04187oam 22007454a 450 991073529850332120230605184335.01-55753-909-X(CKB)4100000009347486(MiAaPQ)EBC5896497(OCoLC)1120698378(MdBmJHUP)muse87409(EXLCZ)99410000000934748620191019d2019 uy 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierMemories of Life on the Farm Through the Lens of Pioneer Photographer J. C. Allen /Frederick Whitford and Neal Harmeyer[Ashland, Oregon] :Purdue University Press,2019.Baltimore, Md. :Project MUSE,2021©2019.1 online resource (ix, 398 pages) illustrationsFounders series1-55753-866-2 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.PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / HistoricalbisacshPhotographersfast(OCoLC)fst01061605Farm lifefast(OCoLC)fst00921052Family farmsfast(OCoLC)fst00920335Agriculturefast(OCoLC)fst00801355PhotographersUnited StatesBiographyFarm lifeUnited StatesHistorySourcesAgricultureUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPictorial worksFarm lifeUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPictorial worksFamily farmsUnited StatesHistory20th centuryPictorial worksUnited StatesfastBiographies.Illustrated works.Sources.Pictorial works.History.Biographies.Illustrated works.PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / HistoricalPhotographers.Farm life.Family farms.Agriculture.PhotographersFarm lifeHistoryAgricultureHistoryFarm lifeHistoryFamily farmsHistory338.10973Allen J. C(John Calvin),1881-1976,1379747Harmeyer Neal1981-Whitford Fred1955-MdBmJHUPMdBmJHUPBOOK9910735298503321Memories of Life on the Farm3420077UNINA