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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

Screwworm Eradication Program Artifacts

 Collection
Identifier: MS0348
Content Description

The Screwworm Eradication Program Artifacts contain materials used in various screwworm eradication program areas, including screwworm fly dispersal boxes, a collection tube, a collection cup and holders, and signs.

Dates: undated
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Screwworm Eradication Program Audiovisual Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MS0215
Content Description

The Screwworm Eradication Program Audiovisual Materials include photographs, slides, and films portraying screwworm eradication efforts in the United States, Mexico, and South America.

Dates: 1944-2003
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Screwworm Eradication Program Oral Histories

 Collection
Identifier: MS0305
Content Description The Screwworm Eradication Program Oral Histories contain video and audio recordings, and printed transcripts of interviews with persons involved in the U.S. Screwworm Eradication Program. Among the interviewees are: former U.S. Representative Eligio "Kika" de la Garza of Texas; longtime Mexican-American program employees Manuel Ortega and Santana Munoz; technician Jimmy Bruce; Edward F. Knipling, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entomologist and leading theoretician for the program;...
Dates: 2000-2004
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Screwworm Eradication Program Promotional Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MS0214
Content Description

The Screwworm Eradication Program Promotional Materials include items relating to screwworm eradication programs in the Southwestern United States, Mexico, Central America, and North Africa. There are public information and promotional materials such as baseball caps, mugs, calendars, key rings, bumper stickers, publications and brochures, photographs, fly case collection reports, 16-millimeter films, and fly distribution artifacts.

Dates: 1976-2003
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Screwworm Eradication Program Records for the Southeastern United States

 Collection
Identifier: MS0212
Content Description The Screwworm Eradication Program Records for the Southeastern United States consist of documents describing various early proposals for eradicating screwworms, experiments and field tests in Florida and Curacao, the rearing and transportation of sterile flies, the building of fly-rearing facilities in Florida, the use of radiation to sterilize flies, treatments for wounded animals, and the eradication program in the Southeastern U.S. The materials include publications, surveys, reports,...
Dates: 1932-1959; Majority of material found within 1950-1959
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Screwworm Eradication Program Records for the Southwestern United States and Mexico

 Collection
Identifier: MS0211
Content Description The Screwworm Eradication Program Records for the Southwestern United States and Mexico contain documents related to sterile fly production plants in Mission, Texas, and Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico. Included in the records are reports, research data, correspondence, fly production and release records, manuscripts, manuals and regulations, publications, notes, case reports, photographs, public information materials, and artifacts.Much of the collection relates to field...
Dates: 1922-2004; Majority of material found within 1960-1990
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Sheepskin and Wool Samples Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0206
Content Description

The collection includes sheep skins and wool samples collected in 1948. Wool samples are accompanied by undated black and white photographs of the corresponding type of animal.

Dates: 1948
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Shirley Cochran Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0487
Content Description

The Shirley Cochran Papers consist mostly of newspaper articles written by Cochran, including her column "Take it Easy," which appeared in The Cooperator, published by Eastern Cooperatives, Inc. Recipes, presentations, newsletters, photographs, and correspondence are also included in the collection.

Dates: 1951-1953
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Smith Starkey Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: MS0448
Content Description

A handwritten account book of Smith Starkey of Guilford, Vermont. He did blacksmithing and also owned a general store, that sold agricultural products. The account book consists of the names of his clients and the work that had been done for them, how much they owed him, and what type of payment received: e.g. cash. The ledger is in alphabetical order.

Dates: 1848-1851
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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