Item: M.L. Wilson agricultural photographs collection, 1901-1945
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Finding Aid Title: M.L. Wilson agricultural photographs collection, 1901-1945
Finding Aid Collection Number: 2581
Date Range of Collection: 1901-1945
Creator of Materials: Wilson, M. L. (Milburn Lincoln), 1885-1969
Content Description: The Agriculture Photograph collection includes photographs, nitrate negatives, safety negatives, and glass plate negatives created by or collected by M.L. Wilson. The photographs are sequentially numbered. Most of the negatives in this collection correspond to print images; not all of the negatives were reproduced as print images. Many of the photographs and negatives contain alphabetic or numerical extensions to distinguish separate images. Some images were removed from Accession 12001, the MSU Historical Photographs Collection, section PA3.1, on January 11, 1973, and transferred to a collection identified as PAA (Picture Archive Agriculture) by D.E. Horn. Images were renumbered PAA 5675 to 6998. Images in this collection pertain to agricultural subjects and projects studied 1901 to 1945 at Montana State College. Notations on the print images are in English as well as shorthand. Image subject include: alfalfa, barley, clover, corn, grain, grass, wheat, sunflowers, thistles, and vegetables. Other subjects include: demonstration and field days, experiment stations, farm machinery, farmsteads, dryland farming, tillage, harvesting, erosion, livestock, rural life in Montana, and pot tests. Of particular interest are numerous images of "big hitch" teams, horse-drawn implements using eight or more teams of draft animals for power. For all the images in this collection the titles were provided by Wilson either in either his index or on the photograph itself. The photographs have been numerically arranged regardless of their content or subject.
Finding Aid URL: http://nwda.orbiscascade.org/ark:/80444/xv92449
Keywords: agriculture, montana, montana state college
Subjects: Montana State University History
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