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Raymond Andrew Loanes Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0353
Content Description The Raymond Andrew Ioanes Papers include correspondence and memoranda from the Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS), speeches given by Ioanes, and two photographs. Topics include the 20th-century history of FAS, foreign agricultural trade, the dispersal of surplus agricultural products in foreign countries, and trade relations with Russia, the European Community (EC), and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Materials relating to the Association for Diplomatic Studies' Foreign...
Dates: 1953-1997

Report on Trials of Plows Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MS0321
Content Description This item consists of an original manuscript for the Report on Trials of Plows: Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society by Anonymous, 1867, Part I, Volume XXVII, Illustrated. The book is composed of illustrations, which appear to be original art with hand-lettered captions. It appears to have been self-published. The illustrations were inserted in handmade pages, which were hole-punched and bound with a cord inserted through the pages. There are front...
Dates: 1867

Rice Technical Working Group Meetings

 Collection
Identifier: MS0512
Content Description

Proceedings from the semi-annual Rice Technical Working Group Meetings prepared for distribution. Contains over 20 bound hard copies for 1951 through 2000. The meetings from 2002 through 2016 are on compact disk. 2018 is on a USB drive. Most items usually cover a summary of committee business, abstracts of papers presented, and the latest agricultural survey data.

Dates: Publication: Majority of material found within 1951 - 2018

Richard P. White Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0197
Content Description

The Richard P. White Papers contain correspondence, brochures, newsletters, publications, subject files, and drafts relating to White's manuscript "A Century of Service: A History of the Nursery Industry Association of the United States."

Dates: 1965-1975

Robert Lee Tontz Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0175
Content Description The Robert Lee Tontz Papers consist of statistics, clippings, and publications related to U.S. and foreign trade, including comparisons between exports and imports from 1790 through the 1970s. Also included are data about projected voting in congressional elections (farm versus nonfarm areas) dating from the 1950s to the 1970s. Other materials include correspondence, reports, membership files on the Farm Bureau and the Grange, and photographs. There is a copy of Tontz's work, ...
Dates: 1920-1993

Robert Leslie Usinger Collection on Carolus Linnaeus

 Collection
Identifier: MS0187
Content Description

The Robert Leslie Usinger Collection on Carolus Linnaeus is a collection of books by Carolus Linnaeus, the founder of systematic biology, on insects and other animals. The collection also includes works about Linnaeus.

Dates: 1747-1957

Roland Clarence Hartman Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0254
Content Description

The Roland Clarence Hartman Papers include speeches, articles, publications, and advertising material related to poultry.

Dates: 1928-1980

Roland Maurice Jefferson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0347
Content Description

The Roland Maurice Jefferson Collection contains articles, correspondence, email messages, documents, lectures, photographs, programs, and other notes. The majority of the collection highlights Jefferson's work, including plant expeditions for cherry trees at the United States National Arboretum and his post-retirement lectures. The collection also mentions Jefferson's work with plant labels, crabapples, the dogwood seed exchange program, and the President Reagan Cherry Tree.

Dates: 1912-2007; Majority of material found within 1979-1989

Rolla Kent Beattie Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0016
Content Description

The Rolla Kent Beattie Photograph Collection consists of negatives that relate to trips to Colorado, California, Hawaii, Florida, the District of Columbia, Japan, Formosa (Taiwan), Hong Kong, Indochina, Cambodia, Malaya, China, France, and England, where he visited shrines, temples, pagodas, gardens, parks, graves, exhibits, and tourist areas. The images document cultural and scenic aspects of the trips.

Dates: Majority of material found within 1927-1949; 1927 - 1957

Romeyn Beck Hough Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0264
Content Description

The Romeyn Beck Hough Papers include Hough's journals from 1882 to 1887, 1890 to 1894, and 1898 to 1900. There is also a July 6, 1908, letter to Hough from Melvil Dewey requesting a copy of Hough's book, Handbook of the Trees of the Northern States and Canada, along with an undated statement from Dewey, as president of the American Library Institute, commending Hough's book at a meeting of the Virginia State Library Association.

Dates: 1882-1908; Majority of material found within 1882-1900

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