Agriculture - Overview
From butter churns to diesel tractors, the Museum's agricultural artifacts trace the story of Americans who work the land. Agricultural tools and machinery in the collections range from a John Deere plow of the 1830s to 20th-century cultivators and harvesters. The Museum's holdings also include overalls, aprons, and sunbonnets; farm photographs; milk cans and food jars; handmade horse collars; and some 200 oral histories of farm men and women in the South. Prints in the collections show hundreds of scenes of rural life. The politics of agriculture are part of the story, too, told in materials related to farm workers' unions and a group of artifacts donated by the family of the labor leader Cesar Chavez.
"Agriculture - Overview" showing 4 items.
Harvest Time at Santa Clara Indian Pueblo, New Mexico [postcard]
- Notes
- Series 1, Box 10, U.S.A.--New Mexico--Pueblos and Indians
- Summary
- The card is a brightly hand tinted photo of corn, squash, chiles and other items harvested by Pueblo Indians. Description on verso: "Santa Clara--near the town of Espanola--home of several makers of the famous Santa Clara pottery, is one of a group of Rio Grande pueblos which are very interesting to visitors. In the autumn the gorgeous coloring of their harvests of Indian corn, squash, chile, etc., together with the golden cottonweed trees, make a setting not soon forgotten."
- Cite as
- Victor A. Blenkle Postcard Collection, Archives Center, National Museum of American History
- Date
- 1920
- 1920-1930
- publisher
- Curtis Teich Company, Chicago
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Manufacturers of / The "Keystone" [sic] / Line / of Agricultural Implements / Keystone / Manufacturing Co. / Sterling / Ills. [sic] U.S.A. [trade card, ca. 1890]
- Summary
- Color illustration shows Uncle Sam and an international array of faces and costumes. The Keystone image to which Uncle Sam points contains a black-and-white picture of a "'Keystone' / hayloader / at work." See also cat. no. AC0060.248726
- Date
- 1890
- 1900
- ca 1890
- 19th century
- advertiser
- Keystone Manufacturing Co. (Sterling, Ill.)
- Local number
- AC0060-0000070 (AC Scan No.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
Manufacturers of / The "Keystone" [sic] / Line / of Agricultural Implements / Keystone / Manufacturing Co. / Sterling / Ills. [sic] U.S.A. [trade card, ca. 1890]
- Summary
- Color illustration shows Uncle Sam and an international array of faces and costumes. The Keystone image to which Uncle Sam points contains a black-and-white picture of a "'Keystone' / hayloader / at work." See also AC0060-0000070
- Date
- 1890
- ca 1890
- 19th century
- advertiser
- Keystone Manufacturing Co. (Sterling, Ill.)
- Local number
- 040060119.tif (AC Scan No.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
- No Image Available
Chet and Juanita Howell Rodeo Collection, 1934-1958
- Notes
- Chet and Juanita Howell were trick riders and ropers who played many of the rodeos and fairs throughout the country in the 1930s until the latter 1950s. They averaged thirty shows per year, with most of their performances being in the western and southwestern United States. Juanita and Chet were married on horseback in August of 1936 in Centralia, Washington. After Chet served in World War II, he continued with rodeo. In the 1950s, the Howells settled in Phoenix, Arizona, where Chet worked in manufacturing for five years. His last job was with the post office before his death in 1970. Juanita Howell, born in 1910, continued living in their retirement home
- Summary
- Mostly newspaper publicity and rodeo programs. 67 full- and half-page sheets from mostly small-town papers, with predominantly local news. The programs for performances at fairs sometimes include agricultural information, what was being judged, and the cash prize amounts. Most of the programs contain advertisements for small-town services and products. A description of the sponsors indicate close community-business relationships. Some shows were near Indian reservations and Native Americans took part in the shows
- Cite as
- Chet and Juanita Howell Rodeo Collection, 1934-1958, Archives Center, National Museum of American History. Gift of Juanita Howell
- Date
- 1934
- 1934-1958
- 20th century
- 1930-2000
- donor
- Howell, Juanita
- collector
- Howell, Chet
- Community Life, Div. of, NMAH, SI
- Local number
- 1985.0890 (NMAH Acc.)
- Data Source
- Archives Center - NMAH
