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PPC. Plant Photograph Collections

 Record Group
Identifier: PPC

Found in 8 Collections and/or Records:

USDA Drug and Poisonous Plant Investigations Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0274
Content Description The USDA Drug and Poisonous Plant Investigations Photograph Collection consists of black-and-white lantern slides with images from research projects conducted by the Drug and Poisonous Plant Investigations division of the Bureau of Plant Industry. Some of the slides feature images of medicinal plant gardens at various institutions across the United States. Other subjects include drug plant field plots at the USDA South Farm in Beltsville, Maryland; drug plant specimens; distribution charts...
Dates: 1902-1943
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Botanic Garden Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0278
Content Description The Botanic Garden Photograph Collection consists of color and black and white lantern slides of U.S. and international botanic gardens and includes landscape and interior views, selected plant specimens, and garden design diagrams. Featured U.S. gardens are the Missouri Botanic Garden, the National Botanic Garden and the National Arboretum, Golden Gate Park, and New York Botanic Garden. International gardens include Botanischer Garten Berlin-Dahlem; Botanic Garden, Tokyo; Royal Botanic...
Dates: 1910-1922
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Poisonous Plant Research Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0279
Content Description The Poisonous Plant Research Photograph Collection contains black and white lantern slides of different species of livestock suffering from plant poisons. Most slides feature livestock that have been poisoned and/or include scientific name of poisonous plant species, animal type, animal number, and date and time of photograph. These captions allow the viewer to follow the course of a particular animal's reaction to a plant toxin. A few slide images show landscapes. A few images show...
Dates: 1907-1925
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Pear Psylla Control Investigations Lantern Slide Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0287
Content Description

The USDA Pear Psylla Control Investigations Lantern Slide Collection contains color lantern slides produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Fruit Insect Investigations, Pear Psylla Control. There are 13 slides of pears infected with pear psylla, 3 slides of maps, and a slide showing a chart of spraying operations in counties of Washington, Idaho, and Oregon in 1941.

Dates: 1941
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Strawberry Photographs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0330
Content Description

The Strawberry Photographs Collection contains black and white negatives, prints, and glass plate images of strawberry plants and activities related to strawberry cultivation.

Dates: 1887-1953
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Frank Leslie Duley Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0383
Content Description

The Frank Leslie Duley Photograph Collection consists of photographs and negatives of sorghum, corn, soil moisture, and soil structure. Many are not labeled geographically. Some are labeled with names of towns and cities in Nebraska, including Lincoln, Dalton, Chappell, and Gurley.

Dates: 1939-1965; Majority of material found within 1939-1940
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Tung Oil Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0384
Content Description

The Tung Oil Collection consists of one manuscript "Study on Tung" by W. L. Chia (1950) and several publications and photographs.

Dates: 1950
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Division of Forage Crops and Diseases Collection of Weed Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MS0194
Content Description The USDA Division of Forage Crops and Diseases Collection of Weed Photographs consists of approximately 1,400 negatives (glass and nitrate) and black and white photographs of weeds in different geographic locations. There are images of weed specimens, fields with weeds, experimental plots of land, weeds in suburban yards, downtown Washington, DC, corn fields, fallow fields, experiment stations, desert areas, and farm land, as well as examples of well-kept fields. There are also photographs...
Dates: 1906-1946
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections