natural resources

Content Description The USDA Division of Agricultural Engineering Records contain photographs, glass negatives, and acetate negatives of images relating to agricultural engineering. Some of the subjects include irrigation, drainage, farm buildings, farm power and machinery, crops and crop conditioning, harvesting, care and handling of products, road construction, and farm electrification. Additionally, there are articles on agricultural engineering and farm electrification. The collection also contains speeches...

Content Description The USDA Division of Land Economics Records consist of reports, correspondence, and publications relating to the work of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics, Division of Land Economics. Most of the material was produced by the bureau or the division, though there is also some material from the Land Utilization Division of the Resettlement Administration. Topics include general land policy and policy planning, zoning, settlement patterns, local land utilization studies, tenancy and land...

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The USDA Soil Conservation Service Film Collection consists of films produced by and for the Soil Conservation Service. These films were used for education, training, and public service announcements.

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The William McLeod Rivera Papers consist of journals, papers both written and collected by Rivera, conference publications, correspondence, and information on courses taught by Rivera.

Scope and Contents From the Series: This series consists of posters promoting wildfire prevention, the bulk of which were produced for the Cooperative Forest Fire Prevention (CFFP) campaign.Some of the early posters in this series use World War II resource conservation themes from an American point of view, and a few portray negative racial and ethnic stereotypes. Most of the CFFP posters produced after 1944 feature Smokey Bear and variations of his slogan, “Only you can prevent forest fires.” The collection also...