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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

Jack R. Coulson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0404
Content Description

The Jack R. Coulson Papers contain abstracts, reports, publication drafts, journals, indexes, and other materials pertaining to Coulson's work in biological control. There are letters from scientists related to editing Agricultural Research Service documents.

Dates: 1965-1998

Jacob Richards Dodge Clippings

 Collection
Identifier: MS0050
Content Description

The Jacob Richards Dodge Clippings collection contains five bound volumes of clippings of agricultural articles written by and about Dodge.

Dates: 1878-1902

Jacqueline L. Dupont and Gary R. Beecher Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0482
Content Description

The Jaqueline L. Dupont and Gary R. Beecher Papers consist of research materials that pertain to "History of Human Nutrition Research in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service: People, Events, and Accomplishments." The book was edited by Jacqueline L. Dupont and Gary R. Beecher and was published in November 2017. Materials include publications, research notes, slides, and a floppy disc.

Dates: 1894-2008; Majority of material found within 1970-2008

James A. Duke Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0352
Content Description The James A. Duke Papers consist of notes, drafts of articles, published articles, reprints, statistical data, reports, and photographs. Materials document the uses of common roots, herbs, fruits, vegetables, plants, and leaves to prevent or treat illnesses. Included are analyses of the chemical composition of plant materials. There are also notes about Duke's travels to various countries, and his observations of indigenous people and their uses of forest products in folk remedies or herbal...
Dates: 1948-1994

James M. Gwin Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0072
Content Description

The James M. Gwin Collection contains approximately 50,000 items of poultry information resources. It consists primarily of business correspondence pertaining to several poultry associations, catalogs from poultry equipment manufacturing firms, documents about early breeders in the poultry industry, egg and poultry legislation, papers on industry meetings held in various states of the United States, and miscellaneous publication clippings related to the egg and poultry industry.

Dates: 1906-1993

Jane F. Robens Card Catalog

 Collection
Identifier: MS0439
Content Description

The Jane F. Robens Card Catalog contains bibliographic citations to literature on topics such as chemicals in foods, the effects of chemicals in the body, diseases from chemical exposure, toxicology of insecticides, and others. Literature is listed by subject, dates from 1911 to 1978, and consists of serials, reprints, and books.

Dates: 1911-1979

Jean Pablo Collection of Rudolph Wendelin Artwork Images

 Collection
Identifier: MS0463
Content Description

The Jean Pablo Collection of Rudolph Wendelin Artwork Images contains two binders of photographs and copies of artwork. One binder contains photographs of prepublication artwork for the book A Walk in the Woods with Smokey. The second binder contains written reflections and photographs of Rudy Wendelin, along with color photocopies of 30 of Wendelin's watercolor paintings, chiefly landscapes in U.S. National Forests.

Dates: 1950-1992; Majority of material found in 1992

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