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    • Series I. Documentary Files
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      • Winters Photographs of Liberia, 1953
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      • Collections "Ballard" through "Hollister"
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    • Series XI. Personal Papers
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  • Reference Pages
    • USDA Seal
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    • Ezra Taft Benson
    • Orville L. Freeman
    • Paul H. Appleby
    • Mordecai Ezekiel
    • Rexford G. Tugwell
    • M. L. (Millburn Lincoln) Wilson

Maps

Maps of camps and homes for agricultural workers in California and Arizona, from a Farm Security Administration report, "A Program for Agricultural Labor ... Migrant Farm Workers in California," 1938.

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FSA Labor camp maps - Arizona
Map from a report on Farm Security Administration labor camps. This map shows camps under construction, proposed camps, part time, full time, and…
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FSA Labor camp maps - Yuba City
(1930s)
Map from a report on Farm Security Administration labor camps in California and Arizona. This map shows the layout of a labor camp in Yuba City,…
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FSA Labor camp maps - Ceres
Map from a report on Farm Security Administration labor camps in California and Arizona. This map shows the layout of a labor camp in Ceres,…
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FSA Labor camp maps
Map from a report on Farm Security Administration labor camps in California and Arizona. This map shows the layout of a labor camp in Thornton, San…
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FSA Labor camp maps
Map from a report on Farm Security Administration labor camps. This map shows the locations of Migratory Labor Camps, and Farm Labor Homes proposed,…

Agricultural Librarians

Women in Agricultural Libraries. Photographs of agricultural librarians by A. A. Ruark.

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Alice Cary Atwood
(ca. 1925)
Caption to original photograph by A. A. Ruark, from "Women in Agricultural Libraries," unpublished manuscript by C. B. Sherman, ca. 1925.
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Mabel Colcord
(ca. 1925)
Caption to original photograph by A. A. Ruark, from "Women in Agricultural Libraries," unpublished manuscript by C. B. Sherman, ca. 1925.
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Emma B. Hawks
(ca. 1925)
Caption to original photograph by A. A. Ruark, from "Women in Agricultural Libraries," unpublished manuscript by C. B. Sherman, ca. 1925.
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Mary Goodwin Lacy
(ca. 1925)
Caption to original photograph by A. A. Ruark, from "Women in Agricultural Libraries," unpublished manuscript by C. B. Sherman, ca. 1925.

Other Images

Selected photographs and images from Series I, Documentary Files

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Administration Building
(ca. 1934)
The United States Department of Agriculture Administration Building, completed 1930. This photograph taken about 1934. The building is now known as…
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Map, Arlington research farm
Map of the Arlington Experimental Farm which was the main USDA research facility in the Washington area from 1900 until 1941, when activities were…
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Arlington Farm
(1907-10)
View of the Arlington Experimental Farm, on the southern bank of the Potomac River, October 1907. Part of this land is now the site of the Pentagon.…
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Wallace at Mt. Vernon
(11/17/1937)
Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture (in back on the right, facing the crowd), makes a speech in observance of the 75th anniversary of the…
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USDA War Memorial
War Memorial in the courtyard of the USDA Administration Building. Beneath the list of names of the fallen, the inscription reads "Dedicated by the…
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1920 Map, Washington, DC
(ca. 1920)
Map of downtown Washington, D.C., 1920, showing buildings and properties occupied by USDA.Series VII.1, Photographs, Box 7.1/1, file "from I.1--IX F.…
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USDA Organization chart, 1942
(1942)
An organization chart of the department in 1942, Claude R. Wickard, Secretary of Agriculture.
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Greenhouses on Mall. USDA History Collection
A view from the Washington Monument in the mid-1920s, showing USDA greenhouses on the Mall, in the foreground. This site on Constitution Avenue is now…
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New House. USDA History Collection
(ca. 1940)
Before and after pictures of a home in Oklahoma improved through an Extension Service program on Low-Cost Rural Housing, 1940. These photographs were…
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Lake on USDA Grounds. USDA History Collection
(1895)
Lake on USDA grounds, 1895. Photograph no. 2091-C.
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Farm and Cannery Workers Mass Meeting
(1930s)
Flyer advertising a meeting promoting the Agricultural Workers Union in New Jersey, 1935. This meeting was part of a movement towards unionizing…
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Embroidered patch for Victory Farm Volunteers.
"Many boys and girls are proudly wearing a new emblem on their sweaters this Fall. Look for the big C with the letters VFV in the center. The C…
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M. L. Wilson cartoon. USDA History Collection
(M. L. Wilson)
Portrait of M. L. Wilson by S. Robles, from The Washington Post, October 20, 1934. The caption that appeared under the portrait is transcribed below.
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