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Content Description The Clarence Joseph Enzler Papers include speeches and testimonies of former U.S. Secretaries of Agriculture, including Henry A. Wallace, Claude R. Wickard, Clinton Anderson, Charles Brannan, Ezra Taft Benson, Orville L. Freeman, and Clifford Hardin. There are also speeches and testimonies of Assistant Secretaries Ervin L. Peterson, J. Earl Coke, John P. Duncan, Jr., George L. Mehren, Trienah Meyers, Joseph M. Robertson, and Under-secretaries Norris Dodd, J. Phil Campbell, and John A....

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The Collection on Henry Cantwell Wallace consists of press releases of addresses and statements made by Wallace while he was the United States Secretary of Agriculture.

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The John Herbert Davis Papers consist of an autobiography, correspondence, speeches, broadcast text, reports, congressional testimony, photographs, periodical publications, term papers, school notes, master's degree thesis, Ph.D. thesis draft, programs, newspaper clippings, certificates signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, oral history tapes, Middle East material, and books authored by Davis.

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The John R. Mohler Papers consist of photographs, Canadian exhibits, U.S. exhibits, a manuscript entitled "The Outbreak of Foot and Mouth Diseases in California," a log book, and certificates.

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The Julien N. Friant Papers include Friant's correspondence with many U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials, such as Henry A. Wallace, Paul Appleby, Chester Davis, and Rex Tugwell. There is also substantial correspondence with James Farley and others. The material covers activities related to personnel work of the USDA, the Franklin D. Roosevelt administration, the Democratic Party, and congressional relations.

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This document is a broadside titled United States Department of Agriculture Organization for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1914, and was prepared by N.E. Fealey. The document includes budget figures.

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...

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The USDA Staff Directories consist of telephone and staff directories for the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), the USDA Agricultural Research Service, and some other units of USDA. Directories for some years are missing.

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The Vivian Wiser Manuscript consists of draft copies of seven chapters written by Wiser about U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) history. The drafts trace the origins and development of the USDA, starting with the establishment of the federal government under the U.S. Constitution in 1789, and continuing through the New Deal agricultural programs of the 1930s.