Browse Collections (48 total)
J. Horace McFarland Collection
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J. Horace McFarland (1859-1948) operated his horticultural printing business, the J. Horace McFarland Company/Mount Pleasant Press, from 1878 until…
Charles Edwin Kellogg Papers
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Charles Edwin Kellogg (1902-1980) served as the head of the Soil Survey in the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) for 37 years…
Alvin L. Young Collection on Agent Orange
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The Alvin L. Young Collection on Agent Orange comprises 120 linear feet and spans the late 1800s to 2005; however, the bulk of the coverage is from…
Series VI. Newsletters
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Scope and Content Note Newsletters and other publications put out by USDA agencies, as well as by national farmers' associations, industry and…
Series I. Documentary Files
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Subseries in Series I The Documentary Files contain materials on the history of the USDA and agriculture in the United States, including letters,…
Series X. Manuscripts
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Scope and Content Note This series is made up of several separate collections of agriculture-related materials from the late 18th through the early…
Series VII. Photographs
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Scope and Content Note Photographs and other graphic images, including photoprints, slides, filmstrips, and non-photographic prints such as etchings…
USDA History Collection
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Brief Description of Collection Title: The USDA History Collection Provenance: Agricultural and Rural History Section, Economic Research Service,…
Robert Leslie Usinger Collection on Carolus Linnaeus
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Physical Exhibitions
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These exhibits highlight the rare books and manuscript collections held by Special Collections. They focus on agriculture and natural history and on…
Nursery and Seed Catalogs
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Contains digitized covers from Special Collections' Henry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Catalog Collection. The collection consists of over 200,000…