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by Elizabeth P.
Stewart, Director.
Author’s note: A recent article in the RHS Quarterly asked if
we ever thought about how and why the places around us were
named. As I thought of a way to begin the story of Lande Feed,
I realized I was researching a small business that brought out
similar questions from a different perspective. From the time
Clarence O. Lande bought the Grange building in 1925 until the
day Craig Lande locked the doors on its last day of operation in
2002, this family business reflected and responded to the world
around it. Across the street or across the planet, Lande Feed kept
watch on what shaped the customers’ world and adapted their
services and products to meet the customers’ needs. The story
of Lande Feed is not just the story of one Renton business; it is
the story of the thousands of small businesses that supported
farmers across the U.S. in the heyday of local farming. (The
Museum would like to thank Craig Lande and Barb Horton for
capturing the Lande Feed story for the future.)
Also In This Issue...
RENTON HISTORICALSOCIETY & MUSEUM
Spring
March 2020
Volume 51
Number 2
Continued on page 5
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THE LANDE FEED COMPANY:
Three Generations of Agricultural Change
QUARTERLY
By: Barbara Horton
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From
APRIL
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to
MAY
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WOMEN TAKE OVER
CITY COUNCIL
On February 10, 2020
when Angelina Benedetti
was sworn into Renton
City Council, she tipped
the scales so that the city
had its second majority-
woman Council in history.
In 1989–1991, women
held four of the seven
seats on the Council; they
were: Councilmembers
Kathy Keolker (later
Mayor), Nancy Mathews,
Toni Nelson, and
Theresa Zimmerman.
Now, in addition
to Councilmember
Benedetti, today’s women
BEA MATHEWSON (1915-2020)
One of our most
stalwart supporters,
Bea Mathewson, died
on January 11, 2020
at age 104. Bea gave
of her time and talents
to the Renton History
Museum in numerous
ways over the years,
serving as President
in 1985–1987, helping
conduct tours for third
graders, and serving as
volunteer bookkeeper
for many years. During
Renton River Days, she
helped serve donuts to
vendors and volunteers
at the Renton Historical
Society booth. In the
Councilmembers are:
Council President Ruth
Pérez, Valerie O’Halloran,
and Kim-Khanh Van.
This Council is especially
exciting in the centennial
year of national women’s
suffrage–look how far
we’ve come!
1990s she received
the Renton Citizen of
the Year Award for
her dedication to local
causes. Her energy and
can do spirit was an
inspiration to all of us,
and we will miss her.
(Photo below: Bea with
Sartori School staff, 1960)
1991 Council
Photo courtesy of City of Renton
SPRING QUARTERLY, 2020 | 3
MUSEUM REPORT
QUARTERLY
Spring 2020
Elizabeth P. Stewart
Director
Podcasts about history are apparently a growth
industry, which is simultaneously exciting and scary
for those of us who do history. A quick Google search
reveals tens of “Best History Podcasts” lists. There are
podcasts by bestselling authors, like Malcolm Gladwell
(Revisionist History); podcasts by museums, like the British
Museum (The History of the World in 100 Objects); and
specialized pods by people with a viewpoint (More Perfect,
about the U.S. Supreme Court). Never before have so many
people used their exercising or commuting or grocery-
shopping time to learn about history.
Let the listener beware, however. Recent pieces in the
New Yorker and Atlantic Monthly point out the ways in which
radio’s need for dramatic stories on deadline has twisted history
into preconceived storylines. So, in one example, deeper
research reveals that the British woman artist whom Revisionist
History argued had her career ended by the “glass ceiling” of
the Academy really just fell out of favor because the military
subjects in her paintings seemed outdated.
Sarah Marshall and Michael Hobbes are the hosts
of a provocative podcast titled You’re Wrong About… that
explores recent historical controversies—often scandalous
ones—with new research and fresh perspectives. Their
podcasts often overturn what you thought you knew about
history. Hobbes points out that the stories of the 1980s and
1990s that we know from newspapers and magazines—the
recent past—are told in reverse chronological order, with
the newest details foregrounded; sometimes the whole
backstory never gets told. He describes the podcast’s
mission in this way: “The necessity of doing history now is
partly to go back and sort of find these undiscovered people
within historical stories, but also to just tell stories from the
beginning, like, ‘what actually happened?’.” His partner,
Sarah Marshall, added, “And to see something as the story
of someone’s life.”
