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Norman Mitlin Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0326
Content Description

The Norman Mitlin Papers consist of 29 boll weevil articles (1964-1977) authored by Mitlin, 30 of Mitlin's handwritten laboratory notebooks (1953-1975) from the Boll Weevil Research Laboratory, drafts, correspondence, and photographs. Most of the articles deal with the development of insect sterilization methods. There is correspondence between Mitlin and Mississippi State University, where he taught graduate school classes, and documentation related to his training.

Dates: 1950-1979

Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Card Files

 Collection
Identifier: MS0366
Content Description

The Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Card Files consist of seven card files related to the Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection housed in the Special Collections of the USDA National Agricultural Library. This inactive card file contains information on plants, nursery locations, and nursery and seed catalog holdings.

Dates: 1700-1950

Nursery Associations Records Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0121
Content Description

The Nursery Associations Records Collection consists of the letterpress book of the Western Association of Wholesale Nurserymen (1886-1896); the account book of the American Association of Propagating Nurserymen (1926-1933); the record book of the Pacific Coast Nursery Association (1937-1938); treasury records of the Council of Eastern Nurserymen (1936-1938); and files of the American Horticultural Council.

Dates: 1896-1941

Oscar Clemen Stine Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0161
Content Description

The Oscar Clemen Stine Papers are handwritten and typed notes on wheat history, colonial wheat culture, wheat exports and imports, insects and diseases, business and wheat crops, acreage, consumption, demand, and foreign markets. Additionally, there are publications by Stine and a manuscript of his autobiography, "Reminiscences of O.C. Stine."

Dates: 1921-1957

Owen Hugh Graham Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0213
Content Description

The Owen Hugh Graham Papers relate to screwworm eradication efforts in Florida, the Southwestern United States, Mexico, Central America, and North Africa. Materials include correspondence, reports, publications, maps, charts, photographs, public information materials, and manuscripts. The language of materials is mostly English, with some items in Spanish and a few articles in French.

Dates: 1879-1998; Majority of material found within 1960-1990

Oxford Tobacco Research Laboratory Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0536
Abstract

The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) is a federal agency, responsible for creating and enforcing public policy regarding food, agriculture and forestry within the United States. The Oxford Tobacco Research Laboratory was established in 1910 in Oxford, N.C., as a facility for research on tobacco production. The collection includes images, made by the USDA, depicting tobacco plants and production research at the Oxford Tobacco Research Laboratory in Oxford, N.C.

Dates: circa 1910s-1960s

Palemon Howard Dorsett Collection on Persimmons

 Collection
Identifier: MS0371
Content Description The Palemon Howard Dorsett Collection on Persimmons contains 200 photographs of persimmon fruits, trees, orchard workers, and related views. The photographs were taken by Dorsett on several plant exploration trips to Asia between 1924 and 1930. There are many handwritten captions and Chinese writing. Materials originated from the USDA New Crops Research Branch offices in Beltsville, Maryland. Some of the photographs may duplicate those found in the Dorsett-Morse Oriental Agricultural...
Dates: 1924-1930; Majority of material found within 1924-1925, 1930

Papers Related to the Translation of "Five Continents" by Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov

 Collection
Identifier: MS0376
Content Description This collection of papers relates to the National Agricultural Library's participation in Doris Löve's project to translate Five Continents by Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov. Löve translated the book to English from the original Russian in 1992. Records include correspondence, drafts, final text, contract papers, photocopies of images, and diskettes. The papers include Löve's communication with Henry L. Shands, Associate Deputy Administrator, Genetic Resources, USDA...
Dates: 1992-1997

Paul C. Marth and John W. Mitchell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0103
Content Description

The Paul C. Marth and John W. Mitchell Papers contain biographical information about both men; material gathered for the book Classic Papers in Horticultural Science; 66 of Marth's notebooks; Marth's 1942 Ph.D. thesis; reprints; and negatives of rose photographs. There is correspondence, mostly Marth's and very little of Mitchell's, as well as correspondence from 1987 between J. Ray Frank and Stephen Weller regarding Marth and Mitchell.

Dates: 1933-1993

Paul E. Howe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0085
Content Description

The Paul E. Howe Papers include Howe's publications and a 1959 Work Project Annual Report for the Animal Husbandry Research Division, Dairy Cattle Research Branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

Dates: 1907-1973

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