[Papers]. 1889-1955.

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[Papers]. 1889-1955.

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Contains general files, 1912-1955, including incoming correspondence, with copies of Hardy's replies; correspondence with Werner von Bergen and Wanda Farr; student papers; travel reports; and biographical material. Also includes papers, 1933-1945, especially concerning a cross-section device; calculation and data notebooks, 1931-1932; records of experiments done by students, 1889-1939, largely about wool of Rambouillet sheep; pocket memoranda books, 1919-1948; photographs and samples, 1930-1947; reports and articles, 1913-1950, including those by Thora Plitt Hardy; reference files and miscellaneous notes, some of which may concern the Albany Felt Co.

4 ft. (11 boxes)

American Textile History Museum Library

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American Textile History Museum Library

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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....

Albany Felt Company

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Hardy, John Ira, 1888-

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Hardy (1888-1955) was an animal fiber technologist for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture and was well known for his research on animal fibers and the feeding, breeding, and management of sheep, goats and other domestic animals. He was born in Groveland, Mass., and educated at Rhode Island State College, the University of Tennessee and the University of Missouri. He worked for the Tenn. Agricultural Experiment Station, 1911-1915; the University of Wyoming at Laramie, 1917; Albany Felt Co., 1920-1923;...

Farr, Wanda K.

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Von Bergen, Werner, 1897-

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Von Bergen graduated in 1916 from the Technical College of Burgdorf, Switzerland, as a chemist and was connected with the wool industry since 1919. He was Director of Research, 1926-1962, at Forstmann Woolen Co., Passaic, N.J.; and a consultant to J.P. Stevens & Co., 1963-1972. He also served as the United States representative to the Technical Committee of the International Wool Textile Organization and taught woolen manufacturing at Columbia University. From the description of ...

Hardy, Thora Plitt.

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