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.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 69 Document Number: D10726
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#980, 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/, Three-ring binder in the Claude W. Gifford Collection, Agricultural Communications Documentation Center., When the author provided his papers to the University of Illinois Archives he preceded each item with a written summary of what was in that entry. This three-ring binder contains copies of the 80 written summaries. An "item" is a topical collection of the author's materials.
June 26 issue via online. 3 pages., Article briefly summarizes the development of this pioneering agricultural journal, founded in 1877 as a regional agriculture magazine for farmers near Philadelphia." The move follows the company's acquisition of Vance Publishing Corporation's agriculture and produce assets.
Describes how Cyrus Curtis bought Country Gentleman magazine in 1911 and it became "the dominant farm publication of the 1920s." The magazine "took the nineteenth-century symbol of the yeoman farmer and recast it in terms of consumption. In doing so, it created an idealistic image of a new class of consumers, an image that urban advertisers easily understood and willingly bought." CG had 2.4 million subscribers when it was sold to Farm Journal and Town Journal in 1955.
