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agricultural experiment stations

 Subject
Subject Source: Nalt
Scope Note: Centers where scientific research is conducted in order to improve food and agricultural production. Experiment station scientists and staff work with farmers and other members of the agriculture and food industry.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Beverly Thomas Galloway Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0066
Content Description

The Beverly Thomas Galloway Papers consist of biographical information, correspondence, speeches, memoranda, notebooks, photographs, scrapbooks, and published and unpublished articles.

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Dates: 1891-1933
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Tallulah Laboratory Cotton Insect Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0547
Content Description The Tallulah Laboratory Cotton Insect Photograph Collection contains photographic prints that document research conducted at the USDA Cotton Insects Research Laboratory in Tallulah, Louisiana, during the first half of the twentieth century. At Tallulah, USDA scientists studied cotton pests like the boll weevil, bollworm, and stink bug. These insects, as well as methods used to monitor and control them, were regularly photographed during lab research activities. Photos also depict field...
Dates: 1903-1969
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0242
Content Description The USDA Bureau of Plant Industry Records consist of a scrapbook detailing the activities of the Bureau of Plant Industry from the 1920s to the early 1950s. Materials are black and white photographs (some tinted) and negatives of Bureau of Plant Industry employees, including botanist S. L. Emsweller, research stations and gardens around the United States, and crops. Subjects of the photographs include staff, buildings, offices, laboratories, fields, and orchards. There are also research...
Dates: 1920-1959; Majority of material found within 1920-1950
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections