Cornell University Department of Plant Breeding records
COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Departmental files include correspondence with officials at the N.Y.S. College of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Agriculture, agronomists at universities and experiment stations, county agents, farmers, seed growers, and others concerning departmental administration, plant breeding work done by farmers in cooperation with the department, seed certification and exhibit, extension work, advice to growers, and other matters concerning seed research and testing; reports and data relating to department and other research; and correspondence and reports concerning agricultural assistance work undertaken by the department in the Philippines and consideration of similar work in Thailand and Taiwan. Included is the incoming and outgoing correspondence of Liberty Hyde Bailey, Frank P. Bussell, Rollins A. Emerson, Carl E. Ladd, Robert D. Lewis, Harry H. Love, Albert R. Mann, Clyde H. Myers, William I. Myers, and Roy G. Wiggans.
Also, glass negatives, 1906-ca. 1930, of timothy, corn, and potato field plots. Includes papers of Sanford S. Atwood.
Dates
- 1906-1970.
Creator
- Cornell University. Department of Plant Breeding (Organization)
- Murphy, Royse P. (Royse Peak), 1914- (Person)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
Extent
68.7 cubic feet. (68.7 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Departmental files include correspondence with officials at the N.Y.S. College of Agriculture and U.S. Department of Agriculture
Physical Description
Correspondence, Photographs, Printed Materials, Reports, Research Materials
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- Unknown
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, September 2009
- Date modified:
- RMC Staff, July 2018
NOTES
Includes collections #21-28-888, #21-28-1191, #21-28-358, and #21-28-289.
- Agricultural extension work.
- Agriculture -- Philippines.
- Atwood, Sanford S.
- Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954.
- Bussell, Frank P.
- Emerson, Rollins A.
- Ladd, C. E. (Carl Edwin), 1888-1943.
- Lewis, Robert D.
- Love, Harry H. (Harry Houser), 1880-1966.
- Mann, Albert Russell, 1880-1947.
- Myers, Clyde Hadley, 1883-1944.
- Myers, William Irving, 1891-1976.
- Negatives.
- New York State College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
- Philippines.
- Photographs.
- Plant breeding.
- Seeds -- Certification.
- Taiwan.
- Thailand.
- United States. Department of Agriculture
- Wiggans, Roy G.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- September 2009
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script 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
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu