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John Wyss Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0338
Content Description

The John Wyss Papers contain office files, reports, meeting files, brochures, newsletters, photographs and slides, blueprints, floppy disks and CD-ROMs, promotional materials, and publications related to the screwworm eradication effort in Mexico and Central America. The materials include plans for a screwworm rearing facility in Pacora, Panama.

Dates: 1976-2003; Majority of material found within 1990s
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Joseph Aloysius Becker Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0459
Content Description The Joseph Aloysius Becker Papers include a scrapbook dated January 31, 1959 commemorating Becker's retirement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The scrapbook contains congratulatory notes, letters, and telegrams from Becker's colleagues and friends, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, and other notable people. The collection also contains award certificates, photographs, newspaper clippings, and documents from Becker's personal life and career. Of note are documents...
Dates: 1957-1966; Majority of material found in 1959
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Joseph Francis Charles Rock Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0351
Content Description

The Joseph Francis Charles Rock Papers contain a bibliofilm (microfilm photograph) of Rock's specimen notebook from 1928. The notes list plant specimens by number, followed by a description of the specimen and its location or altitude. The actual specimens are housed at the Harvard University Herbaria.

Dates: 1928
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Joseph H. Kirkbride Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0472
Content Description The Joseph H. Kirkbride Collection consists of materials related to Kirkbride's work in the Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service. The collection contains reports, photographic slides, and transparencies from research trips abroad, including germplasm collecting trips to Portugal, Spain, Morocco, and Brazil, as well as a trip to Japan. There are also images of botanical, cultural, and scenic interest from these...
Dates: 1985-2009; Majority of material found in 1990
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Joseph H. Reall Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS0141
Content Description The Joseph H. Reall Correspondence contains nine typewritten copies of letters, the majority written to Henry E. Alvord during November and December 1879, regarding plans for the organization of the American Agricultural Association (apparently first considered under the name National Agricultural Society), the proposed and the elected officers, and the organizational meeting held December 10-12, 1879. Reall became the chairman of the Executive Committee and Henry E. Alvord was made one of...
Dates: 1879
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Joseph Swab Publication Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0332
Content Description

The Joseph Swab Publication collection contains bibliographies, pamphlets, newsletters, and forms whose layouts were designed by Swab, primarily from 1970 to 1998. The collection also contains a select number of older materials designed by others.

Dates: 1950-1998; Majority of material found within 1987-1998
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Jules Janick and James N. Moore Manuscripts

 Collection
Identifier: MS0088
Content Description

The Jules Janick and James N. Moore Manuscripts consist of authors' manuscripts and correspondence related to the monograph Advances in Fruit Breeding (1975) which Janick and Moore edited. There are also correspondence and rough drafts related to the companion volume, also edited by Janick and Moore, titled Methods in Fruit Breeding (1983).

Dates: 1971-1983
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Julien N. Friant Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0064
Content Description

The Julien N. Friant Papers include Friant's correspondence with many U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials, such as Henry A. Wallace, Paul Appleby, Chester Davis, and Rex Tugwell. There is also substantial correspondence with James Farley and others. The material covers activities related to personnel work of the USDA, the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, the Democratic Party, and congressional relations.

Dates: 1933-1941
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Karl E. Gardner Papers on the Interdepartmental Committee on Nutrition for the National Defense

 Collection
Identifier: MS0079
Content Description

The Karl E. Gardner Papers on the Interdepartmental Committee on Nutrition for the National Defense (ICNND) consist of correspondence, reports, field notebooks, data, news clippings, drafts, and publications related to the committee activities of the ICNND National Survey of the Turkish Armed Forces in 1957 and the West Indies Survey of 1961.

Dates: 1956-1996; Majority of material found within 1950s-1960s
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Karl H. Norris Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0490
Content Description

The Karl H. Norris Papers consist of reports, correspondence, articles (originals and photocopies), reprints, and publications related to Norris's work with near-infrared reflectance spectroscopy (NIRS).

Dates: 1948-2013; Majority of material found within 1980-1999
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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