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  • Collection: Agricultural Empowerment in Academics, Research, and Extension

Female Enrollment in the School of Agriculture and Life Sciences

UA100.2.6 Annual Report 1975 15-06-08-077.pdf
This page is an excerpt from the School of Agriculture and Life Science's 1975 Annual Report. The faculty focused on the increased presence of women in the undergraduate, graduate, and Agricultural Institute programs. Table I illustrates the amount…

What is a Primary Source? A How-To Guide for High School Students

Traditional Lesson Plan – Primary Sources.pdf
This lesson plan teaches high school students how to identify, analyze, and interpret primary sources such as textual documents, media, and oral histories. Teachers can use the lesson plan with primary sources of their choosing.

David S. Weaver

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This photograph is an undated head shot of David S. Weaver.

Hanging tobacco leaves for curing, ca. 1939

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This black and white photograph is an example of a very small tobacco farm. This is a rural setting in which the whole family is involved in the production of tobacco.

People tying hands of tobacco leaves for curing, 1940

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This black and white photograph shows African-American women preparing and processing tobacco by hand, a method that is rarely used today.

Walking primers and trucking with mule-drawn sled

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This is a black and white photograph of a farmers controlling a mule drawn sled. They are using draft power to harvest tobacco leaves.

Tobacco transplanter

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A black and white photograph of African-American farmers using a tractor and modern machinery to mechanize the tobacco transplanting process.

Spraying Peaches with Spray Guns at Mt. Airy Orchard

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In this photograph, men are spraying peach trees with some type of pesticide from a tank located in the back of a wagon being pulled by a mule.

Rural Home Electrification Project- Guilford County

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This is an image of a home in rural Guilford County that has just been set up for electricity.

Peanut Production in North Carolina

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This bulletin appears in the 1942 Extension Circular. It discusses the demand to increase peanut production to provide oil for the war effort. It gives cultural advice to peanut farmers to help increase their yield.