USDA Division of Cereal Crops and Diseases Photograph Collection

Collection

Identifier: MS0245

Staff Only

Content Description

The USDA Division of Cereal Crops and Diseases Photograph Collection contains glass and acetate negatives, as well as black and white prints. Subjects include aspects of cereal crop classification, production, utilization, farm machinery, diseases, and pests in the United States and foreign countries. Crops pictured include corn, barley, oats, sorghum, sorgo, milo, millet, wheat, flax, rice, rye, and kafir. A number of the negatives were used in the Journal of Agricultural Research, U.S. Department of Agriculture bulletins, circulars, yearbooks, and other reports.

Dates

Creation: 1898-1951
Creation: Majority of material found within 1903-1930

Conditions Governing Access

Contact Special Collections for access.

Organizational History

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Bureau of Plant Industry created a Division of Cereal Crops and Diseases in 1938, due to the expanding functions of the bureau related to the reorganization of USDA. The work of this division involved various aspects of crop pathology and physiology, as well as several important diseases affecting crops. This division became part of the Field Crops Divisions of the Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering in 1946; the Field Crops Group in 1951; and the Field Crops Research Branch of the Agricultural Research Service (as the Cereal Crops Section) in 1953.