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Charles Benjamin Coffman Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS0456
Content Description
The Charles Benjamin Coffman Papers primarily consist of technical data concerned with the herbicidal properties of weed management chemicals. Most of this data is contained in reports from the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) for the American National Standards Committee on Common Names for Pest Control Chemicals of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The files are arranged alphabetically by chemical name. The collection also includes correspondence, field notes and...
Dates:
1959-1998; Majority of material found within 1970-1980
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
Henry L. Shands Lantern Slide Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS0364
Content Description
The Henry L. Shands Lantern Slide Collection consists of 27 lantern slides related to farming. Images show experimental fields and farming equipment. The slides are undated.
Dates:
undated
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
Paul C. Marth and John W. Mitchell Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS0103
Content Description
The Paul C. Marth and John W. Mitchell Papers contain biographical information about both men; material gathered for the book Classic Papers in Horticultural Science; 66 of Marth's notebooks; Marth's 1942 Ph.D. thesis; reprints; and negatives of rose photographs. There is correspondence, mostly Marth's and very little of Mitchell's, as well as correspondence from 1987 between J. Ray Frank and Stephen Weller regarding Marth and Mitchell.
Dates:
1933-1993
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
Tayloe Family Journal
Collection
Identifier: MS0166
Content Description
The Tayloe Family Journal is a handwritten account book maintained by Edward Thornton Tayloe of the Powhatan plantation in King George County, Virginia, between 1834 and 1849. The journal has entries related to barns, beef, cattle, clover, corn, cultivators, dairying, ditching, drought, fallowing, fencing, grapes, harvesting, hogs, manure, marl, oats, pruning, and sheep, as well as some detailed maps, crop production and slave inventories, and an index. There is also legal background...
Dates:
1831-1849
Thomas Jefferson Correspondence
Collection
Identifier: MS0089
Content Description
The Thomas Jefferson Correspondence consists of eleven letters to Jefferson, from Jefferson, and about Jefferson (1786-1819) and a set of four letters (1915) between W. K. Bixby and Secretary of Agriculture D. F. Houston, regarding Jefferson letters that Bixby had found and sent to Houston. Houston later placed the Jefferson letters in the Department of Agriculture Library. The Jefferson letters contain information on agricultural topics, such as nursery stock purchased by Jefferson, a...
Dates:
1786-1993
USDA Division of Cereal Crops and Diseases Photograph Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS0245
Content Description
The USDA Division of Cereal Crops and Diseases Photograph Collection contains glass and acetate negatives, as well as black and white prints. Subjects include aspects of cereal crop classification, production, utilization, farm machinery, diseases, and pests in the United States and foreign countries. Crops pictured include corn, barley, oats, sorghum, sorgo, milo, millet, wheat, flax, rice, rye, and kafir. A number of the negatives were used in the Journal of Agricultural Research, U.S....
Dates:
1898-1951; Majority of material found within 1903-1930
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
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