UER. USDA Employee or Records

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The USDA Graduate School Records contain catalogs, schedules of classes, annual reports, newsletters, promotional materials, newspaper articles, lectures, publications, legal memoranda and correspondence, a history of origin, 25th and 50th anniversary materials, self-evaluation and long range planning information, regulations and operating procedures, general administration files, educational statistics, a filmstrip, and an audio tape.

Scope and Contents The USDA History Collection documents the work of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), its staff, and its agencies. It is particularly strong concerning the activities of the Secretaries of Agriculture, their assistants and staffs, especially for the administrations of Henry Agard Wallace, Ezra Taft Benson, and Orville Lothrop Freeman. Large sections of the records relate to the USDA's response to such crises as World War I, World War II, and the Great Depression; droughts, floods, and...

Content Description The USDA and National Cancer Institute Plant Collections Records consist of 36 three-ring binders, known as active books, organized geographically. Each active book contains forms, called active sheets, that were used to record data and procurement status for plant species collected in approximately 40 specific geographic areas. Plants represented in the records were collected for studies of their antitumor activity. Active sheets were filed alphabetically by genus and species name within a...

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The U.S. Forest Service Smokey Bear Collection consists of various materials related to the Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention (CFFP) campaign and the promotion of the campaign's symbol, Smokey Bear. Collection materials include posters, photographs, audiovisuals, document files, publications, cartoons, original artwork, and a wide variety of promotional products, artifacts, and ephemera, some of which are from countries outside the United States.

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The Harold Kent Street Papers include resumes, official correspondence related to his various positions at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), newspaper clippings, unpublished works, photographs, and the article "The Restless Earth" by Nigel Calder.

Content Description The Henry Agard Wallace Collection in Special Collections of the National Agricultural Library occupies eight linear feet, consisting of eight document boxes and four flat pamphlet boxes. The inclusive dates of the collection are 1921-1943, with the bulk of the records from 1933-1940, during Wallace's tenure as Secretary of Agriculture. The collection was originally housed in the library of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. The Collection on Henry Agard Wallace includes press releases of...

Content Description The USDA Division of Forage Crops and Diseases Collection of Weed Photographs consists of approximately 1,400 negatives (glass and nitrate) and black and white photographs of weeds in different geographic locations. There are images of weed specimens, fields with weeds, experimental plots of land, weeds in suburban yards, downtown Washington, DC, corn fields, fallow fields, experiment stations, desert areas, and farm land, as well as examples of well-kept fields. There are also photographs...

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This document is a broadside titled United States Department of Agriculture Organization for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1914, and was prepared by N.E. Fealey. The document includes budget figures.

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The Vivian Wiser Manuscript consists of draft copies of seven chapters written by Wiser about U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) history. The drafts trace the origins and development of the USDA, starting with the establishment of the federal government under the U.S. Constitution in 1789, and continuing through the New Deal agricultural programs of the 1930s.