Browse Collections (48 total)

J. Horace McFarland Collection

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J. Horace McFarland (1859-1948) operated his horticultural printing business, the J. Horace McFarland Company/Mount Pleasant Press, from 1878 until…

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Charles Edwin Kellogg Papers

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Charles Edwin Kellogg (1902-1980) served as the head of the Soil Survey in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for 37 years…

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Alvin L. Young Collection on Agent Orange

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The Alvin L. Young Collection on Agent Orange comprises 120 linear feet and spans the late 1800s to 2005; however, the bulk of the coverage is from…

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Series VI. Newsletters

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Scope and Content Note Newsletters and other publications put out by USDA agencies, as well as by national farmers' associations, industry and…

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Series I. Documentary Files

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Subseries in Series I The Documentary Files contain materials on the history of the USDA and agriculture in the United States, including letters,…

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Series X. Manuscripts

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Scope and Content Note This series is made up of several separate collections of agriculture-related materials from the late 18th through the early…

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Series VII. Photographs

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Scope and Content Note Photographs and other graphic images, including photoprints, slides, filmstrips, and non-photographic prints such as etchings…

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USDA History Collection

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Brief Description of Collection Title: The USDA History Collection Provenance: Agricultural and Rural History Section, Economic Research Service,…

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Physical Exhibitions

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These exhibits highlight the rare books and manuscript collections held by Special Collections. They focus on agriculture and natural history and on…

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Nursery and Seed Catalogs

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Contains digitized covers from Special Collections' Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Catalog Collection. The collection consists of over 200,000…

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