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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
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA National Commission on Small Farms Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0255
Content Description

The USDA National Commission on Small Farms Records include administrative files; transcripts (paper, tape, and disk) of public hearings; letters from farmers; executive correspondence; memoranda; drafts and a final copy of "Report of the USDA National Commission on Small Farms: A Time to Act"; letterhead and design for final report; email requests for copies of the NCSF report; computer disks containing small farm documents; NCSF committee reports; and miscellaneous resource documents.

Dates: 1997-1998
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Office for Small-Scale Agriculture Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0092
Content Description

The USDA Office for Small-Scale Agriculture Records consist of letters, memoranda, correspondence, reports, newspapers, newsletters, and publications.

Dates: 1982-1994
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Office of the General Counsel Legislative Histories Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0488
Content Description

The USDA Office of the General Counsel Legislative Histories Collection consists of 517 bound volumes containing materials related to U.S. federal laws pertaining to agriculture. The volumes are arranged by congressional session number, then by public law number. Within each public law section, the documents are ordered by date. The collection is not exhaustive but includes major pieces of legislative history related to federal agricultural laws.

Dates: 1921-1971
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Office of the Secretary Memoranda

 Collection
Identifier: MS0432
Content Description

The USDA Office of the Secretary Memoranda consist of memoranda and circulars (1918-1979), general orders (1897-1913), plant and operations memoranda (1936-1937), special orders (1927-1934, 1939), technical advisory board circulars (1938-1940), USDA Defense and Agriculture Series (1940-1941), and USDA Defense Exercise memoranda (1960-1970s).

Dates: 1897-1979; Majority of material found within 1913-1979
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Official Standards of the United States for Grades of Wool

 Collection
Identifier: MS0122
Content Description

The USDA Official Standards of the United States for Grades of Wool contains wool samples that document the 12 wool grade standards established by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) for the 1920s, and the 13 standards for the 1940s. The standards are based on the fineness or diameter of the wool fiber. Samples show the maximum diameter or fineness of fiber for each of the grades. The collection includes wool standards for 1926, 1928, 1940, and 1966.

Dates: 1926-1966
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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Names
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