Guide to the Diaries of an Unknown Farmer MSS.2546
Unknown Farmer
- Author:
Finding aid prepared by Amanda Haldy
- Publication:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
Mary Harmon Bryant Hall
September, 2009.
500 Hackberry Lane
Box 870266
Tuscaloosa, Alabama, 35487-0266
205.348.0500
archives@ua.edu
- Creation:
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English
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Diaries of an Unknown Farmer
- Unit ID:
MSS.2546
- Repository:
W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama
- Quantity:
0.1 Linear feet (2 Notebooks)
- Dates:
1935-1936
- Abstract:
An anonymous farmer gives short daily entries on his activities--mostly about working tobacco fields--in two year-long diaries. The diaries are promotional pocket notebooks printed by Planters Exclusive Burley Floor of Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
- Processing Information:
Processed by
Amanda Haldy, 2009.
- Preferred Citation:
Preferred Citation note
Diaries of Unknown Farmer, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, The University of Alabama.
- Acquisition Information:
Provenance
Gift of Wade Hall, 2006.
Scope and Contents note
Contains two year-long diaries of a farmer's activities written in promotional pocket notebooks printed by Planters Exclusive Burley Floor of Hopkinsville, Kentucky.
Biographical/Historical note
The author of the diaries cannot be identified, though one of two addresses on the back page of the first diary may identify the writer as either D.L. Fish or Joe Fish. The diaries originated in Kentucky, and the writer may as well, as the crop most often mentioned is tobacco.
Diaries of Unknown Farmer Box SC0025 Folder 2546.01