animal science

Content Description The American Dairy Goat Association Records include registration records of dairy goats, meeting minutes, and publications. The majority of the collection consists of ADGA office records organized alphabetically by goat herd name, then by goat name. Cards include information on registration number, owners, breeders, records of transfer, and additional categories. Animal owners retain the official registration certificate. Also included are publications of the American Dairy Goat Association,...

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The American Romney Breeders Association Records consist of the association's certificates of registry for ewes and rams.

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The Beef Cattle Photograph Collection contains images of various breeds of beef cattle from different geographical regions, including Beltsville, Maryland. Photographs are filed by breed, subject, activity, or place.

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The Ben Bereskin Papers consist of papers, photographs, publications and reports by Bereskin and others, including H. O. Hetzer, as well as data, notes, correspondence, drafts, abstracts, and other manuscripts. Materials cover subjects such as livestock, poultry, and swine.

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The Charles E. North Papers contain correspondence, articles, and reports on a variety of subjects related to the development of the dairy industry during the first half of the 20th century. The collection includes records concerning North's efforts in support of milk legislation, patents on processes and devices related to the milk industry, and photographs and motion pictures that reflect his determination to upgrade the sanitary standards for processing milk.

Content Description The Clair Elman Terrill Collection contains proofs and photographs for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) bulletins and circulars, sheep and goat registry and breeding records, a card catalog of publications on rabbits, and black and white photographs of rabbits and related subjects. There are papers related to the U.S. Rabbit Experiment Station in Fontana, California, and the U.S. Fur Experiment Station in Ithaca, New York. Also included are photographs, glass and acetate negatives,...

Content Description The Clarence E. Clement Collection consists of over 100 photographs and negatives related to the dairy industry from various sources, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Bureau of Dairy Industry; San Francisco Dairy Company in San Francisco, California; Fitchett Brothers in Poughkeepsie, New York; Trapp Brothers Dairy Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Bowman Dairy Company in Chicago, Illinois; Supplee-Wills-Jones Milk Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Telling-Belle Vernon...

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The Collection of Man o' War Photographs contains black and white photographs of the racehorse Man o' War. The collection includes photographs of the horse, his races, and his trainer. The photographs are undated.

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The Eloise B. Cram Papers contain correspondence, photographs, scientific articles, and various ephemera relating to the professional lives and work of several scientists employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Bureau of Animal Industry (BAI), and by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The scientists included are Eloise B. Cram, Maurice C. Hall, Brayton H. Ransom, Charles W. Stiles, Albert Hassall, and Daniel E. Salmon.

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...