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Walking Corn


Title	Walking Corn
Coverage / Year	c. 1935
Description	A farmer with a hoe walks corn about 1935.
Interpretation	Walking corn allowed farmer to work the soil and crops more attentively than machine work.
Lesson Plans / Themes	How we learn about communities; Communities and Geography; American Communities in History
Learning Standards	15 Economics; 16 History; 18 Social systems
Author or Creator	McLean County Historical Society, Bloomington, Ill.
Other Contributors	Walters, William D, Jr., 1942-
Source	'The Heart of the Cornbelt: An Illustrated History of Corn Farming in McLean County,' by William D. Walters Jr.; ISBN 0-943788-15-3 (1997)
Subject / Keywords	McLean County, Illinois; Corn; Farmers; Farming; Walking
Collection Publisher	McLean County Museum of History
Further Information	For any further information related to this record, please contact the Collection Publisher. See http://images.library.uiuc.edu/projects/tdc for more information about this project.
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Resource Identifier	mch0340; IL MCLEAN AGR WAL - Figure 7:13, p. 100
CONTENTdm file name	250923832002_mch0340.jpg