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economics

 Subject
Subject Source: Nalt

Found in 47 Collections and/or Records:

Glenn A. Holroyd Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0393
Content Description

The Glenn A. Holroyd Papers include photographs of Commodity Credit Corporation (CCC) and Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service (ASCS) employees; Holroyd's service and merit awards; employee newsletters; certificates from Holroyd's educational courses; and correspondence about the ASCS Loan Task Force.

Dates: 1956-1971
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Grant Thorburn and Sons Invoice Book

 Collection
Identifier: MS0173
Content Description

The Grant Thorburn and Sons Invoice Book is a 50-page volume containing invoices for flowers, trees, and seeds related to business transactions of the Grant Thorburn and Sons seed company.

Dates: 1830-1834
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0120
Content Description The Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection contains over 150,000 catalogs from nursery and seed companies in the United States and countries around the world. The catalogs contain information regarding sources, prices, and descriptions of plant material offered for sale by nurserymen, growers, and seedsmen. The bulk of the catalogs were published by U.S. companies. The collection was started in 1904 by Percy Leroy Ricker, an economic botanist for the U.S. Department of...
Dates: 1724-2013; Majority of material found within 1890-2003
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Historic Posters Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0047
Content Description The Historic Posters Collection contains approximately 470 posters relating to agricultural themes, including poultry, cattle, dairy, food production and preservation, and farming methods. Approximately 300 of the posters were produced during World Wars I and II. Although many of these posters are not dated, the known date range runs from 1917 to 1919 and 1940 to 1946. The posters were used to convey government information relating to wartime agricultural programs, and to educate and...
Dates: 1877-1950; Majority of material found within 1915-1950
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Hudson Brick and Supply Company Ledgers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0114
Content Description

The Hudson Brick and Supply Company Ledgers consist of two volumes of business records from the brickyard formerly located on the grounds of the U.S. National Arboretum.

Dates: 1925-1929
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Inter-American Financial and Economic Advisory Committee Records on Cotton Trade Agreement

 Collection
Identifier: MS0043
Content Description

The Inter-American Financial and Economic Advisory Committee Records on Cotton Trade Agreement contain the committee's copies of the Proposed Cotton Agreement Draft and paperwork relating to it.

Dates: 1931-1941
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Israel McLaughlin Account Book and Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0341
Content Description The Israel McLaughlin Account Book and Papers contain handwritten examples and practice pages of mathematical computations. There are several pages listing loans due to Israel McLaughlin (1853-1855, 1857-1858, 1868, and 1871-1872). One page has newspaper clippings of household remedies for illnesses. The account book also contains loose documents, most of which are land deeds for property owned by Robert J. Stringfellow in Cheatham County, Tennessee. Other names mentioned include the Pack...
Dates: 1838-1944; Majority of material found within 1838-1881
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: 1917-1975
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Jacob Richards Dodge Clippings

 Collection
Identifier: MS0050
Content Description

The Jacob Richards Dodge Clippings collection contains five bound volumes of clippings of agricultural articles written by and about Dodge.

Dates: 1878-1902
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

John Herbert Davis Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0049
Content Description

The John Herbert Davis Papers consist of an autobiography, correspondence, speeches, broadcast text, reports, congressional testimony, photographs, periodical publications, term papers, school notes, master's degree thesis, Ph.D. thesis draft, programs, newspaper clippings, certificates signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, oral history tapes, Middle East material, and books authored by Davis.

Dates: 1905-1984; Majority of material found within 1938-1978
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections