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Couple with dog in car, at 1909 Glidden Tour
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1909-07
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Making of Modern Michigan
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4.5x6.5 black and white photograph of a couple with a dog in an unidentified car, at the 1909 Glidden Tour. Negative #C21,950.
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Interview of Barbara Fravenholtz on her service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during WWII
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Fravenholtz, Barbara
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1984-02-25
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Women's Overseas Service League Oral History Project
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Barbara Fravenholtz talks about her service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War Two. Fravenholtz describes her decision to enlist on Armistice Day in 1942 and discusses why she enlisted alone rather than with other graduates from the St. Francis General Hospital nursing program. Fravenholtz recounts her experiences as a nurse in the 95th Evacuation Hospital which was attached to the 5th Army and later to the 7th Army, as it followed the front lines in Tunisia, Sicily, Cassino,...
Show moreBarbara Fravenholtz talks about her service in the U.S. Army Nurse Corps during World War Two. Fravenholtz describes her decision to enlist on Armistice Day in 1942 and discusses why she enlisted alone rather than with other graduates from the St. Francis General Hospital nursing program. Fravenholtz recounts her experiences as a nurse in the 95th Evacuation Hospital which was attached to the 5th Army and later to the 7th Army, as it followed the front lines in Tunisia, Sicily, Cassino, Salerno, Strasbourg, and Heidelberg. She talks fondly about her dog Eric, a gift from an enlisted man in Africa, and says that the dog traveled with her throughout the war and came back to the states with her when she was discharged. She also vividly recounts seeing Mount Vesuvius threatening to erupt while she was on leave. Fravenholtz is interviewed by Amelia Bunder.
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Women, girls and dogs sit on grass, at 1909 Glidden Tour
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1909-07
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Making of Modern Michigan
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4.5x6.5 black and white photograph of two women, three girls and three dogs sitting on grass under a tree, at the 1909 Glidden Tour. Caption on photo back: Two women held their pets to keep them from being run over.' Negative #C21,540. Photo edges cut unevenly.
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Ecology of a carnivore community in an agricultural landscape in northeast Brazil
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Dechner Sierra, Andrea Carolina
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2016
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Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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Understanding the factors that affect the presence and distribution of carnivores in human-dominated landscapes is one of the principal goals of conservation ecology. My research sought to determine those factors in a carnivore community inhabiting an agricultural landscape in Bahia, Brazil. To reach this goal I used camera traps and conducted semi-structured interviews in human communities in my study area. The carnivore community studied included eight species of the cat, weasel, raccoon...
Show moreUnderstanding the factors that affect the presence and distribution of carnivores in human-dominated landscapes is one of the principal goals of conservation ecology. My research sought to determine those factors in a carnivore community inhabiting an agricultural landscape in Bahia, Brazil. To reach this goal I used camera traps and conducted semi-structured interviews in human communities in my study area. The carnivore community studied included eight species of the cat, weasel, raccoon and dog families (puma (Puma concolor), ocelot (Leopardus pardalis), margay (Leopardus wiedii), tayra (Eira barbara), South American coati (Nasua nasua), crab-eating raccoon (Procyon cancrivorus), crab-eating fox (Cerdocyon thous), and domestic dog (Canis familiaris). Results indicated that habitat is a key factor determining the distribution of some species in the carnivore community. Some species, such as the crab-eating fox, had a high probability of using rubber crops and a low probability of using forested areas, whereas others, such as the South American Coati, had a low probability of using rubber crops and a high probability of using forested areas. Analysis at a larger scale indicated that in the case of the crab-eating foxes and the South American coatis landscape-related variables were the best predictors of the animals’ frequency of site use. The frequency of site use by tayras was best predicted by resource-related variables, and for the wildcats (Leopardus spp.) by human-related variables. Results from interviews with stakeholders showed that, the carnivore with the highest frequency of reported negative impacts was the puma due to the fear related to its presence. I also found that the factors that best explained tolerance for pumas were related to personal evaluative attitudes (likability) and perceived benefits. These findings elucidate the complexity of the actions required to propose more appropriate management strategies for carnivore conservation in tropical agricultural systems. The results make an important contribution to our knowledge of why carnivores adapt or fail to adapt to agricultural landscapes with applications for sustainable agriculture within and beyond the Northeast of Brazil.
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Canines, carnivores, capitalism, colonialism : some transformations in hunting, agriculture, and labour in southern Namibia, 1915-1930s
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Moore, Bernard C.
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2016
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Electronic Theses & Dissertations
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This thesis investigates how political, economic, and environmental structures affected how the colonial state in South West Africa, today Namibia, addressed labour concerns. With increased settlement of poor-white farmers from South Africa into the southern districts of Namibia in the first few decades of South African rule, labour shortages became more apparent, and the state took measures to subsidise the white farming industry by providing low interest loans and advances for purchasing...
Show moreThis thesis investigates how political, economic, and environmental structures affected how the colonial state in South West Africa, today Namibia, addressed labour concerns. With increased settlement of poor-white farmers from South Africa into the southern districts of Namibia in the first few decades of South African rule, labour shortages became more apparent, and the state took measures to subsidise the white farming industry by providing low interest loans and advances for purchasing equipment, livestock, fencing, etc. The colonial state indirectly subsidised them further by actively constraining the only competition these settlers had in the agricultural market: black Namibian farmers. It is argued that enforcement of taxes, particularly the “Dog Tax” formed a central component of this labour recruitment. Based on archival and oral history research, this thesis shows that a unique constellation of political, economic, and environmental structures emerged such that without state subsidy for vermin-proof fencing and jackal poisons, dogs became the main tool for for black Namibians to control vermin numbers in the arid South. Farm labour shortages and discourse around illicit hunting with dogs motivated heavy enforcement of the dog tax, resulting in pressures on wages, pastoral activities, and ultimately the self-sufficiency of black Namibians. This research also shows the contemporary relevance of historical dispossession of Namibian land and labour.
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