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- Description:
- Frank Kremer stands inside a white tent, supervising his wife, Eliza Jane, and daughter, Lizzie, as they sort through strawberries and ready them to be transported for sale at Eastern Market in Detroit. The picture was taken by Frank's 16 year old son, Clarence, who would make the journey to Detroit with him by wagon. (P-184) [date is approximate] Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- Two men butchering a row of pigs at Anna Schoof's farm on Rochester Road in Oakland Township. Anna was the matriarch of a family who owned this property through the first half of the twentieth century. (P-111) [date is approximate] Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- The Jones Farm located on Tienken Road.
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- A group of over thirty men participate in a barn raising on the property of James M. White, located at the southeast corner of Silverbell Road and Brewster Road in Oakland Township. (P-298) [date is approximate] Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- Frank Kremer raised berries on his forty acres, and sold them at Eastern Market in Detroit. Frank and his son, Clarence, loaded up their wagon three times a week and drove it down Woodward Avenue to the market. Pickers on the farm used the D.U.R. cars to get to work.
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- A group of people are gathering stones for a fence in front of the Van Hoosen Farmhouse. Leon Price is standing in the background. Oswald Wallace is bending down and Dr. Bertha Van Hoosen in bending over in the center of the photograph. Others pictured include Alice Jones (Sarahs mother) bending over, Sarah Van Hoosen Jones in the background and a friend of Dr. Bertha Van Hoosen at the far right.
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Date Issued:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- Beet seed at Oakview for the Ferry Morse Seed Farm
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- A group of workers, mules, and horses gathered outside of a large barn at Oakview. The D.M. Ferry Company, later known as the Ferry-Morse Seed Company, expanded operations from Detroit to Avon Township in 1902. Oakview Farm comprised the area between South Rochester Road, East Hamlin Road, John R Road, and East Auburn Road. In 1912, the company increased the size of the farm northward, so that it reached to East Avon Road. Oakview was the site of the company’s trial grounds and stock seed breeding operations until 1944. (P-26) [date is approximate] Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- A farmhouse, horse barn, and other outbuildings sit behind a fence on a dirt road. (P-359) [date is approximate] Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- Two men wearing aprons and boots attend to a hoofed animal, which is strapped to a table in a laboratory. The Parke, Davis and Company was incorporated in the 1870s in Detroit, Michigan. The pharmaceutical company opened a facility in Avon Township in 1908, which has the distinction of being the first of its kind to hold a license for the manufacture of vaccines and other biological-based drugs in the United States. Commonly referred to as the Parkedale Farm or Parke-Davis Farm, it was comprised of land along Parkdale Road, bordered by Miller Avenue on the west, Van Hoosen Farm on the north, Dequindre Road on the east, the Michigan Central Railroad (MCR) on the south. Most of the farm buildings were demolished in 1999, but a few original structures remain. The site was owned by various companies over the years and was acquired by JHP Pharmaceuticals in 2007, which controls a parcel of land east of Letica Drive. (P-381) [date is approximate] Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- Trial gardens of the Ferry Seed Farm.
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- Gladys Collins, Clarence Kremer's wife, neighbor Will Fox, and Eliza Jane Kremer, wife of Frank Kremer, "play horse" outside of the Kremer's carriage shop. The occasion is a Ladies' Aide meeting at the Kremer's home. Frank was a buggy, wagon, and carriage maker. He made the underpart of the buggies downstairs and Eliza Jane upholstered the tops upstairs, then they were lowered down and assembled. Frank had also been a carriage maker in Rochester on "East Alley." (P-185) [date is approximate] Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- Butchering time at Anna Schoof's farm on Rochester Road
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Date Issued:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- Sheep shearing with three men and three sheep.
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- Four barns on the Braid farm. Large structure in the middle of the image is the horse barn and building on the right is the sheep barn. Individuals in horse-drawn buggy (right) and surrey (left) are probably Earl and Alva Braid. (P-58) [date is approximate] Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- The John Tienken Farm on Tienken Road looking west from west of Livernois.
