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USDA history

 Subject
Subject Source: Local sources

Found in 179 Collections and/or Records:

Harold Kent Street Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0162
Content Description

The Harold Kent Street Papers include resumes, official correspondence related to his various positions at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), newspaper clippings, unpublished works, photographs, and the article "The Restless Earth" by Nigel Calder.

Dates: 1955-1977
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Harry Alfred Borthwick Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0026
Content Description

The Harry Alfred Borthwick Papers contain reprints, experiment results, correspondence, abstracts, manuscripts, photographs, negatives, positives, maps, graphs, tables, charts, slides, and notebooks. There are indexes to the reprints, abstracts, photographs, and negatives.

Dates: 1901-1967
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Henry A. Wallace Beltsville Agricultural Research Center History Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0356
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,...
Dates: 1934-2011
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Henry L. Shands Lantern Slide Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0364
Content Description

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.

Dates: undated
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Historic Posters Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0047
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...
Dates: 1877-1950; Majority of material found within 1915-1950
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Hudson Brick and Supply Company Ledgers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0114
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1925-1929
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Index-Catalogue of Medical and Veterinary Zoology Card Files

 Collection
Identifier: MS0446
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,...
Dates: Circa 1890s-1930s
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

International Screwworm Eradication Program Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0355
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...
Dates: 1954-2002; Majority of material found within 1976-2000
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Howard Scott Gentry

 Collection
Identifier: MS0346
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1940-1995; Majority of material found within 1984-1993
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Jacob Richards Dodge Clippings

 Collection
Identifier: MS0050
Content Description

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

Dates: 1878-1902
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections