UER. USDA Employee or Records

Content Description The Raymond Andrew Ioanes Papers include correspondence and memoranda from the Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS), speeches given by Ioanes, and two photographs. Topics include the 20th-century history of FAS, foreign agricultural trade, the dispersal of surplus agricultural products in foreign countries, and trade relations with Russia, the European Community (EC), and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Materials relating to the Association for Diplomatic Studies' Foreign...

Content Description The International Screwworm Eradication Program Records document screwworm eradication efforts in international programs. Countries represented in this collection include Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belize, Brazil, Costa Rica, Curacao, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, England, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, North Africa (including Libya), Panama, Paraguay, and the United States. Some records are organized by region, including Central America and the West Indies. Materials...

Content Description The Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) History Collection contains materials from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Visitor Center in Beltsville, Maryland. Materials include land surveys, building specifications, blueprints, and reports about the Visitor Center; a photograph album compiled by Robert T. Walker, former BARC landscape architect, showing the construction of BARC buildings (Departmental Laboratory Group, Main Lab, Mansion House, Sheep Barn,...

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The Sterling Brown Hendricks Papers consists primarily of article reprints written and compiled by Hendricks, a USDA scientist and administrator from 1922 to 1970. Annual reports from the Mineral Nutrition Laboratory for the years 1958 to 1969 and reference articles are also included.

Content Description The USDA Potato Research Collection consists primarily of photographs used for research studies, which document labs, fields, experiments, types of potatoes, equipment, personnel, and staff portraits. Various locations are represented, including: Potomac Flats in Washington, D.C.; Honeoye Falls, New York; the Colorado Potato Experiment Station; and locations in Idaho, Oregon, California, Minnesota, Michigan, South Dakota, and Texas. Formats are mostly black and white photograph prints, but...

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The Charles R. Gunn Collection contains negatives, slides, photographs, and artwork for USDA publications authored or co-authored by Gunn.

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The Henry L. Shands Lantern Slide Collection consists of 27 lantern slides related to farming. Images show experimental fields and farming equipment. The slides are undated.

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The USDA Fruit Laboratory Card Files contain a series of catalog cards describing of a wide range of fruits. Card entries include dates of information.

Content Description The John B. Carpenter Papers include materials relating to Carpenter's project in the 1950s to create a subject index of Miles Joseph Berkeley's papers on Vegetable Pathology (1854-1857). The collection contains one bound volume, which includes the Vegetable Pathology papers, extracted by Carpenter in 1945 from the Gardener's Chronicle. There are ten pieces of correspondence between Carpenter and J. G. Dickson regarding Carpenter's index. Also included are two copies...

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The United States Dietary Guidelines Records contain correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, drafts, publications, articles, posters, and audiotapes. There are also committee papers, including materials from the U.S Senate Agriculture Committee and the Senate Nutrition Subcommittee. Additional materials include publications from the Nutrition Subcommittee, along with dietary goals and guidelines documents.