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SEPR. Screwworm Eradication Program Records

 Record Group
Identifier: SEPR

Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:

Screwworm Eradication Program Promotional Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MS0214
Content Description

The Screwworm Eradication Program Promotional Materials include items relating to screwworm eradication programs in the Southwestern United States, Mexico, Central America, and North Africa. There are public information and promotional materials such as baseball caps, mugs, calendars, key rings, bumper stickers, publications and brochures, photographs, fly case collection reports, 16-millimeter films, and fly distribution artifacts.

Dates: 1976-2003
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Screwworm Eradication Program Audiovisual Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MS0215
Content Description

The Screwworm Eradication Program Audiovisual Materials include photographs, slides, and films portraying screwworm eradication efforts in the United States, Mexico, and South America.

Dates: 1944-2003
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Screwworm Eradication Program Oral Histories

 Collection
Identifier: MS0305
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;...
Dates: 2000-2004
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

John Wyss Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0338
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1976-2003
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections