Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Box: 160 Document Number: C26273
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Posted at http://www.wkkf.org > Search on title., Via W. K. Kellogg Foundation. 2 pages., Identifies, describes and provides audio access to nine half-hour radio programs about challenges facing rural America today. Produced by
Posted at www.ageditors.com, Describes collaboration between Meredith Corporation and Learfield Communications, Inc. Information services will involve a magazine, weekly rural television show, web site and database of "ruralpolitans."
Examines the irony that advertisers are selling products that have contributed to the collapse of a rural way of life that is being idealized in prime time television programming.
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26480
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Pages 211-232 in Zachary Michael Jack (ed.), Love of the land: essential farm and conservation readings from an American Golden Age, 1880-1920. Cambria Press, Youngstown, New York. 463 pages., From an 1899 book by Adams, The modern farmer in his business relations (pages 39-50).
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: C26483
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Pages 437-447 in Zachary Michael Jack (ed.), Love of the land: essential farm and conservation readings from an American Golden Age, 1880-1920. Cambria Press, Youngstown, New York. 463 pages., From a 1918 book by Galpin, Rural life. (pages 261-276)
Focuses on award-winning photojournalist David Guttenfelder who worked with Associated Press, New York Times newspaper, other. He spent his childhood in Iowa, studying and working on farms.
"Discusses the role of social photography in effecting a change in the ideology of the American Dream from individualism to co-operation during the Great Depression of the 1930s." Focuses on the work of Farm Security Administration photographers of that period.