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USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS0184
Content Description
The USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection contains approximately 7,000 watercolor paintings of fruit and nut specimens received by the U.S. Department of Agriculture from growers and plant explorers. The paintings were created by artists employed by the USDA Division of Pomology from 1888 to the 1930s. Credit information was written by the artist on each watercolor, and typically includes the name of the property owner, county, city, and state or country where the specimen was grown. Many...
Dates:
1888-1939
USDA Potato Research Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS0358
Content Description
The USDA Potato Research Collection consists primarily of photographs used for research studies, which document labs, fields, experiments, types of potatoes, equipment, personnel, and staff portraits. Various locations are represented, including: Potomac Flats in Washington, D.C.; Honeoye Falls, New York; the Colorado Potato Experiment Station; and locations in Idaho, Oregon, California, Minnesota, Michigan, South Dakota, and Texas. Formats are mostly black and white photograph prints, but...
Dates:
1907-1945; Majority of material found within 1910-1938
USDA Seed and Grain Branch Records
Collection
Identifier: MS0337
Content Description
The USDA Seed and Grain Branch Records include correspondence from plant breeders, seedsmen, and others, mainly addressed to Clyde R. Edwards, Seed and Grain Branch Division, for clearance of plant variety names in accordance with the Federal Seed Act. The files of vegetable crops and turf grasses are organized in alphabetical order by name of plant. Information within the letters indicates that trademark applications for seeds and U.S. Plant Variety Protection Certificates were sent to the...
Dates:
1895-1991; Majority of material found within 1957-1978
USDA Small Fruit Improvement Programs Records
Collection
Identifier: MS0155
Content Description
The USDA Small Fruit Improvement Programs Records contain the following:
Donald H. Scott's strawberry, blueberry, and blackberry field notebooks (1950-1978) and work notes (1941-1970), Scott's and George M. Darrow's photographs for illustrations of USDA bulletins, and John Hull’s blackberry records (1961-1969).Files from the office of Gene Galletta, including strawberry records (1953-1969), grape papers (1946-1967), correspondence files (1947-1972), and raspberry...
Dates:
1914-1985; Majority of material found within 1941-1985
USDA Sugar Crops Section Records
Collection
Identifier: MS0239
Content Description
The USDA Sugar Crops Section Records include data sheets, reports, and manuscripts written by various employees; slides, negatives, and photographs of sugar beets; correspondence of George Herbert Coons and Dewey Stewart; and other research files related to sugar beets. The materials are primarily from the administrations of George Herbert Coons and Dewey Stewart. Coons was the principal pathologist of the Division of Sugar Plant Investigations, Bureau of Plant Industry during the 1930s and...
Dates:
1926-1960
USDA Tobacco Market News Service Records
Collection
Identifier: MS0174
Content Description
The USDA Tobacco Market News Service Records contain historical information on the Tobacco Market News Service (1928-1971); tobacco inspection (1927-1963); stocks, standards, and grading (pre-1929-1935); and auctions (1929-1962). There are correspondence, notes, and copies of tobacco annual reports (1932-1953); major legislation (1933-1952); and hearings and testimonies (1947-1950). There are also World War II-era regulation summaries and reports of tobacco activities (1941-1948); material...
Dates:
1920-1975
Walter A. Gentner Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS0412
Content Description
The Walter A. Gentner Collection contains research manuscripts, photographs, award plaques and certificates, framed artifacts, paintings, and memorabilia related to Gentner's career as a plant physiologist with the United States Department of Agriculture's Weed Science Laboratory.
Dates:
1952-1988
William A. Taylor Memory Book
Collection
Identifier: MS0378
Content Description
The William A. Taylor Memory Book is a working copy of an album compiled by friends of Dr. William A. Taylor, former chief of the U. S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Bureau of Plant Industry (BPI), and presented to him in 1944. The memory book highlights the personnel and work of the Plant Industry Station in Beltsville, Maryland, in the 1940s. It contains reminiscences, reproductions of congratulatory letters, and photographs. Robert L. Taylor (no relation to William A. Taylor)...
Dates:
1944
William Henry Prestele Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS0137
Content Description
The William Henry Prestele Papers consist of watercolors, pencil sketches, tracings, notes, papers, plant specimens, and an album cover. The collection contains materials created as Prestele worked on illustrations intended for a monograph on American native grapes by Thomas Volney Munson.
Dates:
1889-1890s
William Saunders Manuscripts
Collection
Identifier: MS0149
Content Description
The William Saunders Manuscripts include: "Alphabetical List of Plants in Four Different Languages, Botanical, English, German, French" (handwritten; call number 452.14 Sa8A Folio), "Cyclopaedia of Economic Plants; Their History Culture and Uses" (handwritten, 1880; six volumes; call number 452.8 Sa8), and "The Journal of William Saunders" (photostat, 1898-1899; call number 120 Sa8). The collection includes facsimiles of the following documents from the National Grange: William...
Dates:
1880-1899
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