Agriculture -- Nebraska

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This collection contains the student newspaper the “Aggie Tattler,” 1916–1927 from the College of Agriculture (now Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources).

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The collection contains a few examples of the newsletter published by the Agriculture Advisory Board. The newsletters contain information such as drop/add dates, news on administration and faculty of the College of Agriculture, and the activities of departmental clubs.

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"AgroHort" publication from the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture from 2003-2005.

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"Agronomy" publication from the Department of Agronomy and Horticulture from 1995.

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"Agronomy and Horticulture" publication from 2002.

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This collection contains annual reports, materials on horticulture and an Academic Program Review for 1991.

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This collection contains announcements and bulletins from the College of Agriculture (now Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources) from 1898 to 1988. Also included are "Opportunities for the Agriculturally Trained Man" and "What Can a Girl Do?"

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Class bulletins and catalogs from the Nebraska School of Agriculture, Curtis (now Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture) from 1913-1990.

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This collection contains bulletins and announcements from the College of Agriculture (now Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources) from 1894-1928.

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College of Arts and Sciences

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Contains one scrapbook created by the Clay County Inland Livestock Club on the Nebraska Extension Hog Lot Sanitation Project in the 1920-1930s. The scrapbook gives a step-by-step account of how Nebraska Extension Agent Joe Claybaugh taught the pig club about pig hygiene and how to create shelters and sanitize pig lots to decrease disease. It also contains a song written by Joe Claybaugh on pig sanitation that won the championships at the Clay County and Nebraska State Fair.

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Commencement programs and yearbooks from the School of Agriculture (now Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources Record) from 1903-1929.

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Commencement programs from the Nebraska School of Agriculture, Curtis (now Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture) from 1937-1977.

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“Cornhusker Tech News” newsletter from the Nebraska School of Agriculture (now Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture-Curtis) from 1968-1973.

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Materials from the University of Nebraska 18th Annual Bull Sale.

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This collection contains "The Curtis Aggie," a Nebraska School of Agriculture (now Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture-Curtis) newsletter, from 1939 to 1963.

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This collection contains annuals and yearbooks from the Nebraska School of Agriculture in Curtis (now Nebraska College of Technical Agriculture), from 1913 through 1994.

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The collection consists of subject and project files on Agriultural Experiment Station activities from 1948-1972, which cover a variety of topics related to livestock, crops, conservation, and environment.

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The records include the newsletters "Farm Op. Spotlight" from 1931 to 1939, photographs from the College of Agriculture depicting Norman Heitshusen's short course in 1936 (photographs with the original caption "Pete" with an arrow are of Norman Heitshusen), and a newspaper article about Norman Heitshusen graduating as a Farm Operator after completing the University short course study.

Scope and Contents The records consist of 16 mm films, produced in the 1940s, about seed certification and the crop variety breeding programs operating at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln (UNL). They include footage of UNL's East Campus and several 1940s-era faculty, staff, members of the Nebraska Crop Improvement Association (NCIA), and regional farm families. The films show seed planting, field crops, inspection and certification processes, planting and harvesting equipment, and associated corn, wheat,...

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Between 1973 and 1982, George Round conducted oral history interviews with about 300 individuals connected to the development of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln, agriculture, and the state of Nebraska. The oral histories cover the time period from 1910 to 1973. The oral history records include cassette tapes, reel-to-reel tapes, and selected interview transcripts. The materials are arranged alphabetically.

Scope and Contents The records include the newsletter titled "Global View" published by the International Program Division of the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources from 1976 until 2002. The Division also published "A Survey of Long-Term U.S. Staff Invovled in the 1966-1973 University of Nebraska Mission in Colombia," by Elvis A Dickason and Robert W. Kleis (IP10, 1982), "International Programs in Agriculture: Past and Present," (IP11) and "Analisis del Programa de Capacitacion de las Mision...

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"Horticulture Thymes" newsletter from the Department of Horticulture (1997).

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This collection contains general materials pertaining to the College of Agriculture.  Some types of materials include reports, publications, programs, photographs and postcards, scrapbooks and assorted materials from the College of Agriculture.  Box four is mostly assorted photographs from different departments of the College of Agriculture from the 1940's-60's.

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The content included articles on activities, dates for events and activities, and information about committee work. The content shifted over the years, adding notes from the dean or director’s office, meeting notifications, and personnel changes. A section listed new publications, with some of them sent along with the newsletter.

Content Description The papers contain two self-published autobiographies by Lloy Thurman and D.M. Quimby. In Lloy Thurman’s 2011 autobiography, Growing Up on a Nebraska Farm in the 1930’s and 1940's Thurman writes about family genealogy and what it was like growing up on the Thurman Farm near Oconto, Nebraska in the 1930s-1940s. He writes about the creation of the family farm including the construction of buildings, transportation methods, weather...

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Management Guide for Arthropod Pests of Livestock and Horses.

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This collection consists of the papers of Marvel L. Baker and includes his own writings, articles on Baker, and photographs. Included in his writings is an autobiography, titled One Goosenest Wasp (Notes to his Grandchildren).

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Medical management materials from Management of Swine and Cattle Records.