Allen Recordings of Agricultural History (Part 8)
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- Title
- Allen Recordings of Agricultural History (Part 8)
- Summary
- In these interviews, conducted c. 1949 and on November 27th, 1967, Ralph Allen, Jr. speaks to three people associated with the early years of the University of Illinois: Joseph C. Blair, and Paschal and Edith Hatch Allen. Blair, professor of horticulture from 1900-1938 and dean of the College of Agriculture from 1938-1939, discusses his early life and studies at Cornell University, and also his arrival at the University of Illinois in 1896 and his contacts with farmers and students. Paschal Allen graduated in 1905, and remembers registration, train trips with the College of Agriculture, Pres. Andrew Draper, Prof. J.C. Blair, Prof. Hopkins, baseball, George Huff, football, and basketball. Edith Hatch Allen speaks of her uncles, who were in the first and second graduating classes of the University, Altgeld Hall, and the 1902 graduation.
- Subject(s)
- agriculture
- farm bureau
- illinois agricultural association
- ui centennial project