USDA history

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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...

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The John Herbert Davis Papers consist of an autobiography, correspondence, speeches, broadcast text, reports, congressional testimony, photographs, periodical publications, term papers, school notes, master's degree thesis, Ph.D. thesis draft, programs, newspaper clippings, certificates signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower, oral history tapes, Middle East material, and books authored by Davis.

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The John Monroe Brewster Papers include correspondence, research notes, photographs, and a manuscript of a book of Brewster's writings that was published posthumously. The book is titled, A Philosopher among Economists: Selected Works of John M. Brewster (Philadelphia: J. T. Murphy Co., 1970).

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The John R. Mohler Papers consist of photographs, Canadian exhibits, U.S. exhibits, a manuscript entitled "The Outbreak of Foot and Mouth Diseases in California," a log book, and certificates.

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The John Wyss Papers contain office files, reports, meeting files, brochures, newsletters, photographs and slides, blueprints, floppy disks and CD-ROMs, promotional materials, and publications related to the screwworm eradication effort in Mexico and Central America. The materials include plans for a screwworm rearing facility in Pacora, Panama.

Content Description The Joseph Aloysius Becker Papers include a scrapbook dated January 31, 1959 commemorating Becker's retirement from the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). The scrapbook contains congratulatory notes, letters, and telegrams from Becker's colleagues and friends, Secretary of Agriculture Ezra Taft Benson, and other notable people. The collection also contains award certificates, photographs, newspaper clippings, and documents from Becker's personal life and career. Of note are documents...

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The Joseph Francis Charles Rock Papers contain a bibliofilm (microfilm photograph) of Rock's specimen notebook from 1928. The notes list plant specimens by number, followed by a description of the specimen and its location or altitude. The actual specimens are housed at the Harvard University Herbaria.

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The Joseph Swab Publication collection contains bibliographies, pamphlets, newsletters, and forms whose layouts were designed by Swab, primarily from 1970 to 1998. The collection also contains a select number of older materials designed by others.

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The Jules Janick and James N. Moore Manuscripts consist of authors' manuscripts and correspondence related to the monograph Advances in Fruit Breeding (1975) which Janick and Moore edited. There are also correspondence and rough drafts related to the companion volume, also edited by Janick and Moore, titled Methods in Fruit Breeding (1983).