Blocker Photograph Collection
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Preferred Citation
Men Surveying Tilled Field, File_No_1_121, Fred A. Blocker Photograph Collection, Archives and Special Collections Division, Mississippi State University Libraries
Description
This is a black and white photo of men surveying a tilled field. The foreground of the photo is two men standing with a levelling surveying instrument. One of the men is leaning over and looking through the instrument. There is a man in the background holding and adjusting the level staff, which is the paired instrument with the levelling instrument. Between the two leveling instruments, there is a hill of tilled dirt, and there are men in a large piece of farming or construction equipment on this hill.
Keywords
Fred Blocker; Agriculture; Vintage Photographs
Date
1940
Time Period
1940-1949
Object Type
image
Digital ID
File_No_1_121
Format (original)
photograph negative
Source
Mississippi State University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections Division, University Archives, Blocker, (Fred A.) Photograph Collection
Format (digital)
JPEG
Repository
University Archives
Digital Publisher
Mississippi State University Libraries (electronic version).
Rights
Copyright protected by Mississippi State University Libraries. Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required.
Contact Information
For more information about the contents of this collection, email sp_coll@library.msstate.edu.
Keywords
Fred Blocker; Agriculture; Vintage Photographs