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- exhibit: USDA History Collection
USDA Centennial Edition
Description: This issue celebrates the 100th anniversary of the founding of the United States Department of Agriculture. President Abraham Lincoln signed the Act creating the Department on May 15, 1862.
Date: 1962-05-09
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Description: Caption to original photograph by A. A. Ruark, from "Women in Agricultural Libraries," unpublished manuscript by C. B. Sherman, ca. 1925.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
Arbustum Americanum, Title Page and Dedication
Description: The title page and dedication to Humphry Marshall's Arbustum Americanum: The American Grove, 1785, the first American imprint on native trees and shrubs. Marshall published Arbustum with the assistance of Samuel Vaughan, an English planter from…
Creators: Humphry Marshall
Date: 1785 (original); 1967 (copy)
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
Banks to M. Marshall, 1792
Description: Sir Joseph Banks to Moses Marshall, 1792 [?]. The date supplied in pencil, apparently by the manuscript dealer, is supported by the "Post Paid" stamp on the outer leaf of the letter. This letter is not printed in Darlington.
Date: 1792
Banks to Marshall, April 3, 1790
Description: Sir Joseph Banks to Humphry Marshall, April 3, 1790. Page 563 of Darlington's Memorials provides a transcription of the body of the letter, however, the list of plants on page 3 is not included in the printed text.
Date: 1790-04-03
Banks to Marshall, April 5, 1786
Description: Sir Joseph Banks to Humphry Marshall, April 5, 1786, discussing the root of ginseng. The transcription begins on the bottom of page 559 and continues on page 560 of Darlington's Memorials. Marshall's reply to Banks of November 14, 1786 (not included…
Date: 1786-04-05
Banks to Marshall, August 28, 1793
Description: Sir Joseph Banks to [Moses] Marshall, August 28, 1793, introducing a German friend, the Baron Itzenplitz, saying that "he may have it in his Power to recommend you to much business in Germany." The letter is addressed on the outer leaf simply to "Mr.…
Date: 1793-08-28
Banks to Marshall, February 6, 1788
Description: Sir Joseph Banks to Humphry Marshall, February 6, 1788. The letter is in two pieces, the top being torn off with the back leaf missing.
Date: 1788-02-06
Banks to Marshall, May 6, 1789
Description: Sir Joseph Banks to Humphry Marshall, May 6, 1789. Banks reports that the last box of plants was received safely and notes "I have no doubt that as the spring advances we shall find in it several Plants which will enrich our Botanical Knowledge." He…
Date: 1789-05-06
Big Ox
Description: Caption to 1839 lithograph. The copy in the USDA History Collection is a photographic print.
Date: 1839
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