USDA War Memorial

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Citation

Unknown. “USDA War Memorial.” Special Collections, USDA National Agricultural Library. Accessed April 25, 2024, https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/items/show/1081.

Title

USDA War Memorial

Description

War Memorial in the courtyard of the USDA Administration Building. Beneath the list of names of the fallen, the inscription reads "Dedicated by the Men and Women of the Department of Agriculture to Their Co-Workers Who Died in The Great War. MCMXVII - MCMXVIII."

The USDA History Collection includes a memorial volume with brief biographies of all employees listed on the memorial, in Series I, subseries 1, file "IX F1b. USDA Buildings File, General, Art and Sculpture (War Memorial). 1927-1932."

Source

Series VII.1, Photographs, Box 7.1/1, file "from I.1--IX F. USDA Buildings File, Art & Sculpture, War Memorial." USDA History Collection, Special Collections, National Agricultural Library.

Collection

Series VII. Photographs

Appears in Exhibits

USDA History Collection