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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
Photographs of Dairy Farmers at the Graham School
Collection
Identifier: MS0464
Content Description
The Photographs of Dairy Farmers at the Graham School consists of two black-and-white formally posed photographs of large groups of dairy farmers attending courses conducted by the Graham School. The photographs are accompanied by numbered keys to the individuals pictured. The keys list names, addresses, names and locations of farms, and the chief breeds of cattle raised. The farmers pictured are chiefly from the United States Midwest and Ontario, Canada. One photograph is labeled "The...
Dates:
1944-1946
Photographs of Gifford Pinchot
Collection
Identifier: MS0275
Content Description
The Photographs of Gifford Pinchot contain approximately 30 glass negatives. The images include some of Pinchot operating a movie projector, fishing, working at his desk, and participating in a ceremony for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Negatives are numbered. They are undated, but may be from approximately 1923 to 1935.
Dates:
1898-1910
Photographs of U.S. Forest Service Leaders
Collection
Identifier: MS0428
Content Description
The Photographs of U.S. Forest Service Leaders consist of 22 unframed black and white photographs of twentieth-century United States Forest Service officials. There are two photographs of Gifford Pinchot.
Dates:
1901-1979
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