American Farm Project Records
Scope and Contents
The American Farm Project collection includes administrative, financial, and oral history records. In the administrative files are records relating to the staff, core couples, advisory committees, and local humanists as well as numerous subject files. The subject files includes information about many people and various Farmers’ Unions. Other administrative files relate to subjects such as planning grants and meetings. The financial records cover the period from June 1978 to December 1981. The end of the collection consists of slide presentations, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings. I. ADMINISTRATIVE FILES – Boxes 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5. II. FINANCIAL RECORDS – Boxes 6 and 7 III. PAPERS AND READINGS FROM MARY LIESENFELD’S DESK – Box 8 IV. ORAL HISTORIES – Box 9 V. SLIDE PRESENTATIONS, SCRAPBOOKS, AND NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS – Box 10
Dates
- Creation: 1977 - 1990
Historical Note
The American Farm Project was sponsored and partially funded by the National Farmers Union and the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1978-1980. The major objective is to bring a humanities perspective to decision making in rural America through the use of rural couples. These couples are trained to view problem-solving from a humanities perspective and to conduct meetings in their home area on current topics. There are ten boxes of administrative, financial, and oral history records from 1977-1982.
Extent
17.5 linear feet (10 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This project was sponsored and partially funded by the National Farmers Union and the National Endowment for the Humanities from 1978-1980. The major objective is to bring a humanities perspective to decision-making in rural American through the use of rural couples trained to view problem-solving from a humanities perspective and to return to their home areas to conduct meetings on current topics.
Arrangement
This collection is arranged into the following series: I. ADMINISTRATIVE FILE A. State Staff B. Core Couples C. Advisory Committee Members D. Local Humanists E. Subject File F. Closed Files G. Planning Grant H. Meetings II. FINANCIAL RECORDS III. PAPERS AND READINGS FROM MARY LIESENFELD’S DESK IV. ORAL HISTORIES V. SLIDE PRESENTATIONS, SCRAPBOOKS, AND NEWSPAPER CLIPPINGS A. Slide Presentations B. Scrapbooks and Clippings
Physical Location
Pascal
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Surveyed by: Marilyn Burns, 2008 Reformatted by: Leanne Glenn, 2008
- Date
- August 28, 2008
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Colorado Boulder Libraries, Rare and Distinctive Collections Repository
