USDA history

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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.

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The United States Dietary Guidelines Records contain correspondence, memoranda, reports, notes, drafts, publications, articles, posters, and audiotapes. There are also committee papers, including materials from the U.S Senate Agriculture Committee and the Senate Nutrition Subcommittee. Additional materials include publications from the Nutrition Subcommittee, along with dietary goals and guidelines documents.

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The U.S. Forest Service History Collection contains forester field notes, photographs, negatives, slides, films, videos, audio cassettes, albums, manuals, speeches, t-shirts, pins, oral histories, and other files related to U.S. Forest Service history.

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This collection contains a single black and white photograph, circa 1910, of the U.S. Forest Service, Office of Geography, Drafting Department personnel. Four staff members, two women and two men, are shown at their drafting desks. The names of the individuals are listed on the back of the photograph, and include: Ernst Lubeck, Gilbert Reeder, Rosalie Holberg, and Clara Huggins. The location is not noted on the photograph, but is likely the Intermountain Regional Office in Ogden, Utah.

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The U.S. Forest Service Uniform is a uniform jacket from the 1960s. It belonged to Donald K. Morriss, former Head of Timber Inventory in the Washington Office, who retired in 1967 and moved to Port Charlotte, Florida.

Content Description The U.S. National Arboretum Records consist of legislation, Advisory Council papers, correspondence, maps, photographs, field trip notes, herbarium index files, bound Service Lot Reports, plant indexes, staff files (specifically those of John L. Creech and Frederick G. Meyer), taxonomic information, and brochures from miscellaneous arboreta and botanical gardens. There are documents related to Fern Valley, including photographs, cards, programs, newspaper articles, and albums, which were...

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...

Content Description The U.S. National Parasite Collection Records contain photographs, line drawings, lantern slides, and negatives of animal parasites. Many of the drawings were used as illustrations for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) publications. There are copies of articles, reprints, and several manuscripts, materials on the history of animal parasitology in USDA, including biographical information on various scientists, photographs, and documents prepared for the centennial anniversary of the...

Content Description The USDA 150th Anniversary Time Capsule contains memorabilia and publicity materials related to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's 150th anniversary activities held in 2012. Items include a commemorative DVD titled "Secretaries of Agriculture: 150 Years, 30 Leaders" and DVD recordings of original interviews with former Secretaries of Agriculture Clayton Yeutter, Mike Espy, Dan Glickman, Mike Johanns, Ed Schafer, John Block, Tom Vilsack, and Bob Bergland on DVD. There are also USDA timeline...

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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.