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Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station. Records, 1852-1983

Title: Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station records

The Agricultural Experiment Station was founded in 1888 in order to use the resources of science to improve practice and profitability of agriculture, to conduct investigations into agricultural problems, and to publish and disseminate widely the results of its research. The collection consists of the operating records of the Agricultural Experiment Station and includes project and academic files, contracts and agreements, documentation of professional association activities of the station's directors, memorabilia, and photographs. A significant grouping of materials in the collection relates to the directorship of Harry J. Patterson.

ArchivalResource: 34.50 linear feet and 1 linear foot

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1676 View

Patterson, H. J. (Harry Jacob), 1866-1948. Harry Patterson papers, 1886-1945 (majority 1890-1971)

Title: Harry Patterson papers

Harry J. Patterson was associated with the University of Maryland for fifty years, from 1888 to 1937. He arrived as part of the staff of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station and made significant contributions to agriculture in the state of Maryland. Patterson was instrumental in raising awareness throughout the state of the value of research in agriculture for the improvement of the state's economy and tax base. And, through his work on the applications of chemistry to farming, new varieties of tobacco and strawberries were developed. Patterson's most enduring contributions to the state, however, were made between 1913 and 1917 when he served as president of the University of Maryland. In those four years Patterson undertook the rebuilding of the campus after a fire in 1912 and launched the University on a course of expansion, preparing the campus for a shift in status from a small college to a large, public, and modern university. Patterson's papers consist of correspondence; speeches; rosters; and lecture, experiment, and chemical notes.

ArchivalResource: 16 folders

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1272 View

Amoss, William L., 1859-1933. William L. Amoss Papers, 1884-1936 (majority 1896-1919)

Title: William L. Amoss Papers

This collection contains materials relating to the career of William L. Amoss, who was head of the Farmers' Institutes at the Maryland Agricultural College from 1896 to 1910. Amoss's papers include daybooks, brochures, scrapbooks, reports and photographs, and cover such subjects as farmers' institutes, county fairs, farmers' markets, the Maryland State Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, local farm clubs, the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, poultry, horticulture, and transportation. In 1918 and 1919, Amoss served as Special Field Agent with the U.S. Employment Service of the Department of Labor. His papers from this period include correspondence regarding farm labor shortages suffered during and after World War I in New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware. There is also a small amount of personal correspondence that provides some insight into Amoss's family life.

ArchivalResource: 14.00 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1751 View

Department of Physical Plant records. 1888-1987 (bulk 1933-1945).

Title: Department of Physical Plant records

The Department of Physical Plant was established in 1924-1925 as the Buildings and Grounds Division of the General Services Department. The department's files include maps, blueprints, photographs, computer tapes, and financial materials relating to University of Maryland campus construction, structures, landscaping, and maintenance. The Department of Physical Plant, first organized in the 1920s, is responsible for maintaining campus facilities and grounds. Its files consist of correspondence; financial and administrative records; and an extensive run of maps, drawings, and photographs of the campus as a whole and of particular buildings. Campus planning, landscaping and construction projects, and property appraisals are documented. The Department of Physical Plant was established in 1924-1925 as the Buildings and Grounds Division of the General Services Department. The department's files include maps, blueprints, photographs, computer tapes, and financial materials relating to University of Maryland campus construction, structures, landscaping, and maintenance. The collection includes 1945 maps and photographs of the Princess Anne campus. The collection also includes unprocessed accessions null

ArchivalResource: 3.75 Linear Feet (3.75 linear feet and 267 drawings/maps)

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1633 View

Amoss, William L., 1859-1933. William L. Amoss Papers, 1884-1936 (majority 1896-1919)

Title: William L. Amoss Papers

This collection contains materials relating to the career of William L. Amoss, who was head of the Farmers' Institutes at the Maryland Agricultural College from 1896 to 1910. Amoss's papers include daybooks, brochures, scrapbooks, reports and photographs, and cover such subjects as farmers' institutes, county fairs, farmers' markets, the Maryland State Grange of the Patrons of Husbandry, local farm clubs, the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition, poultry, horticulture, and transportation. In 1918 and 1919, Amoss served as Special Field Agent with the U.S. Employment Service of the Department of Labor. His papers from this period include correspondence regarding farm labor shortages suffered during and after World War I in New Jersey, Maryland, and Delaware. There is also a small amount of personal correspondence that provides some insight into Amoss's family life.

