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- Description:
- Black and white photographic print depicting stacks of corn stalks in a corn field. "#257 Corn-field & clouds, Boulevard & 12th St., Sept. 17, 1901" handwritten on verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1901-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Detroit Views
- Description:
- Full packet of D.M. Ferry and Company Mammoth White Bush Scallop Squash. A color illustration of the squash by the Calvert Lithograph Company is on the recto. A description, instructions, and a stamp which reads, "1915," are on the verso.
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- 1883 D. M. Ferry and Company catalog printed by the Gulley Printing House with illustrations by the Calvert Lithograph Company, containing information and illustrations of the company's fields and other facilities, as well as descriptions and illustrations of the fruits, vegetables, flowers, and farming tools available through the company. A girl waters flowers through a window on the front cover, and a small boy and girl share a large slice of watermelon in a field, surrounded by a border of vegetables on the back.
- Date Issued:
- 1883-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company catalog, printed by John Bornman and Son with illustrations from Calvert Lithograph Company; front cover has an illustration picture of red, pink, white and yellow snapdragons with the caption "Snapdragon Fine Mixed"; back cover has red, orange, pink white and yellow flowers; "Seed Annual 1916, D. M. Ferry & Co. Detroit, Mich." is printed on both the front and back cover; inside are lists of seeds and prices with black and white pictures and photographs, with three full page color illustrations near the front; order form missing, though order envelope is present
- Date Issued:
- 1916-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- 1886 D. M. Ferry and Company catalog printed by O. S. Gulley, Bornman and Company, with illustrations by the Calvert Lithograph Company; front cover has a circle in the middle with a woman inside wearing a large hat, pink flowers show above the circle and a pattern of green flowers fills the background below; "1886 Seed Annual" along the top with "D. M. Ferry & Co. Detroit, Mich." along the bottom of front cover; back cover has an illustration of trees and a cabin on the shore of a body of water within a rectangular border, with a pink floral background along the left side and a green floral pattern below and to the right; "D. M. Ferry & Co." is across the top, "Seed Merchants" across the center and Detroit, Mich. in a circle near the lower right corner; inside are listings of seeds and prices, descriptions of different flowers and vegetables, and black and white pictures
- Date Issued:
- 1886-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company catalog, printed by John Bornman and Son of Detroit with illustrations from the Calvert Lithograph Company; front cover has an illustration of a the Belle Isle Conservatory as viewed from over a patch of flowers in the foreground, a caption reads "Horticultural Building, Belle Isle Park, Detroit.", with "Seed Annual 1908" and D. M. Ferry & Co. Seedsmen - Detroit, Mich. at top; On the back cover "Seed Annual 1908, D. M. Ferry & Co. Seedsmen, Detroit, Mich." is printed above an illustration of a bridge over one of Belle Isle's streams with the Detroit Boat Club standing in the background, captioned as "Scene in Belle Isle Park, Detroit;" inside are lists of seeds and prices with black and white illustrations and photographs, with three full page color pictures spaced throughout; order form attached
- Date Issued:
- 1908-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company catalog printed by Gulley Printing House with illustrations from Calvert Lithograph Company; front cover has two girls, one older and one younger, standing in grass picking flowers from a tree, to the right of them other flowers are shown; "Seed Annual 1884" along the top with "D. M. Ferry & Co. Detroit, Mich." along the bottom of front cover; Back cover has a picture of tomatoes in the middle with the caption "Livingston's Favorite Tomato see description in this catalogue"; flowers and vines run about the tomatoes; D. M. Ferry & Co., "Seed Merchants Detroit, Mich." at the bottom; inside are listings of seeds and prices, descriptions of different flowers and vegetables, and black and white pictures and four color pages throughout
- Date Issued:
- 1884-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Collection:
- Business/Stores/Retail
- Description:
- Theodore Roosevelt, presidential candidate for The Progressive Party, nicknamed The Bull Moose Party, delivers a campaign speech titled, "The Farmer and the Businessman." Roosevelt cautions against unreasonable conservatism as well as unreasonable radicalism. He concludes with, "The watchword for us all is spend and be spent."
- Date Issued:
- 1912-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- John Staatz, Michigan State University professor emeritus of Agricultural, Food, and Resource Economics, talks about his career at MSU and his focus on agricultural development in Africa. Staatz talks about why he selected Africa as his area of concentration, his education, and how he came to MSU. He also talks about his research projects in Mali and other West African countries, his focus on food security, and the continuing problem of land ownership impacting agriculture and urbanization in Africa.
- Date Issued:
- 2016-04-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- Novelist, poet, and mixed media artist Janet Kauffman, Professor of English at Eastern Michigan University, talks about her farming experience and writing about farms, especially the discrepancy between the romantic ideal of family farms and the reality of modern, industrial farms in rural Michigan. Kauffman talks about her book "Trespassing: Dirt Stories and Field Notes," and reads from "The Fantasy of the Clip Art Farm." Arthur Versluis, Michigan State University Professor and Chair of Religious Studies, reflects on his farming experience in Ionia County. He defends the operations of some factory farms, even though he doesn't endorse many of their methods and suggests that owners and operators can be responsive to neighbors. Wynne Wright from both the MSU Department of Sociology and the MSU Department of Community Sustainability describes her farming experiences then comments on the relationship between agriculture and gender and the relationship between community and the form agriculture eventually takes. Craig Harris from the MSU Department of Sociology, suggests Kauffman's book functions as autobiography, history, empirical description, and as an analytical study of rural agricultural development. He also says, however, that the book is lacking in each area and that "highly generalized claims" actually undercut possible support for the author's positions. Kauffman reacts by saying that she thinks of the book as a "nightmare rant" rather than an academic work. She also says that she tried to make comprehensible the immediacy of the damage being done by farming rather than write a sociological study of farming. The panel answers questions from the audience. The session is convened by MSU Professor of English Ned Watts. Part of the Michigan State University Libraries' Michigan Writers Series.
- Date Issued:
- 2014-03-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
