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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
Forest Ranger
Description: Original caption, USDA photograph by Leland J. Frater in California, September, 1963.
Date: 1938-09
George Washington Carver
Description: George Washington Carver (1864-1943), renowned agricultural chemist, working in his laboratory.
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…
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.
Hermitage garden
Description: Garden at the Hermitage, home of Andrew Jackson, near Nashville, Tennessee.
Irrigation
Description: An irrigation channel on a cattle ranch in the Yampa River valley, Colorado, September 1941. USDA photograph by Wolcott, no. N-6059 (58844 FSA).
Date: 1941-09
Lake on USDA Grounds. USDA History Collection
Description: Lake on USDA grounds, 1895. Photograph no. 2091-C.
Date: 1895
Mabel Colcord
Description: Caption to original photograph by A. A. Ruark, from "Women in Agricultural Libraries," unpublished manuscript by C. B. Sherman, ca. 1925.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
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…
Mary Goodwin Lacy
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
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
