Howard Langfitt WLBT "Farm Family of the Week" Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS-469
Scope and Content
Consists of materials used to produce the "Farm Family of the Week" program on WLBT, which featured families who met standards for excellent farming as judged by Langfitt and the county agricultural agents who assisted him. Families were interviewed and photographed in advance and scripts were written from the interviews. Contains 328 television scripts and some 17,000 negative images, including images of African-Americans working on various farms.
Dates
- 1954 - 1961
Extent
3 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Processing Note
This finding aid is currently in progress. Please contact sp_coll@library.msstate.edu for more information.
- Title
- Howard Langfitt WLBT "Farm Family of the Week" Collection
- Status
- In Progress
- Author
- Shell created by Carrie P. Mastley.
- Date
- January 2022
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Manuscripts Repository
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