United States Department of Agriculture glass slide and related materials collection. 1900-1914.

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United States Department of Agriculture glass slide and related materials collection. 1900-1914.

The collection consists of about 100 lantern slides identified as having been created for lectures of the United States Department of Agriculture's Farmers' Institute. Slides for two lectures are included, with each slide identifying the lecture number and author(s), the slide number, and an original negative number of unknown significance. Most of the images depict farmhouses, but there are also images of farmland and people, as well as a sketch of a farmhouse and part of a poem. None of the images are credited or identified as to location.

About 100 items (1.7 linear feet).

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United States. Department of Agriculture

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The United States Department of Agriculture was established in 1862 by President Abraham Lincoln and was elevated to a Cabinet level organization by President Grover Cleveland in 1889. The Department of Agriculture assists farmers and producers of food as well as creating policies and programs related to food distribution and nutrition information. The United States Department of Agriculture controls a number of regional offices through out the continential United States and its territories....