SEPR. Screwworm Eradication Program Records

Content Description The Screwworm Eradication Program Oral Histories contain video and audio recordings, and printed transcripts of interviews with persons involved in the U.S. Screwworm Eradication Program. Among the interviewees are: former U.S. Representative Eligio "Kika" de la Garza of Texas; longtime Mexican-American program employees Manuel Ortega and Santana Munoz; technician Jimmy Bruce; Edward F. Knipling, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entomologist and leading theoretician for the program;...

Content Description The Alfred H. Baumhover Papers include reports, correspondence, publications, public information materials, photographs, awards, notes, and artifacts. Baumhover collected the materials during his involvement in the eradication of the screwworm from the United States and the island of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles.Baumhover (b. 1921), an entomologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is known for his contributions to the screwworm eradication programs of the 1950s...

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The Collection on Severn Run's Cazador, Screwworm Detection Dog includes photographs, correspondence, Cazador's working gear, a short biography by John B. Welch, and a wooden box containing Cazador's remains.

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The John Wyss Papers contain office files, reports, meeting files, brochures, newsletters, photographs and slides, blueprints, floppy disks and CD-ROMs, promotional materials, and publications related to the screwworm eradication effort in Mexico and Central America. The materials include plans for a screwworm rearing facility in Pacora, Panama.

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The Screwworm Eradication Program Artifacts contain materials used in various screwworm eradication program areas, including screwworm fly dispersal boxes, a collection tube, a collection cup and holders, and signs.

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The Chester N. Husman Awards: Screwworm Eradication Program Records contains three awards given in recognition of work achievement in to Chester N. Husman and the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) for the screwworm eradication efforts in Mexico. The awards were provided by the U.S. War Department, dated 1947; the government of Mexico, dated 1991; and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), dated 1971. All awards are in print format; the award from the USDA is in a wooden frame.

Content Description The International Screwworm Eradication Program Records document screwworm eradication efforts in international programs. Countries represented in this collection include Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belize, Brazil, Costa Rica, Curacao, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, England, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, North Africa (including Libya), Panama, Paraguay, and the United States. Some records are organized by region, including Central America and the West Indies. Materials...

Content Description The Edward Fred Knipling Papers are part of the Screwworm Eradication Program Records in the Special Collections of the USDA National Agricultural Library. The Knipling papers cover the areas of entomology researched by Knipling during his career with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), including his early research on the screwworm and the eradication efforts in Curacao, Netherlands Antilles, and the Southeast United States in the 1950s. Knipling's research included parasite control...

Content Description The Screwworm Eradication Program Records for the Southwestern United States and Mexico contain documents related to sterile fly production plants in Mission, Texas, and Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico. Included in the records are reports, research data, correspondence, fly production and release records, manuscripts, manuals and regulations, publications, notes, case reports, photographs, public information materials, and artifacts.Much of the collection relates to field...

Content Description The Screwworm Eradication Program Records for the Southeastern United States consist of documents describing various early proposals for eradicating screwworms, experiments and field tests in Florida and Curacao, the rearing and transportation of sterile flies, the building of fly-rearing facilities in Florida, the use of radiation to sterilize flies, treatments for wounded animals, and the eradication program in the Southeastern U.S. The materials include publications, surveys, reports,...