Bringing History Home

Second Grade

Unit 1 | Activity 5

Activity 5: Where We Log, Farm and Mine - What Happens to the Earth?

Erosion

5-1	America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 http://memory.loc.gov/ Erosion near Tupelo, Mississippi. Call number: LC-USF341- 003050-1-A Evans, Walker - 1903-1975, photographer
5-2	America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 http://memory.loc.gov/ Soil erosion in the cornfield on William Keefe's farm in Benton County, Indiana. Note subsoil, and gradation to fertile topsoil from left to right. This county has the best soil in the state. This field has been in hay or pasture six out of the last sixteen years; the slope at this point in the field is three to five percent. The owner, who did not know how to stop this erosion, had followed the plan of filling in gullies by plowing until two years ago; thus this picture shows gullying on the field in two years' time. Rotating crops: corn, wheat, clover, would have stopped this erosion. Call number: LC-USF341- 010500-B Lee, Russell - 1903- ?, photographer
5-3	America from the Great Depression to World War II: Photographs from the FSA-OWI, 1935-1945 http://memory.loc.gov/ Soil erosion on a Brown County, Indiana, farm. Call number: LC-USF34- 001005-C Jung, Theodor, 1906- ?, photographer
5-4	History of the American West, 1860-1920: Photographs from the Collection of the Denver Public Library http://memory.loc.gov/ Lone tree near here left standing on bed rocks after hydraulic mining / O. C. Percival photographer San Francisco, CA DIGITAL ID codhawp 10060063 http://photoswest.org/cgi-bin/imager?10060063+X-60063 O. C. Percival, photographer
5-5	The Alexander Graham Bell Family Papers: Letter from Mabel Hubbard Bell to Alexander Graham Bell, November 9, 1896 The Bell papers: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/bellhtml/bellhome.html. If you search for keyword erosion you will receive two results. The first is the letter from A. G. Bell's wife with the mention of erosion in The National Geographic Magazine from 1896 and her distress over the way the Bell's land is being ploughed. Interesting to think that if State and Federal policies on agriculture had been tuned into some of the discourse in 1896 regarding soil erosion that the Dust Bowl of the 1930's might have been mitigated to some extent.
	The letter's transcript. The final paragraph has Mabel Hubbard Bell's concerns to Alexander Graham Bell about the kind of ploughing being done on their land. (external site)
Lumbering
5-6	TITLE: Lumbering in the cascade Mountains, near Seattle, Wash: [Ground covered with fir logs, high lead logging in Wash.] Digital ID: cph 3b15144 Source: b&w film copy neg. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-67673 (b&w film copy neg.)
5-7	TITLE: Logging donkey and gasoline power saw, Goodyear Logging Co., Clallam Co., Wash. CALL NUMBER: SSF - LUMBERING [item] [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-71717 (b&w film copy neg.) No known restrictions on publication.	N/A
5-8	TITLE: Thomas Lake logging camp Digital ID: cph 3b10389 Source: digital file from b&w film copy neg. Reproduction Number: LC-USZ62-62750 (b&w film copy neg.)
	TITLE: Logging a big load CALL NUMBER: LC-D4-4381 [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-D4-4381 (b&w glass neg.)
	TITLE: A cedar tree in Washington, 18 feet in diameter CALL NUMBER: LOT 4474 [item] [P&P] Check for an online group record (may link to related items) REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USZ62-67677 (b&w film copy neg.)	N/A
	TITLE: Topping off a spar mast for the high lead logging operation. This tree was two hundred fifty feet high. The high climber is topping it off at a height of one hundred eighty-five feet. Washington CALL NUMBER: LC-USF341- 014441-C [P&P] REPRODUCTION NUMBER: LC-USF341-014441-C (b&w film nitrate neg.) LC-USZ62-131485 (b&w film copy neg. from print)
Mining
	TITLE: Butte, Montana. Anaconda Copper Mining Company. Timber yard of a copper mine CALL NUMBER: LC-USW3- 008236-D [P&P]	N/A
	TITLE: Mining. Man using drill in mine CALL NUMBER: LC-H814- 2323-002-x [P&P]
	TITLE: Mining. Men and machinery in mine CALL NUMBER: LC-H814- 2323-001-x [P&P]
	TITLE: [Copper mine, interior] CALL NUMBER: LC-D420-2356 [P&P]	N/A
	TITLE: [Interior of salt mine] CALL NUMBER: LC-D420-2347 [P&P]	N/A
	TITLE: Strip mining operations with a thirty-two cubic yard steam shovel. Cherokee County, Kansas CALL NUMBER: LC-USF34- 004274-D [P&P]
Farming
	TITLE: Farming scenes. Three horses pulling disk I CALL NUMBER: LC-H832- F02-001 [P&P]
	TITLE: Farming scenes. Four-horse teams cutting wheat in Canada II CALL NUMBER: LC-H822- F02-003 [P&P]
	TITLE: Farming scenes. Farmer on team of horses II CALL NUMBER: LC-H823- F02-023 [P&P]
	TITLE: Farming scenes. Horses plowing I CALL NUMBER: LC-H813- F02-030 [P&P]
	TITLE: Farming scenes. Loading hay on wagon I CALL NUMBER: LC-H812- F02-013 [P&P]