PSC. Poultry Science Collections

Content Description The World's Poultry Science Association U.S.A. Branch Records contain materials pertaining to the organization of the World's Poultry Science Association (WPSA) U.S.A. Branch, the Branch constitution and bylaws, and lists of members, including the officers and members of the Council and Board of Directors. There are minutes of the Board meetings and annual membership meetings. Detailed financial records cover years 1966 through 1993. Correspondence includes exchanges between the U.S. and...

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The American Poultry Historical Society Artifacts include a marble rooster, an electronic egg, model poultry houses, an Utgaard Hatchery box, and poultry feed burlap sacks.

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The Soren Husman Papers contain photographs of Husman and of the California Turkey Industry Federation (1925-1939), personal correspondence, and a newspaper clipping.

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The Theodore Byerly Papers contain correspondence, manuscripts, publications, clippings, biographical information, photographs, and office files relating to Byerly's career in poultry science and his participation in agricultural organizations.

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The Everett Eugene Lund Papers contain Lund's notes, correspondence, biographical information on various parasitologists, and photographs and slides related to poultry diseases.

Content Description The Thomas Burr Charles Poultry Scrapbooks consist mainly of newspaper clippings on research, events, and notable individuals of the poultry industry, especially those located in New Hampshire. There are articles on the development of the New Hampshire chicken breed. The collection also contains correspondence both to and from Charles, poultry event notices and programs, obituaries, invitations and announcements, magazine articles, and ephemera. Some items cover topics other than poultry,...

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The Poultry Industry Hall of Fame Records contain nomination forms of American Poultry Historical Society members who were inducted into the Hall of Fame, artwork for Hall of Fame plaques, and correspondence regarding the preparation of plaques. See also the John Louis Skinner Collection, MS 153.

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The Walter W. Sadler Papers consist of reprints of 55 of Sadler's published papers. Sadler wrote a variety of journal articles and essays on topics such as hatchability of poultry eggs, pasteurization of milk, care of bats, salmonella in turkeys, avian diseases, animal-borne infections, and food-borne diseases of animal origin, among other subjects.

Content Description The Harlan Loy Shrader Collection contains materials collected by Shrader while he served as a senior extension poultry husbandman from 1926 to 1959. The materials include reports, articles, newsletters, clippings, photographs, booklets, correspondence, items from various poultry extension services, a metal model of everted baby chick vents, and other items. Some of the materials pertain to the American Poultry Historical Society. There are also materials related to the Chicken of Tomorrow...

Content Description The Woodrow R. Jenkins Collection contains mostly slides from Jenkins' time as a poultry extension scientist for the Extension Service from 1960 to 1979. The slides show visits to various poultry farms or businesses; a 1961 poultry fact-finding conference; a script for "Poultry Production-Civil Defense"; and various meetings, conferences, and workshops. Also included are black and white photographs and reels of film. The films are titled "Peanut Hull Logs" and "Magic Eggs". There is an...