UER. USDA Employee or Records

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The Paul C. Marth and John W. Mitchell Papers contain biographical information about both men; material gathered for the book Classic Papers in Horticultural Science; 66 of Marth's notebooks; Marth's 1942 Ph.D. thesis; reprints; and negatives of rose photographs. There is correspondence, mostly Marth's and very little of Mitchell's, as well as correspondence from 1987 between J. Ray Frank and Stephen Weller regarding Marth and Mitchell.

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The John R. Mohler Papers consist of photographs, Canadian exhibits, U.S. exhibits, a manuscript entitled "The Outbreak of Foot and Mouth Diseases in California," a log book, and certificates.

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The Collection on Henry Cantwell Wallace consists of press releases of addresses and statements made by Wallace while he was the United States Secretary of Agriculture.

Content Description The National School Lunch Week Scrapbooks consists of four large scrapbooks commemorating National School Lunch Week. The scrapbooks cover the years 1956 (the tenth anniversary of the National School Lunch Program), 1964, 1965, and 1966 (the twentieth anniversary of the program). The materials in the scrapbooks include correspondence, news clippings, report excerpts, press releases, photographs, articles, newsletters, artwork, audio scripts, and ephemera. Information from the USDA Consumer...

Content Description The USDA National Agricultural Library History Collection includes correspondence, reports, regulations, agreements, budget hearings, clippings, articles, newsletters, manuals, and photographs on library-related activities. Of particular note are the records from 1907 to 1940, when Claribel R. Barnett was not only head librarian for the USDA library, but she was also active in library-related organizations. The archival material includes papers relating to past directors of the library, such...

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The USDA Official Standards of the United States for Grades of Wool contains wool samples that document the 12 wool grade standards established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the 1920s, and the 13 standards for the 1940s. The standards are based on the fineness or diameter of the wool fiber. Samples show the maximum diameter or fineness of fiber for each of the grades. The collection includes wool standards for 1926, 1928, 1940, and 1966.

Content Description The Nils Andreas Olsen Collection consists of journals, ledgers, and other account books of the Evans Hardware Company, Princeton, Minnesota, covering transactions prior to 1920; records of Alfred Erickson, Washington County, Minnesota; meeting minutes, payroll book, cash books, and other records of the Golden Valley Creamery Association, a cooperative functioning from 1908 to 1910, and its member groups; crop reports and land development literature from the Great Plains states; some 19th...

Content Description The Deborah Griscom Passmore Watercolors consist of an original manuscript titled, Flowers in Water Color: Wildflowers of America, by Deborah G. Passmore. The collection contains 61 original watercolor paintings signed Passmore, as well as several signed sketches, unsigned works, and two watercolors signed by another artist, Dora Paxon. In the front of the volume, there is an anonymous, typescript biography of Passmore, which is immediately followed by a brief, handwritten note detailing...

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The Mary Engle Pennington Papers include articles, government bulletins, and speeches to technical and commercial organizations on the handling, refrigeration, transportation, and distribution of perishable foods.

Content Description The USDA Pink Bollworm Project Photograph Collection documents the work of the Plant Quarantine and Control Administration on bollworm detection, prevention, and quarantine measures. Photographs show scientists' processes for cleansing the soil of bollworms, views of infested fields, and the effects of bollworms on cotton and other plants. There are photographs of inspection sites in Texas and New Mexico; field clean-up activities in Arizona; and an album of colleagues' portraits presented...