Bingham's diaries document her daily activities, reflections on life, and contain some seed ideas for stories. Her notebooks function as workbooks for her writings and include poems, ideas for stories, outlines for plays, and character sketches - all in various stages of development. Arranged by format (diary or notebook) and then chronologically.
Category: Grains, Cereals, Crackers, and Cookies
Booklets 8-15: "1st Timothy 2:14," "Studies in Genesis, part 5," "Seed of the Woman Mystery," "Lucifer God's Servant," "How to Study the Bible," "Beginning of the Kingdom, part 6-7," "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, part 8"
Collage, crayons, pencil, sumi ink.
Note birds eating sunflower seeds; also in Drawings file (D-41). Sketch only.
AT note at archiving: "It all started when my friend Pam gave me the seeds…"
Printed by De Vinne Press. Lists newspapers. Octavo, 25 pages of photo portrait illustrations (examples of early composite photograph) of various groups of men including: piano and organ makers, agricultural seed dealers, passenger agents, advertisers of noted health remedies, makers of boots and shoes, publishers, etc,
"April 27 1998: Last fall's collards have bloomed and set seed. Tomorrow, they give way to sunflowers and okra." Original/ Fragile
San Francisco: Times Mirror; United Artists; Veloz & Yolander; Washington State Apple Advisory Commission; Washburn-Wilson Seed Co.; Wine Advisory Board; Chicago: Arnold Schwinn; Borg-Warner; Bowman Dairy petty cash vouchers; Crown Jewel Ware; Elgin National Watch; Famous Flours; Hixson Products; Illinois Power; Indiana Bell Telephone; International Minerals and Chemical; Kraft (see also San Francisco office)
Includes booklets and pamphlets by Jack Mohr, such as "Seed of Satan: Literal or Figurative?," "The Birthright or the Right to Govern," "Signs and Wonders!," "Firearms and Freedom!," "Conspiracy to Deceive the Elect!!," "A Warning Direct from the Horse's Mouth!," "Exploding the 'Chosen People' Myth," "The Psychopolitical Indoctrination of America!," "Battle for the Truth," "Salt Without Savor!" and others.
Company Info: W. B. Anderson Jnr. Pres. C B. Smith Sec'y. "Manuf's of High Grade Flour. Capacity 1000 bbls daily. Manuf's of scientifically balanced mixed feeds for poultry, diary cows, hogs, horses and mules." Address: Yopp Seed Company. Stamped blue signature. Engraved image of company in black and yellow. Paper has minor tears and discoloration from water damage.
One wooden hand corn planter with two grip handles, a metal seed container nailed onto the planter and a metal digger at the end. One side of the planter reads: "Acme hand corn planter, patented September 11, 1900." and displays the Acme trademark. Several paint spots and discoloration on item;some rust stains on the metal parts.
Engraving titles include: The baptizing, Carolina wreck (Hatteras wreck), Cat fish (Fish caught), Centenarian, The cockfight, The coon hunt, Corn shucking in the mountains, The cotton choppers, Cotton pickers, Cypress knees, Dragging nets, Fishing in the creek, Flue curing tobacco, Herb gatherers, Moonshining, Mountain girl, Mountain haystacks, Mountain springhouse (Springhouse), The quilting, Singing in the mountains (All day singing), Sorghum boiling, Washing clothes, Weeding the tobacco seed bed, Wind and pine (Windblown tree)
Students Organizing Schools: applications, manuals, orientation, program committees
Into the Fields: documentary award paperwork
Tio Nelo is the name of a cafe specializing in horchata, a drink made from nuts, seeds and milk. Summary of text: Tio Nelo is a great cook and makes products that everyone loves. He eventually makes a lot of money off of his restaraunts and stops being as active as he once was. When he see that people are sad due to his absence he returns to cooking , which makes everyone very happy.
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.
