plant science and plant products

Content Description The Paul George Russell Papers contain clippings, photographs of Russell's retirement in 1959, and biographical information, as well as notes and drafts of his U.S. Department of Agriculture circular "Oriental Flowering Cherries" published in March 1934. The circular provides facts on cultivation and historical details about varieties of ornamental cherries grown in the United States, including trees growing around the tidal basin in Washington, D.C. A published version of the circular is...

Content Description The Paul R. Miller Collection of George Washington Carver Correspondence contains correspondence between Carver and his friend Paul R. Miller, who was an Agricultural Research Service scientist. There are three handwritten letters dated 1932 and 1933 from Carver to Miller, and a reply from Miller dated 1932 regarding rust specimens. A signed portrait from Carver to Miller (1938) is included. Additionally, there are two typed letters dated 1943 from Rackham Holt to Miller. Holt, who was the...

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The Philip Vincent Cardon Papers include correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, reprints, unpublished lectures and research papers, outlines and notes for radio talks and skits, and some memorabilia.

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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.

Content Description The Poisonous Plant Research Photograph Collection contains black and white lantern slides of different species of livestock suffering from plant poisons. Most slides feature livestock that have been poisoned and/or include scientific name of poisonous plant species, animal type, animal number, and date and time of photograph. These captions allow the viewer to follow the course of a particular animal's reaction to a plant toxin. A few slide images show landscapes. A few images show...

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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.

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The Robert Leslie Usinger Collection on Carolus Linnaeus is a collection of books by Carolus Linnaeus, the founder of systematic biology, on insects and other animals. The collection also includes works about Linnaeus.

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The Roland Maurice Jefferson Collection contains articles, correspondence, email messages, documents, lectures, photographs, programs, and other notes. The majority of the collection highlights Jefferson's work, including plant expeditions for cherry trees at the United States National Arboretum and his post-retirement lectures. The collection also mentions Jefferson's work with plant labels, crabapples, the dogwood seed exchange program, and the President Reagan Cherry Tree.

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The Rolla Kent Beattie Photograph Collection consists of negatives that relate to trips to Colorado, California, Hawaii, Florida, the District of Columbia, Japan, Formosa (Taiwan), Hong Kong, Indochina, Cambodia, Malaya, China, France, and England, where he visited shrines, temples, pagodas, gardens, parks, graves, exhibits, and tourist areas. The images document cultural and scenic aspects of the trips.

Content Description The Royal Charles Steadman Watercolors consist of 12 paintings of sweet potatoes and 4 paintings of flowers. Steadman painted the sweet potato watercolors between 1923 and 1925. They are 17 1/2" x 13 7/8" in size, mounted on cardboard 22" x 16 3/4". The flower watercolors were painted in 1924 and 1928. They include daffodil "Mod de Graaff", specimen number 104840; iris "David Teniers", specimen number 104854; tulip "Baron de la Taunaye", specimen number an0006 ("an" refers to...