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Author/Creator:Allen, J. C. (John Calvin), 1881-1976, photographer.
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Uniform Title:[Photographs. Selections]
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Title:Memories of Life on the Farm Through the Lens of Pioneer Photographer J. C. Allen / Frederick Whitford and Neal Harmeyer.
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ISBN:9781557539090
155753909X
9781557538666
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Publication:[Ashland, Oregon] : Purdue University Press, 2019.
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Manufacture: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
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Copyright notice date: ©2019.
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Physical Description:1 online resource (409 pages)
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Links:Online book
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Local Notes:Access is available to the Yale community.
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Notes:Description based on print version record.
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Summary:John Calvin Allen, professionally known as J.C., worked as a photographer for Purdue University from 1909-1952, and operated his own photography business until his death in 1976. The J.C. Allen photographs represent a historical account of the transition from pioneer practices to scientific methodologies in agriculture and rural communities. During this major transitional period for agriculture, tractors replaced horses, hybrid corn supplanted open-pollinated corn, and soybeans changed from a novelty crop to regular rotation on most farms. During this time, purebred animals with better genetic pedigrees replaced run-of-the-mill livestock, and systematic disease prevention in cattle, swine, and poultry took place. Allen's photographs also document clothing styles, home furnishings, and the items people thought important as they went about their daily lives. Looking closely at tractors, livestock, wagons, planters, sprayers, harvesting equipment, and crops gives one a sense of the changing and fast-paced world of agriculture at that time. This volume contains over 900 picturesque images, most never-before-seen, of men, women, and children working on the farm, which remain powerful reminders of life in rural America at the turn of the twentieth century. As old farmhouses and barns fall victim to age, Allen photographs are all that remain. While those people and times no longer exist today, they do remain "alive" because of the preservation of that history on film. A camera in his hands and an eye for photography allowed Allen to create indelible visual histories that continue to tell the story of agriculture and rural life from long ago.
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Series:Founders series
UPCC book collections on Project MUSE.
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Subjects:Allen, J. C. (John Calvin), 1881-1976.
Family farms.
Agriculture.
Photographers--United States--Biography.
Farm life--United States--History--Sources.
Agriculture--United States--History--20th century--Pictorial works.
Farm life--United States--History--20th century--Pictorial works.
Family farms--United States--History--20th century--Pictorial works.
United States.
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Genre/Form:Biographies.
Illustrated works.
Sources.
Pictorial works.
History.
Biographies.
Electronic books.
Illustrated works.
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Also listed under:Harmeyer, Neal, 1981- writer of added text.
Whitford, Fred, 1955- writer of added text.
Project Muse. distributor
Link to this page: https://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/15694984