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Henry L. Shands Lantern Slide Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0364
Content Description

The Henry L. Shands Lantern Slide Collection consists of 27 lantern slides related to farming. Images show experimental fields and farming equipment. The slides are undated.

Dates: undated
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Henry M. Beachell and Charles N. Bollich Field Notebooks

 Collection
Identifier: MS0476
Content Description

The Henry M. Beachell and Charles N. Bollich Rice Research Field Notebooks consist of approximately 600 bound notebooks in which the researchers recorded field data collected in Beaumont, Texas, from 1932 to 1991. The collection includes agronomic data from the Uniform Regional Rice Nursery, experimental plot research and breeding nursery books along with Beachell’s daily field diaries from 1943 to 1959.

Dates: 1932-1991
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Howard Scott Gentry

 Collection
Identifier: MS0346
Content Description

The Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Howard Scott Gentry consists of articles, notes, photographs, and Cunningham's drafts of articles on Howard Gentry's expeditions as a plant collector. Cunningham collected these materials to write several articles about Gentry.

Dates: 1940-1995; Majority of material found within 1984-1993
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Ivar Frederick Tidestrom Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0417
Content Description

The Ivar Frederick Tidestrom Papers relate to the flora of several regions and states, including the Chesapeake Bay, Texas, and Oklahoma. The collection also contains a number of keys and revisions of keys for various plant families, as well as notes on plants that Tidestrom collected in France and the United States. There are a few personal photographs and some correspondence related to Latin nomenclature and validation of species.

Dates: 1940-1950
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

J. Horace McFarland Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0102
Content Description The J. Horace McFarland Papers comprise documents used in the business operation of the J. Horace McFarland Company and Mount Pleasant Press of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Some of the photographic images in the collection were also used by McFarland for speeches and presentations he gave on topics related to civic beatification, natural resources conservation, and horticulture.The bulk of the collection consists of photographs, glass and film negatives, transparencies, lantern...
Dates: 1923-1975
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

James A. Duke Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0352
Content Description The James A. Duke Papers consist of notes, drafts of articles, published articles, reprints, statistical data, reports, and photographs. Materials document the uses of common roots, herbs, fruits, vegetables, plants, and leaves to prevent or treat illnesses. Included are analyses of the chemical composition of plant materials. There are also notes about Duke's travels to various countries, and his observations of indigenous people and their uses of forest products in folk remedies or herbal...
Dates: 1948-1994
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

John B. Carpenter Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0368
Content Description The John B. Carpenter Papers include materials relating to Carpenter's project in the 1950s to create a subject index of Miles Joseph Berkeley's papers on Vegetable Pathology (1854-1857). The collection contains one bound volume, which includes the Vegetable Pathology papers, extracted by Carpenter in 1945 from the Gardener's Chronicle. There are ten pieces of correspondence between Carpenter and J. G. Dickson regarding Carpenter's index. Also included are two copies...
Dates: 1854-1954; Majority of material found within 1952-1954
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

John W. Mitchell Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0414
Content Description

The John W. Mitchell Papers relate to Mitchell's research on ferns of the Mid-Atlantic United States. The collection includes slide transparencies, photographs, maps and guides, publications, and research notes compiled by Mitchell for a planned field guide.

Dates: 1980-1991
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Joseph Francis Charles Rock Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0351
Content Description

The Joseph Francis Charles Rock Papers contain a bibliofilm (microfilm photograph) of Rock's specimen notebook from 1928. The notes list plant specimens by number, followed by a description of the specimen and its location or altitude. The actual specimens are housed at the Harvard University Herbaria.

Dates: 1928
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Joseph H. Kirkbride Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0472
Content Description The Joseph H. Kirkbride Collection consists of materials related to Kirkbride's work in the Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service. The collection contains reports, photographic slides, and transparencies from research trips abroad, including germplasm collecting trips to Portugal, Spain, Morocco, and Brazil, as well as a trip to Japan. There are also images of botanical, cultural, and scenic interest from these...
Dates: 1985-2009; Majority of material found in 1990
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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