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Tayloe Family Journal

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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
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Thomas Jefferson Correspondence

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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
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Troy Farmers Club Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0339
Content Description

The Troy Farmers Club Records consist of four record books that include the organization's charter, meeting minutes, and account information. The entries describe agricultural matters in the Troy, Pennsylvania, community during the period covered. The first officers were J. C. McKean, president; G. M. Card, secretary.; A. M. Cornell, treasurer.; and A. S. Hooker, reporting secretary.

Dates: 1874-1888
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Agricultural Marketing Service and Farm Market Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0260
Content Description

The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service and Farm Market Photograph Collection consists primarily of slides of farm markets and associated marketing and transportation activities throughout the United States, with a few examples from foreign countries.

Dates: 1959-1984; Majority of material found within 1960s-1970s
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Division of Agricultural Engineering Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0256
Content Description The USDA Division of Agricultural Engineering Records contain photographs, glass negatives, and acetate negatives of images relating to agricultural engineering. Some of the subjects include irrigation, drainage, farm buildings, farm power and machinery, crops and crop conditioning, harvesting, care and handling of products, road construction, and farm electrification. Additionally, there are articles on agricultural engineering and farm electrification. The collection also contains speeches...
Dates: 1913-1981; Majority of material found within 1919-1940
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Division of Farm Population and Rural Life Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0244
Content Description The USDA Division of Farm Population and Rural Life Records consist of reports, manuscripts, and unpublished addresses cited in Sociology in Government: A Bibliography of the Work of the Division of Farm Population and Rural Life, U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1919-1953 (Olaf Frederick Larson, Edward O. Moe, and Julie Nadine Zimmerman, Westview Press in cooperation with the American Sociological Association and the Rural Sociological Society, 1992). Also included are several additional...
Dates: 1935-1953; Majority of material found within 1936-1946
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Extension Service Plan Exchange Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0269
Content Description

The USDA Extension Service Plan Exchange Records consist of plans for agricultural structures and low-cost housing. The plans were the result of the collective work of plan exchange engineers at U.S. land-grant universities. Each plan has a date and a reference number.

Dates: 1933-1988
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Farmers Home Administration Farm Building Plans

 Collection
Identifier: MS0289
Content Description

The USDA Farmers Home Administration Farm Building Plans include compilations of house plans and heating duct layouts. There is a series of U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) publications entitled "House Planning Aids." These small publications contain information about how to design and arrange various parts of a home.

Dates: 1950-1970
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

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