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Folder information

Title:
Ford Foundation records, 1960-1961
Description:
This folder contains records related to a joint-research project sponsored by the Ford Foundation in which North Carolina State College's Agricultural Engineering Department wished to be involved. The project involved examining the study of agricultural engineering at academic institutions. There was an administrative decision not to participate. Records include proposals, correspondence, and memorandums involving the project.
Topics:
Agriculture
Subjects:
Agricultural education
Agriculture -- Research
Research grants
Original Format:
Typescript
Item identifier:
ua100_014-002-bx0003-008-000
Coverage Date:
to
Genre:
Administrative records
Grant proposals
Names:
Ford Foundation more info on Ford Foundation 
North Carolina State College. Department of Agricultural Engineering more info on North Carolina State College. Department of Agricultural Engineering 
Digital Project:
Cultivating a Revolution

Source information

Repository:
Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
Collection:
North Carolina State University College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, Department of Biological and Agricultural Engineering Records, 1928-2008 (UA100.014) held by Special Collections Research Center at NC State University Libraries
Note field:
Not all materials from the physical collection may have been scanned. Images may have been enhanced for web access.
Rights:
For questions regarding copyright or permissions, please refer to our Reproduction, Use, Citation, and Copyright page (http://d.lib.ncsu.edu/collections/about).
Funding:
Digitization of this resource was partially supported with federal Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) funds made possible through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, and administered by the State Library of North Carolina, a division of the Department of Cultural Resources.

Scanned folders from the same box

  1. Curing tobacco records, 1957-1960
    Series 2, Box 3, Folder 6
  2. Mechanization of cotton production records, 1954-1965
    Series 2, Box 3, Folder 7
  3. Ford Foundation records, 1960-1961, Series 2, Box 3, Folder 8 (Current Folder)
  4. Agricultural engineering research records, 1961-1974
    Series 2, Box 3, Folder 9
  5. India Institute of Technology reports and records, 1965-1971
    Series 2, Box 3, Folder 10
  6. "Heat Unit System for Predicting Optimum Peanut-Harvesting Time," by W. T. Mills, 1964
    Series 2, Box 3, Folder 11
  7. Tobacco research for agricultural machinery and facilities records, 1961-1965
    Series 2, Box 3, Folder 12
  8. United States Department of Agriculture collaboration records, 1953-1961
    Series 2, Box 3, Folder 13