Demonstration farms (Photo.mdb #’s 30094-300101) -McMurry farm, Children posed next to a pear tree, Aug. 1906, photo.mdb # 30097 -D. Patterson posed in corn field 1910, photo.mdb #30094 -Harvest on Durham farm, June 1906, photo.mdb # 30101 -Children standing in field, May 1908, photo.mdb # 30100 -Man (Peters?) standing in corn field, June 1909, photo.mdb #30095, and # 30096 -Cotton samples, July 2, 1907, photo.mdb. #’s 30098 and 30099, bulk: June 1906; July 2, 1907; May 1908; June 1909; 1910

File — Box: 5, Folder: 21

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection: Collection contains correspondence, reports, crop records, minutes of meetings, legislation, articles, and photographs* from Texas and Oklahoma relating to Walter Dimmitt Bentley (1856-1930) and his work with the Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work, Oklahoma A & M College's Extension Division and the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) field work.

*Photographs housed separately

Dates

Majority of material found within June 1906; July 2, 1907; May 1908; June 1909; 1910

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research use. Manuscript collections and archival records may contain materials with sensitive or confidential information that is protected under federal or state right to privacy laws and regulations, the Oklahoma Open Records Act (http://www.odl.state.ok.us/lawinfo/docs/2006-LibraryLaws-PartE.pdf), and other relevant regulations. Confidential material may include, but is not limited to, educational, medical, and personnel records. Researchers are advised that the disclosure of certain information pertaining to identifiable living individuals represented in this collection without the consent of those individuals may have legal ramifications (e.g., a cause of action under common law for invasion of privacy may arise if facts concerning an individual's private life are published that would be deemed highly offensive to a reasonable person) for which Oklahoma State University Libraries assumes no responsibility.