USA: Oxmoor Press, a subsidiary of The Progressive Farmer Company, Birmingham, Alabama
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D10009
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Copy also located in the James F. Evans Collection, 114 pages., An edited collection written to "build something of the spirit that has always pervaded the lives of rural people." Features brief stories, poems, and commentaries. Sections include love of the land, joys of country living, the farmer and his family, creeds for farm living, the soil and growing things, cotton, animal friends, the business of farming, and the lighter side.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C27737
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255 pages., Focuses on a popular radio comedy series that was broadcast from 1931 until 1954. "The show is a rare example of a lasting national network program on rural themes."
Australia: University of Western Australia Press, Crawley.
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C25274
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James F. Evans Collection, Insights about life, conditions, people and perspectives in rural Australia, as reflected in selected sayings from essays, poems, Bush songs, novels, books, advertisements, rural residents and other sources. Photographs by Richard Woldendorp, widely acclaimed for his landscape photographs.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 184 Document Number: D00248
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LLS 496: Diversity Research Project: Assessing and Enhancing Campus Climate at UIUC. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Via IDEALS. 14 pages., Student researcher examines a controversial social exchange, Tacos and Tequila, of a University of Illinois fraternity and sorority, and the way in which it depicted Mexican/Mexican American culture.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26478
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324 pages., Author documents ways in which agriculture and rural culture stirs the artistic impulse, in many forms. Examines evidence in art, literature, farm magazines, rural radio, country music.
