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Cooperative Extension Service Farm Labor Program Collection

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Identifier: MS0399
Content Description The Cooperative Extension Service Farm Labor Program Collection contains reports of the Information Service in the Cooperative Extension Farm Labor Program during the years 1943 to 1947. The reports are illustrated with photographs and include recruitment information, sample recruitment materials such as posters and brochures, and farm labor stories from and about various volunteer farm labor groups during World War II. These groups include the Women's Land Army, the U.S. Crop Corps, the...
Dates: 1943-1947
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Glendora Products Company Label Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0068
Content Description The Glendora Products Company Label Collection contains food can labels for various products from the company's warehouse. There are also patent and trademark documents, along with some correspondence relating to them. The bulk of the collection consists of fruit and vegetable can labels in mint condition, printed between 1925 and 1942. They represent labels from Smith & Horton Co., Glendora Products Co., H.G. Prince & Co., Winters & Prophet Canning Co., Burt Olney Canning Co.,...
Dates: 1916-1956
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection

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Identifier: MS0120
Content Description The Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection contains over 150,000 catalogs from nursery and seed companies in the United States and countries around the world. The catalogs contain information regarding sources, prices, and descriptions of plant material offered for sale by nurserymen, growers, and seedsmen. The bulk of the catalogs were published by U.S. companies. The collection was started in 1904 by Percy Leroy Ricker, an economic botanist for the U.S. Department of...
Dates: 1724-2013; Majority of material found within 1890-2003
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

Joel Solkoff Papers

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Identifier: MS0324
Content Description

The Joel Solkoff Papers consist of Solkoff's agricultural writings, which appeared in such publications as The New Republic, Congressional Record, Skeptic, The New York Times, Newsday, and The Washington Star. Also included are Solkoff's book, The Politics of Food, and several reviews of the book; several issues of MLAP Monthly Report, a publication for which Solkoff served as editor; a collection of unpublished manuscripts; and Solkoff's resume (2004).

Dates: 1974-2004
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Michelle Marcotte Files on Food Irradiation

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Identifier: MS0395
Content Description The Michelle Marcotte Files on Food Irradiation contain research papers and printed information materials about food processing and food irradiation in Canada and the United States over a 30 year period. The collected information formed reviews of literature required to submit petitions in Canada and the United States for approval to irradiate foods such as mangoes, poultry, animal feeds, red meat, and later dietary supplements (botanicals), shellfish, crustaceans, shelf-stable foods. The...
Dates: 1987-2006
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Michelle Marcotte Files on Functional Food

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Identifier: MS0394
Content Description

The Michelle Marcotte Files on Functional Food reflect the development of regulatory change in Canada for health foods, including dietary supplements (usually termed herbal medicines in Canada), and for functional foods or neutraceuticals.

Dates: undated
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Michelle Marcotte Files on Methyl Bromide Alternatives

 Collection
Identifier: MS0396
Content Description

The Michelle Marcotte Files on Methyl Bromide Alternatives contain files and books pertaining to the early years of the Methyl Bromide Technical Options Committee (MBTOC) and the growing body of knowledge of methyl bromide alternatives.

Dates: 1991-2006
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

National Association of Extension Home Economists Records

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Identifier: MS0315
Content Description

The National Association of Extension Home Economists Records consists of three sets of bound volumes, totaling 13 volumes. There are nine volumes (1943-1984) titled Minutes of Meetings. Two volumes (1943-1984) are titled Reporter, and subtitled News from National, the Letter, the News Letter, the HDA Reporter, and the EHE Reporter. The remaining two volumes (1946-1984) are titled Annual Meeting Programs.

Dates: 1943-1984
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Raymond Andrew Loanes Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0353
Content Description The Raymond Andrew Ioanes Papers include correspondence and memoranda from the Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS), speeches given by Ioanes, and two photographs. Topics include the 20th-century history of FAS, foreign agricultural trade, the dispersal of surplus agricultural products in foreign countries, and trade relations with Russia, the European Community (EC), and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Materials relating to the Association for Diplomatic Studies' Foreign...
Dates: 1953-1997
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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