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Crowd at the 1940 International Plowing Match, Elgin County
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Jenny and Dave Phillips Collection
- Description Level
- Item
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1940
- Accession Number
- 2021-21
- Storage Location
- M1 S3 Sh2 B4 F10 8
- Museum / Archive
- Elgin County Archives
- Part Of
- Jenny and Dave Phillips Collection
- Creator
- London Free Press
- Description Level
- Item
- Accession Number
- 2021-21
- Storage Room
- Archives 4th Floor Storage Room
- Storage Location
- M1 S3 Sh2 B4 F10 8
- GMD
- graphic material
- Date Range
- 1940
- Publication
- Posted on Facebook and Instagram: October 12, 2021.
- Series
- Jenny and Dave Phillips Collection- Photographs series
- Physical Description
- 1 photograph : sepia ; 9.5 x 12 cm
- History / Biographical
- The 1940 International Plowing Match and Farm Machinery Demonstration was held in Elgin County October 15-18, 1940, on lands adjacent to the Technical Training School (formerly and subsequently the Ontario Psychiatric Hospital), St. Thomas, Ontario and on Bannockburn Farms, property of Mitchell F. Hepburn, then Premier of Ontario. The event was held under the auspices of the Ontario Plowmen's Association, with extensive organization by the Elgin County Plowmen's Association.
- Custodial History
- This copy print was mailed to Jenny Phillips from The London Free Press in 1984.
- Scope and Content
- Copy print of an image of a crowd at the 1940 International Plowing Match, on lands adjacent to the Technical Training School.
- Name Access
- International Plowing Match
- Subject Access
- Agriculture
- Website / Street View Notes
- Link directs to a Facebook post featuring the image.
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