The point of history is not just to thrill you
with little-known facts and quirky storylines that fit into
preconceived notions about history. Our mission is to inform
you about how the world has worked in the past, so that you
can better understand what’s happening in the present and
most importantly make decisions and form opinions based
in that understanding. Staff and volunteers at the Renton
History Museum work hard to bring you Renton’s history
based in facts and a diversity of perspectives. These are the
stories of people’s lives, “what actually happened,” that we
hope reflect on your world today.
by Elizabeth P. Stewart,
Museum Director
RENTON HISTORICAL
QUARTERLY
Sarah Samson
Graphic Design & Layout
Karl Hurst
City of Renton Print &
Mail Services
RENTON HISTORICAL
SOCIETY BOARD
OF TRUSTEES
Colleen Lenahan, President
Laura Clawson, Vice President
Jessica Kelly, Treasurer
Doug Brownlow, Secretary
Betsy Prather, 2021
Lynne King, 2022
Rhea Kimble, 2022
Mike Lennox, 2022
Elizabeth Stewart, Board Liaison
MUSEUM STAFF
Elizabeth P. Stewart
Museum Director
Sarah Samson
Curator of Collections &
Exhibitions
Kate Dugdale
Public Engagement
Coordinator
Stephanie Snyder
Office Aide
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UPCOMING
EVENTS
SEATTLE'S
FORGOTTEN SERIAL
KILLER BOOK TALK
AND SIGNING
March 24
6:00-7:00 pm
Join author and homicide
investigator Cloyd Steiger as
he uncovers the true crime
story of a Renton murderer
and his victims who slipped
through the cracks of history.
PRESIDENT’S
MESSAGE
Happy 2020! We’re looking forward to another great
year with the Renton History Museum. For those of
you who don’t know us, the Renton Historical Society
Board of Trustees is a group of nine hardworking individuals
who meet once a month to oversee the activities Renton
History Museum. Our two main areas of responsibility are
strategic direction and financial oversight for the Museum. We
leave the day-to-day operations decisions up to the Museum’s
superbly capable and hardworking staff!
We are planning to have our biannual retreat on
March 21, 2020. At this meeting we will dig into the action
steps on our Strategic Plan that we have slated to tackle in
the coming year. Two areas of priority are attracting younger
audiences to engage with the Museum and building the
membership of the Board of Trustees so that we are able to
execute the tasks necessary to support the Museum’s mission.
As I mentioned before, one of our primary
responsibilities as a Board is to act as the fundraising
arm of the organization. Most nonprofits have dedicated
Development staff whose sole job is to plan and execute
fundraising activities throughout the year to sustain their
mission-based programs and services. The Renton History
Museum, however, unfortunately does not have the resources
to employ a dedicated fundraiser on staff, so our tiny staff
must take on fundraising responsibilities on top of all the
work they already do to create high-quality exhibitions,
produce engaging programs, and keep the operations of the
Museum running smoothly.
That’s where the Board comes in. We help take on
fundraising tasks so that our staff is free to focus on what
they do best: serving our community through preserving,
engaging, interpreting, and educating about the past, present,
and future of our beloved greater Renton area. We put on the
annual History-Making Party dinner and auction, which will
be held for the first time at the Renton Community Center on
October 8, 2020. We also help with fundraising appeals, donor
appreciation and recognition, and securing sponsorships.
Here’s where you come in: we need enthusiastic
community members to join us and help us carry out this
important work for the Museum. We are actively soliciting
new members, and if you are considering joining us, please
reach out to me or to Liz so we can tell you more about
it. When you are ready to apply, Liz can provide you with
an application form. We look forward to welcoming new
Trustees to our ranks in 2020!
by Colleen Lenahan, President
Colleen Lenahan
President
COFFEE WITH THE
CURATOR
March 21
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Join us for coffee and a
behind-the-scenes look at our
new exhibit, Sparkle! Curator
Sarah Samson will show
arifacts from the collection
that did not make it into the
exhibit while offering insights
into the her exhibit process.
