Agriculture
Ellen Harkonen, Potato Queen of 1936
Source: Keansburg News (Keansburg, New Jersey) 31 Dec 1936, Thu Page 4
Posted By: Paul - Thu Feb 10, 2022 -
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Category: Agriculture, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Food, 1930s
Naked Viniculture
Safe for work (just bums) video here.
Posted By: Paul - Fri Sep 24, 2021 -
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Category: Agriculture, Nudism and Nudists, Europe
Maid of Cotton
Unique in mandating the composition of all contest garments: 100% cotton, what else!Full story here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Jun 22, 2021 -
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Category: Agriculture, Awards, Prizes, Competitions and Contests, Beauty, Ugliness and Other Aesthetic Issues, Regionalism, 1930s
New Frontiers (of Barb Wire)
Thrill to the history of barb wire with "Little Barb!" (Or "American Barb" if you prefer.)
Posted By: Paul - Mon Feb 15, 2021 -
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Category: Agriculture, Anthropomorphism, History, Regionalism, Advertising
The Boll Weevil Monument
The Wikipedia Page.
Posted By: Paul - Sun May 31, 2020 -
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Category: Agriculture, Insects and Spiders, Regionalism, Statues and Monuments
Citrus & Vegetable Magazine
I cannot find an issue of C&V later than 2014, and the website you see on the cover below seems down. But certainly, if they still exist, they will find it hard to beat the cover for the April 1977 issue.
Posted By: Paul - Sat May 16, 2020 -
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Category: Agriculture, Business, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Magazines
Yumion, the Vidalia Onion Mascot
Posted By: Paul - Thu Apr 09, 2020 -
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Category: Agriculture, Anthropomorphism, Business, Corporate Mascots, Icons and Spokesbeings, Regionalism, Fictional Monsters
Country Farming: Innovations of the Modern Tractor (1955-1959)
Nothing will probably ever beat TIMBER BRIDGE INSPECTION (reprinted below for newbies) as the gold standard for boredom, but twenty minutes of UK tractor talk comes close.
Posted By: Paul - Mon Aug 12, 2019 -
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Category: Agriculture, Boredom, PSA’s, United Kingdom
How We Do Things in Kansas
I love this genre of postcards that feature oversized common things like fish and various crops. This is one I had not seen before.
Source.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 19, 2019 -
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Category: Agriculture, Enlargements, Miniatures, and Other Matters of Scale, Excess, Overkill, Hyperbole and Too Much Is Not Enough, Horticulture and Gardens, Humor, Regionalism, Surrealism, Twentieth Century, Postal Services
Atomic Agriculture
And you thought GMO crops were scary!
Original article here.
Posted By: Paul - Tue Mar 12, 2019 -
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Category: Agriculture, Atomic Power and Other Nuclear Matters, 1950s
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