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USDA Entomology Research Division Reprints

 Collection
Identifier: MS0237
Content Description

The USDA Entomology Research Division Reprints consist of articles written by employees in collaboration with other scientists about various aspects of entomology. These records include reprints of articles, a majority of which are about the use of pesticides to control insects.

Dates: 1939-1971; Majority of material found within 1951-1959
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Environmental Chemistry Laboratory Collection on Poultry Feather Research

 Collection
Identifier: MS0484
Content Description

The USDA Environmental Chemistry Laboratory Collection on Poultry Feather Research consists of photographs and negatives of poultry science activities and staff, business notes and correspondence, and approximately 30 samples of products made from feathers, such as fabric swatches, cardboard, and yarn.

Dates: 1943-1999; Majority of material found within 1998-1999
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Extension Service Plan Exchange Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0269
Content Description

The USDA Extension Service Plan Exchange Records consist of plans for agricultural structures and low-cost housing. The plans were the result of the collective work of plan exchange engineers at U.S. land-grant universities. Each plan has a date and a reference number.

Dates: 1933-1988
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Farmers Home Administration Farm Building Plans

 Collection
Identifier: MS0289
Content Description

The USDA Farmers Home Administration Farm Building Plans include compilations of house plans and heating duct layouts. There is a series of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) publications entitled "House Planning Aids." These small publications contain information about how to design and arrange various parts of a home.

Dates: 1950-1970
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Food Quality Laboratory Photograph Albums

 Collection
Identifier: MS0398
Content Description The USDA Food Quality Laboratory Photograph Albums consist of three albums that document the facilities, equipment, and processes used in studies of meat production at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Beltsville (Maryland) Agricultural Research Center (BARC). Photographs show the exterior of the abattoir at BARC-East, interior views of the Meat Quality Laboratory, scientific instruments and equipment, meat grading and cutting, comparative meat samples, and exhibits. There are also...
Dates: 1916-1940; Majority of material found within 1925-1928
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Foot and Mouth Disease Research Laboratory Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0375
Content Description

The USDA Foot and Mouth Disease Research Laboratory Records consist of office files, correspondence, newspaper clippings, press releases, publications, reports to Congress, and materials related to cooperation between the United States and Mexico to eradicate foot-and-mouth disease in Mexico. These records support the plans of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) to increase the security of the United States from foot-and-mouth disease through research during the late 1940s.

Dates: 1943-1956; Majority of material found within 1947-1949
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Forage Crop Investigations Notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: MS0325
Content Description The USDA Forage Crop Investigations Notebooks consist of field notes written by William J. Morse from 1909 to 1930 while he was working for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Forage Crop Investigations. There are 55 handwritten ledgers documenting Morse's discoveries of foreign plants throughout his international travels. Almost half of the field notes relate to the Dorsett-Morse Oriental Agricultural Exploration Expedition of 1929 to 1931. See also the Dorsett-Morse Oriental...
Dates: 1909-1930; Majority of material found within 1929-1931
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Fruit Laboratory Card Files

 Collection
Identifier: MS0365
Content Description

The USDA Fruit Laboratory Card Files contain a series of catalog cards describing of a wide range of fruits. Card entries include dates of information.

Dates: undated
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Graduate School Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0181
Content Description

The USDA Graduate School Records contain catalogs, schedules of classes, annual reports, newsletters, promotional materials, newspaper articles, lectures, publications, legal memoranda and correspondence, a history of origin, 25th and 50th anniversary materials, self-evaluation and long range planning information, regulations and operating procedures, general administration files, educational statistics, a filmstrip, and an audio tape.

Dates: 1921-2009
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0182
Collection Description The USDA History Collection documents the work of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), its staff and agencies. It is particularly strong concerning the activities of the Secretaries of Agriculture, their assistants and staffs, especially for the administrations of Henry Agard Wallace, Ezra Taft Benson, and Orville Lothrop Freeman. Large sections of the records relate to the USDA's response to such crises as World War I, World War II, and the Great Depression; droughts, floods, and...
Dates: 1761-1997; Majority of material found within 1914-1994
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943 3
Wendelin, Rudolph, 1910-2000 2
Clement, Clarence E. 1
McCann, Neil F. (Neil Frank), 1909-1986 1
Preston, William H. 1