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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
Lake on USDA Grounds. USDA History Collection
Description: Lake on USDA grounds, 1895. Photograph no. 2091-C.
Date: 1895
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
Map, Arlington research farm
Description: Map of the Arlington Experimental Farm which was the main USDA research facility in the Washington area from 1900 until 1941, when activities were transferred to the Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Md., and the property was ceded back to…
USDA War Memorial
Description: War Memorial in the courtyard of the USDA Administration Building. Beneath the list of names of the fallen, the inscription reads "Dedicated by the Men and Women of the Department of Agriculture to Their Co-Workers Who Died in The Great War. MCMXVII…
Greenhouses on Mall. USDA History Collection
Description: A view from the Washington Monument in the mid-1920s, showing USDA greenhouses on the Mall, in the foreground. This site on Constitution Avenue is now the location of the National Museum of American History. The Old Post Office Building is in the…
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
Erosion Control
Description: Soil Conservation Service photograph no. Wis-1351, by E. W. Cole, July 1957.
Date: 1957-07
Contour Farming
Description: Caption from photograph of a Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, farm, taken April 20, 1938. Photograph no. Pa-40351.
Date: 4/20/1938
Hermitage garden
Description: Garden at the Hermitage, home of Andrew Jackson, near Nashville, Tennessee.
Forest Ranger
Description: Original caption, USDA photograph by Leland J. Frater in California, September, 1963.
Date: 1938-09
Farm fencing
Description: Caption from photograph no. Va-30229 taken in Albemarle, Virginia, by I. W. Cousins, September 21, 1938.
Date: 9/21/1938
New House. USDA History Collection
Description: Before and after pictures of a home in Oklahoma improved through an Extension Service program on Low-Cost Rural Housing, 1940. These photographs were included in a batch of letters from County Agents in the South discussing their ideas and activities…
Date: ca. 1940
George Washington Carver
Description: George Washington Carver (1864-1943), renowned agricultural chemist, working in his laboratory.