Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture records, 1785-1982.

Format:

Other

Author/Creator:

Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Okie, John M.

Agriculture--18th century.

Agriculture.

Agriculture--19th century.

Agriculture--Pennsylvania--20th century.

Agriculture--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia--Societies, etc.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Pennsylvania.

Genre:

Manuscripts, American.

Penn Provenance:

Gift of the P.S.P.A., 1888, 1979, 1986, 1995.

Physical Description:

103 boxes

Place of Publication:

1785-1982.

Biography/History:

Established in 1785 to encourage new developments on agricultural practice and rural affairs in the United States.

Summary:

Collection is divided into three major series: I. 18th and 19th century records, II. 20th century records, and III. John M. Okie papers. The first comprises correspondence, administrative records, and ephemera; the second, correspondence, committee records, financial records, proceedings, memorabilia, and collected agricultural material; the third consists of the papers of Okie, who served as assistant secretary of the Society from 1922 to 1928: he was responsible for the publication of Memoirs VI, a history of the P.S.P.A.

Finding Aid/Index:

Finding aid available through the World Wide Web.

For a listing of the 281 18th- and 19th-century correspondents, do the following title search: Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture records.

OCLC:

213494526