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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
Wayne Rasmussen receiving award
Description: Wayne Rasmussen receiving an award from the Iranian government in Tehran on occasion of his visit there in 1976
Date: 1976
Wayne Rasmussen and snakes
Description: Wayne Rasmussen during a visit to a herpetology lab in Tehran, Iran. This lab and its many specimens of snakes and reptiles were part of the Ministry of Agriculture; the photograph was taken in early 1976.
Date: 1976
Group of Americans and Iranians
Description: A group of Americans working for the United State Information Service and Iranians in the Ministry of Agriculture, outside the ministry. Wayne Rasmussen is in the back row, center, with his head turned to the side.
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
Wallace at Mt. Vernon
Description: Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of Agriculture (in back on the right, facing the crowd), makes a speech in observance of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the Department of Agriculture and the state land-grant college system. The event was held at…
Date: 11/17/1937
USDA Organization chart, 1942
Description: An organization chart of the department in 1942, Claude R. Wickard, Secretary of Agriculture.
Date: 1942
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