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Grand Old Man of Purdue University and Indiana Agriculture
A Biography of William Carol Latte
Av Frederick Whitford, Andrew G. Martin
Inbunden, 2005
368 kr
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William Carol Latta was the 13th member of the Purdue faculty. He became the driving force behind Purdue's world-famous School of Agriculture and initiated extension services that have lasted for more than a century. In 1890, he laid out the first permanent soil fertility field experiments, …
Uncle
My Journey with John Purdue
Inbunden, 2007
1192 kr
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In the most comprehensive biographical study of John Purdue (c. 1802-1876) to date, Purdue's great-great-grandniece describes her travels to the diverse places where Purdue had lived in order to learn about the mysterious relative known in her family as Uncle. Using fresh, unpublished source …
Uncle
My Journey with John Purdue
Häftad, 2007
233 kr
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In the most comprehensive biographical study of John Purdue (c. 1802-1876) to date, Purdue's great-great-grandniece describes her travels to the diverse places where Purdue had lived in order to learn about the mysterious relative known in her family as Uncle. Using fresh, unpublished source …
Ross-Ade
Their Purdue Stories, Stadium, and Legacies
Häftad, 2009
263 kr
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Dave Ross (1871-1943) and George Ade (1866-1944) were trustees, distinguished alumni and benefactors of Purdue University. Their friendship began in 1922 and led to their giving land and money for 1924 construction of Ross-Ade Stadium, now a 70,000 seat athletic landmark on the West Lafayette …
Enduring Quest
The Story of Purdue Industrial Engineers
Häftad, 2009
347 kr
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The process of industrialization that began over two hundred years ago is continuing to change the way people work and live and doing it very rapidly in places like China and India. At the forefront of this movement is the profession of industrial engineering that develops and applies the …
Divided Paths, Common Ground
The Story of Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis, Pioneering Purdue Women Who Introduced Science Into the Home
Av Angie Klink
Häftad, 2011
186 kr
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In the early 1900s, Mary Matthews and Lella Gaddis forged trails for women at Purdue University and throughout Indiana. Mary was the first dean of the School of Home Economics. Lella was Indiana’s first state leader of Home Demonstration. In 1914, Mary hired Lella to organise Purdue’s new Home …
Just Call Me Orville
The Story of Orville Redenbacher
Häftad, 2011
197 kr
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Based on extensive interviews and archival research, this book traces the career of Orville Redenbacher, the “popcorn king,” from his agricultural studies at Purdue University to his emergence as an American advertising icon. Born in Brazil, Indiana, in 1907, Orville began his lifelong obsession …
Heartbeat of the University
125 Years of Purdue Bands
Av John Norberg
Inbunden, 2011
595 kr
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From the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade to its annual appearance at the Indianapolis 500 auto race, Purdue University’s “All-American” Marching Band has been at the heart of celebrations across the United States (and the wider world) since 1886, less than twenty years after the University itself …
University of Tradition
The Spirit of Purdue
Inbunden, 2012
402 kr
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A University of Tradition is a fascinating compilation of history, customs, pictures, and facts about Purdue University from its founding in 1869 to the present day. Covering all aspects of Purdue, from the origin of the nickname of its students and alumni'Boilermakers'to a chronological list of …
Bridges and More
Celebrating 125 Years of Civil Engineering at Purdue
Av Angie Klink
Inbunden, 2012
301 kr
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Bridges and More takes the reader from the early years of Civil Engineering when Purdue's campus consisted of a smattering of red brick buildings surrounded by grassy meadows and roads flanked by white, wooden fences to today's state-of-the-art facilities such as the Bowen Laboratory for …
For the Good of the Farmer
A Biography of John Harrison Skinner, Dean of Purdue Agriculture
Inbunden, 2013
595 kr
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The key role that farming plays in the economy of Indiana today owes much to the work of John Harrison Skinner (1874–1942). Skinner was a pioneering educator and administrator who transformed the study of agriculture at Purdue University during the first decades of the twentieth century. From …
Enriching the Hoosier Farm Family
A Photo History of Indiana's Early County Extension Agents
Av Frederick Whitford, Neal Harmeyer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
433 kr
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Imagine Indiana farms at the turn of the last century. What comes from the land sustains us. Our farms and families depend on it. Having a good or bad year can mean the difference between prosperity and your family going hungry. Farmers knew how to provide. Throughout the 1800s, parents had passed …
Scattering the Seeds of Knowledge
The Words and Works of Indiana’s Pioneer County Extension Agents
Inbunden, 2017
595 kr
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Today, Purdue Extension delivers practical, research-based information that transforms lives and livelihoods. Tailored to the needs of Indiana, its current programs include Agriculture and Natural Resources, Health and Human Sciences, Economic and Community Development, and 4-H Youth Development. …
Deans' Bible
Five Purdue Women and Their Quest for Equality
Av Angie Klink
Häftad, 2017
284 kr
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Like pearls threaded one-by-one to form a necklace, five women successively nurtured students on the Purdue University campus in America’s heartland from the 1930s to the 1990s. Individually, each became a legendary dean of women or dean of students. Collectively, they wove a sisterhood of mutual …
Purdue Icon
Creation, Life, and Legacy
Inbunden, 2017
406 kr
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The former Purdue Power Plant (HPN) with its iconic smoke stack and the attached Engineering Administration Building (ENAD) at the very heart of campus played important roles for most of the twentieth century. To many Purdue students and alumni, the smoke stack not only symbolized the emphasis at …
