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National Institute for Farm Safety Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0268
Content Description

The National Institute for Farm Safety Collection consists of miscellaneous articles and brochures on farm safety. There are also materials from NIFS meetings.

Dates: 1941-1986; Majority of material found within 1967-1986
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

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
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

People on the Farm Program Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0218
Content Description The People on the Farm Program Records include correspondence, notes, drafts, manuscripts, photographs, and contact sheets for the "People on the Farm" leaflet series produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from 1977 to 1982. The collection includes a complete set of the published leaflets.The publication titles are: "People on the Farm: Dairying"; "People on the Farm: Growing Wheat"; "People on the Farm: Growing Vegetables"; "People on the Farm: Black Families";...
Dates: 1976-1983
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

Photographs of Dairy Farmers at the Graham School

 Collection
Identifier: MS0464
Content Description The Photographs of Dairy Farmers at the Graham School consists of two black-and-white formally posed photographs of large groups of dairy farmers attending courses conducted by the Graham School. The photographs are accompanied by numbered keys to the individuals pictured. The keys list names, addresses, names and locations of farms, and the chief breeds of cattle raised. The farmers pictured are chiefly from the United States Midwest and Ontario, Canada. One photograph is labeled "The...
Dates: 1944-1946
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Report on Trials of Plows Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MS0321
Content Description This item consists of an original manuscript for the Report on Trials of Plows: Transactions of the New York State Agricultural Society by Anonymous, 1867, Part I, Volume XXVII, Illustrated. The book is composed of illustrations, which appear to be original art with hand-lettered captions. It appears to have been self-published. The illustrations were inserted in handmade pages, which were hole-punched and bound with a cord inserted through the pages. There are front...
Dates: 1867
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

Schimmelpfennig Family Mill Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0387
Content Description The Schimmelpfennig Family Mill Collection contains materials relating to the family's grain mill and their life in Sigourney, Iowa. Materials include ledgers and account books containing detailed accounting of transactions at the mill for the years of 1899, 1930 to 1958, and 1974 to 1987. Also included are materials from the family's hobby interest in the history and preservation of old mills throughout the United States, including various preservation and tourism ephemera. Of particular...
Dates: 1899-1987; Majority of material found within 1930-1958, 1964-1965, 1974-1987
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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