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plant science and plant products

 Subject
Subject Source: Nalt

Found in 100 Collections and/or Records:

Southmeadow Fruit Gardens Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0344
Content Description The Southmeadow Fruit Gardens Records contain materials from a fruit nursery run by Robert A. Nitschke. These materials include records, catalogs, order forms, tasting evaluation forms, and a large collection of color slides and photographs of a variety of fruits. Journal articles, association materials, and correspondence with other growers regarding grafting, plant samples, and the availability and quality of plants are also included. The predominant focus is on apples, but there is also...
Dates: 1932-2005; Majority of material found within 1959-1989
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Strawberry Photographs Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0330
Content Description

The Strawberry Photographs Collection contains black and white negatives, prints, and glass plate images of strawberry plants and activities related to strawberry cultivation.

Dates: 1887-1953
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Sugar Industry Pamphlet Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0286
Content Description

The Sugar Industry Pamphlet Collection contains 152 items, including pamphlets, books, and reprints, concerning the development of the sugar industry. The materials are written in Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Spanish, and Swedish. Included are several rare publications from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Dates: 1728-1915
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Tayloe Family Journal

 Collection
Identifier: MS0166
Content Description The Tayloe Family Journal is a handwritten account book maintained by Edward Thornton Tayloe of the Powhatan plantation in King George County, Virginia, between 1834 and 1849. The journal has entries related to barns, beef, cattle, clover, corn, cultivators, dairying, ditching, drought, fallowing, fencing, grapes, harvesting, hogs, manure, marl, oats, pruning, and sheep, as well as some detailed maps, crop production and slave inventories, and an index. There is also legal background...
Dates: 1831-1849
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Thomas E. Devine Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0386
Content Description The Thomas E. Devine Papers contain materials from Devine’s 32-year career with the Agricultural Research, where he researched the genetics and breeding of legumes (birdsfoot trefoil, alfalfa, and soybeans). Papers include information on conferences attended, advisory functions, professional organizations, and research-related correspondence. Many of Devine's 90 publications are included in the papers. There are also detailed field plans and evaluations from various research projects. The...
Dates: 1953-2009
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Thomas Jefferson Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS0089
Content Description The Thomas Jefferson Correspondence consists of eleven letters to Jefferson, from Jefferson, and about Jefferson (1786-1819) and a set of four letters (1915) between W. K. Bixby and Secretary of Agriculture D. F. Houston, regarding Jefferson letters that Bixby had found and sent to Houston. Houston later placed the Jefferson letters in the Department of Agriculture Library. The Jefferson letters contain information on agricultural topics, such as nursery stock purchased by Jefferson, a...
Dates: 1786-1993
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Tung Oil Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0384
Content Description

The Tung Oil Collection consists of one manuscript "Study on Tung" by W. L. Chia (1950) and several publications and photographs.

Dates: 1950
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

U.S. National Fungus Collections Topical Files

 Collection
Identifier: MS0454
Content Description The U.S. National Fungus Collections Topical Files contain historical records assembled largely by John A. Stevenson during his 33 years of service as director of the U.S. National Fungus Collections. These materials reflect the history of American mycology and plant pathology and the relationship to the development of the U.S. National Fungus Collections in the 19th and 20th centuries. These files include correspondence; biographical information; unpublished manuscripts; information on...
Dates: 1850-1996
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Agricultural Research Service Biological Control Center Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0389
Content Description

The USDA Agricultural Research Service Biological Control Center Records contain materials relating to biological control research conducted within the branches and divisions of the Agricultural Research Service (ARS). Materials include correspondence, unpublished reports, research reports, grant applications, publications, shipping records, databases, photographs, and videotapes. Materials from closed international laboratories are also included.

Dates: 1920-1990
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Agricultural Research Service Biological Control Center Reference Files

 Collection
Identifier: MS0458
Content Description

The USDA Agricultural Research Service Biological Control Center Reference Files are unprocessed reference materials used by the Biological Control Center staff when the center was located at the USDA National Agricultural Library. There are 138 linear feet of books and 110 linear feet of files, which contain papers, clippings, and reprints.

Dates: 1920-1990
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections