Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 167 Document Number: C27816
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Short biographies from the Agricultural Journalism Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison., Subjects include: Norman J. Coleman, Coleman's Rural World -- H.W. Collingwood, Rural New Yorker -- Pietro de Crescenzi, an Italian agricultural writer (1230-1320) -- Samuel Hartlib, Great Britain (1600-??) -- Gervase Markham, Great Britain (1568-1637) -- Sir John Sinclair, Scotland (1754-1835) -- John Stuart Skinner, American Farmer -- Jethro Tull, Great Britain (1674-??) -- Thomas Tusser, Great Britain (1524-1580) -- Jethro Wood, inventor of the modern plow -- Arthur Young, Great Britain (1741-1820)
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 69 Document Number: D10734
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Claude W. Gifford Collection. Beyond his materials in the ACDC collection, the Claude W. Gifford Papers, 1919-2004, are deposited in the University of Illinois Archives. Serial Number 8/3/81. Locate finding aid at https://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/, Item 80 located in ACDC Document D10726, Directory of written summaries of 80 items deposited in the Claude W. Gifford Papers, University of Illinois Archives. 30 pages., Includes a three-page 1967 resume about Farm Journal editor Carroll Streeter, plus a detailed summary of staff correspondence between 1948 and 1971. The summary reveals Streeter's approach to farm periodical editing and management, relations with staff members, and other aspects of his style as an effective long-time agricultural editor.