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- A wooded scene at the Detroit Silver Fox Farm, located at the northeast corner of Walton Boulevard and Adams Road. The company also used the name Pontiac Strain Furs. It ran operations at this location in Avon Township from 1923-1927. (P-342) [date is approximate] Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- The D.M. Ferry Company, later known as the Ferry-Morse Seed Company, expanded operations from Detroit to Avon Township in 1902. Oakview Farm comprised the area between South Rochester Road, East Hamlin Road, John R Road, and East Auburn Road. In 1912, the company increased the size of the farm northward, so that it reached to East Avon Road. Oakview was the site of the company’s trial grounds and stock seed breeding operations until 1944. (P-13) [date is approximate] Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- A farmhouse, barn, and outbuildings covered in snow behind a fence on a snow-covered dirt road. The farm of John Tienken (1864-1944), on the south side of Tienken Road. (P-357) [date is approximate] Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company catalog, printed by John Bornman and Son with illustrations by Calvert Lithograph Company; the front and back covers are identical with an illustration of a head of lettuce, an eggplant, and a bucket on the floor in the corner of a room beneath a window; "Ferry's Seed Annual 1925" and "D. M. Ferry & Co. Detroit, Mich." are printed on both covers; inside are lists of seeds and prices with black and white illustrations and photographs, as well as two full page color illustrations near the front; order form is still attached
- Date Issued:
- 1925-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- 1890 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 picture of small pink and white flowers on a black background in upper left corner, red wavy lines along the bottom, a white background and a tan background with "1890 Seed Annual" in the middle; "D. M. Ferry & Co." appears in a black circle near bottom left corner with "Detroit, Mich." to the right of it; back cover has a picture titled "New Sweet Pea" and "Miss Blanche Ferry" with and pink flowers, with prices to the left of the flowers and "Introduced in 1889 by D. M. Ferry & Co." to the right; D. M. Ferry & Co. Seed Merchants. Detroit, Mich. along bottom; inside list seeds and prices with black and white pictures; one color picture in beginning; order form attached with envelope inside
- Date Issued:
- 1890-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company catalog, printed by John Bornman and Son with illustrations by the Calvert Lithograph Company; front cover has an illustration of six colorful flowers, with "Seed Annual 1913" at top and D. M. Ferry & Co. Seedsmen - Detroit, Mich. at bottom; back cover has pink, blue/pink, purple/pink, and white/blue/black flowers with D. M. Ferry & Co. Seedsmen, Detroit - Mich. and "Seed Annual - 1913" at bottom; inside are lists of seeds and prices with black and white pictures and photographs, with two full page color pictures near the front, one color page near middle, and one color page near back; order form missing
- Date Issued:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- A man stands next to a child on a horse in front of a barn that reads Eldorado J.K. Frank above the door while a dog walks nearby. The barn was built by Colonel John Chadsey Frank, Sr. and son Lucius Lyon Frank soon after the Civil War. It burned to the ground on August 23, 1979. [date is approximate] Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- 1897 D.M. Ferry and Company catalog, printed by John Bornman with illustrations by the Calvert Lithograph Company, containing images and descriptions of both plants available as seeds through the company as well as farming tools. A colorful bouquet of flowers against a white background is on the front cover. The back bares an image of the D.M. Ferry Seed Warehouses and Box Factory facing each other across Brush Street.
