Creator
United States. Soil Conservation Service
United States. Department of Agriculture

Date of Original
1952/1970

Subject
Soil conservation--United States
Soil conservation districts--Georgia--Evans
United States. Department of Agriculture
Farms--Georgia--Evans
Agricultural laborers--Georgia--Evans
Cover crops--Georgia--Evans
Soil erosion--Climatic factors--Georgia--Evans

Location
United States, Georgia, Burke County, Midville, 32.81905, -82.23485
United States, Georgia, Columbia County, Appling, 33.54608, -82.3173
United States, Georgia, Columbia County, Evans, 33.53375, -82.13067
United States, Georgia, Columbia County, Harlem, 33.41458, -82.31262
United States, Georgia, McDuffie County, 33.48285, -82.48137

Medium
black-and-white photographs

Description
Photographic prints documenting a variety of methods used by farmers and soil conservation scientists and engineers to prevent soil erosion and offer conservation educational programs in Columbia County, Burke County, and McDuffie County, Georgia.

The photographic prints in this series document a variety of methods used by farmers and soil conservation scientists and engineers to prevent soil erosion.

Taken throughout the continental United States and Puerto Rico, the photographic prints show conservation practices, such as, irrigation and drainage systems, windbreaks, range land reseeding, woodland harvesting, brush clearing, contour farming and terrace construction, suburban land use, and mining reclamation. A few photographic prints record Soil Conservation Service scientists surveying, sampling, and measuring soil conditions. There are also historic photographs showing land conditions prior to development or range and agriculture use, photographic prints showing examples of soil erosion and sedimentation problems, and photographs documenting conservation educational programs.

Each photograph is captioned and includes information about the subject pictured, the location, the date and the name of the photographer. The photographic prints are mounted on manila folders.

Corresponding photographic negatives are in RG 114, Series G.

This series was previously identified as 114-SCS and G.

Metadata URL
http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/CollectionsA-Z/usdapc_search.html

Language
eng

Original Collection
U.S.D.A. Photo Collection, Columbia County, GA

Holding Institution
Columbia County Library (Evans, Ga.)

Rights