College of Agriculture and Home Economics - 0402 - Extension Service
Photographer
Frost, Oscar
Date
circa 1930
Decade
1930s
Description and notes
Men and cars on desert with agricultural equipment.
Historical context
Extension-type work began in New Mexico in the 1900s. The Extension Service was established in order to aid in diffusing among the people of the United States useful and practical information on subjects relating to agriculture and home economics, and to encourage the application of the same. It has met a wide variety of situations. While it has fostered continuously a program of agricultural and rural life improvement, it has met emergencies of agriculture in the World War I of pestilences, floods, drought, infestations of destructive insects, livestock and plant diseases, and the problems of agriculture in the great depression. The Extension Service has had a very potent part in the constructive changes that have come about. Edited based on http://aces.nmsu.edu/ceshistory/index.html
Subject (LCSH)
Agriculture
Agricultural equipment
Agricultural laborers
Subject (local)
New Mexico State University. College of Agriculture and Home Economics
Provenance
University Communications
Frost, Oscar
Digital publisher
New Mexico State University Library
Access rights
Public record. No restrictions on use. See New Mexico Inspection of Public Records Act, Chapter 14, Article 2, 8th Edition, 2015
Source
NMSU Library Archives and Special Collections Department