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Intercollegiate Poultry Judging Contest Records
Collection
Identifier: MS0086
Content Description
The Intercollegiate Poultry Judging Contest Records consist of five bound volumes listing poultry judging team members and coaches, and the names of the institutions that sponsored the teams. Also included are pictures of the winning team members and coaches.
Dates:
1920-1965
International Food Data Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS0515
Content Description
Nutrition data and copies of relevant articles about nutrition data from multiple countries around the world, collected by Barbara Petersen and Exponent Inc. in the course of their work.Locations covered: Australia, Bangladesh, Belgium, Bolivia, Brazil, Bulgaria, Cameroon, Chile, China, Colombia, Costa Rica, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, England, Ethiopia, Europe (misc), Fiji, Finland, Germany, Greece, Guatemala, Guyana, Haiti, Hong...
Dates:
Publication: 1973 - 2001; Publication: Majority of material found in 1980s and 1990s
International Food Information Service Records
Collection
Identifier: MS0283
Content Description
The International Food Information Service Records include minutes of meetings, correspondence, reports, financial statements, and directories.
Dates:
1970-1993
International Organization for Biological Control Records
Collection
Identifier: MS0405
Content Description
The International Organization for Biological Control Records contain correspondence; treasurer's reports with information about membership applications and renewals; accounting records; bank statements, receipts, and withdrawals; abstracts of the journal Entomophaga; and mailing lists.
Dates:
1971-1981
International Screwworm Eradication Program Records
Collection
Identifier: MS0355
Content Description
The International Screwworm Eradication Program Records document screwworm eradication efforts in international programs. Countries represented in this collection include Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belize, Brazil, Costa Rica, Curacao, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, England, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, North Africa (including Libya), Panama, Paraguay, and the United States. Some records are organized by region, including Central America and the West Indies. Materials...
Dates:
1954-2002; Majority of material found within 1976-2000
Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Frank Nicholas Meyer
Collection
Identifier: MS0240
Content Description
The Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Frank Nicholas Meyer consists of photocopies of original correspondence, documents, and articles relating to Frank N. Meyer (1875-1918), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) plant explorer from 1902 to 1918. The materials were collected by Isabel S. Cunningham during research for her book, Frank N. Meyer: Plant Hunter in Asia. In April 2006, Cunningham donated more of her research notes, articles, photographs, and a first edition annotated copy of...
Dates:
1907-1919
Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Howard Scott Gentry
Collection
Identifier: MS0346
Content Description
The Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Howard Scott Gentry consists of articles, notes, photographs, and Cunningham's drafts of articles on Howard Gentry's expeditions as a plant collector. Cunningham collected these materials to write several articles about Gentry.
Dates:
1940-1995; Majority of material found within 1984-1993
Israel McLaughlin Account Book and Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS0341
Content Description
The Israel McLaughlin Account Book and Papers contain handwritten examples and practice pages of mathematical computations. There are several pages listing loans due to Israel McLaughlin (1853-1855, 1857-1858, 1868, and 1871-1872). One page has newspaper clippings of household remedies for illnesses. The account book also contains loose documents, most of which are land deeds for property owned by Robert J. Stringfellow in Cheatham County, Tennessee. Other names mentioned include the Pack...
Dates:
1838-1944; Majority of material found within 1838-1881
Ivar Frederick Tidestrom Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS0417
Content Description
The Ivar Frederick Tidestrom Papers relate to the flora of several regions and states, including the Chesapeake Bay, Texas, and Oklahoma. The collection also contains a number of keys and revisions of keys for various plant families, as well as notes on plants that Tidestrom collected in France and the United States. There are a few personal photographs and some correspondence related to Latin nomenclature and validation of species.
Dates:
1940-1950
J. Horace McFarland Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS0102
Content Description
The J. Horace McFarland Papers comprise documents used in the business operation of the J. Horace McFarland Company and Mount Pleasant Press of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Some of the photographic images in the collection were also used by McFarland for speeches and presentations he gave on topics related to civic beatification, natural resources conservation, and horticulture.The bulk of the collection consists of photographs, glass and film negatives, transparencies, lantern...
Dates:
1917-1975
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