- Date Issued:
- 1897-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- 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
- 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
- Description:
- 1893 D. M. Ferry and Company catalog printed by John Bornman and Sons, with illustrations from the Calvert Lithograph Company; front cover has a picture of small pink flowers along left and top side from a vase at the bottom left, with a second smaller, round vase next to it; background is blue at the tope and bottom, with tan bordered by yellow in the middle; "Seed Annual 1893" in middle, with D. M. Ferry & Co. Detroit, Mich. along bottom; back cover has same background, with green lima beans hanging from vines and the caption "Horticulutral Lima Bean, Actual Size"; D. M. Ferry & Co. Seed Merchants, Detroit, Mich. at bottom; descriptions and prices of seeds and farming tools inside with black and white pictures and drawings throughout and two color pages near beginning; order form attached with envelope
- Date Issued:
- 1893-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- 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
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company catalog, printed by John Bornman and Son, with illustrations by the Calvert Lithograph Company; front cover has an illustration of white, red, and pink flowers, with "Seed Annual, 1914"" printed at the top and "D. M. Ferry & Co. Seedsmen - Detroit, Mich." at bottom; back cover has red, purple, pink, white, and yellow flowers with "D. M. Ferry & Co. Seedsmen, Detroit - Mich." at top and "Seed Annual - 1914" at bottom; inside are lists of seeds and prices with black and white illustrations and photographs, with two full page color illustrations near the front, one color page near the middle and one color page near the back; order form missing
- Date Issued:
- 1914-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company catalog, printed by O.S. Gulley's Steam Presses with illustrations from the Calvert Lithograph Company; front cover has black and white pictures of various flowers and vegetables; "D. M. Ferry & Co's. Seed Annual 1876" in a circle in middle; back cover has banner with "D. M. Ferry & Co. Seed Merchants Detroit, Mich." in the foreground and "Importers" and "Growers" in the background, surrounded by scrollwork; inside are descriptions of various plants and flowers along with prices; black and white pictures with two color pages included; order form still attached
- Date Issued:
- 1876-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company catalog, printed by John Bornman and Son, with illustrations from the Calvert Lithograph Company; front and back covers are identical with a illustrations of an ear of corn, with the caption "Charlevoix, The best golden sweet corn yet introduced;" inside are lists of seeds and prices with black and white illustrations and photographs, with two full page color pictures near the front, one color picture in the middle and one color picture near the back; order form still attached
- Date Issued:
- 1920-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- This article examines the type, objectives and availability of agricultural programmes on Nigerian television based on an examination of the social structure. Agricultural programmes were limited in focus, perspective and range of issues treated. The programmes were mainly concerned with the transfer of technology and ideas to the neglect of other crucial socio-structural issues. Because it has been difficult to get sponsors for agricultural programmes, unlike entertainment programmes which dominate the prime viewing hours, the policy of commercialisation is responsible for the lack of agricultural programmes on Nigerian television.
- Date Issued:
- 1993-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Africa Media Review
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company catalog, printed by John Bornman and Son with illustrations by Calvert Lithograph Company; front and back cover have an illustration of tomatoes, a cucumber, peas all on the vine against a black background; "Seed Annual 1921, D. M. Ferry & Co. Detroit, Mich." is printed on both; inside are lists of seeds and prices with black and white illustrations and photographs, with two full page color illustrations near the front and another in the middle; order form still attached with envelope
- Date Issued:
- 1921-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company catalog; front cover has a picture of a little girl in a white/pink dress with red ribbons and a yellow hat picking flowers; "1881 Seed Annual," across top with "D. M. Ferry & Co. Detroit, Mich." along bottom; back cover has a picture of a boy in a white shirt and brown pants digging up carrots, with a wheel barrow next to him filled with vegetables and a fence in the background; inside are descriptions of various plants and flowers along with prices; black and white pictures with three color pages included credited to the Calvert Lithograph Company; order form still attached
- Date Issued:
- 1881-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- 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
- 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
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company catalog, printed by John Bornman and Son with illustrations by Calvert Lithograph Company; the front and back covers are identical with an illustration of a girl standing in a garden wearing a white dress and hat and holding a bouquet of flowers against a black background; "Seed Annual 1924," and "D. M. Ferry & Co. Detroit, Mich." are printed on both covers; inside are lists of seeds and prices with black and white illustrations and photographs, and four full page color illustrations; order form written on and torn off with envelope still in catalog
- Date Issued:
- 1924-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- Date Issued:
- 1987-08-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- African Journal of Political Economy
- Description:
- This paper reports and discusses the findings of a study conducted to investigate the correlation between rural farmers' responsiveness to agricultural innovations and the communication patterns used to popularize such innovations. The results of the survey carried out in this study showed that neither education nor the use of mass media has a significant association with the adoption of agricultural innovations. Personal communication sources were found to be more effective than mass communication sources in creating the necessary awareness and, hence, influencing the adoption of agricultural innovations.
