UER. USDA Employee or Records

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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 Franklin Benjamin Hough Papers consist of handwritten correspondence, agreements, and memoranda. Much of the correspondence deals with forestry matters and Hough’s paper, titled "The Duty of Governments in the Preservation of Forests," which he presented to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1873.

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The USDA Pear Psylla Control Investigations Lantern Slide Collection contains color lantern slides produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine, Fruit Insect Investigations, Pear Psylla Control. There are 13 slides of pears infected with pear psylla, 3 slides of maps, and a slide showing a chart of spraying operations in counties of Washington, Idaho, and Oregon in 1941.

Content Description The Hazel Katherine Stiebeling Papers span the period from 1919 to 1990. The collection includes articles pertaining to nutrition research, Dr. Stiebeling’s work and career highlights, along with publications by some of her colleagues in the nutrition field. The collection also includes photographs of agricultural research staff, nutrition professionals, and Dr. Hazel Stiebeling throughout her life and career. The Hazel Katherine Stiebeling Papers span the period from 1919 to 1990. The...

Content Description The USDA Extension Service Plan Exchange Records consist of plans for agricultural buildings and low-cost housing. Examples include bunkers, greenhouses, and tenant houses, as well as structures for housing and processing beef cattle, dairy cattle, horses, poultry, goats, swine, bees, and rabbits. There are also miscellaneous plans for machinery and equipment. The plans are the collective work of plan exchange engineers at U.S. land-grant universities, including Pennsylvania...

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The USDA Agricultural Research Service Photographs of Poultry and Livestock contain 26 albums with photographs of poultry, sheep, swine, cattle, and other livestock. Grouped by subject, many of the photographs were taken at the Beltsville (Maryland) Agricultural Research Center between 1906 and 1950. The bulk of the photographs are from 1910 to 1935. The albums also include lithographs from the mid-19th century.

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The Photographs of Gifford Pinchot contain approximately 30 glass negatives. The images include some of Pinchot operating a movie projector, fishing, working at his desk, and participating in a ceremony for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Negatives are numbered. They are undated, but may be from approximately 1923 to 1935.

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...

Content Description The USDA Division of Plant Exploration and Introduction Photograph Collection consists of lantern slides and negatives from three U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) plant-collecting expeditions, as follows: a trip to Southeast Asia and China in the latter half of 1922, possibly by J. F. Rock; a forage and fruit collecting trip to Germany and the Soviet Union from July to September 1929 by H. L. Westover and W. E. Whitehouse; and an expedition to Caucasus (now part of Azerbaijan, Armenia,...

Content Description The Collection of U.S. Forest Service Slide Presentations and Lassie Memorabilia contains informational presentations and promotional materials. The Forest Service presentation materials contain slides with accompanying audio recordings on cassettes and reel tapes. Topics of the presentations include environmental programs, the eruption of the Mount Saint Helens volcano in 1980, and the Resource Planning Act (RPA). The Lassie portion of the collection includes materials promoting forest...