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animal breeding

 Subject
Subject Source: Nalt
Scope Note: Agriculture relating to the care and breeding of domestic animals such as cattle, hogs, sheep, and horses.

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

Clair Elman Terrill Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0251
Content Description The Clair Elman Terrill Collection contains proofs and photographs for U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) bulletins and circulars, sheep and goat registry and breeding records, a card catalog of publications on rabbits, and black and white photographs of rabbits and related subjects. There are papers related to the U.S. Rabbit Experiment Station in Fontana, California, and the U.S. Fur Experiment Station in Ithaca, New York. Also included are photographs, glass and acetate negatives,...
Dates: 1912-1978; Majority of material found within 1930s-1960s
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Animal Husbandry Division Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0248
Content Description

The USDA Animal Husbandry Division Photograph Collection contains acetate and glass negatives with photographs of animals such as cattle, pigs, swine, poultry, sheep, quail, hare, rabbits, and mink. Also included are images of Bureau of Animal Industry employees. Photographs were taken in Beltsville, Maryland, and other locations within the United States and foreign countries.

Dates: 1904-1954; Majority of material found within 1923-1954
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Bureau of Animal Industry Guinea Pig Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0388
Content Description

The USDA Bureau of Animal Industry Guinea Pig Records contain the birth records of guinea pigs bred by the Bureau's Animal Husbandry Division for its early 20th century animal genetics research. The records span the years 1906 to 1915 and 1926 to 1933. There are no records from 1916 to 1925.

Dates: 1906-1933
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections