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Documenting Agriculture and Rural Life

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Abstract

To conserve the resources available for historic documentation, archivists would do well to concentrate on what is most crucial in shaping events. The farm family has been crucial to shaping agriculture and rural life in the United States since chattel slavery was abolished. Methods which can be used to document the family-based occupation of farming, where production on the farm is integrated with reproduction in the family, are described. Limitations of these methods are noted. Problems involved with retrieval are considered.

How to Cite:

Colman, G. P., (1987) “Documenting Agriculture and Rural Life”, Archival Issues 12(1), 21–27. doi: https://doi.org/10.31274/archivalissues.10541