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government and administration

 Subject
Subject Source: Nalt
Scope Note: Generally includes the management of institutional or government affairs and specifically includes the making of policies and the implementation of programs.

Found in 6 Collections and/or Records:

Clarence Joseph Enzler Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0265
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....
Dates: 1936-1972
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

United States Department of Agriculture Organization for the Fiscal Year Ending June 30, 1914

 Item
Identifier: MS0198
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1914
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Administrators Oral History Video Recordings

 Collection
Identifier: MS0257
Content Description

The USDA Administrators Oral History Video Recordings consist of videotaped oral histories of senior members of the department's administration who served between 1993 and 2000. Former U.S. Secretaries of Agriculture Dan Glickman and Mike Espy are among those interviewed. The interviews were recorded in 2000 and 2001. The collection also includes print and electronic transcripts and a few audiotapes.

Dates: 2000-2001
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Graduate School Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0181
Content Description

The USDA Graduate School Records contain catalogs, schedules of classes, annual reports, newsletters, promotional materials, newspaper articles, lectures, publications, legal memoranda and correspondence, a history of origin, 25th and 50th anniversary materials, self-evaluation and long range planning information, regulations and operating procedures, general administration files, educational statistics, a filmstrip, and an audio tape.

Dates: 1921-2009
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Vivian Wiser Manuscript

 Collection
Identifier: MS0200
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1964-1967
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

William Ashby Jump Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0090
Content Description

The William Ashby Jump Papers consist primarily of correspondence, budgetary data, and reports relating directly to Jump's work and professional interests. It also includes 27 volumes of Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations Budgetary Material, 1946-1952.

Dates: 1938-1949
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections