay, wheat, and corn. The diary includes several drawings of people, horses, insects, dogs, and symbols. Accompanied by 3 photographs, one hand-colored portrait of Henry Ridinger, one of an unidentified woman, and one of a man and woman captioned "Uncle Sam [Ridinger] with his sweetheart who died."
Description:
Henry Ridinger (1851-1938) was born in either Iowa or Illinois in 1851. His family moved to Kansas in 1857 and he left home at the age of 11, circa 1862. He worked as a cattle herder and hay farmer in Colorado, Kansas, and Oklahoma for several years in the 1870s and 1880s. He later became a hay farmer in Lincoln County, Nebraska, circa 1885., In English., and Front and back covers are detached.
Subject (Geographic):
Colorado., Oklahoma., Oklahoma, Colorado, Indian Territory, and Kansas
Subject (Name):
Ridinger, Henry, 1851-1938. and Ridinger, Sam
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture, Cherokee Indians, Crime, Hay trade, Herders, Hunting, Indians of North America, Government relations, Jews, Navajo Indians, Osage Indians, Pawnee Indians, Ute Indians, Waco Indians, and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Henry Ridinger diary : manuscript

4.
Diary of a voyage from New York to California and return trip by train, 1874-1875

Call Number:
WA MSS S-1415
Container / Volume:
Box 1
Image Count:
79
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
The diary records an 1874 voyage from New York via Panama to California. The unidentified author describes the weather, the ship's progress, shipboard life, Aspinwall (Colón), Panama, the train trip across the Isthmus, the landscape and villages, Acapulco, and the voyage to San Francisco. There is a detailed description of San Francisco and more information on California towns, agriculture, mining, flora and fauna. The diary also chronicles a train trip from Rocklin, California to Reno, Nevada, where the author found work on an alfalfa farm. The author continued overland by train through Nevada, Utah, Wyoming, Nebraska to Chicago and then Detroit. The author traveled to New York by way of Niagara Falls and The volume includes illustrations of California, Nevada, and Niagara Falls as well as maps of the railroad routes. There is a list of the illustrations and a list of plants identified. The author also created an abstract of the diary in the back of the volume
Subject (Geographic):
Nevada., United States., West (U.S.), Acapulco (Mexico), Colón (Panama), California, Niagara Falls (N.Y. and Ont.), Nevada, Panama, Salt Lake City (Utah), and San Francisco (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Central Pacific Railroad Company., Colon (Steamship), Montana (Steamship), Panama Railroad Co., and Union Pacific Railroad Company.
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture, Alfalfa, Railroad travel, and Description and travel
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Diary of a voyage from New York to California and return trip by train, 1874-1875

5.
Address delivered by Hon. Frederick Douglass, at the third annual fair of the Tennessee Colored

Creator:
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Published / Created:
1873
Call Number:
JWJ Zan D747 873A
Image Count:
1
Description:
Advertising matter on p. [4] of cover. and Cover title.
Publisher:
New National Era and Citizen Print.,
Subject (Name):
Tennessee Colored Agricultural and Mechanical Association
Subject (Topic):
African Americans--Tennessee and Agriculture
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Address delivered by Hon. Frederick Douglass, at the third annual fair of the Tennessee Colored Agricultural and Mechanical Association, on Thursday, September 18, 1873, at Nashville, Tennessee.

6.
Mt. Ophir

Creator:
Watkins, Carleton E., 1829-1916
Published / Created:
[ca. 1860-1861]
Call Number:
WA Photos 208
Collection Title:
Glass stereographs of Col. John C. Fremonts Mariposa estate
Container / Volume:
Folder 15
Image Count:
1
Description:
The first major series of outdoor photographs by Carleton Watkins. Col. John C. Fremont hired Watkins to produce a series of photographs depicting Fremonts Mariposa estate and its assets.
Subject (Geographic):
Mariposa County (Calif.)
Subject (Name):
Fremont, Jessie Benton, 1824-1902--Pictorial works. and Fremont, John Charles, 1813-1890
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture, Dwellings --California., Hills., Landscape photography --California., Mountains., Orchards., and Trees.
Collection Created:
ca. 1860-1861
Found in:
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Mt. Ophir

10.
Krug khozi︠a︡ĭstvennykh svi︠e︡denīĭ : ezhemi︠e︡si︠a︡chnoe sochinenīe

Published / Created:
1805.
Call Number:
WB 41408
Container / Volume:
no.9-12 / 1805:sent.-dek.
Image Count:
426
Alternative Title:
Krug khozi︠a︡ĭstvennykh svedeniĭ
Description:
Description based on: No. 1, 1805. and Latest issue consulted: 1805, no. 12.
Publisher:
V tip. I. Glazunova
Subject (Geographic):
Russia
Subject (Topic):
Agriculture, Home economics, and Home economics, Rural
Found in:
Sterling Memorial Library > Krug khozi︠a︡ĭstvennykh svi︠e︡denīĭ : ezhemi︠e︡si︠a︡chnoe sochinenīe

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