With the Urbana Sweetcorn Festival happening this weekend the Archives would like to offer an ode to corn in picture form.
A team of horses pulling a harrow in a field of corn stalks
Shelling corn with steam engine on the John Gilbreath farm in Rantoul Township, Champaign County, 1901
C.A. Hurst, rural route 2, Champaign, IL, breaking in a new picker, 1941
Four emergency overflow corn cribs on Rome Mast's farm, east of Urbana, IL, 1948
Bill Berbaum drives a combine, left, with his neighbor Philip Ross as his brother Jeff Berbaum steers a tractor pulling an Auger at the Berbaum farm, south of Savoy, IL, September 1998
For a true ode to corn try Pablo Neruda's 'Ode to Maize.'
- Sherrie, Archives Librarian