UER. USDA Employee or Records

Content Description The USDA Economic Research Service Records of Farm Production Expenses were generated by staff in the Farm Income Sections and Projects, Bureau of Agricultural Economics. The records include correspondence, memoranda, research notes, surveys, descriptions of procedures, and documentation of estimates. There are a number of ledgers documenting expenditures, by state, for dairy supplies, seed, grazing fees, insurance, real estate, fertilizer, hired labor, board and lodgings, repairs, and...

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The Calvin Lunsford Beale Collection includes books, reprints, papers and correspondence. The collection also includes photographs and slides of over 2,000 county courthouses in the United States, which Beale visited during his career.

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The Thomas S. Buie Papers contain articles, memoranda, letters, and newspaper clippings pertaining to the Farm Bureau Federation's attempt to close regional offices of the Soil Conservation Service and the transfer their functions to other USDA agencies.

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The Douglas Helms Collection contains articles, books, reports, correspondence, photographs, films, oral histories, speeches, and research materials related to the history of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Soil Conservation Service, and its successor agency, the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

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The USDA Economic Research Service Files on Foreign Agriculture include: Japan agricultural policies and trade (1963-2009); Japan commodities (1960-1990); Japan, agriculture and food sector (1964-1992); files on South Korean agriculture (1946-1992); and Japan agricultural input files (1970-1990).

Content Description The USDA Plant Introduction Station (Chico, California) Photograph Collection consists primarily of photographs and negatives of pistachios that were grown in Chico, California. Photographers include W. E. Whitehouse, R. L. Taylor, J. C. Long, C. L. Stone, and Mitchell. Some photographs were taken at the Beltsville, Maryland, area and Washington, D.C., laboratories since specimens were sent there from Chico. Additional subjects include persimmons, walnuts, pears, crabapples, apricots, plums,...

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The Jane F. Robens Card Catalog contains bibliographic citations to literature on topics such as chemicals in foods, the effects of chemicals in the body, diseases from chemical exposure, toxicology of insecticides, and others. Literature is listed by subject, dates from 1911 to 1978, and consists of serials, reprints, and books.

Content Description The Plant Sciences Card Catalog of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Library was developed over a half century, and consists of three divisions: author catalog, plant pathology catalog, and subject catalog. Work on this catalog ceased on July 18, 1952 because of lack of funds.The plant science subject catalog (Botany Subject Index) is a card catalog with entries arranged alphabetically by subject and by scientific names, broken down into divisions and subdivisions of...

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The CPC Catalog contains bibliographic citations for plants and soils, mostly referring to articles, and the cards mostly carry the National Agricultural Library (NAL) cataloging system numbers. The cards are filed alphabetically by last name of author and by type of crop. Includes early horticultural literature from 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. There are both U.S. and foreign citations. Additions to the catalog may have ceased in the 1940s.

Content Description The USDA 150th Anniversary Time Capsule contains memorabilia and publicity materials related to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 150th anniversary activities held in 2012. Items include a commemorative DVD titled "Secretaries of Agriculture: 150 Years, 30 Leaders" and DVD recordings of original interviews with former Secretaries of Agriculture Clayton Yeutter, Mike Espy, Dan Glickman, Mike Johanns, Ed Schafer, John Block, Tom Vilsack, and Bob Bergland on DVD. There are also USDA timeline...