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plant science and plant products

 Subject
Subject Source: Nalt

Found in 102 Collections and/or Records:

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

USDA and National Cancer Institute Plant Collections Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0183
Content Description The USDA and National Cancer Institute Plant Collections Records consist of 36 three-ring binders, known as active books, organized geographically. Each active book contains forms, called active sheets, that were used to record data and procurement status for plant species collected in approximately 40 specific geographic areas. Plants represented in the records were collected for studies of their antitumor activity. Active sheets were filed alphabetically by genus and species name within a...
Dates: 1959-1980

USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Veterinary Services Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0060
Content Description The USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service Veterinary Services Records cover animal inspection and quarantine memoranda, procedures, forms, letters, and reports. Topics include export livestock; domestics, ruminants, and swine; organisms and vectors; restricted meat; restricted byproducts; and virus-serum control. There are materials related to the Animal Quarantine Station in Clifton, New York, 1949. Additionally, there are records on the Foreign Animal Diseases Advisory Committee,...
Dates: 1947-1974; Majority of material found within 1960-1969

USDA Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0235
Content Description The USDA Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine Collection contains materials related to the Japanese beetle, the mountain pine beetle, and Dutch elm disease. There are black and white photographs, bark samples, insect specimens, and framed examples of foliage damage from the insects. Text accompanies the samples. In 2018, ten undated postcards were added from the Bureau of Entomology, depicting mostly parasites of the gypsy moth and the brown-tail moth, as well as representing the gypsy...
Dates: 1940

USDA Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0298
Content Description The USDA Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine Photograph Collection contains black and white photographs of Bureau of Plant Quarantine inspection personnel; plant inspection facilities in Washington and New Jersey; and inspection equipment. Personnel pictured include L. M. Scott, C. E. Cooley, Leonard S. McLaine, J. F. Olds, H. S. McLeod, T. A. Barnett, Donald P. Limber, Martin Hansen, Emile Kostal, Herbert L. Sanford, Charles E. Prince, Emmit I. Smith, John C. Pritchett,...
Dates: 1936-1942; Majority of material found within 1938-1941

USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Horticultural and Pomological Investigations Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0065
Content Description The USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Horticultural and Pomological Investigations Records contain black and white photographs, acetate and glass negatives, glass slides, drawings, note cards, project reports, research records, and correspondence related to research on small fruits and nuts from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Fruit Laboratory. Examples of topics include experimental fruits, fruit varieties, plant anatomy, breeding, crossing, diseases, insects, irrigation, handling,...
Dates: 1892-1960; Majority of material found within 1902-1949

USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0242
Content Description The USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Records consist of a scrapbook detailing the activities of the Bureau of Plant Industry from the 1920s to the early 1950s. Materials are black and white photographs (some tinted) and negatives of Bureau of Plant Industry employees, including botanist S. L. Emsweller, research stations and gardens around the United States, and crops. Subjects of the photographs include staff, buildings, offices, laboratories, fields, and orchards. There are also research...
Dates: 1920-1959; Majority of material found within 1920-1950

USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Wine Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0288
Content Description The USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Wine Research Collection consists of materials related to the establishment of a wine research program by the bureau in the 1930s. The collection contains correspondence, articles, reports, statistics, and maps regarding the wine industry, winemaking, grapes, wine varietals, vineyards, viticulture, and experimental wineries throughout the United States. About half of the materials relate to California and the University of California. Many of the letters...
Dates: 1852-1983; Majority of material found within 1933-1937

USDA Chestnut Tree Research Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0491
Content Description

The USDA Chestnut Tree Research Records documents chestnut tree seed distribution and growth across the United States, England, and Canada in the early-to-mid-twentieth century. The program served to reintroduce and monitor the progress of various species of chestnut trees following the introduction of Cryphonectria parasitica, or chestnut blight, from East Asia to North America and Europe in the early 1900s.

Dates: 1876-2015; Majority of material found within 1920-1940

USDA Crop Fiber Research Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0059
Content Description The USDA Crop Fiber Research Collection contains documents relating to more than 300 genera of plants used for fiber. The materials cover the subject of natural plant fiber crops other than cotton and include information on cordage, textiles, and miscellaneous fibers as well as the products made from them. There are reprints and photocopies of fiber articles with an extensive card index, manuscripts, foreign and domestic publications, promotional brochures, reports, newspaper clippings,...
Dates: 1902-1982