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The National Association of Extension Home Economists Records consists of three sets of bound volumes, totaling 13 volumes. There are nine volumes (1943-1984) titled Minutes of Meetings. Two volumes (1943-1984) are titled Reporter, and subtitled News from National, the Letter, the News Letter, the HDA Reporter, and the EHE Reporter. The remaining two volumes (1946-1984) are titled Annual Meeting Programs.

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The National Epsilon Sigma Phi Records contain the organization's historical records, including meeting reports and minutes, conference materials, newsletters, financial records, membership directories, speeches, correspondence, scholarships and awards, handbooks, committee records, and marketing materials. A few materials relate to individual state chapters of the national organization.

Content Description The National Poultry Improvement Plan Records contain documents, reports, and summaries of early efforts to improve the economic aspects of poultry production through breeding and disease control. Materials include newsletters, publications, and reports relating to the poultry industry and the early history of NPIP.The collection includes the following materials: Data on chickens and turkeys tested for Salmonella pullorum (1923-1948), and selection and...

Content Description The collection contains extensive files from the National Turkey Federation (NTF) and its advertising agency, the Evans Advertising Agency of Salt Lake City, Utah. Records include photographs of the NTF’s early officers, statistical reports, correspondence, promotional budgets, marketing research, recipes, photographs, slides, audio recordings, filmstrips, videotapes, and hundreds of color photographs and transparencies. Materials document the NTF’s efforts to promote the...

Content Description The New York State Poultry Industry Coordinated Effort Records consist of bylaws, articles of incorporation, and subsequent amendments. There are materials related to special studies regarding federal Turkey Marketing Orders (1961-1962) and freight rates for feedstuffs set by the Interstate Commerce Commission and Eastern Rail Carriers (1964-1966). Records of the federation's member organizations (New York State Poultry Council, SPICE Marketing Cooperatives, New York State Egg Distributors...

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The Nursery Associations Records Collection consists of the letterpress book of the Western Association of Wholesale Nurserymen (1886-1896); the account book of the American Association of Propagating Nurserymen (1926-1933); the record book of the Pacific Coast Nursery Association (1937-1938); treasury records of the Council of Eastern Nurserymen (1936-1938); and files of the American Horticultural Council.

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The Payne/National 4-H Fellowship Collection includes photographs, publications, scrapbooks, programs, monthly reports, newsletters and news clippings, and correspondence detailing the activities of 4-H Fellows.

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The Poultry and Egg National Board Records include board meeting minutes, financial statements, annual reports, egg promotional material, new product research, cholesterol and fat studies, diet and nutritional cookbooks, reports of the American Home Economics Association conferences, and reports of the 1969 White House Conference on Nutrition.

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The Poultry Industry Hall of Fame Records contain nomination forms of American Poultry Historical Society members who were inducted into the Hall of Fame, artwork for Hall of Fame plaques, and correspondence regarding the preparation of plaques. See also the John Louis Skinner Collection, MS 153.

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The R. Ewing and R. LeNeil Poultry Anatomy Drawings consist of approximately 600 anatomical drawings of poultry used in various publications. There are 10 oversized boxes and an inventory of the collection is stored on CD-ROM.