ContentsScope and Contents of the Collection
Mouth of Vereprs, Kings County, New Brunswick. |
New England Homestead Farm Accounts Contest Entries, 1883-1884Finding aid prepared by Linda Seidman, Valerie Gibson.Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.2003
Administrative InformationProcessed by Linda Seidman and Valerie Gibson, May 1986. Preferred CitationCite as: New England Homestead Farm Accounts Contest Entries (MS 113). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst. The collection is open for research. Literary rights in the unpublished writings in these papers have not been dedicated to the public. Return to the Table of Contents Biographical NoteIn 1884, The New England Homestead, a magazine published in Springfield, Massachusetts from 1842 to 1969, conducted a contest in 1884 to which farmers submitted small notebooks recording their farm accounts for a one year period, April 1, 1883 to March 31, 1884. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Contents of the CollectionBound and unbound farm accounts submitted as entries to the New England Homestead Farm Accounts Contest. The whereabouts of other volumes is unknown, as are the criteria used to judge the contest. Entrants are arranged by surname and then by volume. Return to the Table of Contents Search TermsReturn to the Table of Contents New Preston, Connecticut.Whately, Massachusetts.No. Pomfret, Vermont.Medfield, Massachusetts.Location not identifiedSouthport, Connecticut.Belchertown, Massachusetts.Putney, Vermont.Newport, New Hampshire.Cornwall Connecticut.Becket, Massachusetts.Orange, Massachusetts.Orange, Massachusetts.Adams, Massachusetts.Wilbraham, Massachusetts.Location not identifiedEast Putney, Vermont.Hadley, Massachusetts.Marlboro, Massachusetts.Hudson, New Hampshire.Mouth of Vereprs, Kings County, New Brunswick.Poquonnock, Connecticut.Windham Depot, New Hampshire.West Brookfield, Massachusetts.Amherst, Massachusetts. |
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