GENDER IN SPORTS
April 2
6:00-7:00 pm
What is the relationship
between sports and society?
Join Dr. Alyssa Hellrung for a
discussion of how sports shape
cultural ideas of masculinity
and femininity. Dr. Hellrung
is a current professor in the
Gender, Women, & Sexuality
Studies department at UW.
MORE EXCITING
EVENTS ON PAGE 11!
Board of Trustees at our annual
History-Making Party fundraiser.
Board members Rhea Kimble and
Jessica Kelly.
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THE EARLY DAYSThanks in part to large tracts of land acquired through
Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, Whites of European
descent settled the area now known as South King
County and began to plat communities. The abundance of
rivers provided transportation and food, and towns like Renton
sprang up from these settlements, growing from outposts
into fully platted cities. Transportation improved as rail lines
and roadways were built to support the growing commercial
timber and mining trades. By the 1920s, towns to the south
of Seattle had built up on the most stable available land and
were surrounded by the flood plains of as-yet-untamed rivers.
Farmers took advantage of the fertile soil left behind by
bi-annual floods to produce crops for sale and to feed their
families and neighbors.
CLARENCE'S STORY: ALL ROADS LEAD TO LANDE FEED
Born in 1894, in Northwood, Iowa to Norwegian immigrant
parents, Clarence O. Lande (1894–1971) came of age at the end
of WWI and built his fortune during the 1920s. The postwar
economy was booming and opportunity abounded; change was
in the air. Clarence was an enterprising young man attending
the University of Minnesota when he joined the Army during
Continued from page 1 Cover photo:
Lande Feed at night, a year
before it closed its doors for
good in April 2002. (Photo
by Bob Munro; RHM#
2018.038.080)
THE LANDE
FEED COMPANY
Lande family, ca. 1945.
Clockwise from left:
Clarence, Philip, Jean,
Doris, Adelia. (Photo
courtesy of George Webb)
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WWI. By the time he was mustered out he had earned the rank
of Lieutenant.1 In 1920 he secured a degree in law from the
university and he relocated from the Midwest to Harlowton,
Montana to hang out his shingle.2 There he met and married
Laura Adelia “Baba” Babcock, also in 1920, and ran (albeit
unsuccessfully) for County Attorney of the newly formed
Golden Valley County, Montana.3 He spent several years in
central Montana before moving to Seattle where his father-in-
law, George Maitland Babcock, had moved his feed and livery
business from Montana to Fifth and Lander. Babcock supplied
teams of horses to local construction sites.4 Through this new
connection to the Seattle-area agricultural community, Lande
learned that the Renton Grange Hall and Warehouse were for
sale. He bought the buildings and reopened the business as the
“Lande Feed Company” in 1927.5
Lande’s Feed Store was ideally located to serve
customers in Newcastle, Kennydale, Renton, Earlington, Kent,
and Tukwila. The store had rail service to support the transport
of hay and grain from Eastern Washington in the days before
streamlined freeways and modern semi-trucks prevailed.
Even though he had an ideal location, superior transportation
support, and a broad customer base, Clarence faced a tough
start. In the 1930s agriculture was among the first economic
sectors to feel the Depression, with many farmers having
over-extended their credit and capacity to help supply the war
effort.6 Bartering and a small loan business helped keep Lande
Feed in operation during the Great Depression. (Clarence was
also an accomplished poker and dice player, which reportedly
provided additional income to the family.7) He was a family
man and everyone in the family participated in operating the
store to keep costs down; brother Edward W. Lande appears
in receipt books and in city directories intermittently in the
1930s.8 Lande Feed weathered the Depression and WWII years,
dealing with war-driven shortages and managing to avoid fuel
rations due to agricultural exemptions.9
In Renton dairy farming was the most lucrative form of
agriculture, given the unpredictable nature of the Black and Cedar
Rivers’ flooding; when waters rose, farmers could easily move
their livestock, but not their crops. Smithers’ Dairy was among the
earliest, along with Christian and Claus Jorgensen, Fred Nelsen,
and R. J. Elliott; by the 1940s transplanted Swiss-Italian dairy
farmers like the Carraccioli brothers and Archie Codiga had also
established farms in or near Renton. In 1949 Clarence responded
to the growing dairy industry by installing milling equipment to
produce customized feed for dairy cattle. Lande Feed prospered
under his watch and greatly improved as the Lande family
expanded and added new services and innovations.
