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Content Description The Nils Andreas Olsen Collection consists of journals, ledgers, and other account books of the Evans Hardware Company, Princeton, Minnesota, covering transactions prior to 1920; records of Alfred Erickson, Washington County, Minnesota; meeting minutes, payroll book, cash books, and other records of the Golden Valley Creamery Association, a cooperative functioning from 1908 to 1910, and its member groups; crop reports and land development literature from the Great Plains states; some 19th...

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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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P.J. Berckmans Company Records contain an inventory of the nursery stock at Berckmans' Fruitland Nurseries dated 1918, purchase and shipping orders, a private letter, covers of catalogs, and a number of photographs of the nursery stock.

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The Prince Family Papers contain correspondence, account books, notebooks, and journals that provide an insight into the difficulties of maintaining a large nursery in the early years of the United States. Much of the material concerns business dealings between members of the Prince family and those transacting business with them. The remaining portion of the material deals with observations on and experiments with plants.

Content Description The Raymond Andrew Ioanes Papers include correspondence and memoranda from the Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS), speeches given by Ioanes, and two photographs. Topics include the 20th-century history of FAS, foreign agricultural trade, the dispersal of surplus agricultural products in foreign countries, and trade relations with Russia, the European Community (EC), and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Materials relating to the Association for Diplomatic Studies' Foreign...

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The Richard P. White Papers contain correspondence, brochures, newsletters, publications, subject files, and drafts relating to White's manuscript "A Century of Service: A History of the Nursery Industry Association of the United States."

Content Description The Robert Lee Tontz Papers consist of statistics, clippings, and publications related to U.S. and foreign trade, including comparisons between exports and imports from 1790 through the 1970s. Also included are data about projected voting in congressional elections (farm versus nonfarm areas) dating from the 1950s to the 1970s. Other materials include correspondence, reports, membership files on the Farm Bureau and the Grange, and photographs. There is a copy of Tontz's work, ...

Content Description The Schimmelpfennig Family Mill Collection contains materials relating to the family's grain mill and their life in Sigourney, Iowa. Materials include ledgers and account books containing detailed accounting of transactions at the mill for the years of 1899, 1930 to 1958, and 1974 to 1987. Also included are materials from the family's hobby interest in the history and preservation of old mills throughout the United States, including various preservation and tourism ephemera. Of particular...

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This document is a broadside titled United States Department of Agriculture Organization for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1914, and was prepared by N.E. Fealey. The document includes budget figures.

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The USDA Agricultural Marketing Service and Farm Market Photograph Collection consists primarily of slides of farm markets and associated marketing and transportation activities throughout the United States, with a few examples from foreign countries.