Notes, articles, correspondence and published material on agricultural trade research and other topics

File — Box: 11/Porter 14

Identifier: XI.5

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Sub-Series:

Research materials collected by Porter, including correspondence, memoranda, notes, articles, reports, and published items, relating to the history of the Extension Service; materials on the foreign aid activities of the USDA, including the Technical Assistance Program; and materials about former USDA employees, including retiree newsletters and memoir's by Porter about her personal contacts with individuals such as Emerson Brooks.

The bulk of the Extension Service materials are organized into chronological files (giving a history of the Service by decades), and then by subject (such as "Programs" and "Administration and Policy). Additional files include a large group of Extension Service circulars from the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Following Porter's research materials are travel files; miscellaneous files on agricultural subjects including agricultural trade; other correspondence, charts, administrative material and personnel files; and a bound Extension Service Manual from 1926.

Dates

Creation: 1925 - 1985

Conditions Governing Access

Materials created by agencies or employees of the United States government are in the public domain. Unless specified otherwise, the copyright interests in materials acquired or collected by government employees from outside sources have not been transferred to NAL or to the U.S. government.

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