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Down by the Feed Mill: The Past and Present of Americaas Feed Mills and Grain Elevators
David Hanks
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Description for Down by the Feed Mill: The Past and Present of Americaas Feed Mills and Grain Elevators
Hardcover. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: HBJK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 215. .
More than 240 fascinating photos bring to light the importance of feed mills to American townspeople, economies, and heritage. This wealth of contemporary new photos, together with some vintage images from museum collections, give us a visual record of a changing, and passing, American institution. Covering a time frame of more than 150 years, the book's illuminating text explains what feed mills and grain elevators do, how they work, the role they have played in the American agricultural economy, and the relationship of these businesses to their farmercustomers. By focusing on three mills in depth we learn the changing technological ... Read more
More than 240 fascinating photos bring to light the importance of feed mills to American townspeople, economies, and heritage. This wealth of contemporary new photos, together with some vintage images from museum collections, give us a visual record of a changing, and passing, American institution. Covering a time frame of more than 150 years, the book's illuminating text explains what feed mills and grain elevators do, how they work, the role they have played in the American agricultural economy, and the relationship of these businesses to their farmercustomers. By focusing on three mills in depth we learn the changing technological ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Schiffer Publishing Ltd
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Atglen, United States
ISBN
9780764352935
SKU
V9780764352935
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About David Hanks
David Hanks is an industrial photographer and a film and video producer. He has traveled extensively across the US with a camera close at hand, and his focus on building a comprehensive photographic record of feed millsspans several decades.
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