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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: 1927-1949
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Ronald Fayer Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0485
Content Description

The Ronald Fayer Papers consist primarily of reprints of over 400 published research papers, book chapters, and abstracts authored or co-authored by Fayer. Other materials in the collection include copies of patents awarded to Fayer, news clippings about his research on sarcocystis, and awards. There is also an undated, large format aerial photograph of the Animal Parasite Institute buildings at the Beltsville (Maryland) Agricultural Research Center.

Dates: 1966-2016
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Roy Walter Simonson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0415
Content Description The Roy Walter Simonson Papers contain notes, correspondence, and memoranda from soil surveys in the United States from 1899 through 1953. The collection also contains notes on specific regions' soils, scientific aspects of soils, and soil classification. Notable records include notes, memoranda, and correspondence related to the controversy surrounding the soil survey in the Southern Region of the U.S. in the 1940s. There are also autobiographical writings by Simonson, along with 14 foreign...
Dates: 1899-1978; Majority of material found within 1940-1970
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Royal Charles Steadman Watercolors

 Collection
Identifier: MS0258
Content Description The Royal Charles Steadman Watercolors consist of 12 paintings of sweet potatoes and 4 paintings of flowers. Steadman painted the sweet potato watercolors between 1923 and 1925. They are 17 1/2" x 13 7/8" in size, mounted on cardboard 22" x 16 3/4". The flower watercolors were painted in 1924 and 1928. They include daffodil "Mod de Graaff", specimen number 104840; iris "David Teniers", specimen number 104854; tulip "Baron de la Taunaye", specimen number an0006 ("an" refers to...
Dates: 1923-1928
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Rudolph Wendelin Collection of Smokey Bear Paintings

 Collection
Identifier: MS0262
Content Description

The Rudolph Wendelin Collection of Smokey Bear Paintings consists of 19 original oil, acrylic, and watercolor paintings by former U.S. Forest Service artist Rudolph "Rudy" Wendelin. The paintings depict various scenes featuring the fictional character Smokey Bear, symbol of the Forest Service's wildfire prevention campaign.

Dates: 1977-1996
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Rupert Coles Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0097
Content Description

The Rupert Coles Papers consist of Christmas cards created from Coles's original artwork.

Dates: 1977-1997
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Sandra L. Facinoli Collection of Nutrition Publications

 Collection
Identifier: MS0318
Content Description

The collection contains publications related to nutrition survey results and the history of nutrition, as well as various bulletins, reports, and reprints relating to nutrition. There is biographical information on Louise Stanley, Hazel K. Stiebeling, and Wilbur O. Atwater.

Dates: 1922-1989
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Sanitary Medicine Class Exercise Folio

 Collection
Identifier: MS0452
Content Description The Sanitary Medicine Class Exercise Folio consists of a notebook containing an unidentified student's handwritten notes from Professor Daniel E. Salmon's first lectures at the newly established National Veterinary College in Washington, D.C. The notes extend from October 25, 1892 to March 10, 1893, and indicate that Salmon gave one to three lectures per week. The topic of the first two lectures was nomenclature; the third lecture covered methods to control animal diseases, especially...
Dates: 1892-1893
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Schimmelpfennig Family Mill Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0387
Content Description The Schimmelpfennig Family Mill Collection contains materials relating to the family's grain mill and their life in Sigourney, Iowa. Materials include ledgers and account books containing detailed accounting of transactions at the mill for the years of 1899, 1930 to 1958, and 1974 to 1987. Also included are materials from the family's hobby interest in the history and preservation of old mills throughout the United States, including various preservation and tourism ephemera. Of particular...
Dates: 1899-1987; Majority of material found within 1930-1958, 1964-1965, 1974-1987
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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