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National Agricultural Library Collections
Special Collections
Guide to the Collections
Special Collections houses a wealth of materials relating to all aspects of agricultural history, discovery, and advancement. The combination of over 15,000 rare books, 330 manuscript collections, original art work, posters, photographs, and nursery and seed trade catalogs makes Special Collections a premiere center for agricultural research. The materials are divided into manuscript collections, rare books, and nursery and seed catalogs.

4-H Poster from the Elsie Carper Collection Index to the Manuscript Collections
Search Special Collections' holdings of over 300 manuscript and archival collections containing materials from the 19th through the 21st centuries.
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Grapes from a Rare BookRare Book Collection
Special Collections' rare book collection is strong in botany, natural history, zoology, and entomology.
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Seed Catalog CoverHenry G. Gilbert Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection
Consists of over 200,000 American and foreign commercial catalogs and the collection is strongest from the 1890s to the present.
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Spotlights
Thomas Jefferson Letter Edward Fred Knipling Papers
Guide to the papers of Edward Fred Knipling (1909-2000). Knipling was a renowned entomologist and theorist best known as the inventor of the sterile insect technique (SIT), used to eradicate the screwworm insect.
Charles Valentine Riley Charles Valentine Riley Collection Screwworm LogoScrewworm Eradication Program Records
StrawberriesUSDA Pomological Watercolor Collection Man Working in a LaboratoryUSDA History Collection
Letter Written by Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson Correspondence Collection

Linnaeus's System of Botany by William Curtis National Agricultural Library Botany Collections

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