PSC. Poultry Science Collections

Content Description The Leslie E. Card Papers contain correspondence, reports, publications, photographs, and miscellaneous papers relating to poultry industry and research in the United States. The correspondence documents early egg-laying contests. There is a comprehensive list, by state, of poultry farmers in the United States (1925). A group of materials relate to the James E. Rice testimonial dinner (1934). Also included are official publications, notes, and programs of the annual meetings of the Poultry...

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The Andrew Christie Papers consist of correspondence, newspaper clippings, and photographs concerning Christie's work with the Seventh World's Poultry Congress, held in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1939.

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The Clinton C. Hollenback Papers include personal correspondence and ledger accounts of purchases and sales of hatching eggs, baby chicks, and farm equipment. There are brochures, invoices, receipts, and price lists, along with detailed egg-production and incubation records of individual pedigree chickens, and numerous American Poultry Association prize ribbons awarded to Hollenback's entries in the 1919 Mukwonago, Wisconsin, Poultry Show.

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The Intercollegiate Poultry Judging Contest Records consist of five bound volumes listing poultry judging team members and coaches, and the names of the institutions that sponsored the teams. Also included are pictures of the winning team members and coaches.

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The Kimber Poultry Breeding Farms Records contain pedigrees of individual records attained by chickens in breeding pens from 1926 and 1927; a catalog describing factors in Kimber Farms' efforts to produce a more profitable White Leghorn chicken; newsletters; and a photograph.

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The Rupert Coles Papers consist of Christmas cards created from Coles's original artwork.

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The Arthur Francis Gannon Papers include correspondence and articles relating to Gannon's poultry projects.

Content Description This collection contains personal and organizational files of Alexander Gordeuk of Rahway, New Jersey. He was a member of U.S. Participation Committee, World's Poultry Congress and a staff coordinator for animal products, Merck, Sharp and Dohme Research Laboratories. The collection includes items relating to the U.S. Branch of the World Poultry Science Association and its Participation Committee's activities leading to and involvement in World's Poultry Congresses held in Mexico City, Mexico...

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The James M. Gwin Collection contains approximately 50,000 items of poultry information resources. It consists primarily of business correspondence pertaining to several poultry associations, catalogs from poultry equipment manufacturing firms, documents about early breeders in the poultry industry, egg and poultry legislation, papers on industry meetings held in various states of the United States, and miscellaneous publication clippings related to the egg and poultry industry.

Content Description The Charles J. Meler Papers include correspondence, egg marketing orders, and egg promotion material, including a proclamation by William G. Stratton, Governor of Illinois. Additionally, there are contracts for egg producers and started pullet growers, which were negotiated in Illinois and neighboring states. The collection contains bulletins of the Illinois Extension Service, publications of the American Poultry and Hatchery Federation and the Illinois Poultry Industry Council, and...