- Date Issued:
- 1987-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- Africa Media Review
- Description:
- Two individuals, Jacob Perry and Archie Taylor, sit atop a loaded cart drawn by two horses outside of a horse barn at the O. Perry Farm. A figure, possibly Oliver Perry, sits in the doorway of the horse barn. (P-329) [date is approximate] Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- Photograph shows a cart loaded to take to the city. Jacob Perry and Archie Taylor are shown at the Perry Farm which was north of Rochester.
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Date Issued:
- 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- Two people in a field of sweet peas at the Oakview farm. The D.M. Ferry Company, later known as the Ferry-Morse Seed Company, expanded operations from Detroit to Avon Township in 1902. Oakview Farm comprised the area between South Rochester Road, East Hamlin Road, John R Road, and East Auburn Road. In 1912, the company increased the size of the farm northward, so that it reached to East Avon Road. Oakview was the site of the company’s trial grounds and stock seed breeding operations until 1944. This image was taken looking west on Hamlin Road and the residence of farm superintendent James H. McCotter is in the background. (P-22) [date is approximate] Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- Surgery on an animal at the Parke-Davis Biological Farm.
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- Multiple farm structures with a horse barn to the far right in winter at the Oakview farm. The D.M. Ferry Company, later known as the Ferry-Morse Seed Company, expanded operations from Detroit to Avon Township in 1902. Oakview Farm comprised the area between South Rochester Road, East Hamlin Road, John R Road, and East Auburn Road. In 1912, the company increased the size of the farm northward, so that it reached to East Avon Road. Oakview was the site of the company’s trial grounds and stock seed breeding operations until 1944. (P-104) [date is approximate] Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- A group of men and women pile rocks to be used for the stone wall in front of Van Hoosen Farm in Stoney Creek. A team of two horses pull the stones in a small wooden sledge. The people in the image are, from left to right, Leon Price, Oswald Wallace, Bertha Van Hoosen, Sarah Van Hoosen Jones, Alice Jones, and a friend of Bertha's. (P-372) [date is approximate] Photograph Collection
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- Pasture with men and a flock of sheep. Barns and work buildings in the background.
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Description:
- D. M. Ferry and Company catalog, printed by John Bornman and Son, with illustrations by the Calvert Lithograph Company; front and back cover have a picture of a girl who is reaching for a butterfly while using her blue dress as a makeshift basket for an assortment of picked flowers, against a floral background; "Seed Annual 1922," and "D. M. Ferry & Co. Detroit, Mich." are printed on both covers; inside are lists of seeds and prices with black and white illustrations and photographs, including four full page color illustrations; order form still attached with some writing on it
- Date Issued:
- 1922-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Detroit Historical Society
- 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
- 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
- Description:
- The Kremer carriage shop with chicken coop attached are pictured. Individuals in the photograph include from left to right, Gladys Kremer (Clarence's wife), Will Fox (neighbor) and Eliza Jane Kremer. Frank Kremer was a carriage builder in Rochester on East Alley. These individuals are "playing horse" at a Ladies Aid Meeting at the Kremer home.
- Notes:
- Oakland County Historical Resources hosts digitized materials from Rochester Hills Public Library and many other local cultural heritage organizations in Oakland County, Michigan.
- Date Issued:
- 1910-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Oakland County Historical Resources and Rochester Hills Public Library
- Notes:
- Correspondence between Illinois farmer G.W. Kennedy and family members in Ohio discussing routine work and family matters.
- Date Created:
- 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Field noted from trips to Alabama and Tennessee to assess programs supported by W.K. Kellogg on March 8-10, 1966.
- Date Created:
- 1966-03-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Speech given October 9, 1968 for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to the National Conference for Less-Than-Baccalaureate Degree Programs in Agriculture at Pennsylvania State University.
- Date Created:
- 1968-10-09T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Field notes from trips to Colorado and Nebraska to assess programs supported by W.K. Kellogg.
- Date Created:
- 1965-04-19T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Field notes from trips to Norway, Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Germany and Ireland to assess programs supported by W.K. Kellogg.
