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By John Michael Foster
Collection Overview
Title: College of Agriculture, Department of Agronomy, records, 1879-2011
Primary Creator: College of Agriculture, Department of Agronomy (1882-)
Extent: 18.1 Cubic feet. More info below.
Arrangement: The Records are organized into a single series with items arranged chronologically by type of material.
Date Acquired: 02/20/2007
Subjects: Purdue University. Department of Agronomy
Forms of Material: Black-and-white photographs, Black-and-white slides, Color photographs, Color slides, Correspondence, Lantern slides, Negatives (photographic), Notebooks, Photograph albums, Reports
Languages: English
Abstract
Correspondence, field notebooks, photo albums, photographs, reports, slides, soil notebooks, and other materials documenting the history, administration, and activities of the College of Agriculture’s Department of Agronomy.
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The College of Agriculture, Department of Agronomy, Records (1879-2011; 18.1 cubic feet) includes an impressive collection of correspondence, field notebooks, photographs, reports, slides, and other materials.
Biographical Note
It is believed that the Department of Agronomy began around 1907, but curricula in agronomic subjects and crop experiments date as early as 1882, when Professor William O. Latta conducted experiments on corn, wheat, and oats. Today, the Agronomy Department regards Latta as Purdue’s “first agronomist.” Actual Agronomy courses first appeared in the 1905-1906 Purdue course catalog, and in 1908, Alfred T. Wiancko was appointed the first official head of the as the School of Agriculture’s Department of Agronomy. The department awarded its first masters of science degree in 1913 and its first PhD twenty-one years later. Agronomy awarded 1,375 graduate degrees by the end of 2005. Agronomy became a department within Purdue’s Agricultural Experiment Station in 1908.
Subject/Index Terms
Administrative Information
Repository:
Purdue University Libraries, Archives and Special Collections
Alternate Extent Statement:
3 c.f. boxes, 29 mss. boxes, 3 slide boxes, 2 lantern slide boxes, 5 photograph boxes, 2 flat boxes
Access Restrictions:
Collection is open for research.
Use Restrictions:
Purdue University
Physical Access Note:
Field notebooks, summary books, and lantern slides are fragile and should be handled with care.
Acquisition Source:
Darrel G. Schulze, Department of Agronomy; Kelly Delp, Department of Agronomy; William F. Trent; College of Agriculture
Acquisition Method:
Records transfer, Purdue University
Related Materials:
For more information please see https://ag.purdue.edu/agry/Pages/department_history.aspx.
Preferred Citation:
UA 14.04, College of Agriculture, Department of Agronomy, Records, Archives and Special Collections, Purdue University Libraries
Processing Information:
All materials are housed in acid-free folders and manuscript boxes.
Other URL:
http://collections.lib.purdue.edu/fa/pdf/ua1404_agronomy.pdf
Box and Folder Listing
Browse by Box:
[
Box 1: Field Notebooks, 1879-1902],
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Box 2: Field Notebooks, 1893-1907],
[
Box 3: Field Notebooks and Loose Field Notes, 1903-circa 1920],
[
Box 4: Field Notebooks, 1946-1960],
[Box 5: Summary Books and Reports, 1902-1939, 1981-1984],
[
Box 6: Magazines and Miscellaneous Materials, 1925, 2006-2011],
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All]
- Box 5: Summary Books and Reports, 1902-1939, 1981-1984
