plant science and plant products

Content Description The Joseph H. Kirkbride Collection consists of materials related to Kirkbride's work in the Systematic Botany and Mycology Laboratory of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Agricultural Research Service. The collection contains reports, photographic slides, and transparencies from research trips abroad, including germplasm collecting trips to Portugal, Spain, Morocco, and Brazil, as well as a trip to Japan. There are also images of botanical, cultural, and scenic interest from these...

Content Description The Laurence Howland MacDaniels Collection of Pomological Research Photographs consists of lantern slides, photographs, and negatives of fruit, fruit anatomy, and fruit diseases. The materials were collected by MacDaniels during his career as a professor in Cornell University's Department of Pomology. This collection includes images captured during MacDaniels' trips to Hawaii and the South Pacific, and from his work with Arthur J. Eames on their plant anatomy textbook. Some of the images...

Content Description The Leon Moyer Estabrook Manuscript is an unbound, 5,000 page typescript titled "Life of One American: Memoirs of Leon M. Estabrook," written between 1930 and 1936. Starting with his birth in 1869, Estabrook chronicled his life and work as a statistician and employee in U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) Bureau of Statistics and Crop Estimation. The typescript includes descriptions of the early years of the Bureau of Plant Industry and interactions with prominent USDA scientists,...

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The M. Truman Fossum Floriculture Collection include Fossum's business and personal correspondence, as well as reports and publications related to marketing, horticulture, and the floriculture industry in the United States and abroad.

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The Martin L. Mosher Photographs consist of an unpublished seven-volume manuscript titled "Farmstead Pictures of the United States of North America at the Middle of the Twentieth Century" (1965). It contains 570 mounted photographs and illustrations, textually documented, depicting the historic, geographic, and economic settings of farmers living in each state.

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The New Guinea Impatiens Breeding Program Collection, compiled and maintained by Robert J. Armstrong, contains a pedigree book from Longwood Gardens breeding program; slides showing the original New Guinea impatiens collection and the progeny developed from them at Longwood; and letters, memoranda, reports, brochures, and press releases concerning the breeding program.

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The Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Card Files consist of seven card files related to the Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection housed in the Special Collections of the USDA National Agricultural Library. This inactive card file contains information on plants, nursery locations, and nursery and seed catalog holdings.

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The Oscar Clemen Stine Papers are handwritten and typed notes on wheat history, colonial wheat culture, wheat exports and imports, insects and diseases, business and wheat crops, acreage, consumption, demand, and foreign markets. Additionally, there are publications by Stine and a manuscript of his autobiography, "Reminiscences of O.C. Stine."

Content Description The Palemon Howard Dorsett Collection on Persimmons contains 200 photographs of persimmon fruits, trees, orchard workers, and related views. The photographs were taken by Dorsett on several plant exploration trips to Asia between 1924 and 1930. There are many handwritten captions and Chinese writing. Materials originated from the USDA New Crops Research Branch offices in Beltsville, Maryland. Some of the photographs may duplicate those found in the Dorsett-Morse Oriental Agricultural...

Content Description This collection of papers relates to the National Agricultural Library's participation in Doris Löve's project to translate Five Continents by Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov. Löve translated the book to English from the original Russian in 1992. Records include correspondence, drafts, final text, contract papers, photocopies of images, and diskettes. The papers include Löve's communication with Henry L. Shands, Associate Deputy Administrator, Genetic Resources, USDA...