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UER. USDA Employee or Records

 Record Group
Identifier: UER

Found in 234 Collections and/or Records:

Henry L. Shands Lantern Slide Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0364
Content Description

The Henry L. Shands Lantern Slide Collection consists of 27 lantern slides related to farming. Images show experimental fields and farming equipment. The slides are undated.

Dates: undated

John B. Carpenter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0368
Content Description The John B. Carpenter Papers include materials relating to Carpenter's project in the 1950s to create a subject index of Miles Joseph Berkeley's papers on Vegetable Pathology (1854-1857). The collection contains one bound volume, which includes the Vegetable Pathology papers, extracted by Carpenter in 1945 from the Gardener's Chronicle. There are ten pieces of correspondence between Carpenter and J. G. Dickson regarding Carpenter's index. Also included are two copies...
Dates: 1854-1954; Majority of material found within 1952-1954

Palemon Howard Dorsett Collection on Persimmons

 Collection
Identifier: MS0371
Content Description The Palemon Howard Dorsett Collection on Persimmons contains 200 photographs of persimmon fruits, trees, orchard workers, and related views. The photographs were taken by Dorsett on several plant exploration trips to Asia between 1924 and 1930. There are many handwritten captions and Chinese writing. Materials originated from the USDA New Crops Research Branch offices in Beltsville, Maryland. Some of the photographs may duplicate those found in the Dorsett-Morse Oriental Agricultural...
Dates: 1924-1930; Majority of material found within 1924-1925, 1930

Eduoard Horace Siegler Collection of Entomology Lantern Slides

 Collection
Identifier: MS0377
Content Description The Eduoard Horace Siegler Collection of Entomology Lantern Slides consists of slides that may have been used by travelling extension agents for instructional sessions. The title of one set of slides is "How Insects Attack Garden Vegetables and Methods of Control." It was a joint contribution of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Bureau of Entomology and the Extension Service, cooperating with the State Agricultural Colleges in extension work in agriculture and home economics. Some...
Dates: 1915-1931

William A. Taylor Memory Book

 Collection
Identifier: MS0378
Content Description The William A. Taylor Memory Book is a working copy of an album compiled by friends of Dr. William A. Taylor, former chief of the U. S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI), and presented to him in 1944. The memory book highlights the personnel and work of the Plant Industry Station in Beltsville, Maryland, in the 1940s. It contains reminiscences, reproductions of congratulatory letters, and photographs. Robert L. Taylor (no relation to William A. Taylor)...
Dates: 1944

Marvin A. Norcross Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0380
Content Description The Marvin A. Norcross Papers relate to food safety and food residues, including integrating the concept of risk assessment into food production and processing. There are manuscripts for presentations (including slides), publications, and awards. There is also research data associated with Norcross's Ph.D. thesis, titled "An Immunological Study of the Localization of Certain Chemical Carcinogens in Rat Tissue," along with black and white photographs of dissections, camera slides, and...
Dates: 1966-2007; Majority of material found within 1966-1996

Frank Leslie Duley Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0383
Content Description

The Frank Leslie Duley Photograph Collection consists of photographs and negatives of sorghum, corn, soil moisture, and soil structure. Many are not labeled geographically. Some are labeled with names of towns and cities in Nebraska, including Lincoln, Dalton, Chappell, and Gurley.

Dates: 1939-1965; Majority of material found within 1939-1940

George Burnet Rogers Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0385
Content Description The George Burnet Rogers Papers contain documents related to poultry and egg production, marketing, pollution, and other related research. Many of Rogers' publications and presentations are included, as well as a limited amount of his personal correspondence. The collection also contains poultry trade show pamphlets and programs; egg and poultry pricing documents; poultry and egg marketing, consumer, price-related papers, publications, research data; materials from private poultry companies...
Dates: 1950-1979

Thomas E. Devine Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0386
Content Description The Thomas E. Devine Papers contain materials from Devine’s career in research on the genetics and breeding of legumes (birdsfoot trefoil, alfalfa, and soybeans). Papers include information on conferences attended, advisory functions, professional organizations, and research-related correspondence. Many of Devine's 90 publications are included in the papers. There are also detailed field plans and evaluations from various research projects. The papers also include yearly performance records...
Dates: 1953-2009

USDA Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0392
Content Description The USDA Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory Photograph Collection includes photographs, associated notes, and a record book on various U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) activities and personnel, dated between 1888 and 1968. The collection contains a series of photographs related to testing insecticide spraying apparatuses on different crops between 1912 and 1944. Much of the collection consists of photographs of employees from departments of Plant Industry and Plant Pathology, and...
Dates: 1888-1968