ArchivalResource: 14.00 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1751 View

Veitch, F. P. (Fletcher Pearre), 1868-1943. Papers of Fletcher Pearre Veitch, 1890-1938.

Title: Fletcher Pearre Veitch papers

An 1891 graduate of the Maryland Agricultural College, Fletcher Pearre Veitch (1868-1943) was a chemist and soil physicist for the college, the Agricultural Experiment Station, and the United States Department of Agriculture. The collection, consisting of correspondence, publications, proxy records, and speeches, documents Veitch's active involvement in the alumni affairs of the Maryland Agricultural College and the University of Maryland.

ArchivalResource: 1.00 linear foot

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1307 View

Bertha (Gerneaux) Davis and Albert Fred Woods papers, 1888-1947 (majority 1910-1944)

Title: Bertha (Gerneaux) Davis and Albert Fred Woods papers

Albert F. Woods (1866-1948), a pioneer in plant virus research, was dean of the University of Minnesota College of Agricuture from 1910 to 1917, and president of the University of Maryland from 1917 to 1926. Later he was an assistant secretary in the United States Department of Agriculture, and president of the Land Grant College Association. Woods' wife, Bertha, wrote poems and children's literature. The Woods collection consists of two distinct groupings of materials. Albert Woods' activities at the University of Minnesota and the University of Maryland are documented in speeches, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings. Bertha Woods' poems, stories, manuscript notebooks, and scrapbooks make up the remainder of the collection

ArchivalResource: 3.50 linear feet

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1315 View

White, Richard. Richard White collection, 1905-1920

Title: Richard White collection

The Richard White Collection, which covers the period 1905 to 1920, includes correspondence between the Director of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, H. J. Patterson, and the Superintendent of the Ridgely Sub-station, Charles Opperman. The two men discuss administrative details concerning the setup of the farm as an experiment sub-station, including questions about how expenses will be handled and what repairs should be made to the existing structures. The correspondence also contains descriptions of the experimental work taking place on the farm as well as plans for future work. In addition, the series contains an annual report from 1917 and two detailed inventories of items on the Ridgely property in 1917 and 1920. Maps show the boundaries of the farm and its field divisions. These materials date from 1914 to 1920. The collection also contains academic reports of Herbert James White, a student of the Maryland Agricultural College from 1905 until 1911.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear feet and 4 items

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1207 View

White, Richard. Richard White collection, 1905-1920

Title: Richard White collection

The Richard White Collection, which covers the period 1905 to 1920, includes correspondence between the Director of the Maryland Agricultural Experiment Station, H. J. Patterson, and the Superintendent of the Ridgely Sub-station, Charles Opperman. The two men discuss administrative details concerning the setup of the farm as an experiment sub-station, including questions about how expenses will be handled and what repairs should be made to the existing structures. The correspondence also contains descriptions of the experimental work taking place on the farm as well as plans for future work. In addition, the series contains an annual report from 1917 and two detailed inventories of items on the Ridgely property in 1917 and 1920. Maps show the boundaries of the farm and its field divisions. These materials date from 1914 to 1920. The collection also contains academic reports of Herbert James White, a student of the Maryland Agricultural College from 1905 until 1911.

ArchivalResource: .25 linear feet and 4 items

http://hdl.handle.net/1903.1/1207 View

Patterson, H. J. (Harry Jacob), 1866-1948. Reprints, 1892.

Title: Reprints, 1892. [n.d.]

ArchivalResource: tables 25 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63368370 View