PSC. Poultry Science Collections

Content Description The George Burnet Rogers Papers contain documents related to poultry and egg production, marketing, pollution, and other related research. Many of Rogers' publications and presentations are included, as well as a limited amount of his personal correspondence. The collection also contains poultry trade show pamphlets and programs; egg and poultry pricing documents; poultry and egg marketing, consumer, price-related papers, publications, research data; materials from private poultry companies...

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The USDA Environmental Chemistry Laboratory Collection on Poultry Feather Research consists of photographs and negatives of poultry science activities and staff, business notes and correspondence, and approximately 30 samples of products made from feathers, such as fabric swatches, cardboard, and yarn.

Content Description The Albert Wade Brant Collection contains copies of scientific literature and unpublished documents on poultry meat and egg research, dating from approximately 1930 until 1998. An author file of 17,000 cards accompanies the publications. The abstracts were generated or made available by the following organizations or individuals: Institute of American Poultry Industries; University of Illinois; U.S. Egg and Poultry Magazine; Dr. George F. Stewart and A. Wade Brant.Other materials...

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

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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.

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

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The Poultry and Egg National Board Records include board meeting minutes, financial statements, annual reports, egg promotional material, new product research, cholesterol and fat studies, diet and nutritional cookbooks, reports of the American Home Economics Association conferences, and reports of the 1969 White House Conference on Nutrition.

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The Cackelator is an electronic instrument housed in a leather luggage-style case. It was used by Ag-Way Coop representatives as an early on-the-farm "computer" to formulate poultry feed mixtures based on flock production factors such as body weight and egg weight. This briefcase-sized device was carried to the farm and used by the feed representative and flock owner to determine nutritional inputs that would provide the highest net income for the poultry farmer.

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The Poultry Processing Photograph Collection consists primarily of black and white prints and negatives of various dimensions, mounted and unmounted, representing stages in the handling and processing of poultry and eggs. There are some color images and written material related to poultry technology.