The origins of baseball can be traced to the combination of two English sports, rounders and cricket. Seventeenth and Eighteenth-century Americans took these two games and molded them into America鈥檚 National Pastime, baseball.
Simplicity, McCall鈥檚, Butterick, Advance pattern companies, and other sources offered patterns for 4-H outfits from 1927-1968. Throughout these years, fashion from the 4-H outfits has changed to suit the culture of that time period.
A Gunter鈥檚 chain, also known as a surveyor鈥檚 chain, is used to measure distances when surveying land. It allows plots of land to be accurately surveyed and plotted for legal and commercial purposes.
This machine is a horse-drawn check row corn planter, which increased the efficiency of planting. Check row planting is a labor-intensive method of planting, which allowed planting of 10 to 20 acres per day.
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) (renamed the Works Projects Administration in 1939) was formed in May 1935 by the Federal Emergency Relief Administration. Nationally it employed 8.5 million people to do public works projects like constructing public buildings, roads, bridges and parks.