During the 1940s, the large customers were dairy
farms in Tukwila, Kent, Earlington, and South Renton,
including Briscoe Dairy at the Briscoe Boys School, Hillcrest
Dairy, and Nelsen Riverside Dairy, among others.10 Local
businesses such as Williams & McKnight General Store, Baima
& Rubatino (B&R) Garage, and Clarke Brothers Motor Co., as
well as ordinary people like home gardeners Sam Pellegrino
and Lorenzo Bertagni, Pieter Prins, and fellow Iowa transplant
Harry Lankester all show up in Lande Feed receipts.11 From
Three generations of Landes took a disused Grange Hall and
warehouse (1927) and turned them into a thriving business
by adding hay storage, a garage, truck scales, and other
amenities (1952). (Sanborn Fire Insurance maps, 1927, 1952)
SPRING QUARTERLY, 2020 | 7
cattle feed to bunny feed, it seemed that all roads led to Lande
Feed during Clarence’s forty-year proprietorship. Lande
became something of an agricultural community gathering
space as well, where customers could gather around the
chalkboard out front to see who was selling pigs or rabbits, or
who might have a tractor for sale.12
PHIILIP'S STORY: THAT DAMN DAM
Philip Lande (1925–2012) was a strong, charming fellow who
assumed operation of Lande Feed from C. O. Lande in 1965.
Philip had followed in his father’s footsteps, earning a law
degree from the University of Washington as a Naval ROTC
Ensign in 1945 or 1946, as WWII was coming to an end. He
practiced law in both Kent and Renton. But he had also served a
long apprenticeship at his father’s side in the business, from his
mid-twenties until he became proprietor of Lande Feed.13
Philip took control of the business during the 1960s, a
time of tumultuous change not unlike that which his father had
experienced in the 1920s, with new ideas and new technologies
that substantially changed agriculture. In King County, in
particular, industry and a postwar population explosion began
to take over land from agriculture, and many farmers decided to
cash in their highly valued land.14
For decades, the agriculture community had lobbied for
flood control in the Green and White River Valleys and it finally
came on Christmas Day, 1961, in the form of the Howard A.
Hanson Dam. While the Hanson Dam seemed like a triumph for
farmers, instead flood control forever changed the agricultural face
of the Kent Valley, as the land was now stable enough for permanent
structures. Big companies saw growth opportunity and began to
“flash the cash” soon after the dam was completed. Farmers saw the
opportunity for better lives and began to sell their farms. In 1968
the Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle sold the Briscoe School and
Dairy property, located on 150 acres between West Valley Highway
and the Green River in Kent, to the Union Pacific Railroad for $2.8
million. Adjacent properties owned by the Ahern, Conlon, Sharkey,
La Fond, Booth, and Brand families all sold to the Boeing Company
in 1964, and these parcels soon became the Boeing Aerospace
Center.15 Renton-area agriculture was on the retreat.
Lande Feed was forced to adapt once again to a
changing economy. Philip rose to the challenge by focusing all
his efforts on the largest nearby group of animals: Longacres
Race Track. He launched an aggressive sales and support
campaign. He also made several important improvements to
the store property, including the addition of a 100-foot steel
central elevator, a grain rolling mill, a pellet mill, bagging
scales, and specialized grain cleaning equipment to produce
the specific kind of feed—triple cleaned oats—required by a
thoroughbred horse racing track. He recruited Gary Wivag, a top
industry salesman, to bring in the track’s business. Philip went
to Minnesota, where there are many feed mills and necessary
expertise, and recruited Ralph Kappes to come to Renton to run
two shifts at the mill to keep up with demand.16 The race track
kept the feed store busy from April to September every year;
Lande Feed had adapted once again.
