UER. USDA Employee or Records

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The USDA Foot and Mouth Disease Research Laboratory Records consist of office files, correspondence, newspaper clippings, press releases, publications, reports to Congress, and materials related to cooperation between the United States and Mexico to eradicate foot-and-mouth disease in Mexico. These records support the plans of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to increase the security of the United States from foot-and-mouth disease through research during the late 1940s.

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The USDA National Commission on Small Farms Records include administrative files; transcripts (paper, tape, and disk) of public hearings; letters from farmers; executive correspondence; memoranda; drafts and a final copy of "Report of the USDA National Commission on Small Farms: A Time to Act"; letterhead and design for final report; email requests for copies of the NCSF report; computer disks containing small farm documents; NCSF committee reports; and miscellaneous resource documents.

Content Description The USDA Division of Agricultural Engineering Records contain photographs, glass negatives, and acetate negatives of images relating to agricultural engineering. Some of the subjects include irrigation, drainage, farm buildings, farm power and machinery, crops and crop conditioning, harvesting, care and handling of products, road construction, and farm electrification. Additionally, there are articles on agricultural engineering and farm electrification. The collection also contains speeches...

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The USDA Administrators Oral History Video Recordings consist of videotaped oral histories of senior members of the department's administration who served between 1993 and 2000. Former U.S. Secretaries of Agriculture Dan Glickman and Mike Espy are among those interviewed. The interviews were recorded in 2000 and 2001. The collection also includes print and electronic transcripts and a few audiotapes.

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The USDA Extension Service Plan Exchange Records consist of plans for agricultural structures and low-cost housing. The plans were the result of the collective work of plan exchange engineers at U.S. land-grant universities. Each plan has a date and a reference number.

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...

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The USDA Commodity Stabilization Service Records contain handwritten notes or typescript charts with statistical figures about the production and trade of chemicals used as insecticides in commercial agriculture.

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The U.S. Forest Service Uniform is a uniform jacket from the 1960s. It belonged to Donald K. Morriss, former Head of Timber Inventory in the Washington Office, who retired in 1967 and moved to Port Charlotte, Florida.

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The USDA Office of the General Counsel Legislative Histories Collection consists of 517 bound volumes containing materials related to U.S. federal laws pertaining to agriculture. The volumes are arranged by congressional session number, then by public law number. Within each public law section, the documents are ordered by date. The collection is not exhaustive but includes major pieces of legislative history related to federal agricultural laws.

Content Description The Charles Valentine Riley Printing Blocks consist of 1,211 woodcuts, electrotypes (electroplated lead molds of original engravings), and metal casts used to illustrate Riley's publications. Approximately 508 blocks were figures for the nine annual reports (1869-1877) produced by Riley when he served as Missouri's first state entomologist. Other printing blocks were used in publications such as American Entomologist and American Entomologist and Botanist. Some of the electrotypes are...