seeds to the state. In 1959 many people were sick because of starvation. Their belly was so bloated and
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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.
Seed crops working for the Landreth Seed Catalog Company (now D. Landreth and Co.). He remained with the company for illustrate some of the company's seed catalogs. He also invented some seed packing machinery, patented in the
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Earl Dotter is a documentarian, photojournalist, and labor activist based in Maryland. Dotter's great-grandfather, Charles G. A. Thamm, also worked as a photographer in Pennsylvania and was employed by the Landreth Seed Catalog Company. This collection contains photographs in various formats - including negatives and prints - created by Thamm and his family in the 1890s and early 1900s. It also contains digital surrogate images of Thamm's work, adjusted by Dotter.
, Dotter's research into Thamm's career with the Landreth Seed Catalog Company, Dotter's impressions and
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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.
Developing Sustainable Spaces (SEEDS) and Lakewood Elementary. With this, DURO members helped to construct
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Duke University Retirees Outreach was founded in 1997 to provide volunteer opportunities to Duke retirees and their partners and operated until 2021. DURO members developed volunteer programs like the Backpack Program and the Lakewood Garden project at Lakewood Elementary School. The collection, spanning 1997 to 2021, consists of administrative and financial records, correspondence, and materials related to projects and events.
show the sale of various types of farm supplies, such as Osnaburg, ground plaster, flour, clover seed
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Merchant and manufacturer of Falmouth, Virginia. Correspondence, ledgers, daybooks, account books, and other business records (chiefly 1822-1875) of Green and his various associates, illustrating activities such as retailing, grain milling and merchandising, and cotton cloth manufacturing. The bulk of the collection is in the form of bound manuscript volumes. Firms represented include the Bellmont and Eagle flour mills, the Falmouth Manufacturing Company, and the Elm Cotton Factory. The papers also reflect the emergence of Fredericksburg, Va., as a business center, and the decline of Falmouth.
Corporation. He later became president of SEED in 1973, and then president of the Questar Corporation in 1976.
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Douglas M. Knight, born in 1921, served as president of Duke University from 1963 to 1969. Knight was educated at Yale and served as president of Lawrence University prior to becoming president of Duke. After leaving Duke in 1969, he worked as an industry executive at several firms. Records include correspondence, memoranda, proposals, surveys, reports, writings and speeches, minutes, audio-visual media, honorary citations, clippings, and printed matter. Major subjects include the administration of Duke University, the planning of a new art museum, university development, Duke's Fifth Decade Campaign and fundraising, the Duke Board of Trustees, Knight's inauguration, the School of Engineering, the School of Law, the School of Forestry, the Graduate School of Business, student protest, African-American students at Duke, the takeover of the Allen Building by members of the Afro-American Society, and student rights. Major correspondents include R. Taylor Cole, E.R. Latty, Lath Meriam, Mary Duke Biddle Trent Semans, R. Philip Hanes, Nancy Hanks, R. Patrick Ransom, George V. Allen, Charles B. Wade, Henry Rauch, Edwin L. Jones, Wright Tisdale, Les Brown, Ellen Huckabee Gobbel, Mark Pinsky, Graddon Rowlands, and Floyd B. McKissick.
Bingham's diaries document her daily activities, reflections on life, and contain some seed ideas
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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.
Brown; Anne Koedt; Judy Brady; Nick's News; Clear Englebert; Books As Seeds; Gay; Now; Alabama Now
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Tags: Lesbian; Feminist; Joan Denman; The Booklegger; Feminist Bookstores; Barbara Grier; Fsu; Florida State University; Feminist Bookstore Network; Rubyfruit Books; University Of California Santa Barbara; Ms Magazine; Vista; Volunteers In Service To America; Huntsville Alabama; Robin Morgan; Rita Mae Brown; Anne Koedt; Judy Brady; Nick's News; Clear Englebert; Books As Seeds; Gay; Now; Alabama Now; George Wallace; Celia English; March On Washington; Donna Mcbride; American Booksellers Association; Aba; Book Expo; Carol Seajay; Feminist Bookstore News; Refuge House; Dana Farmer; Every Woman's Coffee House; Lisa Medley; Women's Outdoor Adventures; Tallahassee Gay And Lesbian Film Festival; Aids Activism; Big Bend Cares; Inland Book Distributors; New Leaf; Amenra; Susan Mayer; Naiad Press; Sheila Ortiz Taylor; Lee Lynch; Katherine V Forrest; Tallahassee Community College; Angela Davis; Tallahassee Activism; Lesbian Archives; Lesbian Websites; Lesbian Biographies; Slfahp; Southern Lesbian Feminist Activist Herstory Project
the seed money from the Ford Foundation and others became permanent parts of the Duke curriculum and
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Established under a large Ford Foundation grant in 1964, the Committee on International Studies oversaw the distribution of the grant money and other sources of income to various departmental and area programs having to do with international scholarship. Spanning from 1962 to 1978, the records contain details of the committee and various subcommittee's activities during that time.