UER. USDA Employee or Records

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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 Julien N. Friant Papers include Friant's correspondence with many U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials, such as Henry A. Wallace, Paul Appleby, Chester Davis, and Rex Tugwell. There is also substantial correspondence with James Farley and others. The material covers activities related to personnel work of the USDA, the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, the Democratic Party, and congressional relations.

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The USDA Livestock Insects Laboratory Records include reports, data sheets, correspondence, technical bulletins, and journal articles.

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The Charles Thom Papers cover materials from Thom's college years to biographical memoirs published after his death. The collection includes correspondence, notes, notebooks, essays, lectures, speeches, diaries, journals, and lantern slides from professional trips. There are also published items, including monographs, journal articles, and newspaper clippings. The majority of the collection focuses on soil microbiology, mycology, food spoilage, food poisoning, and penicillin.

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The Paul C. Marth and John W. Mitchell Papers contain biographical information about both men; material gathered for the book Classic Papers in Horticultural Science; 66 of Marth's notebooks; Marth's 1942 Ph.D. thesis; reprints; and negatives of rose photographs. There is correspondence, mostly Marth's and very little of Mitchell's, as well as correspondence from 1987 between J. Ray Frank and Stephen Weller regarding Marth and Mitchell.

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The John R. Mohler Papers consist of photographs, Canadian exhibits, U.S. exhibits, a manuscript entitled "The Outbreak of Foot and Mouth Diseases in California," a log book, and certificates.

Content Description The Deborah Griscom Passmore Watercolors consist of an original manuscript titled, Flowers in Water Color: Wildflowers of America, by Deborah G. Passmore. The collection contains 61 original watercolor paintings signed Passmore, as well as several signed sketches, unsigned works, and two watercolors signed by another artist, Dora Paxon. In the front of the volume, there is an anonymous, typescript biography of Passmore, which is immediately followed by a brief, handwritten note detailing...

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The Mary Engle Pennington Papers include articles, government bulletins, and speeches to technical and commercial organizations on the handling, refrigeration, transportation, and distribution of perishable foods.

Content Description The USDA Pink Bollworm Project Photograph Collection documents the work of the Plant Quarantine and Control Administration on bollworm detection, prevention, and quarantine measures. Photographs show scientists' processes for cleansing the soil of bollworms, views of infested fields, and the effects of bollworms on cotton and other plants. There are photographs of inspection sites in Texas and New Mexico; field clean-up activities in Arizona; and an album of colleagues' portraits presented...

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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.