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Mitchell's Corn Palace

Author : Janice Brozik Cerney

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 128 pages

File Size : 10,65 MB

Release : 2004

Category : History

ISBN : 9780738532578

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The world's only Corn Palace began as "The Corn Belt Exposition" in 1892, a promotional enterprise established to showcase the rich agricultural region of the James Valley. The exposition became a popular annual event, and an icon of the American prairie. The Corn Palace has occupied three different buildings since 1892. Adorned each autumn with corn, grains, and native grasses in decorative patterns and themes, the Corn Palace has hosted famous entertainers, politicians, and community events. Now well into its second century and going strong, the Corn Palace has become a symbol of South Dakota. Mitchell's Corn Palace tells the unique story of the palace through a collection of over 200 fascinating vintage images, chronicling this unique piece of Americana.



Mitchell's Corn Palace

Author : Jan Cerney

Publisher : Arcadia Publishing

Page : 128 pages

File Size : 29,48 MB

Release : 2004-05-12

Category : Photography

ISBN : 1439631344

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Book Description

The world's only Corn Palace began as "The Corn Belt Exposition" in 1892, a promotional enterprise established to showcase the rich agricultural region of the James Valley. The exposition became a popular annual event, and an icon of the American prairie. The Corn Palace has occupied three different buildings since 1892. Adorned each autumn with corn, grains, and native grasses in decorative patterns and themes, the Corn Palace has hosted famous entertainers, politicians, and community events. Now well into its second century and going strong, the Corn Palace has become a symbol of South Dakota. Mitchell's Corn Palace tells the unique story of the palace through a collection of over 200 fascinating vintage images, chronicling this unique piece of Americana.



Corn Palaces and Butter Queens

Author : Pamela Hemenway Simpson

Publisher : U of Minnesota Press

Page : 280 pages

File Size : 18,82 MB

Release : 2012

Category : Architecture

ISBN : 0816676194

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Book Description

A celebration of corn palaces, crop art, and butter sculpture from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries



Palaces on the Prairie

Author : Rod L. Evans

Publisher : North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies North Dakota State University

Page : 262 pages

File Size : 36,81 MB

Release : 2009

Category : Architecture

ISBN :

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Book Description

Palaces on the Prairie seeks to shed light on a little-known chapter in the history of the Great Plains



Midwest Maize

Author : Cynthia Clampitt

Publisher : University of Illinois Press

Page : 305 pages

File Size : 41,56 MB

Release : 2015-02-28

Category : Cooking

ISBN : 0252096878

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Book Description

Food historian Cynthia Clampitt pens the epic story of what happened when Mesoamerican farmers bred a nondescript grass into a staff of life so prolific, so protean, that it represents nothing less than one of humankind's greatest achievements. Blending history with expert reportage, she traces the disparate threads that have woven corn into the fabric of our diet, politics, economy, science, and cuisine. At the same time she explores its future as a source of energy and the foundation of seemingly limitless green technologies. The result is a bourbon-to-biofuels portrait of the astonishing plant that sustains the world.



The Story of Corn

Author : Betty Harper Fussell

Publisher : UNM Press

Page : 372 pages

File Size : 26,23 MB

Release : 2004

Category : Social Science

ISBN : 9780826335920

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In an authoritative, wise, and wholly original blend of social history, art, science, and anthropology, Fussell tells the story of corn in a narrative that is as uniquely hybrid as her subject. The great epic of this amazing grain makes clear that all the civilizations of the Western hemisphere have been built on corn. 250 photos and line drawings.