agricultural history

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The National Association of Extension Home Economists Records consists of three sets of bound volumes, totaling 13 volumes. There are nine volumes (1943-1984) titled Minutes of Meetings. Two volumes (1943-1984) are titled Reporter, and subtitled News from National, the Letter, the News Letter, the HDA Reporter, and the EHE Reporter. The remaining two volumes (1946-1984) are titled Annual Meeting Programs.

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The Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Card Files consist of seven card files related to the Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection housed in the Special Collections of the USDA National Agricultural Library. This inactive card file contains information on plants, nursery locations, and nursery and seed catalog holdings.

Content Description The Palemon Howard Dorsett Collection on Persimmons contains 200 photographs of persimmon fruits, trees, orchard workers, and related views. The photographs were taken by Dorsett on several plant exploration trips to Asia between 1924 and 1930. There are many handwritten captions and Chinese writing. Materials originated from the USDA New Crops Research Branch offices in Beltsville, Maryland. Some of the photographs may duplicate those found in the Dorsett-Morse Oriental Agricultural...

Content Description This collection of papers relates to the National Agricultural Library's participation in Doris Löve's project to translate Five Continents by Nikolai Ivanovich Vavilov. Löve translated the book to English from the original Russian in 1992. Records include correspondence, drafts, final text, contract papers, photocopies of images, and diskettes. The papers include Löve's communication with Henry L. Shands, Associate Deputy Administrator, Genetic Resources, USDA...

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 Prince Family Papers contain correspondence, account books, notebooks, and journals that provide an insight into the difficulties of maintaining a large nursery in the early years of the United States. Much of the material concerns business dealings between members of the Prince family and those transacting business with them. The remaining portion of the material deals with observations on and experiments with plants.

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 Richard P. White Papers contain correspondence, brochures, newsletters, publications, subject files, and drafts relating to White's manuscript "A Century of Service: A History of the Nursery Industry Association of the United States."