Note 1: "Starts with air taped Jazz, the GC dialogues and emotionals(on GBC 1 7/8) Not stereo. End side blank end of first side blank. 2nd side - Another machine - going backwards to GBC. An interrupting door knock."; Note 2: CD 1:End of interview w/ a writer, jazz. Christmas jazz music--DATE 12/24/??. Interview w/ Patty McCormack, child star of Broadway's "The Bad Seed." CD 2: In the loft. Smith talking to Carole. Long stretches of silence. Sex, interrupted by a knock on the door, more sex. ;
Huang Yujiao (b.1935) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. When Huang was seven years old, she became a child bride. After the liberation, she got divorced after being abused. She was then married to Ye Hengqin. Huang says that they sprinkled seeds instead of planting them. Following orders from higher authorities, they put many seeds within the same field and the crops could not live. During the Famine, people ate many kinds of famine foods. Someone ate twelve jin of zucchinis and got bloated to death. Someone died after eating too many bamboo shoots.
Contains files related to various SAF projects and initiatives as well as other organizations' projects which SAF contributed to. These include Farmworker Awareness Week, Sowing Seeds of Change, Adelante, Farmworker Advocacy Network, and SAF fellowships. Materials include manuals, correspondence, budgets, goals, meeting and committee notes, research, and publicity material
Applications for Into the Fields, Sowing Seeds for Change, Students Organizing Schools; includes housing applications
Tang Chaogao (b. 1944) is a resident of Jimingqiao Village, Baiyun Town, Shimen County, Hunan Province. In this interview, Tang briefly talks about how he ate tree bark and grass seeds because of starvation when running the people's commune canteen.
Director: David Zeiger
Producer: David Zeiger
Country: United States
Award won: Seeds of War
TRT: 83:29
Liu Yuzhen (b. 1919) is a resident of Wangjiayan Village, Baiyun Town, Shimen County, Hunan Province. In this interview, Liu recalls how her in-laws died of starvation and how some villagers were forced to stand for eating grass seeds when running the people's commune canteen.
Directors: Jesse James Miller and Pete McCormack
Producer: Alison Lawton
Country: Canada
Award won: Seeds of War
TRT: 82:00
Note 1: "Truman Capote's "The Grass Harp" Lillan Gish and … Feb 1963: News - Fall of Canadian Gov. over American war heads. 4th track: Starting 1/2 way in - Last Scenes from "Dragon seed Pearl Buck …"; Note 2: CDI 1. NBC Kraft Television Theater, Juan Valdez coffee ad and tv drama mid scene 2. cont'd -8. "gypsy queen dropsy cure" (Dragonseed play) CDII 1. Cont'd-8. CDIII 1. middle of scene in the Grass Harp and ad for Late Late Show and Roto Rooter Channel 2, New York. 2. end of Dragonseed 3. cont'd 4. cont'd 5. cont'd CDIV 1. TV "2. cotn'd 3. cont'd 4. cont'd and end, jumps to News from Feb 5 1963 5. cont'd 6. cont'd, Cuban Missile crisis news. ;
Any type of research material that Shubik created or gathered. Includes notes, as well as research reports from his time at IBM. Subjects include game theory, simulation, auctions, and bargaining. Arranged alphabetically.
Orig. print number: JA/POR 61-4
Fang Xuekun said that the People's Commue was a total failure. The Great Leap Forward movement gave only empty promises. The village cadres bragged about production and sold all harvest including grain seeds to the state. In 1959 many people were sick because of starvation. Their belly was so bloated and big. He almost died. People had to mix kaolin clay with little grain to eat in order to survive.
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
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.
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.
Director: Michael Glawogger
Producers: Erich Lackner, Miriam Quinte, Pepe Danquart
Country: Austria
Award won: Seeds of War
TRT: 122:00
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.
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.
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.
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.
