This collection contains digitized documents from the Brooklyn College’s Farm Labor Project. Students responded to the World War II farm labor shortage by volunteering to spend their summer as farm-workers. During the summers of 1942, '43, and '44, they worked on farms in Upstate New York picking peas and beans.
The images above are from the Brooklyn College Farm Labor Project Image Gallery
Articles
125 Apply for Farm Work This Summer; Quota to be Filled 200, Brooklyn College Vanguard
200 BC Students Leaving for Farms, Brooklyn College Vanguard
200 Students in Farm Unit at Boro College, Margaret Mara
3 newspaper articles titled "Camp Near City For Study and Farming Urged," "College Offers Farm Labor Plan," and "Student Helpers on Farms", New York Herald Tribune and The New York Times
4 City Colleges Map Farm Training, The New York Times
800 Youths Join in Manual Tasks at Work Camps, Benjamin Fine
B.C. Student Turns Hick, Richard Hershcopf
B.C. Summer Farmers Leave City on June 15, Unknown
Bio-Med Plans Victory Garden to Train Future Farm Workers, Brooklyn College Vanguard
B'klyn College's Work-Study Plan Gets First-Rate Results, Daily Mirror
Boro College Splits Summer Sessions, The Brooklyn Eagle
Boro College Students to Help Harvest Crops, The Brooklyn Eagle
Brooklyn Co-eds Mix Farm Toil, Learning, Margaret Mara
Brooklyn College Farm Labor Lesson in Transplanting, New York Herald Tribune
Brooklyn College Girls Getting Acquainted With Chickens, The Sun
Brooklyn College Group to Aid Farm Project, The Brooklyn Eagle
Brooklyn College Leads Victory Farm Corps Units, The Brooklyn Eagle
Brooklyn College Promotes Farm Work, The Sun
Brooklyn College Sends 151 Students; 10 Faculty to Try Education Experiment Here, Madison County Leader
Brooklyn College to Aid Farmers, The Sun
Brooklyn College to Take Outsiders on Farm Project, The Brooklyn Eagle
Brooklyn College Will Split Session, The New York Times
Brooklyn's Bridge to Morrisville, Teresa Hayes
Camp Near City For Study and Farming Urged, The Herald Tribune
City-Hicks Find Beans Fill Belly; And Memories Too, Milt Rosenberg
College Group Set For Farm Duties, The Brooklyn Eagle
College Moves to Farm: Bean Picking and Study Mixed, Utica Observer Dispatch
College Offers Farm Labor Plan, The New York Times
College Plans Farm Course, Schenectady Gazette
College President Sees Students at Farm Work, The Brooklyn Eagle
College Teacher Suggests Summer Study Camps, The Brooklyn Eagle
College Women to Pick Beans, Study Rural Problem First Hand, Emma Bugbee
Dr. Gideonse Indicates General Pattern for Modern Education, Brooklyn Eagle
Dr. Russell Warns on U.S. Education, The New York Times
Exposing Forced Labor Camp Plot for Youth, Mickey Milton
Farm Help From Brooklyn, The Herald Tribune
Farming Project at City Colleges, The Sun
Farm Labor Resolution, The Committee on Student Employment
Farm Project, The Sun
First Three Weeks Hardest Says Benedict, Ralph C. Benedict
First Three Weeks Hardest Says Benedict, Ralph C. Benedict
Gideonse Urges a Labor Period for College Men, New York Times
Girls at Brooklyn College Register for Summer Farm Work, Irene Delmar
Headlines from the Jewish Agricultural Society, The Jewish Agricultural Society, Inc.
Hot Spell Helps State Farmers Get in Planting, The Herald Tribune
Information for Freshmen Regarding Brooklyn College Country Summer Session, Ellswerth Missall
I.S.S. Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 2, International Student Service
Ivy League and CCC… Do They Jell?, United Press
Labor Camp Program is Held Success, Unknown
Majoring in Peas (Beatrice Meyers article) and Brooklyn Students Get in the Harvest (The Sun photograph), Beatrice Meyers and The Sun
Mary E. Barnes Dies in Kansas, Madison County Leader
Mary Edna Barnes, On College Faculty, The Brooklyn Eagle
Morrisville, '43 Alumni Make '44 Farm Plans, Unknown
Movies to Show Students on Farms, The Brooklyn Eagle
News of Women's Activities in War, Beatrice Meyers
Parents to See Fruits of Children's Labor, Unknown
Pupils to Assist Farmers, The New York Sun
Second Work-Study Summer Session Now Being Planned, Unknown
Select BC Summer Farm School Site, Unknown
Student 'Class Squads' to be Recruited in Several Weeks, Barbara K. O'Neil
Student Crop Corps, Ralph C. Benedict
Student Farmers, The Sun
Student-Farmers Leave Tomorrow to Harvest Crops, The Brooklyn Eagle
Student Farmers Plan Season Jobs, The New York Times
Student-Farmers Plan to Pass Days in Fields, Nights at Studies, The Herald Tribune
Student Helpers: Brooklyn College Experiment Cites as Possible Solution of Problem, Ralph C. Benedict
Students at Work, New York Times
Students Particular About Jobs as War Brings Wider Selection, The New York Times
Students to Harvest Crops, The Sun
Students to Join Parents in Fete, The New York Times
Students to Work and Study on Farm, The New York Times
Students to Work Farms, The New York Times
Studies Will Vary Crop Harvesting, The New York Times
Study Food Effects, The Brooklyn Eagle
Summer Farm School to Enroll B.C. Students, Unknown
Summer Job Opportunities: Experienced Camp Help Wanted, Barbara K. O'Neil
Supervisors Commend Brooklyn Students, Unknown
The Challenge of the War to Brooklyn College, New York City Board of Higher Education
The Educational "Battle of the Century", Jay Bradley
The Farm Program; Brooklyn College Should Be Proud Of It, Brooklyn College Vanguard
To Interview Farm Workers, Unknown
Work Camp News Letter, Vol. 1 No. 1, International Student Service
Work Camp News Letter, Vol. 1 No. 2, International Student Service
Work Camp News Letter, Vol.1 No. 3, International Student Service
Work Camp News Letter, Vol. 1 No. 4, International Student Service
Work Camp News Letter, Vol. 1 No. 5, International Student Service
Work With Study in College Urged, The New York Times
Other
A College Farm Labor Experiment Appendix B, Brooklyn College
Agenda and Inquirienda, Unknown
Announcement to Classes, Dean of the Faculty
Anonymous Letter Against Labor Camps, Unknown
A Photographic Report on the Brooklyn College Farm Labor Project, Brooklyn College
A Resolution Thanking the Brooklyn College Farm Project, Mary E. Brophy
Authorizing Petty Cash Fund, Harry D. Gideonse
Brooklyn College Archives, Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College Farm Labor Project and Country Summer Session Third Program - 1944, Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College Farm Labor Project Items, Ralph C. Benedict
Brooklyn College Farm Labor Project Morrisville, N.Y., Brooklyn College
Brooklyn College Farm Labor Project Morrisville, N.Y.: 100,000 Bushels of Essential Food, The Brooklyn College Labor Project
Brooklyn College Library Memorandum, Asa Don Dickinson