A receipt for hay and feed delivered to Hillcrest Dairy in
1931. Farmer Soren Plough purchased 20 acres of forested
land in Skyway in the 1890s, which he turned into farmland.
(from RHM# 2018.038.082)
Philip Lande, 1964, represented the second generation in
Renton. (Record-Chronicle, 21 Feb 1984, p.1)
Continued on page 10
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2 020 is going to be a big year for
educational programming at RHM.
I wanted to take this opportunity
to fill you in on some of the projects I’m
most excited about for this upcoming
year. Right now we’re in the process
of creating two brand new educational
programs. We hope both of these
projects will create new audiences for
the Museum, allowing us to reach more
members of our community!
The first project is in collaboration
with the Renton Housing Authority
(RHA). A survey conducted by RHA reveals that a
remarkable 61% of seniors have mobility issues. Starting in
March, we're planning to bring the Renton History Museum
to those seniors who can't make it here. I’ll be taking an
outreach program to five different senior living residence
across Renton. This program will allow residents of these
complexes to touch and handle memory-stimulating historic
objects from our education collection. This program will
also feature some new Native American objects in our
EDUCATION
REPORT
by Kate Dugdale, Public
Engagement Cooridinator
education collection, made recently by Tyson Simmons, a
Muckleshoot artist. I’m very excited to be able to bring our
collections out to the community!
At the same time, I am working with an intern
from UW’s Museology graduate program to create another
outreach project. This project is a traveling history kit for
local teachers to rent, enabling them to use lesson plans
and real objects from our education collection to facilitate
their classroom teaching. The kit we are currently working
on will explore Japanese internment in Renton’s history,
narrating the difficult experiences that Japanese Americans
from our area lived through during WWII. The kit is still
in its early stages at this point, but I am hoping that this
program will be ready for pilot testing by Fall 2020.
These two projects will join the Coast Salish
Curriculum already in use by the Renton School District. All
of them meet the goal of utilizing our education collection
to facilitate hands-on learning. Take a look at these pictures
to see some of the objects that will be used in the RHA
senior housing outreach program. Do you recognize any of
them? What do you think these objects were used for?
Kate Dugdale
Public Engagement
Coordinator
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CRAIG'S STORY:THE FUTURE OF FEED
Philip’s oldest son, Craig, spent a large part of his childhood
working in the store and learning all aspects of the business.
Beginning as a six-year-old, Craig spent summers and weekends
filling ten-pound bags of feed; by the time he was eleven, his
grandfather had him sending out bills to customers.17 Like his
father, he went to the University of Washington and earned a
degree in History in preparation for Law School. When the
thirty-eight-year-old assumed proprietorship of Lande Feed in
1987, operations were largely focused on Longacres. Lande Feed
offered free delivery and loan support to racehorse owners, which
helped garner the largest share of the Longacres’ market. In 1992,
however, the Alhadeff family sold Longacres’ land to the Boeing
Company without much warning. This catastrophic turn of events
was crippling not only to the local horse-racing industry, but also
to Lande Feed, since those owners who had been extended credit
suddenly no longer had a venue and were unable to repay.18
The 1980s began a surge of change that shaped the way
we live today. Paul Allen and Bill Gates formed a little operation
called Microsoft, the beginning of the digital revolution that
reshaped commerce in Seattle and King County and around the
world. It also reshaped how people lived. Animal feed was still
the company’s mainstay, but in this era Lande’s customers were
mostly house or pasture pets and owners who expected better
quality food than the grocery stores were selling.
The sale of Longacres was the first of several hits
to the business, and once again Lande feed had to regroup
to cope with the challenges. In the late 1990s, Craig hired
accountant Joanne Lee to modernize the business and help
with negotiations with the City of Renton. The 2000 Nisqually
earthquake damaged the hay barn, and the City condemned the
building as an unsafe structure, preventing public entrance to
parts of it for months. All the efforts made by Craig, Joanne,
and many Renton residents to save the historic building were
in vain. During the controversy, the family received an enticing
offer for the downtown location. In April of 2002, Craig locked
the door to the building for the last time. Shortly after, it was
razed and replaced by apartments.
