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USDA Small Fruit Improvement Programs Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0155
Content Description The USDA Small Fruit Improvement Programs Records contain the following: Donald H. Scott's strawberry, blueberry, and blackberry field notebooks (1950-1978) and work notes (1941-1970), Scott's and George M. Darrow's photographs for illustrations of USDA bulletins, and John Hull’s blackberry records (1961-1969).Files from the office of Gene Galletta, including strawberry records (1953-1969), grape papers (1946-1967), correspondence files (1947-1972), and raspberry...
Dates: 1914-1985; Majority of material found within 1941-1985
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Soil Conservation Service Film Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0329
Content Description

The USDA Soil Conservation Service Film Collection consists of films produced by and for the Soil Conservation Service. These films were used for education, training, and public service announcements.

Dates: 1953-1977
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Staff Directories

 Collection
Identifier: MS0238
Content Description

The USDA Staff Directories consist of telephone and staff directories for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the USDA Agricultural Research Service, and some other units of USDA. Directories for some years are missing.

Dates: 1932-2008
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Sugar Crops Section Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0239
Content Description The USDA Sugar Crops Section Records include data sheets, reports, and manuscripts written by various employees; slides, negatives, and photographs of sugar beets; correspondence of George Herbert Coons and Dewey Stewart; and other research files related to sugar beets. The materials are primarily from the administrations of George Herbert Coons and Dewey Stewart. Coons was the principal pathologist of the Division of Sugar Plant Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry during the 1930s and...
Dates: 1926-1960
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Textile Publications Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0308
Content Description

The USDA Textile Publications Collection consists of brochures, reprints, leaflets, bulletins, and newspaper clippings related to clothing, textile history, fashion, fabrics, construction, consumer advice, and sewing machines.

Dates: 1920-1962
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Tobacco Market News Service Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0174
Content Description The USDA Tobacco Market News Service Records contain historical information on the Tobacco Market News Service (1928-1971); tobacco inspection (1927-1963); stocks, standards, and grading (pre-1929-1935); and auctions (1929-1962). There are correspondence, notes, and copies of tobacco annual reports (1932-1953); major legislation (1933-1952); and hearings and testimonies (1947-1950). There are also World War II-era regulation summaries and reports of tobacco activities (1941-1948); material...
Dates: 1920-1975
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Vitamin Publications Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0433
Content Description

The Vitamin Publications Collection consists of journal articles and reprints, listed by type of vitamin or mineral, then by author's last name. Vitamins and minerals covered include A, B12, C, calcium, and iron.

Dates: 1915-1974
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Vivian Wiser Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MS0200
Content Description

The Vivian Wiser Manuscript consists of draft copies of seven chapters written by Wiser about U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) history. The drafts trace the origins and development of the USDA, starting with the establishment of the federal government under the U.S. Constitution in 1789, and continuing through the New Deal agricultural programs of the 1930s.

Dates: 1964-1967
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Voices of American Homemakers Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0311
Content Description

The Voices of American Homemakers Collection consists of 171 audiocassette tapes of recorded interviews and five large binders containing typed transcripts of the interviews. Also included is the monograph that resulted from the project, Voices of American Homemakers, published in 1985. This publication contains photographs and abstracts of selected oral histories from the project.

Dates: 1980-1985
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Walter A. Gentner Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0412
Content Description

The Walter A. Gentner Collection contains research manuscripts, photographs, award plaques and certificates, framed artifacts, paintings, and memorabilia related to Gentner's career as a plant physiologist with the United States Department of Agriculture's Weed Science Laboratory.

Dates: 1952-1988
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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Carver, George Washington, 1864?-1943 3
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