Category Archives: Agriculture

New and Notable in Acumen, Fall ’14 – Spring ’15

Posted on April 2, 2015 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Agriculture, Civil War, Diaries and Journals, Everyday Life, Foreign Language, Letters, Newly Online, Photographs, Scrapbooks, Southern History, World War I, World War II | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

A lot has come through the digitization pipeline in the last six months or so. Here are some highlights. Diaries Martha Jane Coleman Banks commonplace book Contains diary entries, miscellaneous writings (some appear to be school related), newspaper clippings, recipes, and … Continue reading →

Everyday mysteries of the archives

Posted on September 3, 2014 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Agriculture, Diaries and Journals, Letters, Small Collections, Southern History | Tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Part of the fun of looking through archival material is solving mysteries. When we don’t know much about the provenance of the collection –when there’s only the material itself to go on –that mystery is even more challenging, but potentially more fun. … Continue reading →

Hugh Davis farm journals, 1848-1880

Posted on November 5, 2013 by kgmatheny | Posted in: African-American History, Agriculture, Diaries and Journals, Southern History | Tagged , , , | Leave a comment

Hugh Davis (1811-1862) was an Alabama lawyer turned plantation owner. Being a learned man, his record books from the Beaver Bend farm are thorough and articulate, describing both day-to-day activities and overall running of farming operations, including the relationship between … Continue reading →

Newly Online: John Horry Dent Papers

Posted on February 27, 2012 by kgmatheny | Posted in: Agriculture, Cool Collections | Tagged , | Leave a comment

The John Horry Dent Papers contain three ledgers (a plantation book, a farm journal, and letter copybook) and a folder of miscellaneous letters written by John Horry Dent of Eufaula, Brabour County, Alabama, and Cave Springs, Floyd County, Georgia, dating … Continue reading →