UER. USDA Employee or Records

Content Description The Alfred H. Baumhover Papers include reports, correspondence, publications, public information materials, photographs, awards, notes, and artifacts. Baumhover collected the materials during his involvement in the eradication of the screwworm from the United States and the island of Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles.Baumhover (b. 1921), an entomologist for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), is known for his contributions to the screwworm eradication programs of the 1950s...

Content Description The Hazel Katherine Stiebeling Papers span the period from 1919 to 1990. The collection includes articles pertaining to nutrition research, Dr. Stiebeling’s work and career highlights, along with publications by some of her colleagues in the nutrition field. The collection also includes photographs of agricultural research staff, nutrition professionals, and Dr. Hazel Stiebeling throughout her life and career. The Hazel Katherine Stiebeling Papers span the period from 1919 to 1990. The...

Content Description The USDA Extension Service Plan Exchange Records consist of plans for agricultural buildings and low-cost housing. Examples include bunkers, greenhouses, and tenant houses, as well as structures for housing and processing beef cattle, dairy cattle, horses, poultry, goats, swine, bees, and rabbits. There are also miscellaneous plans for machinery and equipment. The plans are the collective work of plan exchange engineers at U.S. land-grant universities, including Pennsylvania...

Content Description The USDA Agricultural Research Service Photographs of Poultry and Livestock consists of 26 photographic albums with images of poultry, sheep, swine, cattle, and other livestock. Each album contains 100 to 200 pages, with one to six photographs per page. Grouped by subject, many of the photographs were taken at the Beltsville (Maryland) Agricultural Research Center between 1841 and 1950. The bulk of the photographs are from 1910 to 1935. The albums also include lithographs from the mid-19th...

Content Description The USDA Drug and Poisonous Plant Investigations Photograph Collection consists of black-and-white lantern slides with images from research projects conducted by the Drug and Poisonous Plant Investigations division of the Bureau of Plant Industry. Some of the slides feature images of medicinal plant gardens at various institutions across the United States. Other subjects include drug plant field plots at the USDA South Farm in Beltsville, Maryland; drug plant specimens; distribution charts...

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The Photographs of Gifford Pinchot contain approximately 30 glass negatives. The images include some of Pinchot operating a movie projector, fishing, working at his desk, and participating in a ceremony for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Negatives are numbered. They are undated, but may be from approximately 1923 to 1935.

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The USDA Engineering Division Personnel Photograph Collection consists of a photograph album with both group and individual images of Engineering Division staff members. Photographs were taken in March 1924, and include the following groups: Research, Engineering, Grazing, Forest Management, District 7, Operations, Public Relations, Lands, Forester and Branch Chiefs, and Finance and Accounts.

Content Description The USDA Division of Land Economics Records consist of reports, correspondence, and publications relating to the work of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Division of Land Economics. Most of the material was produced by the bureau or the division, though there is also some material from the Land Utilization Division of the Resettlement Administration. Topics include general land policy and policy planning, zoning, settlement patterns, local land utilization studies, tenancy and land...

Content Description The USDA Division of Plant Exploration and Introduction Photograph Collection consists of lantern slides and negatives from three U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) plant-collecting expeditions, as follows: a trip to Southeast Asia and China in the latter half of 1922, possibly by J. F. Rock; a forage and fruit collecting trip to Germany and the Soviet Union from July to September 1929 by H. L. Westover and W. E. Whitehouse; and an expedition to Caucasus (now part of Azerbaijan, Armenia,...

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The USDA Textile Publications Collection consists of brochures, reprints, leaflets, bulletins, and newspaper clippings related to clothing, textile history, fashion, fabrics, construction, consumer advice, and sewing machines.