United States Department of Agriculture Date Station collection. [circa 1880-1950]

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United States Department of Agriculture Date Station collection. [circa 1880-1950]

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This collection contains photographs, scrapbooks, and other material that originated from the United States Department of Agriculture Date Station in Indio, California. The University of California and the Citrus Experiment Station were involved with the research conducted at this site. Material includes photographs of date palms in California, North Africa, and Iraq; photographs illustrating the cultivation of palm varieties and palm diseases; scrapbook compiled by Walter Tennyson on date palms, tropical fruits, and citrus in California and the Middle East.

4.0 linear ft. (6 photograph albums, 1 scrapbook, 1 document box)

University of California, Riverside, UCR

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SNAC Resource ID: 7776830

University of California, Riverside, UCR

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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....

Swingle, Walter T. (Walter Tennyson), 1871-1952

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