The New England Homestead

mums113 New England Homestead Farm Accounts Contest Entries, 1883-1884 Finding aid prepared by Linda Seidman, Valerie Gibson. Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amherst, MA

2003

Finding aid encoded using Perl scripts and edited in XMetal 2.0. Encoded by Eric S. Cartier. 2003-07-21 Finding aid written in English. 2005-09-23 mu186 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02-5c.xsl (sy2003-10-15). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst New England Homestead Farm Accounts Contest Entries, 1883-1884 Manuscript Number 113 Compiled by Linda Seidman and Valerie Gibson May 1986 Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

Collection Overview New England Homestead New England Homestead Farm Accounts Contest Entries1883-1884 MS 113 1 volume (0.5 linear ft.) Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst In 1884, The New England Homestead, a magazine published in Springfield, Massachusetts from 1842 to 1969, conducted a contest in which farmers submitted small notebooks recording their farm accounts for a one year period, April 1, 1883 to March 31, 1884. The collection includes bound and unbound farm accounts submitted as to that contest. English. Biographical Note

In 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.

Scope and Contents of the Collection

Bound 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.

The collection is open for research.

Literary rights in the unpublished writings in these papers have not been dedicated to the public.

Preferred Citation

Cite 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.

Processed by Linda Seidman and Valerie Gibson, May 1986.

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