- Date Created:
- 1967-09-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Speech given September 14, 1981 for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation at the Institute for Food Chemistry at the University of Helsinki to discuss their programs in food science.
- Date Created:
- 1981-09-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Speech given October 11, 1985 for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation at the Meeting of the Deans and Directors of Land-Grant Colleges of Agriculture.
- Date Created:
- 1985-10-11T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Speech given May 25, 1978 for the Board of Trustees at Michigan State University to discuss the future president of the University.
- Date Created:
- 1978-05-25T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Speech given February 1, 1968 for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation at the Farm Management Banquet during Farmer's Week at Michigan State University.
- Date Created:
- 1968-02-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Speech given February 6, 1970 for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation during Agricultural Science Week at the University of Missouri.
- Date Created:
- 1970-02-06T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Speech given January 29, 1971 at Purdue for the Department of Agricultural and Economic Sciences.
- Date Created:
- 1971-01-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Field notes from trips to Alabama and Georgia to assess programs supported by W.K. Kellogg.
- Date Created:
- 1966-01-10T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Field notes from a trip to Norway to assess programs supported by W.K. Kellogg on August 29 - September 7, 1975.
- Date Created:
- 1975-08-29T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- These French prisoners are tending sheep and cows. This herd is probably part of an unidentified prison camp's food supply system.
- Date Created:
- 1918-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A group of Russian, and a few French, prisoners from Langensalza are ready to work in the fields under the supervision of a German NCO and a Landsturm guard. The Russian POW's in front of the wagon to the left carry shovels and pitch forks and await their orders.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- Russian prisoners in an Arbeitskommando (labor detachment) turn over the top soil on the moorland of Loecknitz under the supervision of a German guard. This labor detachment worked out of the prison camp in Stettin, which was less than two miles away. Allied prisoners replace German farmers, who had been called to arms, to support the empire's agricultural economy.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A group of Russian prisoners of war turn over the soil in a field in Spring 1915 in preparation for the planting of potatoes. The Germans began to recognize that idle prisoners in camps were a drain on the war economy and these labor detachments, especially in agricultural production, would become very common across Germany.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino MAC Postcard Collection
- Notes:
- A detachment of British prisoners of war dig a drainage ditch in a field outside the prison camp at Teltow. German Landsturm guards keep an eye on the workers. This area was susceptible to flooding and proper drainage was important to increase agricultural productivity.
- Date Created:
- 1917-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- French prisoners are busy turning over a flower bed in preparation for spring planting outside of the prison camp at Frankfurt-am-Main. They will probably plant food crops to meet the growing food shortages in Germany. These crops might be used to supplement the prison camp's food supplies or the POW's may be working for a private farmer. They work under the watchful eye of a German Landsturm sentry to the right.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Notes:
- A British labor detachment, composed of English and Scottish POWs, pulls a wagon, with a German soldier on top, to work in the fields. A German woman on the side of the road has caught the attention of some of the prisoners.
- Date Created:
- 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Western Michigan University. Libraries
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino MAC Postcard Collection
- Date Created:
- 1913-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Caterino MAC Postcard Collection
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Photograph Collection
- Description:
- The Furrow is a publication of John Deere. Container lists are updated as we add new titles and issues to the collection.
- Date Created:
- [1917 TO 1956]
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Local History Newspapers and Periodicals Collection
- Notes:
- Field notes from a trip to Ireland to assess programs supported by W.K. Kellogg on April 21 - May 1, 1980.
- Date Created:
- 1980-04-21T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Correspondence between Illinois farmer G.W. Kennedy and family members in Ohio discussing routine work and family matters.
- Date Created:
- 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Speech given November 30, 1970 for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation for the Opening Session of the NORDFOOD 70 Seminar.
- Date Created:
- 1970-11-30T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Speech given April 1, 1981 for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation at the Governor's Conference on Agriculture to discuss the importance on agriculture in Michigan.
- Date Created:
- 1981-04-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Field notes from trips to Denmark, England, Finland, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Scotland and Sweden to assess programs supported by W.K. Kellogg.
