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Workingman's Death (2005)
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- Director: Michael Glawogger Producers: Erich Lackner, Miriam Quinte, Pepe Danquart Country: Austria Award won: Seeds of War TRT: 122:00
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Director: Michael Glawogger
Producers: Erich Lackner, Miriam Quinte, Pepe Danquart
Country: Austria
Award won: Seeds of War
TRT: 122:00 - Collection Context
The Devil Came on Horseback (2007)
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- Directors: Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg Producers: Annie Sundberg, Ricki Stern, Jane Wells, Gretchen Wallace Country: United States Awards won: Full Frame/Working Films Award and the Seeds of War TRT: 87:00
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Directors: Ricki Stern and Annie Sundberg
Producers: Annie Sundberg, Ricki Stern, Jane Wells, Gretchen Wallace
Country: United States
Awards won: Full Frame/Working Films Award and the Seeds of War
TRT: 87:00 - Collection Context
Uganda Rising (2006)
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- Directors: Jesse James Miller and Pete McCormack Producer: Alison Lawton Country: Canada Award won: Seeds of War TRT: 82:00
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Directors: Jesse James Miller and Pete McCormack
Producer: Alison Lawton
Country: Canada
Award won: Seeds of War
TRT: 82:00 - Collection Context
SEED evaluation, 1973 June
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- SEED evaluation, 1973 June
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Economy: Commodities: Oil: Trilateral: Seeds
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- Economy: Commodities: Oil: Trilateral: Seeds
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(Matted print) Aerial seeding for erosion control, Jarvis Branch, Madison County, N.C., 2003
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- (Matted print) Aerial seeding for erosion control, Jarvis Branch, Madison County, N.C., 2003
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Buried Seed 1 cdrs
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- Buried Seed
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Agricultural Correspondence Subseries, 1930-1946
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- Refund of processing taxes; Seed Loan Bill; Commodity Exchange Control Bill; plans for compulsory crop control; AAA and various amendments. 1937 : Cotton loan; improvement of highways and railroad grade crossings; tax on plug tobacco ; 3.5 % interest rate on Federal Land Bank loans; Forestry Bill; Agricultural Marketing Agreement Act; Farm Tenancy Bill; Farm Security Act; AAA; crop control versus export bounty; proposal to move the Forestry Service from the Dept. of Agriculture to the Department of the Interior, voluntary versus compulsory crop control; tax on garden seed. 1938: Compulsory crop control; Farm Bill; peanuts; resettlement; problems with allotments; distribution of seeds by county agents in competition with merchants; AAA. 1939: Crop control; Smith Cotton Bill; restriction on sugar production; Fulmer Net Weight Bill, government distribution of seeds; Bankhead Cotton export subsidy; Agricultural Appropriation Bill; Bailey Farm Marketing Bill; control of tobacco production; flue-cured tobacco marketing crisis; storage rates on cotton; flaxseed competition from Argentina. 1940: Marketing Bill; tobacco embargo; trade agreement with Great Britain affecting cotton and tobacco; agricultural appropriation cuts; transfer of Forest Service to the Dept. of the Interior; cotton storage rates; foreign competition with American wood pulp; crop control; Net Weight Cotton Bill; food stamp plan: Jones-Wheeler Bill; tobacco storage. 1941 Marketing Bill; Net Weight Cotton Bill; tobacco exports; importation of Argentine beef; Agricultural Appropriation Bill; Fulmer Bill for the funding of 4-H Clubs and Extension Service; excess wheat production. 1942: Price controls; sale of government surpluses below parity prices; farm labor shortage and migratory labor camps; Net Weight Cotton Bill; government distribution of seeds; Agricultural Appropriation Bill; peanut prices; tobacco tax; ceiling prices on tobacco; Thomas-Hatch Amendment to the Anti-Inflation Bill, calculating farm labor costs in parity prices; McNary Amendment for a forest fire protection appropriation; government competition with mill operators. 1943: Farm prices and price controls; farm labor shortage; tobacco grading program; farm wagon shortage; crop control; Pace Bill to include farm labor costs in parity prices; appropriation for the Farm Security Administration; vote on Bankhead Bill after presidential veto; Agricultural Appropriaion Bill; shortage of corn products; ceiling prices on flue-cured tobacco; reduction in importation on Chilean nitrate of soda for fertilizer; dairy industry and OPA regulations; Food Subsidy Bill; milk shortage in Roanoke Rapids, N.
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Correspondence, telegrams, notes, speeches, statements, and printed material pertain to farming and agricultural products as well as to agencies and concerns of the Department of Agriculture. Of particular importance is material relating to the production and marketing of cotton and tobacco, including such topics as grading, surpluses, voluntary versus compulsory crop control, taxes, ceiling prices, arid specific hills. There is also information on other crops, such as soybeans, peanuts, sweet potatoes, and strawberries, as well as on the poultry, baking and dairy industries. The Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA) in its various forms and stages, is thoroughly discussed by Bailey and his constituents. Also included are materials relating to the Resettlement Administration, the Commodity Credit Corporation, the Federal Land Bank, the Farm Security Administration. Information pertaining to forestry and the Bureau of Public Roads is found in this section.
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Pickens, Andrew papers, 1801-1827
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- Includes correspondence; a memorandum of agreement between Pickens and David Files regarding a loan from Pickens to Files; financial papers relating to the operation of Pickens' plantation in Alabama; a mortgage bond; and an Agricultural Memorandum Book (1822-1826) which discusses the clearing of land for planting cotton and corn, describes the seeds he used, and includes several pages of accounts.
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Includes correspondence; a memorandum of agreement between Pickens and David Files regarding a loan from Pickens to Files; financial papers relating to the operation of Pickens' plantation in Alabama; a mortgage bond; and an Agricultural Memorandum Book (1822-1826) which discusses the clearing of land for planting cotton and corn, describes the seeds he used, and includes several pages of accounts. Pickens also comments on his visits to Cahaba, Alabama, and the flood which occurred while it was the state capitol.
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