Mich Ag College Lansing, Michigan, 1912 – Historic Photograph Print
(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)
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Mich Ag College Lansing, Michigan, 1912 comes to life in this historic image, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. Sourced directly from the Library of Congress, it represents an authentic piece of documented history.
Library of Congress record: Michigan Agricultural College
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Mich Ag College Lansing, Michigan, 1912
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Michigan Agricultural College in 1912 occupied open farmland east of Lansing, at a time when Michigan's farm economy was shifting from grain toward dairying, fruit growing, and specialty crops. Students of that year encountered the college's barns, orchards, and herds as working parts of their lessons rather than as display plots. The school's extension work reached county seats, where farmers gathered for institutes on crop rotation and livestock care. Many students came from small towns and family farms, and they often returned home to county advisory posts or to run the farms they had grown up on. The campus photograph shows a place that its Michigan visitors would have measured by how well its lessons reached their own fields.
| Created / published | 1912 |
|---|---|
| Creator | haines photo co. (conneaut, ohio) |
| Notes | Panoramic photograph. |
| Subjects | Panoramic photographs--Michigan |
| Source | Library of Congress, Panoramic Photographs |
| Original scan | 5,281 × 1,350 px · prints to 18 × 4 in at 300 dpi |
| Library of Congress title | Michigan Agricultural College |
| Reference | MI Mich Ag College Lansing 1912 |
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