Ever True
150 Years of Giant Leaps at Purdue University
Av John Norberg
Inbunden, 2019
536 kr
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In 1869 the State of Indiana founded Purdue University as Indiana’s land-grant university dedicated to agriculture and engineering. Today, Purdue stands as one of the elite research and education institutions in the world. Its halls have been home to Nobel Prize- and World Food Prize-winning …
Purdue at 150
A Visual History of Student Life
Av David M. Hovde, Adriana Harmeyer m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
582 kr
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Purdue at 150: A Visual History of Indiana’s Land-Grant University by David M. Hovde, Adriana Harmeyer, Neal Harmeyer, and Sammie L. Morris tells Purdue’s story through rare images, artifacts, and words. Authors culled decades of student papers, from scrapbooks, yearbooks, letters, and newspapers …
Memories of Life on the Farm
Through the Lens of Pioneer Photographer J. C. Allen
Av Frederick Whitford, Neal Harmeyer
Inbunden, 2019
582 kr
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John Calvin Allen, professionally known as J. C., worked as aphotographer for Purdue University from 1909-1952, and operated his own photography business until his death in 1996. The J. C. Allen photographs represent a historical account of the transition from pioneer practices to scientific …
Hovde Years
A Biography of Frederick L. Hovde
Häftad, 2019
233 kr
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This biography details Hovde's life and times from his birth at Erie, Pennsylvania, through his boyhood at Devils Lake, North Dakota, and includes his student days at the University of Minnesota and in England and Europe as a Rhodes scholar. In addition, it outlines his career from the time he …
Richard Owen
Scotland 1810, Indiana 1890
Häftad, 2019
252 kr
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Richard Dale Owen was born in 1810 in Scotland to a wealthy textile manufacturer and philanthropist. The youngest of eight children, Richard grew up at the family estate of Braxfield House, where he received his early education from private tutors. He would later go on to study chemistry, physics, …
Dean
A Biography of a.a. Potter
Häftad, 2019
233 kr
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More than 20,000 engineering students at Purdue University have been touched in some way by the ides or the warm personality of Andrey A. Potter, who served for 33 years as dean of the Schools of Engineering at Purdue, the world's largest engineering institution. Awarded the honorary title of …
Edward Charles Elliott, Educator
Häftad, 2019
233 kr
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A study of the 50-year career of Edward Charles Elliott is a study of the development of American education. Elliott had experience as a high school and college teacher, school system superintendent, state college system chancellor, and president of a Big Ten university, all during a period of …
My Amiable Uncle
Recollections About Booth Tarkington
Häftad, 2019
233 kr
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He was twice the winner of the Pulitzer Prize in fiction: in 1919 for The Magnificent Ambersons and in 1922 for Alice Adams. His play Clarence launched Alfred Lunt on his distinguished career and provided Helen Hayes with an early successful role. His Penrod books continued the American boy-story …
Force for Change
The Class of 1950
Av John Norberg
Häftad, 2019
226 kr
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Some of them were grown men going to college on the new G.I. Bill, and some were boys -- eighteen years old, straight out of high school. There were also young women coming to campus, rich in the traditions of their mothers and grandmothers. These women didn't know it, but the seeds of the modern …
Pledge and Promise
Celebrating the Bond and Heritage of Fraternity, Sorority, and Cooperative Life at Purdue University
Av Angie Klink
Inbunden, 2022
586 kr
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Pledge and Promise documents the important historical significance of fraternity, sorority, and cooperative life at Purdue University. Featuring more than 250 photos, this pictorial volume tells the fascinating stories of how Greek and cooperative organizations have evolved, while honoring their …
WBAA
100 Years As the Voice of Purdue
Av Angie Klink
Inbunden, 2022
586 kr
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WBAA: 100 Years as the Voice of Purdue documents the fascinating history of WBAA, Indiana's first radio station founded at Purdue University in West Lafayette, Indiana, on April 4, 1922. Richly illustrated with more than 150 photos, the book chronicles the station's evolution over the years, while …
Rocket Lab
Maurice Zucrow, Purdue University, and America's Race to Space
Inbunden, 2023
1141 kr
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The Rocket Lab: Maurice Zucrow, Purdue University, and America's Race to Space focuses on the golden era of space exploration between 1946 and 1966, specifically the life and times of Purdue University's Dr. Maurice J. Zucrow, a pioneering teacher and researcher in aerospace engineering. Zucrow …
Rocket Lab
Maurice Zucrow, Purdue University, and America's Race to Space
Häftad, 2023
390 kr
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The Rocket Lab: Maurice Zucrow, Purdue University, and America's Race to Space focuses on the golden era of space exploration between 1946 and 1966, specifically the life and times of Purdue University's Dr. Maurice J. Zucrow, a pioneering teacher and researcher in aerospace engineering. Zucrow …
Planting the Seeds of Hope
Indiana County Extension Agents During the Great Depression and World War II
Inbunden, 2023
586 kr
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The Great Depression of the 1930s nearly brought the agricultural community to a standstill. As markets went into an economic freefall, farmers who had suffered through a post–World War I economic depression in the 1920s would now struggle to produce crops, livestock, and other commodities that …
Queen of American Agriculture
A Biography of Virginia Claypool Meredith
Av Frederick Whitford, Andrew G. Martin m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
402 kr
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Virginia Claypool Meredith's role in directly managing the affairs of a large and prosperous farm in east-central Indiana opened doors that were often closed to women in late nineteenth century America. Her status allowed her to campaign for the education of women, in general, and rural women, in …
