USDA history

Content Description The Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center (BARC) History Collection contains materials from the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Visitor Center in Beltsville, Maryland. Materials include land surveys, building specifications, blueprints, and reports about the Visitor Center; a photograph album compiled by Robert T. Walker, former BARC landscape architect, showing the construction of BARC buildings (Departmental Laboratory Group, Main Lab, Mansion House, Sheep Barn,...

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The Henry L. Shands Lantern Slide Collection consists of 27 lantern slides related to farming. Images show experimental fields and farming equipment. The slides are undated.

Content Description The Historic Posters Collection contains approximately 470 posters relating to agricultural themes, including poultry, cattle, dairy, food production and preservation, and farming methods. Approximately 300 of the posters were produced during World Wars I and II. Although many of these posters are not dated, the known date range runs from 1917 to 1919 and 1940 to 1946. The posters were used to convey government information relating to wartime agricultural programs, and to educate and...

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The Hudson Brick and Supply Company Ledgers consist of two volumes of business records from the brickyard formerly located on the grounds of the U.S. National Arboretum.

Content Description The Index-Catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology Card Files contain the original catalog cards compiled by the USDA Bureau of Animal Industry to record and organize references to literature on topics related to parasitology. These cards predate the publication of the Index-Catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology, by Charles Wardell Stiles and Albert Hassall, published in USDA Bureau of Animal Industry Bulletin, no. 39., 1902-1912 (call number 1 An5B no. 39). The publication,...

Content Description The International Screwworm Eradication Program Records document screwworm eradication efforts in international programs. Countries represented in this collection include Argentina, Australia, Austria, Belize, Brazil, Costa Rica, Curacao, Dominican Republic, El Salvador, England, Guatemala, Honduras, Jamaica, Nicaragua, North Africa (including Libya), Panama, Paraguay, and the United States. Some records are organized by region, including Central America and the West Indies. Materials...

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The Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Howard Scott Gentry consists of articles, notes, photographs, and Cunningham's drafts of articles on Howard Gentry's expeditions as a plant collector. Cunningham collected these materials to write several articles about Gentry.

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The Jacob Richards Dodge Clippings collection contains five bound volumes of clippings of agricultural articles written by and about Dodge.

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The Jean Pablo Collection of Rudolph Wendelin Artwork Images contains two binders of photographs and copies of artwork. One binder contains photographs of prepublication artwork for the book A Walk in the Woods with Smokey. The second binder contains written reflections and photographs of Rudy Wendelin, along with color photocopies of 30 of Wendelin's watercolor paintings, chiefly landscapes in U.S. National Forests.

Content Description The John B. Carpenter Papers include materials relating to Carpenter's project in the 1950s to create a subject index of Miles Joseph Berkeley's papers on Vegetable Pathology (1854-1857). The collection contains one bound volume, which includes the Vegetable Pathology papers, extracted by Carpenter in 1945 from the Gardener's Chronicle. There are ten pieces of correspondence between Carpenter and J. G. Dickson regarding Carpenter's index. Also included are two copies...