Search

    Start Over Format Book Subject Term advertising Subject Term farmers

    1. Agricultural literature and the early Illinois farmer

    <span class="translation_missing" title="translation missing: en.bibleaves.discover_item">Discover Item</span>
    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Bardolph, Richard (author / The Woman's College of the University of North Carolina) and The Woman's College of the University of North Carolina
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    1948
    Published:
    USA
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 38 Document Number: B04277
    Notes:
    Includes Preface and Contents, Urbana, IL : The University of Illinois Press, 1948. 199 p.

    4. Radio active: advertising and consumer activism, 1935-1947

    <span class="translation_missing" title="translation missing: en.bibleaves.discover_item">Discover Item</span>
    Collection:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center (ACDC)
    Contributers:
    Newman, Kathy M. (author)
    Format:
    Book
    Publication Date:
    2004
    Published:
    USA: University of California Press, Berkeley, California.
    Location:
    Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C21622
    Notes:
    237 pages, Includes a description of "Consumer Time," a radio program sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and produced by Donald E. Montgomery, consumer's counsel for USDA beginning in 1935. At that time, the USDA was the only government agency with an "official" position devoted to the concerns of the consumer. (p. 145). Another program, "Consumer Flashes," was part of the "National Farm and Home Hour" broadcast on NBC "Red" Network. Also includes (p. 47) statistics showing how lower-income listeners made up about 80% of the U.S. radio audience in 1940. Programs such as the "National Barn Dance" on WLS Radio, Chicago, were cited as especially popular.