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USDA Bureau of Entomology Album
Collection
Identifier: MS0309
Content Description
The USDA Bureau of Entomology Album consists of black and white photographs, and press clippings. There is one U.S. Department of Agriculture Office of Information publication dated 1958.
The photographs are mainly of individuals associated with the Bureau, taken between 1925 and 1961. Most of the photos are unlabeled. Some of the labeled subjects include R. H. Nelson, Jessie Mingle, and P. G. Piguet. The album also includes three group photographs of the American Association of Economic...
Dates:
1925-1966; Majority of material found within 1936-1953
USDA Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS0235
Content Description
The USDA Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine Collection contains materials related to the Japanese beetle, the mountain pine beetle, and Dutch elm disease. There are black and white photographs, bark samples, insect specimens, and framed examples of foliage damage from the insects. Text accompanies the samples. In 2018, ten undated postcards were added from the Bureau of Entomology, depicting mostly parasites of the gypsy moth and the brown-tail moth, as well as representing the gypsy...
Dates:
1940
USDA Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS0298
Content Description
The USDA Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine Photograph Collection contains black and white photographs of Bureau of Plant Quarantine inspection personnel; plant inspection facilities in Washington and New Jersey; and inspection equipment. Personnel pictured include L. M. Scott, C. E. Cooley, Leonard S. McLaine, J. F. Olds, H. S. McLeod, T. A. Barnett, Donald P. Limber, Martin Hansen, Emile Kostal, Herbert L. Sanford, Charles E. Prince, Emmit I. Smith, John C. Pritchett,...
Dates:
1936-1942; Majority of material found within 1938-1941
USDA Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics Records
Collection
Identifier: MS0334
Content Description
The USDA Bureau of Human Nutrition and Home Economics Records contain a history of the bureau; organizational charts; photographs of employees, nutrition experiments, equipment, exhibits, and food; a scrapbook of the 25th anniversary of the bureau (1923-1948); publicity information including posters; and lab notebooks. There is also a reprint collection of 24,000 publications with a card index.
Dates:
1921-1972; Majority of material found within 1950-1970
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
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