The scrapbook highlights the trip of J.B. Davidson, Professor of Agricultural Engineering at Iowa State College (University), to Biro-Bidjan in 1929-1930. Davidson was a member of the American Biro-Bidjan Commission. Many of the images focus on the agricultural aspects of life in Biro-Bidjan and other areas of the Soviet Union. There are also some images of France, Moscow, Crimea, Ukraine, and China in the scrapbook.
The scrapbook highlights the trip of J.B. Davidson, Professor of Agricultural Engineering at Iowa State College (University), to Biro-Bidjan in 1929-1930. Davidson was a member of the American Biro-Bidjan Commission. Many of the images focus on the agricultural aspects of life in Biro-Bidjan and other areas of the Soviet Union. There are also some images of France, Moscow, Crimea, Ukraine, and China in the scrapbook.
The scrapbook highlights the trip of J.B. Davidson, Professor of Agricultural Engineering at Iowa State College (University), to Biro-Bidjan in 1929-1930. Davidson was a member of the American Biro-Bidjan Commission. Many of the images focus on the agricultural aspects of life in Biro-Bidjan and other areas of the Soviet Union. There are also some images of France, Moscow, Crimea, Ukraine, and China in the scrapbook.
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BIRO-BIDJAN
AREA--aver 15,000 square mile •.
POPULATION-a.bout 32~OOO.
MAP OF BIRO BrD.JAN
CULTURES--Crain.s, rice, oil plants, chinese beans, BU8'"&I' beet ... flax,. hops.for.ee. etc.
FOREST5--abouDding in all kinds of fOTest products, tlmber, lumber, turpentine, rotio aDd .ame~
SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION-beo.d'ed by P'roi. Brook Bnd uDder tbe AUpe'rvisioD of ebe kno'WD scieDtist, Dr. WilHams, in May to Augu. t, 1927, declared land ... dapted for colonization, and th" diffic.ulties g,( tbis vir,gia land, ,including the very trou'ble$ome insects, known as HGnus," as .not ,greater than those wuaJly confronted ill the fiTst pioneeru.. stae-es of colonization.
IT IS UP TO YOU 'TO S_PEED REALIZATION
Immense means are neceSABry to colonize thl.$ Ialld and eaeke 'it a harbor o'f labor a_nd bap:pmesa fo'r 'the "deelassed" masses of Rua.siau Jewry. Tbey are sparina no e.ffort to aecompliah thi.5 BTeat task. The'y have fullest (:OOptetlitiOD of the SOY'iet Gave:rn:mentt but they Deed more tools and m.achinery than th.~ Co've't'tUl'lent or tberaeelves. can supply. They ex~t your belp. Think of ,.our CDDtri~ bution in te.Tll15 of tractors, excavators, machines ant! tooE. for buUding roads and beuees, Th.ink i)' your contributions in terms of rehabilitated Jewish families.. The .IICORt" acting in a.&Teem.eut with the proper o'rganizatioD5 in Soviet RU5Sia, has for its. purpose to .upply the' indispensable machinery and equipme,nt: 'for th.itt i(ololiizatiOD 'Work in. Biro-Bidjan. Join the ·'1 COR,. tt and help to C-on v ert Biro-BidjaD into an autonomous land of the JeW:S5
MlNERAL RESOURCE5--<:oal, ,iron, CQP,per, grapblte, asbeato., surma, marble. gold ..
RIVERS--Tbe Am.our River on the ."uthetb border, tbo Urmi River on the D.Drth .. welitem borde'l:', the Biro River and the Bidjan River eros,sing the entire territo;ry, ba.sin5 abouud in fish,
RAlLROADS--The Amour Rail,..,..d-tru"k line of the Great T'ransSiberian Railroad.
CU_MATE-Average temperature rangml' from --6.516 in, January to +700 in July, F"hronheit, only slightly mor" S~"He than that of the State of Wisconsin.
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