USDA history

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The Owen Hugh Graham Papers relate to screwworm eradication efforts in Florida, the Southwestern United States, Mexico, Central America, and North Africa. Materials include correspondence, reports, publications, maps, charts, photographs, public information materials, and manuscripts. The language of materials is mostly English, with some items in Spanish and a few articles in French.

Content Description The Paul George Russell Papers contain clippings, photographs of Russell's retirement in 1959, and biographical information, as well as notes and drafts of his U.S. Department of Agriculture circular "Oriental Flowering Cherries" published in March 1934. The circular provides facts on cultivation and historical details about varieties of ornamental cherries grown in the United States, including trees growing around the tidal basin in Washington, D.C. A published version of the circular is...

Content Description The Paul R. Miller Collection of George Washington Carver Correspondence contains correspondence between Carver and his friend Paul R. Miller, who was an Agricultural Research Service scientist. There are three handwritten letters dated 1932 and 1933 from Carver to Miller, and a reply from Miller dated 1932 regarding rust specimens. A signed portrait from Carver to Miller (1938) is included. Additionally, there are two typed letters dated 1943 from Rackham Holt to Miller. Holt, who was the...

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The Payne/National 4-H Fellowship Collection includes photographs, publications, scrapbooks, programs, monthly reports, newsletters and news clippings, and correspondence detailing the activities of 4-H Fellows.

Content Description The People on the Farm Program Records include correspondence, notes, drafts, manuscripts, photographs, and contact sheets for the "People on the Farm" leaflet series produced by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) from 1977 to 1982. The collection includes a complete set of the published leaflets.The publication titles are: "People on the Farm: Dairying"; "People on the Farm: Growing Wheat"; "People on the Farm: Growing Vegetables"; "People on the Farm: Black Families";...

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The Philip Vincent Cardon Papers include correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, reprints, unpublished lectures and research papers, outlines and notes for radio talks and skits, and some memorabilia.

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The Photographs of U.S. Forest Service Leaders consist of 22 unframed black and white photographs of twentieth-century United States Forest Service officials. There are two photographs of Gifford Pinchot.

Content Description The Poultryman and Poultry Times Newspaper Photograph Collection contains black and white negatives taken by the staff of Poultry Times, a weekly newspaper from Gainesville, Georgia, (1956-1985) and the Poultryman, a weekly newspaper from Vineland, New Jersey (1956-1969). Included are negatives of state poultry associations' personnel and functions, universities' personnel, U.S. Department of...

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The Ralph Edward Hodgson Papers consist of autobiographical and biographical information, writings, studies, papers, speeches, trip reports, bulletins, reprints, and publications. Of significance to those interested in Hodgson's early years is his 1970 autobiographical work titled "From the Sands of Mazomanie: A Story of a Wisconsin Farm Boy."

Content Description The Raymond Andrew Ioanes Papers include correspondence and memoranda from the Foreign Agriculture Service (FAS), speeches given by Ioanes, and two photographs. Topics include the 20th-century history of FAS, foreign agricultural trade, the dispersal of surplus agricultural products in foreign countries, and trade relations with Russia, the European Community (EC), and the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Materials relating to the Association for Diplomatic Studies' Foreign...