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American Agricultural Economics Association Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0006
Content Description The American Agricultural Economics Association Records contain the organization's constitution, bylaws, correspondence, handbooks, directories, ledgers, invoices, newsletters, black and white and color photographs, membership lists, reports, policies, student chapter papers, publications, and papers of various committees. A majority of the records are drafts of articles for the American Journal of Agricultural Economics. Includes files of the Committee on Women in...
Dates: 1938-1994
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Cedar Valley Land Company Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0041
Content Description

The Cedar Valley Land Company Records consist of two volumes of the company's contracts and records of land sales.

Dates: 1904-1907
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Daniel Poppleton Account Book

 Collection
Identifier: MS0130
Content Description

The Daniel Poppleton Account Book (typewritten copy, 1939) is titled "A Pioneer Farmer of Licking County, Ohio...1818-1852." Most of the entries in the account book are debit items. Little money was in circulation at that time, and marketing of farm products was accomplished through barter. There is an introduction to the account book written by W.W. Stockberger, which provides biographical information about Poppleton and an explanation of the account book.

Dates: 1818-1939
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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 G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection

 Collection
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

Nils Andreas Olsen Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0123
Content Description The Nils Andreas Olsen Collection consists of journals, ledgers, and other account books of the Evans Hardware Company, Princeton, Minnesota, covering transactions prior to 1920; records of Alfred Erickson, Washington County, Minnesota; meeting minutes, payroll book, cash books, and other records of the Golden Valley Creamery Association, a cooperative functioning from 1908 to 1910, and its member groups; crop reports and land development literature from the Great Plains states; some 19th...
Dates: 1855-1936
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Oscar Clemen Stine Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0161
Content Description

The Oscar Clemen Stine Papers are handwritten and typed notes on wheat history, colonial wheat culture, wheat exports and imports, insects and diseases, business and wheat crops, acreage, consumption, demand, and foreign markets. Additionally, there are publications by Stine and a manuscript of his autobiography, "Reminiscences of O.C. Stine."

Dates: 1921-1957
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

Robert Lee Tontz Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0175
Content Description The Robert Lee Tontz Papers consist of statistics, clippings, and publications related to U.S. and foreign trade, including comparisons between exports and imports from 1790 through the 1970s. Also included are data about projected voting in congressional elections (farm versus nonfarm areas) dating from the 1950s to the 1970s. Other materials include correspondence, reports, membership files on the Farm Bureau and the Grange, and photographs. There is a copy of Tontz's work, ...
Dates: 1920-1993
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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