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Emerson Merlyn Brooks Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0030
Content Description

The Emerson Merlyn Brooks Papers contain the original manuscript material, worksheets, photographs, and maps relating to Brooks' book, The Growth of a Nation: A Pictorial Review of the United States from Colonial Days to the Present (1956). There are also materials intended for use in a book called Pictorial Agriculture-USA.

Dates: 1913-1972
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Henry L. Shands Lantern Slide Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0364
Content Description

The Henry L. Shands Lantern Slide Collection consists of 27 lantern slides related to farming. Images show experimental fields and farming equipment. The slides are undated.

Dates: undated
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Historic Posters Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0047
Content Description The Historic Posters Collection contains approximately 470 posters relating to agricultural themes, including poultry, cattle, dairy, food production and preservation, and farming methods. Approximately 300 of the posters were produced during World Wars I and II. Although many of these posters are not dated, the known date range runs from 1917 to 1919 and 1940 to 1946. The posters were used to convey government information relating to wartime agricultural programs, and to educate and...
Dates: 1877-1950; Majority of material found within 1915-1950
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Lyle Frederick Bellinger Collection of Gerow D. Brill Letters and Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: MS0018
Content Description The Lyle Frederick Bellinger Collection of Gerow D. Brill Letters and Photographs contains materials received by Bellinger from 1897 to 1903 while Brill was posted to China by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). There are 10 letters including envelopes, three envelopes only, and one postcard. The collection also includes eight black and white photographs, four of which have been colored by hand. The photographs show scenes from China, including the Great Wall, as well as some cultural...
Dates: 1897-1916; Majority of material found within 1897-1901
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Lyle Thomas Alexander Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0342
Content Description

The Lyle Thomas Alexander Papers contain biographical documents, letters, photographs, awards, medals, publications, journal transcript of West Africa and Belgian Congo, maps, and clippings related to his career as a soil chemist for USDA Soil Conservation Service.

Dates: 1932-2004
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

People on the Farm Program Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0218
Content Description The People on the Farm Program Records include correspondence, notes, drafts, manuscripts, photographs, and contact sheets for the "People on the Farm" leaflet series produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from 1977 to 1982. The collection includes a complete set of the published leaflets.The publication titles are: "People on the Farm: Dairying"; "People on the Farm: Growing Wheat"; "People on the Farm: Growing Vegetables"; "People on the Farm: Black Families";...
Dates: 1976-1983
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Philip Vincent Cardon Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0038
Content Description

The Philip Vincent Cardon Papers include correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, reprints, unpublished lectures and research papers, outlines and notes for radio talks and skits, and some memorabilia.

Dates: 1916-1961
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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

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