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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
Paul George Russell Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS0146
Content Description
The Paul George Russell Papers contain clippings, photographs of Russell's retirement in 1959, and biographical information, as well as notes and drafts of his U.S. Department of Agriculture circular "Oriental Flowering Cherries" published in March 1934. The circular provides facts on cultivation and historical details about varieties of ornamental cherries grown in the United States, including trees growing around the tidal basin in Washington, D.C. A published version of the circular is...
Dates:
1908-1959
Paul R. Miller Collection of George Washington Carver Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MS0372
Content Description
The Paul R. Miller Collection of George Washington Carver Correspondence contains correspondence between Carver and his friend Paul R. Miller, who was an Agricultural Research Service scientist. There are three handwritten letters dated 1932 and 1933 from Carver to Miller, and a reply from Miller dated 1932 regarding rust specimens. A signed portrait from Carver to Miller (1938) is included. Additionally, there are two typed letters dated 1943 from Rackham Holt to Miller. Holt, who was the...
Dates:
1932-1943
Paul W. Rose Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS0508
Content Description
Items collected by Paul W. Rose when he was stationed in post-war Japan to work on agricultural and vocational training projects including the First National Extension Youth Specialists Training School and the Yatsugatake Central Training Farm.
The bulk of the materials are photographs stored in two photo albums and several envelopes. Also included are 3 items of correspondence from the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers and the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, a copy of "A Rural...
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1950 - 1951; 1950 - 1965
Payne/National 4-H Fellowship Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS0370
Content Description
The Payne/National 4-H Fellowship Collection includes photographs, publications, scrapbooks, programs, monthly reports, newsletters and news clippings, and correspondence detailing the activities of 4-H Fellows.
Dates:
1941-1980; Majority of material found within 1947-1969
People on the Farm Program Records
Collection
Identifier: MS0218
Content Description
The People on the Farm Program Records include correspondence, notes, drafts, manuscripts, photographs, and contact sheets for the "People on the Farm" leaflet series produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from 1977 to 1982. The collection includes a complete set of the published leaflets.The publication titles are: "People on the Farm: Dairying"; "People on the Farm: Growing Wheat"; "People on the Farm: Growing Vegetables"; "People on the Farm: Black Families";...
Dates:
1976-1983
Philip Vincent Cardon Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS0038
Content Description
The Philip Vincent Cardon Papers include correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, reprints, unpublished lectures and research papers, outlines and notes for radio talks and skits, and some memorabilia.
Dates:
1916-1961
Photographs from 100 Years of Federal Forestry, Agriculture Information Bulletin no. 402
Collection
Identifier: MS0302
Content Description
This collection contains the original photographs for the Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 402, titled 100 Years of Federal Forestry, published in 1976. The book presents a pictorial history of the National Forest System and the United States' chief federal forestry agency, the U.S. Forest Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Photograph proofs are mounted and captioned.
Dates:
1905-1976
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