Farm Foundation Archives, 1933-95 | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Farm Foundation Archives including reports (1936, 1941-42); published annual reports (1957-95); unpublished annual reports (1937-59); bibliographies (1970, 1973); annual meeting minutes (1933-89); copies of "Increasing Understanding of Public Problems and Policies," a group study of topics in the field of extension education presented at national agricultural policy conferences (1951-94); publications of the National Public Policy Education Committee (1960-70); agricultural economics seminar proceedings (1944-50); rural sociology conference reports (1947-48); land tenure (1945-56); and farm management (1948-49) research workshop files; minutes of meetings of the National Committee on Agricultural Policy (1949-94) and Interregional Land Tenure Committee (1955-72) and minutes, bibliographies, proposals, papers, research bulletins and reports and reprints from regional meetings on farm management extension and research, land economics, land tenure research, marketing extension and research resource economics and rural sociology. The series also includes reports (1944-49) on Lowden Plantation, Arkansas property of former Illinois governor Frank O. Lowden, bequeathed to the Farm Foundation