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Series VII. Photographs
Scope and Content Note
Photographs and other graphic images, including photoprints, slides, filmstrips, and non-photographic prints such as etchings and woodcuts. Most of the photographs have been separated from other series in the collection, including the Class File (Series II). There are also photographs collected by Emerson Brooks, an employee of the Statistical Reporting Service, and other photographs and photo albums found among ERS records. The vast bulk of the photos are modern gelatin silver prints. This series also includes some printed material such as captions, brochures, letters, notes, pages torn from texts, and booklets and pamphlets, that are either directly or tangentially related to specific photographs.41 Items
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- Collection: Series VII. Photographs
1920 Map, Washington, DC
Description: 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. USDA Buildings File, Maps." USDA History Collection, Special Collections, National Agricultural…
Date: ca. 1920
Administration Building
Description: The United States Department of Agriculture Administration Building, completed 1930. This photograph taken about 1934. The building is now known as the Jamie L. Whitten Federal Building.Series VII.1, Photographs, Box 7.1/1, file "from I.1--IX F. USDA…
Date: ca. 1934
Agriculture and Rural History Section
Description: Photograph of the Agricultural and Rural History Section, about 1963. The members of the section were receiving an award for the publication of Century of Service, the Centennial history of the Department of Agriculture. Left to right, the staff…
Date: ca. 1963
Alice Cary Atwood
Description: Caption to original photograph by A. A. Ruark, from "Women in Agricultural Libraries," unpublished manuscript by C. B. Sherman, ca. 1925.
Date: ca. 1925
Arlington Farm
Description: 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. The Custis-Lee Mansion can be seen on the hillside in the distance.Series VII.1, Photographs, Box…
Date: 1907-10
Big Ox
Description: Caption to 1839 lithograph. The copy in the USDA History Collection is a photographic print.
Date: 1839
Churning Butter
Description: Original caption, USDA photograph by Madeleine Osborne, number N-5903.
Date: 1994-07
Concord Grapevine
Description: The original Concord grapevine, developed by Ephraim Wales Bull in Concord, Massachusetts, 1849.
Date: 1849
Contour Farming
Description: Caption from photograph of a Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, farm, taken April 20, 1938. Photograph no. Pa-40351.
Date: 4/20/1938
Emma B. Hawks
Description: Caption to original photograph by A. A. Ruark, from "Women in Agricultural Libraries," unpublished manuscript by C. B. Sherman, ca. 1925.
Date: ca. 1925
Erosion Control
Description: Soil Conservation Service photograph no. Wis-1351, by E. W. Cole, July 1957.
Date: 1957-07
Farm and Cannery Workers Mass Meeting
Description: Flyer advertising a meeting promoting the Agricultural Workers Union in New Jersey, 1935. This meeting was part of a movement towards unionizing workers on farms and in canneries in south and central New Jersey during the mid-1930s. This movement…
Date: 1930s
Farm fencing
Description: Caption from photograph no. Va-30229 taken in Albemarle, Virginia, by I. W. Cousins, September 21, 1938.
Date: 9/21/1938
