New York State Agricultural Experiment Station records
Scope and content
Minutes of meetings of the Board of Control and Reports of the Director which include fiscal reports and some operating reports after 1892; extensive correspondence files; sketches, photographs and other biographical materials concerning staff members; and scrapbooks of clippings relating to the experiment station, milk production and testing, and agricultural problems in New York State. Also, additional clippings; lithographed certificates from the Universal Exposition of 1900 and the United States Exposition of 1904; drawings of the Director's residence; and memorabilia from the centennial celebration of the station, 1981-1982. The records throw considerable light on the beginnings of the Experiment Station, the setting up of its Board of Control, the interest in its activities by individual and organized farmers, the discussions over conflicting operating and experimental plans, the adoption of general policies, and the aims of various directors. Much of the collection is from the directorship of Whitman H. Jordan, 1896-1921. Two kits for the counting of bacteria in milk, and the first watchman's clock used at Geneva. Also, records for the years 1859-1957; and an award to the Station for exhibits at the Pan American Exhibition, 1895-1920. Includes record books and correspondence concerning various orchards, annual reports (1885-1944) and progress reports.
Folder containing photographs used in experiment station bulletins in 1915, including photographs of Native American women taken by Jessie Tarbox Beals, regarded as the first woman press photographer.
Also one videocassette: New York State Agricultural Experiment Station: Governor George Pataki's visit September 4, 1997 and one videotape: "Career Development Orientation Seminar." Phonograph record from Shell Chemical Corporation with talks about pest control by Dr. F. L. Gambrell, Dr. E. H. Glass, Dr. F. L. McEwen, and Dr. P. R. Sferra from the Experiment Station's Dept. of Entomology.
Also correspondence with N.O. Booth.
Photograph album titled Potato spraying experiments in 1904 (30 pages, 14 x 18 cm), with photographs mounted on the pages, shows farmers spraying plants with horse-drawn equipment, with captions describing their yield increases; blighted plants; sprayed next to unsprayed potatoes; equipment and pesticide storage facilities; and a diagram of potato mildew.
Dates
- 1859-2008.
Creator
- New York State Agricultural Experiment Station (Organization)
- Beals, Jessie Tarbox. (Person)
- Gambrell, Foster L. (Person)
- Glass, Edward H. (Edward Hadley), 1917- (Person)
- McEwen, F. L. (Freeman Lester), 1926- (Person)
- Sferra, P. R. (Person)
- Shell Chemical Corporation (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Boxes in Series XII. Unprocessed Material are closed until processed.
Extent
123 cubic feet. (123 cubic feet.)
2 videocassettes. (2 videocassettes.)
2 volumes. (2 volumes.)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
Correspondence files are arranged: chronologically and then alphabetically within years.
General Note
Includes collections #21-12-1651 and #21-12-76.
Related / Analytical Title
Potato spraying experiments in 1904.
- Status
- Completed
- Description rules
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- Language of description
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Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
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