Exhibits at the Atlanta Georgia Cotton States Exposition - 1895 US Department of Agriculture Print

-Botanical display of Southern Forest Flora

-Monographic display of Southern economic timbers

-General view of exhibit of Dept of Agriculture (Main aisle - Left & right)

One print has a light smudge in right margin

It was meant to promote trade as its title suggests. For Atlanta, a small city by comparison to other world's fair towns with only 75,000 population in 1895, it was an audacious undertaking. The decades surrounding the millennium were filled with fairs that attempted to jumpstart their towns to a higher status. An industrial exposition would expand the idea of the south in arts and industries and civic leaders bought into the idea, pledging $238,000 to its organization. Smaller industrial fairs beneath the international scale had been previously held in the city, i.e. 1881 and 1887, so Atlanta knew how to mount an exposition. They achieved federal recognition and opened the fair in Piedmont Park with President Grover Cleveland, using an electric wire to put the machines of the fair in motion from his summer home at Buzzard's Bay.

From a US Department of Agriculture Yearbook published in 1895.

The annual yearbooks had limited printings and were mostly provided by members of Congress to constituent farmers.

Department of Agriculture Yearbooks

Prior to 1862, the Annual Agricultural Report was published in the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents.

The Department of Agriculture was established in 1862 and was administered by a Commissioner until 1889.  At that time, the Department was enlarged and the Commissioner's office became the Secretary of Agriculture.

From 1862 to 1893, the newly formed Department of Agriculture began issuing its own annual report in one volume.  Starting in 1894, the annual report encompassed two volumes: one for the Secretary's and other executive reports and one for the Yearbook of Agriculture.

The Yearbook began in 1894 as the second volume of the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture and reviewed developments in agriculture over the prior year. Until 1936 the Yearbook contained this summary report as well as "unrelated articles on current agricultural research or study" as well as statistical tables.  From 1936 on, the series changed, focusing each volume on a single topic of interest and addressing the volumes to the American public, initially to farmers and in more recent decades, to American consumers.

Congress ended funding for the agriculture yearbooks in 1992.

Condition is "Very Good" with only superficial age & handling wear

Full Page Size: Approximately 9" X 5.5" 

Blank on Reverse

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