USDA history

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The Philip Vincent Cardon Papers include correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, reprints, unpublished lectures and research papers, outlines and notes for radio talks and skits, and some memorabilia.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

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The Roland Maurice Jefferson Collection contains articles, correspondence, email messages, documents, lectures, photographs, programs, and other notes. The majority of the collection highlights Jefferson's work, including plant expeditions for cherry trees at the United States National Arboretum and his post-retirement lectures. The collection also mentions Jefferson's work with plant labels, crabapples, the dogwood seed exchange program, and the President Reagan Cherry Tree.

Content Description The Roy Walter Simonson Papers contain notes, correspondence, and memoranda from soil surveys in the United States from 1899 through 1953. The collection also contains notes on specific regions' soils, scientific aspects of soils, and soil classification. Notable records include notes, memoranda, and correspondence related to the controversy surrounding the soil survey in the Southern Region of the U.S. in the 1940s. There are also autobiographical writings by Simonson, along with 14 foreign...