Market Diseases of Fruits and Vegetables

by Carroll Van Rennsaeleer Sweet, George Konrad Karl Link, Mary Aloysius Agnew, Nina Owen, Wells Aleck Hutchins, William Adams Dayton, Glen Blaine Ramsey

1932

The decade since the World War has been in many ways the most extraordinary period in American agriculture. For the first time in the Nation's history, the census of 1925 showed a decrease (since 1920) in crop acreage, in farm animals, in number of farms, and in farm population. Nevertheless, agricultural production increased more rapidly from 1922 to 1926, inclusive, than in any period since 1900, and probably since 1890, when the agricultural occupation of the prairies approached completion.

British Diaries

by William Matthews

1950 · Univ of California Press

Annotated entries of diaries available in American or British libraries as well as manuscripts that have been published.

Oil Boom Architecture

by William B. Moore, Joshua F. Sherretts

2008 · Arcadia Publishing

Following the drilling of the world's first oil well in 1859 just south of town, the small village of Titusville exploded into a bustling city. Through the early 1870s, newly prosperous citizens built stores, banks, hotels, and churches, as well as hundreds of residences. Into the 20th century, residents remodeled or built anew, leaving Titusville with a crop of Victorian buildings, many of which still stand today. The nearby cities of Petroleum Center and Pithole developed at significant oil production sites. As production moved elsewhere in the 1870s, both cities were abandoned and soon vanished completely. Using vintage images from the unmatched collection of the Drake Well Museum, Oil Boom Architecture: Titusville, Pithole, and Petroleum Center documents the rich architectural history of these three boomtowns.