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Agriculture -- Study and teaching.

 Subject
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Found in 28 Collections and/or Records:

Henry Hiram Wing items

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924065358420]
Identifier: 21-20-144
Scope and content

The collection contains Professor Wing's student course book; his MS thesis; one pamphlet entitled "Dedication Exercises: Henry Hiram Wing Coliseum," 1934; one volume of commendatory letters and clippings, 1928-1937; one leaflet containing faculty resolutions on his death; and one "Holstein-Friesian World," Vol. 33, No. 24, containing an obituary.

Dates: 1877-1937.

Howard Conklin papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-10-2878
Abstract

Correspondence, course material and class lecture notes, professional writings, extension surveys and followups, subject files, project statements, material relating to Cornell University, and subject files relating to the New York State Land Use Committee and the New York State Agricultural Resource Commission. Also, charts, graphs, and other materials from the "Decade of the Sixties," study about changes in commercial farms in New York State.

Dates: 1949-1982.

Isaac P. Roberts papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 21-2-597
Scope and content Administrative correspondence relating to the New York State College of Agriculture and manuscripts of articles on various agricultural subjects. Includes miscellaneous correspondence and poems, clippings, photos of horses and a copy of a manuscript (fragment) by William H. Brewer on the rise of agriculture schools in New York State. Also, bas-relief medallions of Isaac Roberts by Mary Washburn, 1928. Collection includes bas-relief medallion of Professor Isaac- Philips Roberts by Mary...
Dates: ca. 1889-1928.

John Stanton Gould papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924064930401]
Identifier: 21-1-2626
Scope and content

Manuscripts for lectures on agriculture, the plow, the axe, hay, and poultry. Also includes comments on temperance, Rhode Island, the skin, and the life of the ancient Greeks.



Dates: 1867-1873.

Joseph Charles Arthur papers

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 31924088359736]
Identifier: 22-1-3318
Scope and content

Three notebooks of J.C. Arthur including "Diseases of Plants: Experiments," 1884; "Experiments with Bacteria," 1885 and 1886; also, Arthur's "Daily Notes" notebooks no. 1, 2, 4 and 5, 1884, 1886, and 1887 and photocopies of the "Daily Notes."

Dates: 1884-1887.

Kenneth L. Turk papers

 Collection — Box 5: [Barcode: 31924079136127]
Identifier: 21-14-2116
Abstract

Lecture notes, reports, and consultation and advisory papers prepared by Kenneth L. Turk. Includes material pertaining to the Rockefeller Foundation and several food and agricultural organizations, and agricultural programs in England, Asia, Hawaii, Philippines, Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, India, Guatemala, Columbia, Chile, and the West Indies. Also, "Flashbacks: Selected Travel Experiences of Bernice and Kenneth Turk."

Dates: 1951-1985.

Laurence MacDaniels papers

 Collection
Identifier: 21-25-815
Abstract Papers include correspondence with other horticulturists, floriculturists, and pomologists mainly concerning the activities of the North American Lily Society, which he founded, the Northern Nut Growers Association, of which he was president, the American Society for Horticultural Science, and the American Horticultural Council; correspondence concerning the future of the Arnold Arboretum at Harvard University and the bread standards (1957-1958) set by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration;...
Dates: [ca. 1915]-1986.

Liberty Hyde Bailey, New York State College of Agriculture and Agricultural Experiment Station records

 Collection
Identifier: 21-2-84
Abstract

Director's files including correspondence, committee reports, and files concerning construction projects and the general administration of the college.

Dates: 1903-1914.

New York agricultural leaders oral history project

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 13-6-428
Abstract

Includes interviews with farmers, officials of the State Grange, New York State and American Farm Bureau Federations, the Dairymen's League, GLF, and other agricultural businesses, county agents, extension specialists, faculty and staff members of the New York State College of Agriculture, and others involved in agriculture in New York State.

Dates: 1962-1968.

New York State Agricultural Experiment Station records

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 22-1-44
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...
Dates: 1859-2008.