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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.

Content Description The USDA Drug and Poisonous Plant Investigations Photograph Collection consists of black-and-white lantern slides with images from research projects conducted by the Drug and Poisonous Plant Investigations division of the Bureau of Plant Industry. Some of the slides feature images of medicinal plant gardens at various institutions across the United States. Other subjects include drug plant field plots at the USDA South Farm in Beltsville, Maryland; drug plant specimens; distribution charts...