Iowa State University; Iowa Agriculture and Home Economics Experiment Station; Center for Agricultural and Rural Development; American Agricultural Economics Association; Awards
Earl O. Heady receives special recognition for winning the 1977 Browning Award, at the American Agricultural Economics Association meeting in Blacksburg, Va. in 1978, from AAEA president Dr. Jim Hildreth. Heady also won an AAEA award in 1976. The...
Iowa State University; Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Dept.; Surveying; Surveyor's transit
A class in Farm Engineering are posed outside of a university building. The group is carrying various pieces of surveying equipment such as transits and survey poles.
Iowa State University; Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Dept.; Forging; Blacksmithing; Anvils
A group of students are working in the Forge Shop. They are using forges, anvils and hammers to shape the hot metal. One of the forges is labeled, ""Buffalo Forge Co., Buffalo, NY.""
Iowa State University; Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Dept.; Forging; Blacksmithing; Anvils
An instructor in the Blacksmithing class is demonstrating a technique. He stands behind an anvil with a hammer in one hand and a piece of metal in the other.
Iowa State University; Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Dept.; Tractors
Professor Mervine and several other individuals work on different types of tractors including; a New Hart Parr tractor, a Rock Island Plow Heider tractor and an Avery Company tractor.
Iowa State University; Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Dept.; Mechanical Engineering; levels
A group of students are seated at tables working at drafting projects. Various pieces of drafting equipment are on the tables including right angel triangles, levels and a Thacher�s Calculator (cylindrical slide rule).
Iowa State University; Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Dept.; Forging; Blacksmithing; Anvils
A group of men are working at individual work stations in the Forge Shop. Some men are heating the metal in the forge, while others are shaping it on the anvil with hammers.
Iowa State University; Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Dept.; Cultivators
A group of men are examining a cultivator, perhaps manufactured by the Harrow Company. The cultivator is attached to a wheeled mechanism which is labeled: Manufactured by the Light draft Harrow Company.
Iowa State University; Agricultural and Biosystems Engineering Dept.; Woodworking
A man is tightening a screw on a saw horse type object that he is constructing upon a work bench. An instructor looks on while other students work on projects in the background.