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USDA history

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 179 Collections and/or Records:

Charles Thom Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0170
Content Description

The Charles Thom Papers cover materials from Thom's college years to biographical memoirs published after his death. The collection includes correspondence, notes, notebooks, essays, lectures, speeches, diaries, journals, and lantern slides from professional trips. There are also published items, including monographs, journal articles, and newspaper clippings. The majority of the collection focuses on soil microbiology, mycology, food spoilage, food poisoning, and penicillin.

Dates: 1891-1968
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Charles Valentine Riley Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0143
Content Description

The Charles Valentine Riley Collection consists of letters to Riley, unpublished lectures, notes, photographs, news clippings, reports, reprints, paintings, drawings, sketch books, books, and artifacts. The collection focuses on the history of entomology and the development of biological control of insects injurious to crops, and on Riley's energetic efforts on its behalf during the latter part of the 19th century.

Dates: 1868-1919
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Chester N. Husman Award Certificates

 Collection
Identifier: MS0349
Content Description

The Chester N. Husman Award Certificates consist of awards given to Chester N. Husman and the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) for their efforts in the screwworm eradication programs. Granting organizations include the U.S. War Department, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Mexican government.

Dates: 1947-1991
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Clair Elman Terrill Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0251
Content Description The Clair Elman Terrill Collection contains proofs and photographs for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) bulletins and circulars, sheep and goat registry and breeding records, a card catalog of publications on rabbits, and black and white photographs of rabbits and related subjects. There are papers related to the U.S. Rabbit Experiment Station in Fontana, California, and the U.S. Fur Experiment Station in Ithaca, New York. Also included are photographs, glass and acetate negatives,...
Dates: 1912-1978; Majority of material found within 1930s-1960s
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Clarence E. Clement Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0483
Content Description The Clarence E. Clement Collection consists of over 100 photographs and negatives related to the dairy industry from various sources, including the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Bureau of Dairy Industry; San Francisco Dairy Company in San Francisco, California; Fitchett Brothers in Poughkeepsie, New York; Trapp Brothers Dairy Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Bowman Dairy Company in Chicago, Illinois; Supplee-Wills-Jones Milk Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Telling-Belle Vernon...
Dates: 1901-1926
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

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

Collection on Henry Agard Wallace

 Collection
Identifier: MS0192
Content Description The Henry Agard Wallace Collection in Special Collections of the National Agricultural Library occupies eight linear feet, consisting of eight document boxes and four flat pamphlet boxes. The inclusive dates of the collection are 1921-1943, with the bulk of the records from 1933-1940, during Wallace's tenure as Secretary of Agriculture. The collection was originally housed in the library of the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. The Collection on Henry Agard Wallace includes press releases of...
Dates: 1933-1942; Majority of material found within 1933-1940
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Collection on Henry Cantwell Wallace

 Collection
Identifier: MS0108
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1921-1924
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Collection on John R. Block

 Collection
Identifier: MS0022
Content Description

The Collection on John R. Block includes press clippings relating to Block during his term as the Illinois state secretary of agriculture. There is information about his background, experience, nomination, and approval as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture during President Ronald Reagan's administration.

Dates: 1980-1981
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Collection on Robert Selmer Bergland

 Collection
Identifier: MS0020
Content Description

The Collection on Robert Selmer Bergland includes press clippings about Bergland during his tenure in the U.S. Congress (1971-1977), as well as his background, experience, nomination, and approval as Secretary of Agriculture during President Jimmy Carter's administration. There is a photograph album of a trip to the Philippines, which was presented to Bergland by the National Grains Authority.

Dates: 1976-1977
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections