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.
- Size:
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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
Mooney, James, 1861-1921
- Dates:
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July 12, 1893
- Size:
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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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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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- Creators:
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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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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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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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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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United States National Museum. Division of Plants
- Dates:
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1889-1896, 1902
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 236
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These records consist of incoming correspondence to Ellen W. Cathcart, scientific assistant in the Division of Botany, United States Department of Agriculture, and concern the identification, determination, and exchange of cryptogams. Some of the correspondence was addressed to Frederick Vernon Coville, Curator of the United States National ...
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Weisman, Donald M
- Dates:
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1965-1986
- Size:
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0.1 linear meter.
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7400
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers consist of incoming and outgoing correspondence with professional colleagues, mostly concerning the identification of specimens.
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Palmer, Edward, 1831-1911
- Dates:
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circa 1861-1914
- Size:
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0.25 cu. ft. (1 half document box)
- Collection ID:
- Record Unit 7442
- Repository:
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Smithsonian Institution Archives
These papers include incoming correspondence, 1887-1901, mostly concerning Palmer's botanical collecting; notes from his collecting trips to the American west and Florida, circa 1861-1890; and a catalog of Palmer's papers, 1914.