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Charles R. Gunn Collection
The Charles R. Gunn Collection contains negatives, slides, photographs, and artwork for USDA publications authored or co-authored by Gunn.
Charles Thom Papers
The Charles Thom Papers cover materials from Thom's college years to biographical memoirs published after his death. The collection includes correspondence, notes, notebooks, essays, lectures, speeches, diaries, journals, and lantern slides from professional trips. There are also published items, including monographs, journal articles, and newspaper clippings. The majority of the collection focuses on soil microbiology, mycology, food spoilage, food poisoning, and penicillin.
Clifford M. Foust Papers
The Clifford M. Foust Papers include a card catalog, contact cards, photocopies of articles, correspondence, articles written by Foust, notes for his book entitled Rhubarb: The Wondrous Drug (Princeton University Press, 1992), recipes, and personal files on rhubarb.
Cornelius Lott Shear Papers
The Cornelius Lott Shear Papers contain certificates given to botanist and plant pathologist Shear, who traveled to foreign countries to research agriculture. Many of the certificates serve as introduction letters or statements of purpose presenting Shear’s credentials for official travel. An addition of two reprinted articles about Shear and a few personal photographs was made to the collection in 2011.
CPC Catalog
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.
Dorsett-Morse Oriental Agricultural Exploration Expedition Collection
Edward Everett Terrell Papers
The Edward Everett Terrell Papers consist mainly of photographs, micrographs, negatives, and illustrations of the plant specimens featured in Dr. Terrell's research and publications. There are also plant species distribution maps, journal article reprints, and personal files and correspondence relating to publications, reviews, and specimen collections.
Edwin Mead Wilcox Manuscript
The Edwin Mead Wilcox Manuscript is a typed manuscript and notes for Wilcox's paper, "Diseases of Vegetable Crops and Ornamentals in the United States," published in 1928.
Eldon C. Beagle Papers
The Eldon C. Beagle Papers contain correspondence, U.S. government and United Nations publications, bibliographies on rice hull and furfural research, articles, studies, research papers, and personal journals. Some records relate to international projects in the Philippines, India, Egypt, Thailand, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Australia, and Japan.
Ernest Imle Papers
The Ernest Imle Papers include photographs, reports, and articles about U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) rubber research from the 1940s to the 1970s, primarily at the Regional Rubber Experiment Station in Turrialba, Costa Rica. There are also articles and correspondence on tropical agriculture, including cacao, and publications on lilies.
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