Lehigh Valley Coal Company Records
Company records, including specifications, drawings and plans, photographs, and other miscellaneous archival material.
Swatara Railroad Papers
National Museum of American History (U.S.). Division of Agriculture
Donaldson, William
Swatara and Good Spring Railroad
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Documents relating to the business of the Swatara Railroad Company of Danville, Pennsylvania and particularly of its president, "Judge" William Donaldson. Includes receipts, bills, contracts, operating statistics, financial statements and correspondence, filed chronologically by year.
Pennsylvania State Anthracite Mine Cave Commission Report
This collection consists of the Commission's report, comprising: a 352 page report, including numerous photographs and maps; one 24 page printed copy of the report; one map of the city of Scranton, dated 1912; and eight blueprints of coal field sites.
William C. Dolowy Veterinarian Medicine Collection
The collection documents Dr. William C. Dolowy, a veterinarian, whose animal research on the drug L'Asparaginase in the 1960's is illustrative of the role of veterinary medicine in human health.
Nelson Dickerman Papers
Urbanski, Pauline
Papers relating to the career and life of mining engineer Nelson Dickerman: letters, photographs, clippings and diaries kept during his mining career. Much of the material is personal, rather than professional, relating to Dickerman's family and children. Family photographs include baby books.
William C. Kost Farm Records
Kost, William Cassell, 1917-1989 (farmer)
The records of the Kost family farm, Vermont, Illinois. The farm consisted of 120 acres where small grains, hay, and cattle were raised.
Sharpe, Weiss and Company Papers
Invoices and letters from merchants and manufacturers with whom Sharpe, Weiss and Company, and their successors, did business; and two reels of microfilm of Sharpe and Weiss's account books.
John G. Sutton Papers
The papers contain a scrapbook, 1903-1912; publications of C. G. Elliot, head of the USDA's drainage work; papers and reports on drainage pumping plants, tile, and ditches, 1916-1920, 1926, 1931; and historical studies of drainage work, 1937-1938, 1947,1957,1961.
United States Department of Agriculture Building Construction Glass Plate Negatives
The collection contains thirty-three glass plate negatives documenting the construction of Laboratory A and B of the Department of Agriculture building in the early 1900s.
Go Forth and Serve: African American Land Grant Colleges Audiovisual Collection
Bunch, Lonnie G.
United States. Department of Agriculture
National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges.
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18 Videocassettes (VHS)
15 Cassette tapes
38 Videocassettes (Video 8)
An oral history project that grew out of the exhibit "Go Forth and Serve" which commemorated the 100th anniversary of the drafting of the second Morrill Act, which provided funds for the founding of land grant schools of higher education for black students.