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Karl Herman Fernow papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-29-819

Scope and content

Scrapbooks containing ms. typescript, mimeographed, and printed reports on seed potato inspection, instructions to inspectors, lists of fields recommended or disqualified, letters to potato farmers, reports of a test made with New York State seed potatoes in Florida, graphs, and statistical tables; much of the material concerns the activities of the New York State Seed Improvement Cooperative Association and the New York State Potato Association.

Dates

  • 1917-1955.

Creator

Biographical / Historical

Professor of Plant Pathology, Cornell University; Chief of Potato Inspection. Cornell University Class of 1916, Ph.D. '25.

Extent

.6 cubic feet. (.6 cubic feet.)

Language of Materials

English

Description rules
Appm
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
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