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agricultural history

 Subject
Subject Source: Nalt

Found in 70 Collections and/or Records:

Shirley Cochran Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS0487
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1951-1953
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Sugar Industry Pamphlet Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0286
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1728-1915
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Tayloe Family Journal

 Collection
Identifier: MS0166
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...
Dates: 1831-1849
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Thomas Jefferson Correspondence

 Collection
Identifier: MS0089
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...
Dates: 1786-1993
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

Troy Farmers Club Records

 Collection
Identifier: MS0339
Content Description

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.

Dates: 1874-1888
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

U.S. National Arboretum Collection Cherry Tree Files

 Collection
Identifier: MS0408
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),...
Dates: 1809-1993; Majority of material found within 1909-1979
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Agricultural Reseach Service 50th Anniversary Time Capsule

 Collection
Identifier: MS0333
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,...
Dates: 1947-2004; Majority of material found within 2000-2004
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Fruit Laboratory Card Files

 Collection
Identifier: MS0365
Content Description

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.

Dates: undated
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory Photograph Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0392
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...
Dates: 1888-1968
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections

USDA Office of the General Counsel Legislative Histories Collection

 Collection
Identifier: MS0488
Content Description

The USDA Office of the General Counsel Legislative Histories Collection consists of 517 bound volumes containing materials related to U.S. federal laws pertaining to agriculture. The volumes are arranged by congressional session number, then by public law number. Within each public law section, the documents are ordered by date. The collection is not exhaustive but includes major pieces of legislative history related to federal agricultural laws.

Dates: 1921-1971
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections