UER. USDA Employee or Records

Collection Description The USDA History Collection documents the work of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), its staff and agencies. It is particularly strong concerning the activities of the Secretaries of Agriculture, their assistants and staffs, especially for the administrations of Henry Agard Wallace, Ezra Taft Benson, and Orville Lothrop Freeman. Large sections of the records relate to the USDA's response to such crises as World War I, World War II, and the Great Depression; droughts, floods, and...

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The USDA Farmers Home Administration Farm Building Plans include compilations of house plans and heating duct layouts. There is a series of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) publications entitled "House Planning Aids." These small publications contain information about how to design and arrange various parts of a home.

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The Joseph Swab Publication collection contains bibliographies, pamphlets, newsletters, and forms whose layouts were designed by Swab, primarily from 1970 to 1998. The collection also contains a select number of older materials designed by others.

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The USDA Agricultural Research Service Biological Control Center Reference Files are unprocessed reference materials used by the Biological Control Center staff when the center was located at the USDA National Agricultural Library. There are 138 linear feet of books and 110 linear feet of files, which contain papers, clippings, and reprints.

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The Harold F. Breimyer Papers include correspondence produced during Breimyer's association with the American Agricultural Economics Association (AAEA) and the American Farm Economic Association (AFEA), programs of meetings, reprints, and newspaper clippings related to AAEA and AFEA.

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The USDA Chestnut Tree Research Records documents chestnut tree seed distribution and growth across the United States, England, and Canada in the early-to-mid-twentieth century. The program served to reintroduce and monitor the progress of various species of chestnut trees following the introduction of Cryphonectria parasitica, or chestnut blight, from East Asia to North America and Europe in the early 1900s.

Content Description The Layne R. Beaty Papers focus on the history of farm radio and television broadcasting in the United States and on the origins and development of the National Farm and Home Hour, a popular radio program during the 20th century. There is a small number of documents relating to Voice of America and Clear Channel Broadcasting. Beaty's papers include photographs, correspondence, reports, surveys, newspaper clippings, magazine articles, farm radio and television station promotional literature,...

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The U.S. Forest Service History Collection contains forester field notes, photographs, negatives, slides, films, videos, audio cassettes, albums, manuals, speeches, t-shirts, pins, oral histories, and other files related to U.S. Forest Service history.

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The Rudolph Wendelin Collection of Smokey Bear Paintings consists of 19 original oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings by former U.S. Forest Service artist Rudolph "Rudy" Wendelin. The paintings depict various scenes featuring the fictional character Smokey Bear, symbol of the Forest Service's wildfire prevention campaign.

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The Ronald Fayer Papers consist primarily of reprints of over 400 published research papers, book chapters, and abstracts authored or co-authored by Fayer. Other materials in the collection include copies of patents awarded to Fayer, news clippings about his research on sarcocystis, and awards. There is also an undated, large format aerial photograph of the Animal Parasite Institute buildings at the Beltsville (Maryland) Agricultural Research Center.