UER. USDA Employee or Records

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The Warren R. Bailey papers include correspondence and information on meetings attended, unpublished reports by various authors on topics such as food production and farms, published reports by Bailey and various authors, and handwritten reports and notes from college classes in economics that he attended.

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The Rolla Kent Beattie Photograph Collection consists of negatives that relate to trips to Colorado, California, Hawaii, Florida, the District of Columbia, Japan, Formosa (Taiwan), Hong Kong, Indochina, Cambodia, Malaya, China, France, and England, where he visited shrines, temples, pagodas, gardens, parks, graves, exhibits, and tourist areas. The images document cultural and scenic aspects of the trips.

Content Description The Layne R. Beaty Papers focus on the history of farm radio and television broadcasting in the United States and on the origins and development of the National Farm and Home Hour, a popular radio program during the 20th century. There is a small number of documents relating to Voice of America and Clear Channel Broadcasting. Beaty's papers include photographs, correspondence, reports, surveys, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, farm radio and television station promotional literature,...

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The Collection on Robert Selmer Bergland includes a photograph album of a trip to the Philippines, which was presented to Bergland by the National Grains Authority.

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The Harry Alfred Borthwick Papers contain reprints, experiment results, correspondence, abstracts, manuscripts, photographs, negatives, positives, maps, graphs, tables, charts, slides, and notebooks. There are indexes to the reprints, abstracts, photographs, and negatives.

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The Everett Eugene Edwards Papers include Edwards' writings, speeches, bibliographies, administrative information related to his position at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), materials for courses he taught, and historical materials that he may have used for research.

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The Gene Eisenbeiss Papers include administrative files, such as correspondence regarding registration of cultivar names, location of cultivars for purchase, and information requested about the Ilex genus (holly and its relatives). There are also miscellaneous publications and literature on plants, as well as engraving blocks of holly illustrations used for publications and given to Eisenbeiss by Harry William Dengler of the Extension Service, USDA, at the University of Maryland.

Content Description The Elsie Carper Collection on USDA Extension Service, Home Economics, and 4-H contains materials relating to early cooperative extension work, largely compiled by Extension specialists and program leaders over Carper's many years of employment as a clerk at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Subject areas include Cooperative Extension history, early history of Extension home economics, the Extension Homemaker's Organization, early history of the National Association of Extension...

Content Description The Leon Moyer Estabrook Manuscript is an unbound, 5,000 page typescript titled "Life of One American: Memoirs of Leon M. Estabrook," written between 1930 and 1936. Starting with his birth in 1869, Estabrook chronicled his life and work as a statistician and employee in U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Bureau of Statistics and Crop Estimation. The typescript includes descriptions of the early years of the Bureau of Plant Industry and interactions with prominent USDA scientists,...

Content Description The USDA Crop Fiber Research Collection contains documents relating to more than 300 genera of plants used for fiber. The materials cover the subject of natural plant fiber crops other than cotton and include information on cordage, textiles, and miscellaneous fibers as well as the products made from them. There are reprints and photocopies of fiber articles with an extensive card index, manuscripts, foreign and domestic publications, promotional brochures, reports, newspaper clippings,...