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- exhibit: USDA History Collection
Title page, USFA book
Description: Title page of the book Food Saving and Sharing, published in 1918 by the United States Food Administration. The full title adds "Telling How the Older Children in America May Help Save from Famine Their Comrades in Allied Lands Across the Sea."Series…
Date: 1918
Prairie Experiences in Handling Cattle and Sheep, Title page
Description: Title page of Prairie Experiences in Handling Cattle and Sheep by Major W. Shepherd, published in 1884.Series XI, Personal Papers, Box 11/Starch 13, USDA History Collection, Special Collections, National Agricultural Library.
Date: 1848
Sir John Sinclair letter. USDA History Collection
Description: Letter of Sir John Sinclair, dated London, 8 December 1800. Found among the Thomas Jefferson material in the Class File (Series II). Letter makes reference to an unfulfilled request for specimens of limestone from the North of Scotland. Letter is…
Date: 1800-12-08
Prairie Experiences in Handling Cattle and Sheep, opening illustration
Description: Illustration opposite title page of Prairie Experiences in Handling Cattle and Sheep, by Major W. Shepherd, published in 1884. Caption reads "Interior of Ranch."
Date: 1884
Prairie Experiences in Handling Cattle and Sheep, p.40 Illustration
Description: Illustration on page 40 of Prairie Experiences in Handling Cattle and Sheep, by Major W. Shepherd, published in 1884. Caption reads "Lassoing on the Prairie."
Date: 1884
IEFC, p.3, Consumers' Guide
Description: An illustration on page 3 of an issue of the USDA publication Consumers' Guide, with a report on the first meeting of the International Emergency Food Council (IEFC) in Washington D.C. The Council was organized to deal with the world food crisis…
IEFC, p. 5, Consumers' Guide
Description: An illustration on page 5 of an issue of the USDA publication Consumers' Guide, with a report on the first meeting of the International Emergency Food Council (IEFC) in Washington D.C. The Council was organized to deal with the world food crisis…
IEFC meeting
Description: Cover of the USDA publication Consumers' Guide, with a report inside on the first meeting of the International Emergency Food Council (IEFC) in Washington D.C. The Council was organized to deal with the world food crisis after the end of World War…
Date: 1946-08
Herbert Hoover message, USFA book
Description: Herbet Hoover, head of the USFA, wrote a special introduction to the book Food Saving and Sharing, published in 1918 by the United States Food Administration.
Date: 1918
Extension Service Report title page
Description: Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work for 1910. Project and Annual report memoranda, Rice Demonstrations in 1909. Property of Office of Extension Work in the South, States Relations Service, United States Department of Agriculture, 1921. Title page…
Boll weevil illustration
Description: Caption for illustration in Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work for 1910, insert. Part of the USDA's education program was an effort to raise farmers' awareness and knowledge of the boll weevil and how it could harm their crops.
Date: ca. 1910
USDA officials
Description: This photograph is of several USDA officials, both active and retired, taken in 1961 at a lecture series honoring the USDA Centennial. On the far left is Joseph M. Robertson, then Assistant Secretary for Administration. Next to him is M. L. Wilson,…
Date: 1961
Rasmussen and Minister Mansour Rouhani
Description: Wayne Rasmussen after giving a speech during his visit to Tehran, Iran, in 1976. On the left is Iranian Minister of Agriculture Mansour Rouhani. Photographs of this event also appeared in a magazine put out by the United States Information Service on…
Date: ca. 1976
Photograph illustration, USFA book
Description: Caption for a photographic illustration in the book Food Saving and Sharing, published in 1918 by the United States Food Administration, page 46.
Date: ca. 1918
Cotton demonstration, Alabama
Description: Caption for photograph in Farmers' Cooperative Demonstration Work for 1910, page 113.
Date: ca. 1910