Like his grandfather and father before him, this
time it was Craig’s turn to adapt the services of Lande Feed
to serve the emerging needs of modernizing suburban cities,
with smaller lot sizes and more pet-keeping than farming. To
save what remained of the homeless Lande Feed business,
Lee automated customer files and Lande Feed launched a
home delivery campaign. She located an affordable storefront
warehouse in Maple Valley. Lande Feed found a new niche
supporting breeders, rescuers, and owners of companion
animals. This rally gave the business several years of additional
life, until Craig retired from the retail business in 2007.
END NOTES
1 Ancestry.com. U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.
2 Craig Lande Oral History, 2 Oct 1989 (RHM# 2018.015.009), p.3; 1920
U.S. Federal Census, School District 6, Musselshell, Montana; T625_973;
Page: 4B; Enumeration District: 69; Clarence O. Lande and Laura Babcock
Marriage Record, 1920, Ancestry.com. Montana, County Marriages, 1865-
1987 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT. USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017.
3 Marriage Record, Clarence O. Lande and Laura Adelia Babcock, 30 Dec
1920, in Ancestry.com. Montana, County Marriages, 1865-1987 [database
on-line]. Lehi, UT. USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2017; Minnesota
Alumni Weekly, 1 Oct 1920, p.14. Laura Babcock was living in Seattle with
her parents at the time of the 1920 Seattle census; she must have returned to
Montana for her marriage to C. O. Lande.
4 Craig Lande Oral History, p.3.
5 Lande Oral History, p.3. Research does not reveal much about the construction
date of the Lande Feed buildings or the various businesses that may have used
it. A Grange Hall and an attached vacant warehouse appear on the Renton
Sanborn Fire Insurance map for 1927. Newspaper mentions reveal that the
Grange Hall was used for dances and meetings, and Granville M. Conard
ran a retail meat market out of the Grange Warehouse in the early 1920s. In
March 1925 August E. Gerber advertised “the grange warehouse with railroad
spur” in Renton, for sale or rent. After C. O. Lande purchased it, the Grange
continued to meet upstairs in the hall for some years. Renton Bulletin, 23 Jul
1920, p.1, 2; 12 Nov 1920, p. 1, 8; 2 Dec 1921, p.3; 14 Apr 1922, p.6; “For
Sale,” classified ad, Seattle Times, 3 Mar 1925, p.13; “New Feed Store Opens
in Old Grange Warehouse,” Renton Chronicle, 14 Jul 1927, p.1.
6 Craig Lande Oral History, p.3.
7 Craig Lande Oral History, p.3.
8 Renton City Directory, 1929–1930, 1931–1932.
9 Craig Lande Oral History, p. 18-19.
10 Lande Feed ledgers, 1932–1950 (RHM# 2018.038.093, 2018.038.094,
2018.038.095).
11 Lande Feed ledgers, 1932–1950 (RHM# 2018.038.093, 2018.038.094,
2018.038.095).
12 Craig Lande Oral History, p.11.
13 Craig Lande Oral History, p.5-6.
14 Craig Lande Oral History, p.20.
15 Property Record Cards for Jeanette Conlon, H. H. Booth, and Daniel Ahern
(Puget Sound Branch, Washington State Archives). Daniel Ahern probably
learned dairy farming from his work as a young man on the farm at the
Briscoe Orphan Boys School in the 1920s; much later it emerged that a fair
amount of abuse had occurred at the school. Janet I. Tu, “Briscoe Memorial
School: ‘It was a Truly Brutal Place,’” Seattle Times, 22 Jul 2019.
16 Craig Lande Oral History, p.22.
17 Craig Lande Oral History, p.5.
18 Craig Lande Oral History, p.20.
Feed bins at Lande Feed, n.d. (RHM# 2018.038.074)
Lande Feed during demolition, 2002. (RHM# 2018.038.055)
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Lande Feed chalkboard, early 2002. (RHM# 2018.038.006)
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