plant science and plant products

Content Description The Abraham D. Stoesz Papers are composed of approximately 1,100 35mm slides. Subjects of the slides include soil and soil erosion, plants, and flowers, as well as tourism photographs from Washington, D.C., New York City, and other cities and universities. Many slides are clearly labeled with the date, location, and subjects. The slides represent locations across the United States. The collection also contains approximately 50 of Stoesz's field notebooks, which include notes from...

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The Absalom Donahoo Apple Nursery Records contain Donahoo's records of the apple cultivars he was testing for potential commercial production on his property south of Nebraska City, Nebraska.

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The American Conifer Society Records include correspondence, ACS Bulletin materials, Board of Directors' meeting minutes, audiotapes of Board of Directors' meetings, financial records, incorporation documents, by-laws and policies, contracts, ACS national meetings materials, members' plant inventories, materials related to the slide program "A Brief Look at Garden Conifers," ACS Central Region meeting files, locations of ACS national meetings (1983-2001), and membership directories.

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The American Seed Trade Association Photograph Collection contains matted group photographs from various United States seed trade association meetings. Persons in photographs are not identified. Seed trade associations represented are as follows: American Seed Trade Association, the Atlantic Seedmen's Association, the California Seed Association, the Pacific Seedmen's Association, and the Western Seedmen's Association.

Content Description The American Seed Trade Association Records consist mainly of photographs and negatives taken at American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) annual meetings. Most of the photographs depict people and places, and are organized and labeled by state and the name of the conference held within the state. Other organizations' photographs are present; these include the Southern Seedsmen's Association, the Western Seedsmen's Association, and the Pacific Seedsmen's Association. The collection also...

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The Bibliography of Publications on Manihot contains original bibliographic records and a master computer printout of bibliographic entries from 1970 for the genus Manihot. The subject of study is Manihot esulenta Crantz (cassava). This crop, which lives in tropical areas, is grown primarily for its roots. The bibliography may not have been published.

Content Description The Botanic Garden Photograph Collection consists of color and black and white lantern slides of U.S. and international botanic gardens and includes landscape and interior views, selected plant specimens, and garden design diagrams. Featured U.S. gardens are the Missouri Botanic Garden, the National Botanic Garden and the National Arboretum, Golden Gate Park, and New York Botanic Garden. International gardens include Botanischer Garten Berlin-Dahlem; Botanic Garden, Tokyo; Royal Botanic...

Content Description The Charles Benjamin Coffman Papers primarily consist of technical data concerned with the herbicidal properties of weed management chemicals. Most of this data is contained in reports from the Weed Science Society of America (WSSA) for the American National Standards Committee on Common Names for Pest Control Chemicals of the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). The files are arranged alphabetically by chemical name. The collection also includes correspondence, field notes and...

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The Charles C. Plitt Collection consists of a series of journals resulting from weekly botany field trips, which Plitt referred to as "tramps," ranging in date from about 1898 to 1922. Plitt led these tramps through many areas around Baltimore, such as Loch Raven, Glen Burnie, Towson, Curtis Bay, and Ellicott City. The collection also includes biographical data, correspondence, photographs, and a book.

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The Charles Drechsler Papers consist of the figures or illustrations for two articles that were published in the Journal of Botany in 1954 and 1956, titled "Two Species of Conidiobolus with Minutely Ridged Zygospores" and "Two New Species of Conidiobolus." There are also notes and pencil drawings for an unpublished article on Helminthosporium spp., a few letters, and specimens of cereal crops with plant diseases.