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USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Horticultural and Pomological Investigations Records
Collection
Identifier: MS0065
Content Description
The USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Horticultural and Pomological Investigations Records contain black and white photographs, acetate and glass negatives, glass slides, drawings, note cards, project reports, research records, and correspondence related to research on small fruits and nuts from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Fruit Laboratory. Examples of topics include experimental fruits, fruit varieties, plant anatomy, breeding, crossing, diseases, insects, irrigation, handling,...
Dates:
1892-1960; Majority of material found within 1902-1949
USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Records
Collection
Identifier: MS0242
Content Description
The USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Records consist of a scrapbook detailing the activities of the Bureau of Plant Industry from the 1920s to the early 1950s. Materials are black and white photographs (some tinted) and negatives of Bureau of Plant Industry employees, including botanist S. L. Emsweller, research stations and gardens around the United States, and crops. Subjects of the photographs include staff, buildings, offices, laboratories, fields, and orchards. There are also research...
Dates:
1920-1959; Majority of material found within 1920-1950
USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Wine Research Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS0288
Content Description
The USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Wine Research Collection consists of materials related to the establishment of a wine research program by the bureau in the 1930s. The collection contains correspondence, articles, reports, statistics, and maps regarding the wine industry, winemaking, grapes, wine varietals, vineyards, viticulture, and experimental wineries throughout the United States. About half of the materials relate to California and the University of California. Many of the letters...
Dates:
1852-1983; Majority of material found within 1933-1937
USDA Bureau of Soils Educational Sample Kit
Collection
Identifier: MS0467
Content Description
The USDA Bureau of Soils Educational Sample Kit consists of 90 vials containing soil samples from soil provinces and regions of the United States. The collection is accompanied by a booklet, entitled Important Soils of the United States.
Dates:
1916
USDA Bureau of Statistics Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS0241
Content Description
The USDA Bureau of Statistics Photograph Collection consists of seven glass negatives, circa 1910, with images of statisticians and clerks at work in their offices. There are several images of Victor H. Olmsted, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, with other members of the Crop Reporting Board, including Assistant Secretary of Agriculture Willet Martin Hays.
Dates:
1910
USDA Chestnut Tree Research Records
Collection
Identifier: MS0491
Content Description
The USDA Chestnut Tree Research Records documents chestnut tree seed distribution and growth across the United States, England, and Canada in the early-to-mid-twentieth century. The program served to reintroduce and monitor the progress of various species of chestnut trees following the introduction of Cryphonectria parasitica, or chestnut blight, from East Asia to North America and Europe in the early 1900s.
Dates:
1876-2015; Majority of material found within 1920-1940
USDA Commodity Stabilization Service Records
Collection
Identifier: MS0292
Content Description
The USDA Commodity Stabilization Service Records contain handwritten notes or typescript charts with statistical figures about the production and trade of chemicals used as insecticides in commercial agriculture.
Dates:
1935-1969
USDA Crop Fiber Research Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS0059
Content Description
The USDA Crop Fiber Research Collection contains documents relating to more than 300 genera of plants used for fiber. The materials cover the subject of natural plant fiber crops other than cotton and include information on cordage, textiles, and miscellaneous fibers as well as the products made from them. There are reprints and photocopies of fiber articles with an extensive card index, manuscripts, foreign and domestic publications, promotional brochures, reports, newspaper clippings,...
Dates:
1902-1982
USDA Division of Agricultural Engineering Records
Collection
Identifier: MS0256
Content Description
The USDA Division of Agricultural Engineering Records contain photographs, glass negatives, and acetate negatives of images relating to agricultural engineering. Some of the subjects include irrigation, drainage, farm buildings, farm power and machinery, crops and crop conditioning, harvesting, care and handling of products, road construction, and farm electrification. Additionally, there are articles on agricultural engineering and farm electrification. The collection also contains speeches...
Dates:
1913-1981; Majority of material found within 1919-1940
USDA Division of Cereal Crops and Diseases Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS0245
Content Description
The USDA Division of Cereal Crops and Diseases Photograph Collection contains glass and acetate negatives, as well as black and white prints. Subjects include aspects of cereal crop classification, production, utilization, farm machinery, diseases, and pests in the United States and foreign countries. Crops pictured include corn, barley, oats, sorghum, sorgo, milo, millet, wheat, flax, rice, rye, and kafir. A number of the negatives were used in the Journal of Agricultural Research, U.S....
Dates:
1898-1951; Majority of material found within 1903-1930
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