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

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125 Apply for Farm Work This Summer; Quota to be Filled 200, Brooklyn College Vanguard

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200 BC Students Leaving for Farms, Brooklyn College Vanguard

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200 Students in Farm Unit at Boro College, Margaret Mara

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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

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4 City Colleges Map Farm Training, The New York Times

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800 Youths Join in Manual Tasks at Work Camps, Benjamin Fine

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B.C. Student Turns Hick, Richard Hershcopf

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B.C. Summer Farmers Leave City on June 15, Unknown

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Bio-Med Plans Victory Garden to Train Future Farm Workers, Brooklyn College Vanguard

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B'klyn College's Work-Study Plan Gets First-Rate Results, Daily Mirror

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Boro College Splits Summer Sessions, The Brooklyn Eagle

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Boro College Students to Help Harvest Crops, The Brooklyn Eagle

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Brooklyn Co-eds Mix Farm Toil, Learning, Margaret Mara

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Brooklyn College Farm Labor Lesson in Transplanting, New York Herald Tribune

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Brooklyn College Girls Getting Acquainted With Chickens, The Sun

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Brooklyn College Group to Aid Farm Project, The Brooklyn Eagle

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Brooklyn College Leads Victory Farm Corps Units, The Brooklyn Eagle

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Brooklyn College Promotes Farm Work, The Sun

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Brooklyn College Sends 151 Students; 10 Faculty to Try Education Experiment Here, Madison County Leader

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Brooklyn College to Aid Farmers, The Sun

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Brooklyn College to Take Outsiders on Farm Project, The Brooklyn Eagle

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Brooklyn College Will Split Session, The New York Times

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Brooklyn's Bridge to Morrisville, Teresa Hayes

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Camp Near City For Study and Farming Urged, The Herald Tribune

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City-Hicks Find Beans Fill Belly; And Memories Too, Milt Rosenberg

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College Group Set For Farm Duties, The Brooklyn Eagle

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College Moves to Farm: Bean Picking and Study Mixed, Utica Observer Dispatch

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College Offers Farm Labor Plan, The New York Times

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College Plans Farm Course, Schenectady Gazette

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College President Sees Students at Farm Work, The Brooklyn Eagle

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College Teacher Suggests Summer Study Camps, The Brooklyn Eagle

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College Women to Pick Beans, Study Rural Problem First Hand, Emma Bugbee

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Dr. Gideonse Indicates General Pattern for Modern Education, Brooklyn Eagle

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Dr. Russell Warns on U.S. Education, The New York Times

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Exposing Forced Labor Camp Plot for Youth, Mickey Milton

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Farm Help From Brooklyn, The Herald Tribune

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Farming Project at City Colleges, The Sun

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Farm Labor Resolution, The Committee on Student Employment

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Farm Project, The Sun

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First Three Weeks Hardest Says Benedict, Ralph C. Benedict

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First Three Weeks Hardest Says Benedict, Ralph C. Benedict

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Gideonse Urges a Labor Period for College Men, New York Times

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Girls at Brooklyn College Register for Summer Farm Work, Irene Delmar

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Headlines from the Jewish Agricultural Society, The Jewish Agricultural Society, Inc.

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Hot Spell Helps State Farmers Get in Planting, The Herald Tribune

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Information for Freshmen Regarding Brooklyn College Country Summer Session, Ellswerth Missall

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I.S.S. Bulletin, Vol. 1, No. 2, International Student Service

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Ivy League and CCC… Do They Jell?, United Press

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Labor Camp Program is Held Success, Unknown

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Majoring in Peas (Beatrice Meyers article) and Brooklyn Students Get in the Harvest (The Sun photograph), Beatrice Meyers and The Sun

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Mary E. Barnes Dies in Kansas, Madison County Leader

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Mary Edna Barnes, On College Faculty, The Brooklyn Eagle

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Morrisville, '43 Alumni Make '44 Farm Plans, Unknown

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Movies to Show Students on Farms, The Brooklyn Eagle

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News of Women's Activities in War, Beatrice Meyers

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Parents to See Fruits of Children's Labor, Unknown

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Pupils to Assist Farmers, The New York Sun

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Second Work-Study Summer Session Now Being Planned, Unknown

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Select BC Summer Farm School Site, Unknown

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Student 'Class Squads' to be Recruited in Several Weeks, Barbara K. O'Neil

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Student Crop Corps, Ralph C. Benedict

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Student Farmers, The Sun

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Student-Farmers Leave Tomorrow to Harvest Crops, The Brooklyn Eagle

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Student Farmers Plan Season Jobs, The New York Times

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Student-Farmers Plan to Pass Days in Fields, Nights at Studies, The Herald Tribune

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Student Helpers: Brooklyn College Experiment Cites as Possible Solution of Problem, Ralph C. Benedict

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Students at Work, New York Times

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Students Particular About Jobs as War Brings Wider Selection, The New York Times

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Students to Harvest Crops, The Sun

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Students to Join Parents in Fete, The New York Times

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Students to Work and Study on Farm, The New York Times

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Students to Work Farms, The New York Times

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Studies Will Vary Crop Harvesting, The New York Times

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Study Food Effects, The Brooklyn Eagle

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Summer Farm School to Enroll B.C. Students, Unknown

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Summer Job Opportunities: Experienced Camp Help Wanted, Barbara K. O'Neil

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Supervisors Commend Brooklyn Students, Unknown

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The Challenge of the War to Brooklyn College, New York City Board of Higher Education

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The Educational "Battle of the Century", Jay Bradley

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The Farm Program; Brooklyn College Should Be Proud Of It, Brooklyn College Vanguard

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To Interview Farm Workers, Unknown

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Work Camp News Letter, Vol. 1 No. 1, International Student Service

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Work Camp News Letter, Vol. 1 No. 2, International Student Service

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Work Camp News Letter, Vol.1 No. 3, International Student Service

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Work Camp News Letter, Vol. 1 No. 4, International Student Service

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Work Camp News Letter, Vol. 1 No. 5, International Student Service

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Work With Study in College Urged, The New York Times

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A College Farm Labor Experiment Appendix B, Brooklyn College

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Agenda and Inquirienda, Unknown

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Announcement to Classes, Dean of the Faculty

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Anonymous Letter Against Labor Camps, Unknown

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A Photographic Report on the Brooklyn College Farm Labor Project, Brooklyn College

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A Resolution Thanking the Brooklyn College Farm Project, Mary E. Brophy

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Authorizing Petty Cash Fund, Harry D. Gideonse

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Brooklyn College Archives, Brooklyn College

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Brooklyn College Farm Labor Project and Country Summer Session Third Program - 1944, Brooklyn College

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Brooklyn College Farm Labor Project Items, Ralph C. Benedict

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Brooklyn College Farm Labor Project Morrisville, N.Y., Brooklyn College

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Brooklyn College Farm Labor Project Morrisville, N.Y.: 100,000 Bushels of Essential Food, The Brooklyn College Labor Project

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Brooklyn College Library Memorandum, Asa Don Dickinson