USDA Bureau of Entomology Album

The USDA Bureau of Entomology Album consists of black and white photographs, and press clippings. There is one U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Information publication dated 1958. The photographs are mainly of individuals associated with the Bureau, taken between 1925 and 1961. Most of the photos are unlabeled. Some of the labeled subjects include R. H. Nelson, Jessie Mingle, and P. G. Piguet. The album also includes three group photographs of the American Association of Economic Entomologists at Washington, D. C., January 2, 1925. There are also files on subjects that include: undated tornado damage at Beltsville, Maryland; the 1941 fire at Beltsville; and photographs of Eleanor Roosevelt.

The press clippings span 1937 to1966. Some subjects include: bees; William Robinson; G. Harris White; obituaries of Claribel Barnett, Percy Annand, Lee A. Strong, and Norman McIndoo; the 1941 fire at Beltsville; the Duke of Windsor visiting CCC camps; the National Youth Administration; insecticides, including DDT; the 1950 Beltsville forest fire; and visits of President Dwight D. Eisenhower and Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev.