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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
USDA Human Nutrition Information Service Records
Collection
Identifier: MS0407
Content Description
The USDA Human Nutrition Information Service Records contain background information on the history and organization of the Human Nutrition Information Service (HNIS), highlights of the organization's accomplishments, and materials related to nutrition and health guidelines. The collection includes reports, articles, memoranda, charts, correspondence, recipes, food guide information, surveys, speeches, and publications. There are also documents on legislative authorities for nutrition...
Dates:
1922-1994; Majority of material found within 1970-1994
USDA Insect Biocontrol Laboratory Photographs of Rose Gall Midge Research
Collection
Identifier: MS0397
Content Description
The USDA Insect Biocontrol Laboratory Photographs of Rose Gall Midge Research contain approximately 100 photographs related to the work on the rose gall midge (Dasineura spp.) in the 1970s by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service's Insect Biocontrol Laboratory. The images show various aspects of pest research involving rose plants in the Washington, DC area from approximately 1915 to 1970. The photographs are labeled based on the type of information...
Dates:
1915-1970
USDA Insecticide Division Notebooks on White Arsenic Research
Collection
Identifier: MS0249
Content Description
The USDA Insecticide Division Notebooks on White Arsenic Research contain the notebooks of scientists who worked on white arsenic research in the Insecticide Division, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils. Names on notebooks include F. E. Dearborn, Charles Meldrum Smith, Ole Anker Nelson, Lloyd E. Smith, J. W. Barnes, Cecil Robert Gross, J. Weisser, Carroll Clayton Cassil, E. H. Hamilton, Robert K. Preston, Robert A. Hayes, N. Green, Houston Vernon Claborn, and W. H. Tonkin.
Dates:
1922-1946
USDA Leather and Paper Laboratory Records
Collection
Identifier: MS0224
Content Description
The USDA Leather and Paper Laboratory Records include notebooks of specimen records, black and white photographs of animal and fish hides and skins, and publications.
Dates:
1904-1986
USDA Library Plant Sciences Card Catalog
Collection
Identifier: MS0440
Content Description
The Plant Sciences Card Catalog of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Library was developed over a half century, and consists of three divisions: author catalog, plant pathology catalog, and subject catalog. Work on this catalog ceased on July 18, 1952 because of lack of funds.The plant science subject catalog (Botany Subject Index) is a card catalog with entries arranged alphabetically by subject and by scientific names, broken down into divisions and subdivisions of...
Dates:
1893-1952
USDA Livestock Insects Laboratory Records
Collection
Identifier: MS0253
Content Description
The USDA Livestock Insects Laboratory Records include reports, data sheets, correspondence, technical bulletins, and journal articles.
Dates:
1932-1986; Majority of material found within 1970-1986
USDA Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS0392
Content Description
The USDA Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory Photograph Collection includes photographs, associated notes, and a record book on various U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) activities and personnel, dated between 1888 and 1968. The collection contains a series of photographs related to testing insecticide spraying apparatuses on different crops between 1912 and 1944. Much of the collection consists of photographs of employees from departments of Plant Industry and Plant Pathology, and...
Dates:
1888-1968
USDA National Agricultural Library History Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS0113
Content Description
The USDA National Agricultural Library History Collection includes correspondence, reports, regulations, agreements, budget hearings, clippings, articles, newsletters, manuals, and photographs on library-related activities. Of particular note are the records from 1907 to 1940, when Claribel R. Barnett was not only head librarian for the USDA library, but she was also active in library-related organizations. The archival material includes papers relating to past directors of the library, such...
Dates:
1867-2016; Majority of material found within 1867-1980
USDA National Agricultural Library Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS0227
Content Description
The USDA National Agricultural Library Photograph Collection contains approximately 16,000 photographs of activities and events that took place at the National Agricultural Library (NAL) in Beltsville, Maryland. The photographs are housed in 116 albums, and include prints, negatives, and contact sheets. Photographs were primarily taken by NAL photographer Joseph Swab, as well as other photographers, including Dan Starr, who photographed from 1989 to 1993. Subjects include the NAL building...
Dates:
1969-2000; Majority of material found within 1987-1998
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- Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943 3
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- McCann, Neil F. (Neil Frank), 1909-1986 1
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