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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

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

Warren R. Bailey Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0013
Content Description

The Warren R. Bailey papers include correspondence and information on meetings attended, unpublished reports by various authors on topics such as food production and farms, published reports by Bailey and various authors, and handwritten reports and notes from college classes in economics that he attended.

Dates: 1933-1976
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Wilbur Olin Atwater Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0261
Content Description

The Wilbur Olin Atwater Papers contain correspondence, photographs, publications, and data sheets related to Atwater's research in the chemical composition of foods, dietary studies, and the respiration calorimeter.

Dates: 1865-1993; Majority of material found within 1893-1904
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

William A. Taylor Memory Book

 Collection
Identifier: MS0378
Content Description The William A. Taylor Memory Book is a working copy of an album compiled by friends of Dr. William A. Taylor, former chief of the U. S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI), and presented to him in 1944. The memory book highlights the personnel and work of the Plant Industry Station in Beltsville, Maryland, in the 1940s. It contains reminiscences, reproductions of congratulatory letters, and photographs. Robert L. Taylor (no relation to William A. Taylor)...
Dates: 1944
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

William Allison Lloyd Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0099
Content Description The William Allison Lloyd Papers comprise four volumes. The first three volumes contain more than 60 items, including papers and addresses relating to agricultural extension written between 1913 and 1945. The collection covers the pre-Smith-Lever extension work in the northern and western states. Lloyd addressed the organization of cooperative extension services under the Smith-Lever Act, the development of county agent work in the northern and western states, and the development of the...
Dates: 1913-1946
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

William Ashby Jump Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0090
Content Description

The William Ashby Jump Papers consist primarily of correspondence, budgetary data, and reports relating directly to Jump's work and professional interests. It also includes 27 volumes of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Budgetary Material, 1946-1952.

Dates: 1938-1949
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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