UER. USDA Employee or Records

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The Frank Nicholas Meyer Collection consists of a typescript, a certificate, and photographs of Meyer.

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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 Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine Photograph Collection contains black and white photographs of Bureau of Plant Quarantine inspection personnel; plant inspection facilities in Washington and New Jersey; and inspection equipment. Personnel pictured include L. M. Scott, C. E. Cooley, Leonard S. McLaine, J. F. Olds, H. S. McLeod, T. A. Barnett, Donald P. Limber, Martin Hansen, Emile Kostal, Herbert L. Sanford, Charles E. Prince, Emmit I. Smith, John C. Pritchett,...

Content Description The Cornelius Lott Shear Papers contain certificates given to botanist and plant pathologist Shear, who traveled to foreign countries to research agriculture. Many of the certificates serve as introduction letters or statements of purpose presenting Shear’s credentials for official travel. An addition of two reprinted articles about Shear and a few personal photographs was made to the collection in 2011.A copy of Shear's 1898 collegiate yearbook, The...

Content Description The Index-Catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology Card Files contain the original catalog cards compiled by the USDA Bureau of Animal Industry to record and organize references to literature on topics related to parasitology. These cards predate the publication of the Index-Catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology, by Charles Wardell Stiles and Albert Hassall, published in USDA Bureau of Animal Industry Bulletin, no. 39., 1902-1912 (call number 1 An5B no. 39). The publication,...

Content Description The USDA Beltsville Agricultural Research Center Cattle Reproduction Photographs consist of approximately 100 black and white photographs in an album showing cattle reproduction subjects, such as artificial insemination, animal anatomy, and pathology. Photographs are primarily taken in Beltsville, Maryland, or at another USDA location; some are labeled. The album cover carries the title, "Beltsville Bulls"; however, the word "Bulls" appears to be partially erased. Photographs depict both...

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The Norman Alf Berg Letters consist of two letters to Norman A. Berg. One letter, dated January 5, 1998, is from U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Dan Glickman, granting Berg the honorary title of Chief Emeritus of the Natural Resources Conservation Service. The other letter, dated February 12, 1998, is from Thomas A. Weber, Acting Chief of the Natural Resources Conservation Service, congratulating Berg on receiving the honor.

Content Description The Sanitary Medicine Class Exercise Folio consists of a notebook containing an unidentified student's handwritten notes from Professor Daniel E. Salmon's first lectures at the newly established National Veterinary College in Washington, D.C. The notes extend from October 25, 1892 to March 10, 1893, and indicate that Salmon gave one to three lectures per week. The topic of the first two lectures was nomenclature; the third lecture covered methods to control animal diseases, especially...

Content Description The Gene L. Wunderlich Papers contain materials regarding the land economics programs of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), and more specifically, land economics agencies, committees, and programs of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and the Economic Research Service (ERS). Materials are chiefly concerned with the era from the late 1950s to the early 1970s. The documents consist of committee meeting reports, papers, correspondence, bibliographies, and other publications on land...

Content Description The U.S. National Fungus Collections Topical Files contain historical records assembled largely by John A. Stevenson during his 33 years of service as director of the U.S. National Fungus Collections. These materials reflect the history of American mycology and plant pathology and the relationship to the development of the U.S. National Fungus Collections in the 19th and 20th centuries. These files include correspondence; biographical information; unpublished manuscripts; information on...