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Archives 120
Agricultural Extension Service
Reports, 1908-1960

Containers: 1
Linear Feet: .5
Number of Items: 50

DESCRIPTION AND ARRANGEMENT

This collection contains a variety of reports and estimates related to the activities of the Agricultural Extension Service in Washington State for the first half of the twentieth century. The sole container of this collection contains a varied array of reports by the Directors of the Agricultural Extension Service for a substantial period of 26 years, long term project progress reports detailing activities from 1924-1934, rural Washington housing and standard of living surveys, reports from the Kellogg foundation on the progress of their programs, and other ephemeral items of interest to scholars of U.S. agricultural history. This collection illustrates the changes occurring in Washington State agricultural for a period of 52 years as well as provide depth of knowledge on the activities and efforts of Washington State Extension Service employees at mitigating and reversing many of the damaging agricultural policies that led to the erosion of top soil and the failure of U.S. agricultural in the 1930s.

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