Toward a Better Living: African American Farming Communities in Mid-Century Texas
https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/91004
2024-03-29T11:37:36ZRural Home
https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/92054
Rural Home
Two African American people sitting outside their home in a rural neighborhood.; Fletcher Morgan appears in this photograph.; Although some of the descriptions of photographs in this collection have been altered for clarity, a majority of the descriptions are transcribed verbatim from the back of the photographs and reflect the language of those times.
2009-01-01T00:00:00ZDairy
https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/92052
Dairy
An African American man standing in front of a small building on a farm with an isolated group of cows standing nearby.; This scene takes place on the Rigsby Dairy in Dickinson. The farm belongs to Hulen T. Rigsby Jr. (purchased with a GI Loan), and the cattle belong to his father Hulen Rigsby the third. There are forty head of registered Jersey cattle on the forty-two acre farm. Rigsby is a member of the American Jersey Cattle Club and also the Texas Jersey Cattle Club. He started with his herd four years ago and shows cattle in the Texas Jersey Cattle Show. He is a 4-H Club leader and has given three boys a calf valued at $200 each. He averages twelve thousand pounds of milk per month. Hulen has completed his agreement with the Soil Conservation Service. Of the forty-two acres, he has twenty acres in temporary pasture and twenty acres in permanent pasture. Permanent pasture consists of shite Dutch, dallis, rye, Bermuda, burclover. Has put out eighteen thousand pounds of phosphate.; Although some of the descriptions of photographs in this collection have been altered for clarity, a majority of the descriptions are transcribed verbatim from the back of the photographs and reflect the language of those times.
2009-01-01T00:00:00ZDairy
https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/92053
Dairy
An African American woman standing in the kitchen, placing meat in the freezer.; The Rigsby home appears in this photograph. The Rigsby family operates a dairy near Dickinson.; Although some of the descriptions of photographs in this collection have been altered for clarity, a majority of the descriptions are transcribed verbatim from the back of the photographs and reflect the language of those times.
2009-01-01T00:00:00ZDairy
https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/92051
Dairy
Hulen T. Rigsby placing can of milk in milk cooler. This scene takes place on the Rigsby Dairy Farm in Dickinson, Texas.; Although some of the descriptions of photographs in this collection have been altered for clarity, a majority of the descriptions are transcribed verbatim from the back of the photographs and reflect the language of those times.
2009-01-01T00:00:00Z