Zeng Man (b.1929) is a resident of Zhaixia Village, Pengzhai Town, Heping County, Heyuan City, Guangdong Province. Zeng took part in the denunciation of landlords during the Cultural Revolution. She went to landlords' homes to tie people up and carry their properties. The landlords were put in pig cages and their properties were shared between other villagers. The Red Guards wronged many people. After the communization, many starved to death. The production team put too many seeds in the field, and could not get enough harvest afterwards. People ran out of food quickly. Zeng did not suffer hunger because her family works at the eating hall and secretly brought back food. The transcript of this interview has been translated into English.
Assorted manuscript documents from the William Massie family, arranged chronologically. Includes business correspondence and news; agricultural dispatches regarding weather, crops, and prices; correspondence to Massie about buying and selling crops and seeds, including rye; financial accounts for equipment, supplies, and crops; a 1841 report by Joseph Cabell on the a turnpike company; an invoice to Massie for postage fees due in 1842; an 1841 report card for Helen Massie and a 1845 October 10 letter about her schooling from Ellen Massie; a letter dated 1847 March 18 denouncing President Polk from James Heath; and some family and personal correspondence from William Effinger. Includes a note to William Massie from Alexander Brown conveying disappointment that Massie was not running for state legislature in 1840. Includes receipt for the 1840 December 29 purchase of "a Negro Man Warner" (also referred to as "Boy Warner") by William Massie for eight hundred three dollars. Includes a letter dated 1841 January 3 from an agent, Bowling Clark, to Massie, containing details of typical hiring prices he witnessed for different enslaved laborers, including "middle aged men with their wives and from one to three small children with them hired from one hundred and twenty to $140 and with an express understanding that they were neither to ditch nor work on any public work." Includes a letter from John Jenkins to William Massie offering the sale of an unnamed enslaved girl, writing: "I would like to sell them to you as you have her mother," and "as she wishes to come to you I would like to accommodate her" (1847 June 8).
Zhu Shunlian (b. 1937) was born in Zhushan County, Shiyan City, Hubei Province, and moved to Diaoyutai Village (Yindian Town, Suizhou City, Hubei Province) in 1988. Her husband was once the production team leader. In this interview, Zhu recalls that she and her husband worked at Zhushan mine and ate at the People's Commune canteen in 1959. The food available in the canteen and households included buckwheat, corn flour, grass root, rice chaff, tree leaves, chingma abutilon seed and wild walnut, as well as a mixture made of soy milk, pumpkin leaves, string bean leaves, potato leaves and wild plants. Zhu also remembers that some people from Sichuan escaped to Hubei because of the famine.
Zhang Xiaogeng (b.1930) is a resident of Xizhai Village, Hanguguan Town, Lingbao City, Henan Province. In this interview, Zhang remembers experiences during the Great Leap Forward and the Great Famine. Due to the proneness to boasting and exaggeration at that time, tens of thousands jin of wheat and sweet potatoes were reported while the actual yield was only two or three hundred, and otherwise they would be criticized. When constructing backyard furnace, the village was organized into military units. Starvation began in 1960, because too much food was collected, the peasants didn't have enough to eat. He recalls eating corns and all kinds of leaves, eating grain seeds secretly while planting them as long as the cadres didn't know. At that time, peasants were divided into two classes, and landlords and rich peasants were struggled and beaten up.
Qiu Jiafa (b.1940) is a resident of Diaoyutai Village, Yindian Town, Suizhou City, Hubei Province. During the Great Famine, Qiu was in middle school and his teachers led students to find oak tree seed and bark, vitex leaves and Chinese scholar tree flowers for food. All members of the production team had to participate in building the reservoir and a meal provided by the People's Commune Canteen included only two liang of rice and boiled water grass. Qiu's father starved to death in 1959. Qiu believes that the Great Famine happened partly because the cadres much exaggerated the grain production to gain political achievements, and partly because the cadres stole some grain given by the government. Commune members of the production team dared not report because they were afraid of the vengency from the cadres.