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Abraham D. Stoesz Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0350
Content Description The Abraham D. Stoesz Papers are composed of approximately 1,100 35mm slides. Subjects of the slides include soil and soil erosion, plants, and flowers, as well as tourism photographs from Washington, D.C., New York City, and other cities and universities. Many slides are clearly labeled with the date, location, and subjects. The slides represent locations across the United States. The collection also contains approximately 50 of Stoesz's field notebooks, which include notes from...
Dates: 1930-1963; Majority of material found within 1957-1961

Alvin L. Young Collection on Agent Orange

 Collection
Identifier: MS0207
Content Description The Alvin L. Young Collection on Agent Orange contains correspondence, newspaper articles, journal reprints, conference papers, technical reports, congressional hearing testimony, government documents, monographs, and other research materials concerned with phenoxy herbicides, TCDD (2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin, a toxic impurity found in Agent Orange, and often referred to as dioxin), and related chemicals. Much of the collection focuses on, or is related to Agent Orange, a phenoxy...
Dates: Late 1800s-2005; Majority of material found within 1960-1989

Charles C. Plitt Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0236
Content Description

The Charles C. Plitt Collection consists of a series of journals resulting from weekly botany field trips, which Plitt referred to as "tramps," ranging in date from about 1898 to 1922. Plitt led these tramps through many areas around Baltimore, such as Loch Raven, Glen Burnie, Towson, Curtis Bay, and Ellicott City. The collection also includes biographical data, correspondence, photographs, and a book.

Dates: 1897-1994

Charles Edwin Kellogg Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0091
Content Description

The Charles Edwin Kellogg Papers contain scripts of Kellogg's speeches, articles, reviews, reprints, correspondence, field notes, journals, slides, photographs, soil maps, and publications relating to soil science and agriculture. Publications include many of the rare works of soil science pioneers such as Glinka, Ruffin, Evelyn, Young, and Marbut.

Dates: 1929-1975; Majority of material found within 1947-1971

Charles Farquharson Stewart Sharpe Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0151
Content Description The Charles Farquharson Stewart Sharpe Papers consist of copies of articles, translations, and publications relating to geomorphology and erosion. Materials include correspondence and other records produced in the course of Sharpe's work for the Climatic and Physiographic Division of the Soil Conservation service. There are also research notes and draft reports of physiographic studies in which Sharpe was involved, copies of published reports authored by Sharpe, and photographs and lantern...
Dates: 1925-1991; Majority of material found within 1925-1949

CPC Catalog

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Identifier: MS0441
Content Description

The CPC Catalog contains bibliographic citations for plants and soils, mostly referring to articles, and the cards mostly carry the National Agricultural Library (NAL) cataloging system numbers. The cards are filed alphabetically by last name of author and by type of crop. Includes early horticultural literature from 16th, 17th, and 18th centuries. There are both U.S. and foreign citations. Additions to the catalog may have ceased in the 1940s.

Dates: undated

Flood Control Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0291
Content Description The Flood Control Collection contains reports, publications, correspondence, notes, photographs, audio recordings, maps, and data regarding floods and flood control in the United States. Most of these items were produced by the USDA Soil Conservation Service. There are a few pieces authored by other individuals and agencies. The collection also includes articles and addresses written for professional organizations, such as the American Society of Agricultural Engineers and the Society of...
Dates: 1910-1979; Majority of material found within 1938-1953

Franklin Benjamin Hough Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0263
Content Description

The Franklin Benjamin Hough Papers consist of handwritten correspondence, agreements, and memoranda. Much of the correspondence deals with forestry matters and Hough’s paper, titled "The Duty of Governments in the Preservation of Forests," which he presented to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1873.

Dates: 1870-1884; Majority of material found within 1876-1877

Harriett Singleton Stubbs Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0163
Content Description

The Harriett Singleton Stubbs Papers consist of publications, brochures, reports, articles, speeches, fact sheets, bibliographies, and correspondence relating to acid rain in Canada and to United States government agencies and other organizations that addressed acid rain.

Dates: 1982-1985

Harvey Washington Wiley Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MS0199
Content Description

The Harvey Washington Wiley manuscript consists of a typewritten draft of an unpublished USDA Bureau of Chemistry bulletin entitled "Comparative Fertility and Nitrifying Power of Soils." The draft was co-written by Wiley, C. C. Moore, and E. E. Ewell. It is dated June 30, 1904.

Dates: 1904