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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
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Description: Caption to original photograph by A. A. Ruark, from "Women in Agricultural Libraries," unpublished manuscript by C. B. Sherman, ca. 1925.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
The Boll Weevil Monument, Enterprise, Alabama.
Description: Caption transcribed from The Columbia Encyclopedia, 3rd ed., s.v. "Enterprise."
Emma B. Hawks
Description: Caption to original photograph by A. A. Ruark, from "Women in Agricultural Libraries," unpublished manuscript by C. B. Sherman, ca. 1925.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
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
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Description: Caption to original photograph by A. A. Ruark, from "Women in Agricultural Libraries," unpublished manuscript by C. B. Sherman, ca. 1925.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
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Description: Caption to original photograph by A. A. Ruark, from "Women in Agricultural Libraries," unpublished manuscript by C. B. Sherman, ca. 1925.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
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
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
Concord Grapevine
Description: The original Concord grapevine, developed by Ephraim Wales Bull in Concord, Massachusetts, 1849.
Date: 1849
Big Ox
Description: Caption to 1839 lithograph. The copy in the USDA History Collection is a photographic print.
Date: 1839
Churning Butter
Description: Original caption, USDA photograph by Madeleine Osborne, number N-5903.
Date: 1994-07
George Washington Carver
Description: George Washington Carver (1864-1943), renowned agricultural chemist, working in his laboratory.
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
Farm fencing
Description: Caption from photograph no. Va-30229 taken in Albemarle, Virginia, by I. W. Cousins, September 21, 1938.
Date: 9/21/1938
Forest Ranger
Description: Original caption, USDA photograph by Leland J. Frater in California, September, 1963.
Date: 1938-09