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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
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Division of Farm Population and Rural Life Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0244
Content Description The USDA Division of Farm Population and Rural Life Records consist of reports, manuscripts, and unpublished addresses cited in Sociology in Government: A Bibliography of the Work of the Division of Farm Population and Rural Life, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1919-1953 (Olaf Frederick Larson, Edward O. Moe, and Julie Nadine Zimmerman, Westview Press in cooperation with the American Sociological Association and the Rural Sociological Society, 1992). Also included are several additional...
Dates: 1935-1953; Majority of material found within 1936-1946
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Division of Forage Crops and Diseases Collection of Weed Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MS0194
Content Description The USDA Division of Forage Crops and Diseases Collection of Weed Photographs consists of approximately 1,400 negatives (glass and nitrate) and black and white photographs of weeds in different geographic locations. There are images of weed specimens, fields with weeds, experimental plots of land, weeds in suburban yards, downtown Washington, DC, corn fields, fallow fields, experiment stations, desert areas, and farm land, as well as examples of well-kept fields. There are also photographs...
Dates: 1906-1946
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Division of Land Economics Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0277
Content Description The USDA Division of Land Economics Records consist of reports, correspondence, and publications relating to the work of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Division of Land Economics. Most of the material was produced by the bureau or the division, though there is also some material from the Land Utilization Division of the Resettlement Administration. Topics include general land policy and policy planning, zoning, settlement patterns, local land utilization studies, tenancy and land...
Dates: 1914-1955; Majority of material found within 1934-1952
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Division of Plant Exploration and Introduction Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0280
Content Description The USDA Division of Plant Exploration and Introduction Photograph Collection consists of lantern slides and negatives from three U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) plant-collecting expeditions, as follows: a trip to Southeast Asia and China in the latter half of 1922, possibly by J. F. Rock; a forage and fruit collecting trip to Germany and the Soviet Union from July to September 1929 by H. L. Westover and W. E. Whitehouse; and an expedition to Caucasus (now part of Azerbaijan, Armenia,...
Dates: 1910-1945
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Drug and Poisonous Plant Investigations Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0274
Content Description The USDA Drug and Poisonous Plant Investigations Photograph Collection consists of black-and-white lantern slides with images from research projects conducted by the Drug and Poisonous Plant Investigations division of the Bureau of Plant Industry. Some of the slides feature images of medicinal plant gardens at various institutions across the United States. Other subjects include drug plant field plots at the USDA South Farm in Beltsville, Maryland; drug plant specimens; distribution charts...
Dates: 1902-1943
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Economic Research Service Files on Foreign Agriculture

 Collection
Identifier: MS0429
Content Description

The USDA Economic Research Service Files on Foreign Agriculture include: Japan agricultural policies and trade (1963-2009); Japan commodities (1960-1990); Japan, agriculture and food sector (1964-1992); files on South Korean agriculture (1946-1992); and Japan agricultural input files (1970-1990).

Dates: 1946-2009; Majority of material found within 1963-1992
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Economic Research Service Records of Farm Production Expenses

 Collection
Identifier: MS0421
Content Description The USDA Economic Research Service Records of Farm Production Expenses were generated by staff in the Farm Income Sections and Projects, Bureau of Agricultural Economics. The records include correspondence, memoranda, research notes, surveys, descriptions of procedures, and documentation of estimates. There are a number of ledgers documenting expenditures, by state, for dairy supplies, seed, grazing fees, insurance, real estate, fertilizer, hired labor, board and lodgings, repairs, and...
Dates: 1935-1985
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Engineering Division Personnel Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0276
Content Description

The USDA Engineering Division Personnel Photograph Collection consists of a photograph album with both group and individual images of Engineering Division staff members. Photographs were taken in March 1924, and include the following groups: Research, Engineering, Grazing, Forest Management, District 7, Operations, Public Relations, Lands, Forester and Branch Chiefs, and Finance and Accounts.

Dates: 1912-1940
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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