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Charles Ford Langworthy Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0096
Content Description

The Charles Ford Langworthy Papers contain miscellaneous publications and notes on food and nutrition with a subject index.

Dates: 1904-1919
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Charles Thom Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0170
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1891-1968
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Citizens Food Committee Program Posters and Publicity Materials

 Collection
Identifier: MS0225
Content Description

he Citizens Food Committee Program Posters and Publicity Materials contain posters, drafts, and mock-ups of advertising materials related to conserving food supplies after World War II. These materials illustrate the efforts of the Citizens Food Committee to encourage Americans to save food so that supplies could be shared with Europeans.

Dates: 1947
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Collection of American Cookbooks

 Collection
Identifier: MS0479
Content Description The Collection of American Cookbooks consists of 14 cookbooks from the early- to mid-20th century. The collection includes the following titles: 9th Grand National Cookbook, Baker's Famous Chocolate Recipes, The Hershey Recipe Book, Blue Ribbon Recipe Book Omar, Pillsbury's Best 11th Grand National Bake-Off Cookbook, Knudsen Recipes, ...
Dates: 1915-1961
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Cooperative Extension Service Farm Labor Program Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0399
Content Description The Cooperative Extension Service Farm Labor Program Collection contains reports of the Information Service in the Cooperative Extension Farm Labor Program during the years 1943 to 1947. The reports are illustrated with photographs and include recruitment information, sample recruitment materials such as posters and brochures, and farm labor stories from and about various volunteer farm labor groups during World War II. These groups include the Women's Land Army, the U.S. Crop Corps, the...
Dates: 1943-1947
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Eldon C. Beagle Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0070
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1939-1983; Majority of material found within 1960s - early1980s
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Elsie Carper Collection on USDA Extension Service, Home Economics, and 4-H

 Collection
Identifier: MS0056
Content Description The Elsie Carper Collection on USDA Extension Service, Home Economics, and 4-H contains materials relating to early cooperative extension work, largely compiled by Extension specialists and program leaders over Carper's many years of employment as a clerk at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Subject areas include Cooperative Extension history, early history of Extension home economics, the Extension Homemaker's Organization, early history of the National Association of Extension...
Dates: 1908-1990
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Food Irradiation Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0426
Content Description

The Food Irradiation Collection contains materials primarily from the Quartermaster Food and Container Institute for the Armed Forces (QMF&CI). There are contract research project reports and other publications related to food irradiation. Projects appear to have originated from the Institute, as well as other institutions and commercial companies. The collection also includes international materials.

Dates: 1957-1968
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Food Processing Abstracts Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0437
Content Description The Food Processing Abstracts were available on a subscription basis from Lowry-Cocroft Abstracts based in Evanston, Illinois. Each week subscribers received abstracts, alphabetized and numbered in order, coded by a classification system. The code numbers appeared on the lower right hand corner of each card. The classification system had three divisions: Processing Fields, Type of Food Processed, and Kind of Information Included. Processing Fields subjects consisted of...
Dates: 1963-1969
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Food Puppets Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0402
Content Description

The USDA Food and Nutrition Service (FNS) received as an anonymous donation two food puppets that are believed to have been part of a children's television show. The puppets represent a head of broccoli and a carton of milk. There is no further information as to their origin.

Dates: Late 20th century
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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