Farming Comes of Age

FARMING COMES OF AGE contains over 200 black & white photographs which dramatically depict farm life in America during the first half of the twentieth century. Photographs were selected from nearly 77,000 stored in the archives of J.C. Allen & Son Rural Life Photo Service in West Lafayette, Indiana. Each photo was taken by the talented J.C. Allen family & they rank as some of the finest photos ever taken in America's rural Midwest. This book is a tribute to the work of J.C. Allen, his son Chester Allen & his son John Allen. FARMING COMES OF AGE preserves forever images of people, the places, the animals, the machines & the times which have made American agriculture the greatest productive force on earth. Photographs date from 1912 to 1942, each presented vividly in this great coffee table book. FARMING COMES OF AGE is sectionalized into The Land; When Horses Were King; Livestock; Rural Life; Mechanization; & Rural Events. Published by The Farm Progress Companies, one of America's largest rural magazine chains; editorial sections are written by editors of Farm Progress Publications.Allen, Chester is the author of 'Farming Comes of Age', published 1994 under ISBN 9781564690241 and ISBN 1564690245.