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Pairing Primary Sources and Picture Books: Farmers Unite! by Lindsay Metcalf

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Tractors, one flying the flag of the American Agriculture Movement, on their way to the U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C., during the "Tractorcade" protests of February 1979

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2021637306/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • 2/5/1979 [5 February 1979]

Genre

  • Film negatives--1970-1980

Notes

  • -  Title devised by Library staff.
  • -  Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 37230, frame 16.
  • -  Related contact sheet folder caption from USN&WR COLL - Job no. 37230: "Farmer protest Agriculture & U.S. 2/5/1979 WKL."
  • -  Forms part of: U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection (Library of Congress).

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print

Digital Id

  • ppmsca 56540 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ppmsca.56540

Farmers driving tractors at night on Pennsylvania Avenue, as part of an American Agriculture Movement rally, Capitol dome in background, Washington, D.C.

Reference link: http://www.loc.gov/item/2011648702/

Reference note

Created / Published

  • 1977 Dec. 14.

Genre

  • Film negatives--1970-1980

Notes

  • -  Title devised by Library staff.
  • -  Contact sheet folder caption: "Farmers begin strike at Midnite, Dec. 14th by driving their tractors up Penn. Ave., TOH, 12/14/77."
  • -  U.S. News & World Report Magazine Photograph Collection.
  • -  Contact sheet available for reference purposes: USN&WR COLL - Job no. 35542, frame 15.

Repository

  • Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

Digital Id

  • ds 00760 //hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ds.00760

Photo Collection: American Agriculture Movement "Tractorcade" on National Mall

Photo Collection: American Agriculture Movement

Photo Collection: American Agriculture Movement

Photo Collection: American Agriculture Movement

Photo Collection: American Agriculture Movement

Photo Collection: American Agriculture Movement

Photo Collection: American Agriculture Movement

American Agricultural Movement Protest Pin

American Agricultural Movement Protest Pin

D.C. Cops are Tops, Protest Pin

It's Us Again, Protest Pin

1979 Tractorcade, Protest Pin

Human Rights for Farmers, Protest Pin

1979 Tractorcade, Protest Pin

1979 Tractorcade, Protest Pin

1979 Tractorcade, Protest Pin

1979 Tractorcade, Protest Pin