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- exhibit: USDA History Collection
Ponies grazing at Chincoteague
Description: Famed Chincoteague ponies feast on Worchester County, Maryland, grasses. This photograph, taken by Don Schuhart, was part of the "Stewards of the Land" photographic exhibit, produced by the National Agricultural Libraries Special Collections section,…
Charles F. Brannan
Description: Assistant Secretary of Agriculture, 1944-1948; Secretary of Agriculture, 1948-1953.
Ezekiel memo, May 9, 1933
Description: Draft of a memorandum to Secretary Henry A. Wallace from his Economic Advisor, Mordecai Ezekiel, May 9, 1933. Ezekiel presents an estimate of employed and unemployed people in the industrial sector of the economy, including manufacturing, mining,…
Date: 1933-05-09
Cotton Mattress Letter
Description: Letter from an Extension Service official in Washington to his counterpart in Louisiana, discussing the Cotton Mattress program, and a demonstration that had been recently held in the USDA Administration Building.
Date: 1945-05-15
USDA Centennial Edition
Description: This issue celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the United States Department of Agriculture. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Act creating the Department on May 15, 1862.
Date: 1962-05-09
Old Administration Bldg
Description: The old red brick Administration Building of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, erected in 1868 at a cost of $140,420, and torn down in 1930. Caption on back of photograph from USDA Office of Information Press Service, photo no. 328-C.
Wayne Rasmussen receiving award
Description: Wayne Rasmussen receiving an award from the Iranian government in Tehran on occasion of his visit there in 1976
Date: 1976
Wayne Rasmussen and snakes
Description: Wayne Rasmussen during a visit to a herpetology lab in Tehran, Iran. This lab and its many specimens of snakes and reptiles were part of the Ministry of Agriculture; the photograph was taken in early 1976.
Date: 1976
Group of Americans and Iranians
Description: A group of Americans working for the United State Information Service and Iranians in the Ministry of Agriculture, outside the ministry. Wayne Rasmussen is in the back row, center, with his head turned to the side.
Marshall letter, September 12, 1788
Description: George Pennock to Humphry Marshall, September 12, 1788. The letter is on one page of a sheet of paper, but the image is presented in two sections, showing the upper and lower portions of the page.
Date: 1788-09-12