agricultural history

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The Absalom Donahoo Apple Nursery Records contain Donahoo's records of the apple cultivars he was testing for potential commercial production on his property south of Nebraska City, Nebraska.

Content Description The Agricultural Artifacts Collection consists of a variety of small to medium-sized artifacts broadly relating to agriculture. There are hand scythes from China, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, Nigeria, Thailand, and the United States; a cocoa knife from Jamaica; a long scythe blade; and various small metal implements. Other categories of artifacts include tools, models, and research and laboratory devices. Examples include an animal trap, an insect trap, a telescope, a liquid nitrogen carrier, a...

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The Agricultural History Society Records contain meeting papers such as minutes, reports, programs, invitations, and financial statements; correspondence; and materials pertaining to the Agricultural History journal, such as administrative records, correspondence, award committee notes, reviewed articles, permission to publish forms, and information on symposiums given by the journal organization.

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The Alfred Charles True Papers include manuscripts, notes, and drafts of works True was engaged in writing, as well as papers and documents that he accumulated for historical research between 1900 and 1929. The materials reflect his interest in agricultural history and relate especially to his trilogy of histories on research, education, and extension work.

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The American Poultry Historical Society Artifacts include a marble rooster, an electronic egg, model poultry houses, an Utgaard Hatchery box, and poultry feed burlap sacks.

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The Appalachian Oral History Project Collection consists of five document boxes containing transcribed oral history interviews, along with the Appalachian Oral History Project Union Catalog, which is a box list for the transcripts.

Content Description The Arthur J. Olmsted Collection consists of black and white photographs of the first U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) administration building; other USDA buildings in Washington, D.C., that no longer exist; greenhouses on the National Mall; storm damage to buildings; a motion picture laboratory; Division of Illustration offices; a group photograph of "Agriculture Lab" photographers; C.A. Holder, foreign trade advisor; a corn club visiting Washington, D.C.; and USDA Assistant Secretary...

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The Bennie Douglas Mayberry Collection on George Washington Carver includes the original book materials for Mayberry's manuscript "George Washington Carver: A Handbook", photographs of George Washington Carver, a facsimile of Carver's official USDA personnel record, a reprint of the article "Bennie Douglas Mayberry: An Unsung Hero" (1995), Mayberry's resume, and photographs of Mayberry.

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The Calvert County, Maryland, Oral History Transcripts consist of four oral history interviews. Interviewees include Gorman Buckler, Y. D. Hance, Michael Phipps, and J. W. Waters-Ross.

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The Charles C. Plitt Collection consists of a series of journals resulting from weekly botany field trips, which Plitt referred to as "tramps," ranging in date from about 1898 to 1922. Plitt led these tramps through many areas around Baltimore, such as Loch Raven, Glen Burnie, Towson, Curtis Bay, and Ellicott City. The collection also includes biographical data, correspondence, photographs, and a book.