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Roland Maurice Jefferson Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0347
Content Description

The Roland Maurice Jefferson Collection contains articles, correspondence, email messages, documents, lectures, photographs, programs, and other notes. The majority of the collection highlights Jefferson's work, including plant expeditions for cherry trees at the United States National Arboretum and his post-retirement lectures. The collection also mentions Jefferson's work with plant labels, crabapples, the dogwood seed exchange program, and the President Reagan Cherry Tree.

Dates: 1912-2007; Majority of material found within 1979-1989
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Roy Walter Simonson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0415
Content Description The Roy Walter Simonson Papers contain notes, correspondence, and memoranda from soil surveys in the United States from 1899 through 1953. The collection also contains notes on specific regions' soils, scientific aspects of soils, and soil classification. Notable records include notes, memoranda, and correspondence related to the controversy surrounding the soil survey in the Southern Region of the U.S. in the 1940s. There are also autobiographical writings by Simonson, along with 14 foreign...
Dates: 1899-1978; Majority of material found within 1940-1970
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Sanitary Medicine Class Exercise Folio

 Collection
Identifier: MS0452
Content Description The Sanitary Medicine Class Exercise Folio consists of a notebook containing an unidentified student's handwritten notes from Professor Daniel E. Salmon's first lectures at the newly established National Veterinary College in Washington, D.C. The notes extend from October 25, 1892 to March 10, 1893, and indicate that Salmon gave one to three lectures per week. The topic of the first two lectures was nomenclature; the third lecture covered methods to control animal diseases, especially...
Dates: 1892-1893
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Screwworm Eradication Program Artifacts

 Collection
Identifier: MS0348
Content Description

The Screwworm Eradication Program Artifacts contain materials used in various screwworm eradication program areas, including screwworm fly dispersal boxes, a collection tube, a collection cup and holders, and signs.

Dates: undated
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Screwworm Eradication Program Audiovisual Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MS0215
Content Description

The Screwworm Eradication Program Audiovisual Materials include photographs, slides, and films portraying screwworm eradication efforts in the United States, Mexico, and South America.

Dates: 1944-2003
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Screwworm Eradication Program Oral Histories

 Collection
Identifier: MS0305
Content Description The Screwworm Eradication Program Oral Histories contain video and audio recordings, and printed transcripts of interviews with persons involved in the U.S. Screwworm Eradication Program. Among the interviewees are: former U.S. Representative Eligio "Kika" de la Garza of Texas; longtime Mexican-American program employees Manuel Ortega and Santana Munoz; technician Jimmy Bruce; Edward F. Knipling, U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) entomologist and leading theoretician for the program;...
Dates: 2000-2004
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Screwworm Eradication Program Promotional Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MS0214
Content Description

The Screwworm Eradication Program Promotional Materials include items relating to screwworm eradication programs in the Southwestern United States, Mexico, Central America, and North Africa. There are public information and promotional materials such as baseball caps, mugs, calendars, key rings, bumper stickers, publications and brochures, photographs, fly case collection reports, 16-millimeter films, and fly distribution artifacts.

Dates: 1976-2003
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Screwworm Eradication Program Records for the Southeastern United States

 Collection
Identifier: MS0212
Content Description The Screwworm Eradication Program Records for the Southeastern United States consist of documents describing various early proposals for eradicating screwworms, experiments and field tests in Florida and Curacao, the rearing and transportation of sterile flies, the building of fly-rearing facilities in Florida, the use of radiation to sterilize flies, treatments for wounded animals, and the eradication program in the Southeastern U.S. The materials include publications, surveys, reports,...
Dates: 1932-1959; Majority of material found within 1950-1959
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Screwworm Eradication Program Records for the Southwestern United States and Mexico

 Collection
Identifier: MS0211
Content Description The Screwworm Eradication Program Records for the Southwestern United States and Mexico contain documents related to sterile fly production plants in Mission, Texas, and Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico. Included in the records are reports, research data, correspondence, fly production and release records, manuscripts, manuals and regulations, publications, notes, case reports, photographs, public information materials, and artifacts.Much of the collection relates to field...
Dates: 1922-2004; Majority of material found within 1960-1990
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Stereo Cards of USDA Buildings and Grounds in Washington, D.C.

 Collection
Identifier: MS0400
Content Description

The collection includes approximately 60 stereo cards that represent various U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) facilities from around 1870 to 1930. Many of the cards have information, such as the location of the scene, noted on the back or sides of the stereo card. These cards document the early history of USDA buildings on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

Dates: 1870-1930
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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