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Tang Taozhen | 唐桃珍, 2010
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- In this interview, Tang recalls how she cooked in the people's commune canteen, and how some villagers ate grass seeds because of starvation. Tang also recalls no babies were born during 1958 and 1961 because couples were working separately at different places and they were too starving.
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Tang Taozhen (b. 1937) is a resident of Jimingqiao Village, Baiyun Town, Shimen County, Hunan Province. In this interview, Tang recalls how she cooked in the people's commune canteen, and how some villagers ate grass seeds because of starvation. Tang also recalls no babies were born during 1958 and 1961 because couples were working separately at different places and they were too starving.
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Earl Dotter, An Illustrated Biography of Charles G. A. Thamm: Artist, Copper Plate Engraver, Inventory, and Photographer, 2022 45 Megabytes (1 file)
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- Dotter's narrative includes information about how the collection came to be assembled, Dotter's research into Thamm's career with the Landreth Seed Catalog Company, Dotter's impressions and reflections about the signficance of Thamm's work in the industry as well as on Dotter's own professional and personal life.
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Dotter, Earl. An Illustrated Biography of Charles G. A. Thamm: Artist, Copper Plate Engraver, Inventory, and Photographer . Silver Spring, Maryland: self-published by the author.
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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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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
RTLM 50 Sony HF 60 (1 copy of Side A and 1 copy of Side B
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- He criticizes Kagame's tactics and tells the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) leader that he has done nothing but sow seeds of hatred for the Inkotanyi. Ruggiu ends the broadcasts with the beginning of an interview with George France Hategekimana about the impending French intervention.
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- Air Date: 1994 June 20
- Producer: RTLM
- Original Language: Kinyarwanda, French
- Side B of this tape is blank
- Bemeriki begins the tape accusing the Inkotanyi of "drinking Rwandan blood" and killing residents. She calls on the population to exterminate the Inyenzi-Inkotanyi. She is followed by Kantano who mockingly sings a song about the Inkotanyi having all perished. Kantano gives some of the local news from Kigali and targets several sectors and communes as areas where conflicts have taken place. As he targets areas like Nyamirambo he comments that the "Inyenzi" are committing suicide. He also refers to the current war as the "final" one. Kantano then announces that the imminent arrival of French troops to intervene against the "suicidal Ugandans and suicidal extremists Tutsis." He criticizes Kagame's tactics and tells the Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) leader that he has done nothing but sow seeds of hatred for the Inkotanyi. Ruggiu ends the broadcasts with the beginning of an interview with George France Hategekimana about the impending French intervention.
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W-2: Oral and Written Comp II, 1995-1997 1 of 1
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- View, by: Edith Ledezma, 1996 May 16 A History Lesson, by: Sarah Hennessey, 1996 Sunflower Seeds, by: Tracy Thorpe, 1996 Merry Christmas, by: Ramiro Arceo, 1996 Una Entrevista con Felipe Dejuki Mendoza, no author, 1997 Surveys administered by Lisa Stevenson, 1997 The Inside Scoop on the Former Moxley Family Farmers, by: Jenny Sousk, 1997 Opportunity of a Lifetime, by: Michelle Steiner, 1997 Las Condiciones de los Trabajadores Agrícolas en Carolina del Norte, by: Hortencia Huerta, 1997 Untitled, by: Rachel Avery, 1997 Ese Varado, by: Marcella Hurtado Gomez, 1997 Aug. 5
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- Various poems by Alma Rojas, date: 1995
- Journal of an Outreach Worker, by: Palmar Plonk, date: 1995
- Untitled, by: Kiki Barnes, date: 1995
- Untitled, by: Juana Torres, 1995
- Mis Padres, by: Juana Torres, 1995
- Rescuing Gems from Caves and Flowers Deserts, Building Raging Fires from Smoldering Embers, by: Hugh H. Davis, 1995 Aug. 5
- Untitled, by: Cindi Lopez, 1995
- SAF Documentary Project, by: Myah Cook, 1995 Aug. 4
- A ?Better? Life, by: Lori White, 1996
- Untitled, by: Andrea Hickle, 1996 July 28
- Mi escuela es Mt. View, by: Edith Ledezma, 1996 May 16
- A History Lesson, by: Sarah Hennessey, 1996
- Sunflower Seeds, by: Tracy Thorpe, 1996
- Merry Christmas, by: Ramiro Arceo, 1996
- Una Entrevista con Felipe Dejuki Mendoza, no author, 1997
- Surveys administered by Lisa Stevenson, 1997
- The Inside Scoop on the Former Moxley Family Farmers, by: Jenny Sousk, 1997
- Opportunity of a Lifetime, by: Michelle Steiner, 1997
- Las Condiciones de los Trabajadores Agrícolas en Carolina del Norte, by: Hortencia Huerta, 1997
- Untitled, by: Rachel Avery, 1997
- Ese Varado, by: Marcella Hurtado Gomez, 1997 Aug. 5
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Arizona
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- He also has a strong interest in the growing and preservation of heirloom native seeds from the Southwest. David will soon be leaving his job as kitchen manager at Hotevilla Bacavi Day School so that he can pursue his farming interest full-time.
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Photographs by Andrew Lewis. The Pecusa family is Hopi and Pima from the village of Bacavi on the Hopi Reservation in northeastern Arizona. Their immediate family has been farming in the area for at least four generations. Before them, ancestral people farmed their land intermittently for nearly a thousand years. The Pecusa family farms in a largely traditional manner, using little farm machinery and employing ancient dry land farming practices that allow them to grow corn in an arid environment that receives only eight to twelve inches of rain per year.
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Ye Shiying | 叶石英, 2011
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- The production team sprinkled seeds instead of actually planting them; they had no harvest, but reported the opposite to the higher authorities.
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Ye Shiying (b.1938) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. Ye recollects that, during the Great Famine, people could only get two tablespoons of porridge from the eating hall every day, and ate them with steamed sweet potato slices at home. She also ate many other kinds of famine food and she could hardly find potatoes in the mountains after working for a whole day. Many people starved to death after the communization, including people in the elderly homes and maternities. The production team sprinkled seeds instead of actually planting them; they had no harvest, but reported the opposite to the higher authorities.
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Ye Yaolang | 叶耀浪, 2012
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- The production team also spilled too many crop seeds and gained no harvest. They put layers of sweet potato vines on the field, which did not lead to more sweet potatoes at all.
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Ye Yaolang (b.1938) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. Ye learned tailoring with his father after elementary school and then taught himself painting bed boards. He went to places to paint boards to escape the Great Famine. Ye recollects that, during the Great Leap Forward, the production team planted crops on two sides of the road just to impress their leaders, and used soil to fake fertilizers. The production team also spilled too many crop seeds and gained no harvest. They put layers of sweet potato vines on the field, which did not lead to more sweet potatoes at all.
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