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Corn

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Created For = CW

Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Bags of Mealies Ready for Export, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1185
Scope and Contents

Photograph of six men standing next to a stack of bags of mealies ready for export with a train car visible in the background in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Custom about maidean bhuana [corn dolly], 7 August 1886

 Item
Identifier: Coll-97/CW122/12
Scope and Contents

Custom probably collected from Duncan Cameron, police officer, Tobar Mhoire/Tobermory, Muile/Isle of Mull, about maidean bhuana [corn dolly] which reads 'Saw two maidean bhuana in house of Don[ald] Maclean Tobermory. Try who can have it This again is given to horses in first sgriob turadh.' [Tobar Mhoire, Am Muile/Isle of Mull].

Dates: 7 August 1886

Dent Corn, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/2953
Scope and Contents

Three photographs of dent corn of both ears and stalks showing abnormalities.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Fragment of a song entitled 'Eireireadh', October 1892

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126f/59
Scope and Contents

Fragment of a song entitled 'Eireireadh' [eararadh or seeking] beginning 'Tha chuile te cho togarrach', S i togail ris na balachain' sung while dancing and referring to the beating of corn to take off the awn.

Dates: October 1892

Indian Corn, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1187
Scope and Contents

Photograph of three ears of Indian corn partially shelled to show the size of the cob to illustrate the best type having a deeper kernel.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Indian Corn - Butts and Tips, Showing the Good, Bad and Worse Kinds, 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/1208
Scope and Contents

Photograph of the butts and tips of ears of Indian corn showing the good, bad and worst kinds in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Indian Corn - Reid's Yellow Dent, 1870s-1930s

 Item
Identifier: Coll-1434/1184
Scope and Contents

Photograph of an ear of Indian Corn - Reid's Yellow Dent - and examples of a 'well-filled tip and score-card butt.'

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Maize at Mr. J G Brockman's, Vasse [Western Australia], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/13
Scope and Contents

Image of four men standing in a field of maize at Mr. J G Brockman's farm in Vasse, Western Australia in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Maize Planting, Hawkesbury Agricultural College, Richmond, New South Wales, [Australia], 1870s-1930s

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Identifier: Coll-1434/2273
Scope and Contents

Photograph of a man using a hand plough harnessed to a team of horses to plant maize in a field at Hawkesbury Agricultual College, Richmond, New South Wales, Australia in the early 20th century.

Dates: 1870s-1930s

Quote about cleaning and grinding corn, c1893

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Identifier: Coll-97/CW126g/16
Scope and Contents

Quote about cleaning and grinding corn as it is carried out by women, taken from '[David] Livingstone's Last Journals Ulungu country p 214.'

Dates: c1893