agricultural history

Content Description The Schimmelpfennig Family Mill Collection contains materials relating to the family's grain mill and their life in Sigourney, Iowa. Materials include ledgers and account books containing detailed accounting of transactions at the mill for the years of 1899, 1930 to 1958, and 1974 to 1987. Also included are materials from the family's hobby interest in the history and preservation of old mills throughout the United States, including various preservation and tourism ephemera. Of particular...

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The Shirley Cochran Papers consist mostly of newspaper articles written by Cochran, including her column "Take it Easy," which appeared in The Cooperator, published by Eastern Cooperatives, Inc. Recipes, presentations, newsletters, photographs, and correspondence are also included in the collection.

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The Sugar Industry Pamphlet Collection contains 152 items, including pamphlets, books, and reprints, concerning the development of the sugar industry. The materials are written in Dutch, English, French, German, Polish, Spanish, and Swedish. Included are several rare publications from the 18th and 19th centuries.

Content Description The Tayloe Family Journal is a handwritten account book maintained by Edward Thornton Tayloe of the Powhatan plantation in King George County, Virginia, between 1834 and 1849. The journal has entries related to barns, beef, cattle, clover, corn, cultivators, dairying, ditching, drought, fallowing, fencing, grapes, harvesting, hogs, manure, marl, oats, pruning, and sheep, as well as some detailed maps, crop production and slave inventories, and an index. There is also legal background...

Content Description The Thomas Jefferson Correspondence consists of eleven letters to Jefferson, from Jefferson, and about Jefferson (1786-1819) and a set of four letters (1915) between W. K. Bixby and Secretary of Agriculture D. F. Houston, regarding Jefferson letters that Bixby had found and sent to Houston. Houston later placed the Jefferson letters in the Department of Agriculture Library. The Jefferson letters contain information on agricultural topics, such as nursery stock purchased by Jefferson, a...

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The Troy Farmers Club Records consist of four record books that include the organization's charter, meeting minutes, and account information. The entries describe agricultural matters in the Troy, Pennsylvania, community during the period covered. The first officers were J. C. McKean, president; G. M. Card, secretary.; A. M. Cornell, treasurer.; and A. S. Hooker, reporting secretary.

Content Description The U.S. National Arboretum Collection Cherry Tree Files contain materials related to the history of cherry trees introduced to the District of Columbia from Japan. The files were compiled by botanist Roland Maurice Jefferson beginning in 1973, during his career as a botanist at the U.S. National Arboretum, and after his retirement. One of the products of this research was the publication, The Japanese Flowering Cherry Trees of Washington, D.C.: A Living Symbol of Friendship (1977),...

Content Description The USDA Agricultural Research Service 50th Anniversary Time Capsule contains materials compiled by ARS offices across the United States and Puerto Rico. The materials capture the work, accomplishments, and inventions of ARS between 1953 and 2003. Types of items included in the capsule are posters, photographs, ephemera, awards, computer software, brochures, stuffed animals, training items, paperweights, miniatures of inventions, buttons, audio tapes, key chains, articles, bookmarks, pens,...

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The USDA Fruit Laboratory Card Files contain a series of catalog cards describing of a wide range of fruits. Card entries include dates of information.

Content Description The USDA Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory Photograph Collection includes photographs, associated notes, and a record book on various U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) activities and personnel, dated between 1888 and 1968. The collection contains a series of photographs related to testing insecticide spraying apparatuses on different crops between 1912 and 1944. Much of the collection consists of photographs of employees from departments of Plant Industry and Plant Pathology, and...