- Date Created:
- 1965-09-13T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Field notes from trips to England, Germany, Ireland and Northern Ireland to assess programs supported by W.K. Kellogg.
- Date Created:
- 1966-09-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Oral history interview with Richard Walsworth. Interviewed by Phil Carter. Hart, Michigan. English language. June 18, 2016. Dick Walsworth is a local farmer from Oceana County. His life story highlights the challenges of maintaining his agricultural business, largely the asparagus industry, viable and competitive with the challenge of emerging global market forces. In this interview, Walsworth shares his testimony of the social, cultural, technologic, and industrial changes that have occurred in the Oceana area since his youth. This rich historical account from the perspective of a local farmer with a lifetime of experience in the agricultural world depicts the challenges ahead in the future to keep our farms and vegetables production alive. To this Walsworth declares that the future depends on migrant labor which is becoming increasingly short on supply since "the next generations are at least getting a high school education [...] they're not going to do field work." Walsworth also shares his deep concern with immigration policy, or lack of governmental policy, that makes it harder on local businesses to keep their labor flow steady and consistent compared to the needs of the industry in a state and national level.
- Date Created:
- 2016-06-18T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Collection:
- "Growing Community" (NEH Common Heritage)
- Description:
- Riegle with Mrs. Asparagus
- Date Issued:
- 1979-06-04T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- University of Michigan - Flint
- Collection:
- Donald W. Riegle Papers
- Notes:
- Speech given November 3, 1970 for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to Project L.E.A.D. Group of the College of Agriculture and Natural Resources at Michigan State University.
- Date Created:
- 1970-11-03T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Speech given May 20, 1980 for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation at the Rural Leadership Development Conference.
- Date Created:
- 1980-05-20T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Field notes from trips to Mississippi and Arkansas to assess programs supported by W.K. Kellogg.
- Date Created:
- 1966-03-22T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Field notes from trips to Finland and Denmark to assess programs supported by W.K. Kellogg.
- Date Created:
- 1978-09-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Speech given March 15, 1977 for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation to discuss changes in educational programs to reflect the changes in agriculture.
- Date Created:
- 1977-03-15T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Speech given March 5, 1980 for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation at the 4th Annual Partners for Rural Improvement Public Forum.
- Date Created:
- 1980-03-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Correspondence between Illinois farmer G.W. Kennedy and family members in Ohio discussing routine work and family matters.
- Date Created:
- 1879-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Speech given November 14, 1983 for the W. K. Kellogg Foundation at the Seaman A. Knapp Memorial Lecture for the Annual Meeting of the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.
- Date Created:
- 1983-11-14T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Two men seated
- Date Created:
- 1948-07-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Two men seated
- Date Created:
- 1948-07-16T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Rapids Public Library (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
- Notes:
- Speech given in 1954 to discuss the government's involvement in agricultural programs in the United States.
- Date Created:
- 1954-05-08T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Notes:
- Theodore Victor Peticolas, born 29 Feb. 1800 in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, was a fruit farmer in Union Township, Clermont County, Ohio at the time he maintained this diary. It contains his account of the day-to-day routine farm work, crops, family, neighbors, and social life. Peticolas' son Edward, by 1863, had been discharged from the 6th Ohio Infantry Regiment for a disability suffered in the War. Edward died on Christmas eve, 1863.
- Date Created:
- 1863-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Grand Valley State University. University Libraries
- Description:
- Truman discusses agricultural problems at a reunion of his former army unit, the 35th Division, U.S. Army.
- Date Issued:
- 1948-06-05T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- Description:
- President Eisenhower talks about Secretary of Agriculture Benson and the farm problem.
- Date Issued:
- 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z
- Data Provider:
- Michigan State University. Libraries
- Collection:
- G. Robert Vincent Voice Library Collection
- 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:
- An unidentified man in a greenhouse with shelves full of plants. A stamp "Edmonds Collection" is on the reverse.
- Data Provider:
- Capital Area District Library (Lansing, MI). Forest Parke Library and Archives
- Collection:
- Lansing Area Stereo Views
- 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
