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USDA Commodity Stabilization Service Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0292
Content Description

The USDA Commodity Stabilization Service Records contain handwritten notes or typescript charts with statistical figures about the production and trade of chemicals used as insecticides in commercial agriculture.

Dates: 1935-1969
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Entomology Research Division Reprints

 Collection
Identifier: MS0237
Content Description

The USDA Entomology Research Division Reprints consist of articles written by employees in collaboration with other scientists about various aspects of entomology. These records include reprints of articles, a majority of which are about the use of pesticides to control insects.

Dates: 1939-1971; Majority of material found within 1951-1959
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Insect Biocontrol Laboratory Photographs of Rose Gall Midge Research

 Collection
Identifier: MS0397
Content Description The USDA Insect Biocontrol Laboratory Photographs of Rose Gall Midge Research contain approximately 100 photographs related to the work on the rose gall midge (Dasineura spp.) in the 1970s by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service's Insect Biocontrol Laboratory. The images show various aspects of pest research involving rose plants in the Washington, DC area from approximately 1915 to 1970. The photographs are labeled based on the type of information...
Dates: 1915-1970
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Insecticide Division Notebooks on White Arsenic Research

 Collection
Identifier: MS0249
Content Description

The USDA Insecticide Division Notebooks on White Arsenic Research contain the notebooks of scientists who worked on white arsenic research in the Insecticide Division, Bureau of Chemistry and Soils. Names on notebooks include F. E. Dearborn, Charles Meldrum Smith, Ole Anker Nelson, Lloyd E. Smith, J. W. Barnes, Cecil Robert Gross, J. Weisser, Carroll Clayton Cassil, E. H. Hamilton, Robert K. Preston, Robert A. Hayes, N. Green, Houston Vernon Claborn, and W. H. Tonkin.

Dates: 1922-1946
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Livestock Insects Laboratory Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0253
Content Description

The USDA Livestock Insects Laboratory Records include reports, data sheets, correspondence, technical bulletins, and journal articles.

Dates: 1932-1986; Majority of material found within 1970-1986
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0392
Content Description The USDA Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory Photograph Collection includes photographs, associated notes, and a record book on various U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) activities and personnel, dated between 1888 and 1968. The collection contains a series of photographs related to testing insecticide spraying apparatuses on different crops between 1912 and 1944. Much of the collection consists of photographs of employees from departments of Plant Industry and Plant Pathology, and...
Dates: 1888-1968
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Pink Bollworm Project Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0129
Content Description The USDA Pink Bollworm Project Photograph Collection documents the work of the Plant Quarantine and Control Administration on bollworm detection, prevention, and quarantine measures. Photographs show scientists' processes for cleansing the soil of bollworms, views of infested fields, and the effects of bollworms on cotton and other plants. There are photographs of inspection sites in Texas and New Mexico; field clean-up activities in Arizona; and an album of colleagues' portraits presented...
Dates: 1930-1998
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Radio and Television Service Celebrity Pesticide Spots Audio Recordings

 Collection
Identifier: MS0313
Content Description The USDA Radio and Television Service Celebrity Pesticide Spots Audio Recordings consist of four 33-1/3 RPM phonograph records containing public service announcements about the safe use of pesticides. The recordings were produced by USDA Office of Information, Radio and Television Service, Washington, D.C. There are two unique recordings, and the remaining two are duplicates. Celebrity voices include Minnie Pearl, Art Carney, Arthur Godfrey, and Eva Gabor. Additionally, there is a typescript...
Dates: 1970
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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