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United States. Department of Agriculture

 Organization

Dates

  • Existence: 1862-05-15-
  • Existence: 1862    

Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:

David Spence: Guayule Rubber Project Records

 Collection
Identifier: 1998-001-001
Abstract

Reports, correspondence, patent files, reprints of articles, photographs, experiment files, and graphs belonging to Scottish-American rubber chemist David Spence. The materials in this collection document Spence’s involvement in Intercontinental Rubber Company’s efforts in producing rubber from guayule during the 1920s and 1930s and the Guayule Rubber Project during World War II.

Dates: 1910-1951; Majority of material found within Bulk 1926-1946

John E. Mehren Chemical Industries Publications Collection

 Collection
Identifier: 2018-017
Abstract

A collection of chemical industry marketing materials and technical bulletins from 1932 to 1996 as collected and maintained by John E. Mehren on the behalf of the PM Chemical Company.

Dates: 1932-1992

Travis P. Hignett Collection of Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory Photographs

 Collection
Identifier: 2003-902
Abstract

Scrapbook and individual images from the United States Department of Agriculture (U.S.D.A.) Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory (F.N.R.L.) and other U.S.D.A. sites circa 1920s to 1950s.

Dates: 1920s-1950s; Majority of material found within 1926-1930