United States Department of Agriculture Building Construction Glass Plate Negatives
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United States. Department of Agriculture
Work and Industry, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Dates:
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1906-1907.
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.1096
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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.
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United States. Department of Agriculture
- Dates:
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1928-1929
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2 Acetate negatives
3 Nitrate negatives
100 Prints (ca. 100 prints: silver gelatin)
120 Prints (ca. 120 glass negatives)
- Collection ID:
- NAA.PhotoLot.91-8
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Images of settlements, people (including Negritos), artifacts, agriculture (especially sugarcane), headdresses, tattooing and body marking, members of the expedition, and the expedition's plane. This collection contains photographs by every member of the expedition. Other images are from Frank Hurley's documentary, "Pearls and Savages", or were m...
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United States. Department of Agriculture
Mooney, James, 1861-1921
- Dates:
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July 12, 1893
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1 Page
- Collection ID:
- NAA.MS3947
- Repository:
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National Anthropological Archives
Gives the botanical names for Yamp or Yampa, cottonwood, cedar of the plains, and cedars of the southern states.
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Sabrosky, Curtis W. (Curtis Williams), 1910-
- Dates:
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circa 1935-1980
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5 cu. ft. (5 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 86-010
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence documenting the professional career of Curtis W. Sabrosky at Michigan State University and the United States Department of Agriculture. The correspondence also documents his research on the taxonomy of flies.
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Sutton, John G.
Mechanical and Civil Engineering, Division of [former name], NMAH, SI.
History of Technology, Division of, NMAH, SI
- Dates:
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ca. 1903-1961.
- Size:
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0.3 Cubic feet (1 box)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0994
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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.
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United States National Museum. Division of Plants
- Dates:
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1870-1893
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11 cu. ft. (21 document boxes) (25 microfilm reels)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 220
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
Most of these records are the official files of George Vasey as botanist of the United States Department of Agriculture and curator of the United States National Herbarium from 1872 to 1893. They include incoming and occasional outgoing correspondence, mostly to Vasey, but sometimes to Jeremiah M. Rusk, secretary of Agriculture; Edwin Willits,...
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Science Service
- Dates:
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1874, 1921-1972
- Size:
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2 cu. ft. (2 record storage boxes)
- Collection ID:
- Accession 19-122
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This accession consists of Science Service subject files pertaining to agriculture and transportation. Some of the images were taken by Science Service staff, while others came from manufacturers and governmental agencies such as the United States Department of Agriculture and the Office of War Information. Materials include correspondence, ...
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Crawford, James Chamberlain
- Dates:
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1901-1927
- Size:
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7114
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
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- Creators:
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United States National Museum. Division of Plants
- Dates:
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1894-1903
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2.08 cu. ft. (3 document boxes) (1 tall document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 222
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
In 1971, the National Museum of Natural History, Department of Botany, transferred its official records and collections of personal papers relating to the early history of the Department to the Hunt Botanical Library at the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation. The official correspondence files generated by Charles Louis Pollard during ...
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National Museum of American History (U.S.)
Cultural History, Division of (NMAH, SI).
Bunch, Lonnie G.
United States. Department of Agriculture
More … - Dates:
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1992-1993
- Size:
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1 Cubic foot
18 videocassettes (vhs)
15 cassette tapes
38 videocassettes (video 8)
- Collection ID:
- NMAH.AC.0614
- Repository:
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Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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.