UER. USDA Employee or Records

Content Description The People on the Farm Program Records include correspondence, notes, drafts, manuscripts, photographs, and contact sheets for the "People on the Farm" leaflet series produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from 1977 to 1982. The collection includes a complete set of the published leaflets. Subjects include dairying, growing wheat, growing vegetables, growing oranges, black families, broiler growers, corn and hog farming, and raising beef cattle.The publication...

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The Ernest Imle Papers include photographs, reports, and articles about U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) rubber research from the 1940s to the 1970s, primarily at the Regional Rubber Experiment Station in Turrialba, Costa Rica. There are also articles and correspondence on tropical agriculture, including cacao, and publications on lilies.

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The Theodore Byerly Papers contain correspondence, manuscripts, publications, clippings, biographical information, photographs, and office files relating to Byerly's career in poultry science and his participation in agricultural organizations.

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The Everett Eugene Lund Papers contain Lund's notes, correspondence, biographical information on various parasitologists, and photographs and slides related to poultry diseases.

Content Description The U.S. National Parasite Collection Records contain photographs, line drawings, lantern slides, and negatives of animal parasites. Many of the drawings were used as illustrations for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) publications. There are copies of articles, reprints, and several manuscripts, materials on the history of animal parasitology in USDA, including biographical information on various scientists, photographs, and documents prepared for the centennial anniversary of the...

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The USDA Leather and Paper Laboratory Records include notebooks of specimen records, black and white photographs of animal and fish hides and skins, and publications.

Content Description The USDA National Agricultural Library Photograph Collection contains approximately 16,000 photographs of activities and events that took place at the National Agricultural Library (NAL) in Beltsville, Maryland. The photographs are housed in 116 albums, and include prints, negatives, and contact sheets. Photographs were primarily taken by NAL photographer Joseph Swab, as well as other photographers, including Dan Starr, who photographed from 1989 to 1993. Subjects include the NAL building...

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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.

Content Description The Royal Charles Steadman Watercolors consist of 12 paintings of sweet potatoes and 4 paintings of flowers. Steadman painted the sweet potato watercolors between 1923 and 1925. They are 17 1/2" x 13 7/8" in size, mounted on cardboard 22" x 16 3/4". The flower watercolors were painted in 1924 and 1928. They include daffodil "Mod de Graaff", specimen number 104840; iris "David Teniers", specimen number 104854; tulip "Baron de la Taunaye", specimen number an0006 ("an" refers to...

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The Wilbur Olin Atwater Papers contain correspondence, photographs, publications, and data sheets related to Atwater's research in the chemical composition of foods, dietary studies, and the respiration calorimeter.