Muslin Wall Hanging Presentation Materials from the 1930s

Authors

• Louis Leviticus, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow
• William Splinter, University of Nebraska-LincolnFollow

Date of this Version

1935

Document Type

Article

Comments

Posted November 2008.

Abstract

Earlier this summer someone looking for oil rags at the Lester Larson Tractor Museum remembered there was a drawer of them in an old file cabinet. When unfolding one, and then many more, they discovered that the fabric pieces were actually hand-illustrated, fabric panels which had once been used in Extension presentations.

Much as speakers might use a PowerPoint presentation today, these are thought to have been hung at meeting sites and referenced during the course of the meeting/class.

Individuals from the Tractor Museum carefully photographed each of the panels and created a spreadsheet of information about them.

It is thought that these represent at least four presentations:
1) Housing, Heating, Ventilation;
2) Poultry Housing and Brooders;
3) Organization of the Blumer Farm in Otoe County; and
4) Farm Building Construction.

The right column of the spreadsheet includes the names for those panels that were signed.

The attached downloadable document includes a spreadsheet listing of the materials and a compilation of low-resolution images. High-resolution photographs (also downloadable) are attached below on this page as “Additional Files”.