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"Farm-to-Table": 1914 - 1920

Resources

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Fuller, Wayne E. (1964). RFD: The Changing Face of Rural America. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Gladwell, Malcolm (1999). "Clicks & Mortar." The New Yorker, December 6, p. 106-115.

Rufe, Robert G. (2012). "Live chicks" require first class treatment: The U.S. special handling service. In Lera, T. (Ed.), The Winton M. Blount Postal History Symposia: Select Papers, 2010-2011. Smithsonian Contributions to History and Technology, Number 56 (pp. 109-118). Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Scholarly Press. Retrieved from: http://www.sil.si.edu/SmithsonianContributions/HistoryTechnology/pdf_hi/SCHT56.pdf.

U.S. Postal Service (2012). The United States Postal Service: An American History. Retrieved from: http://about.usps.com/publications/pub100.pdf.

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