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Linear Feet: The collection occupies 6 linear feet of shelf space.

Abstract: This collection includes material used or gathered in the writing of a history of the University of Tennessee's College of Agriculture and Agricultural Experiment Station, written by Horace Smith, a professor of Agronomy at UT. It includes research materials, published materials, newsletters, Agricultural Extension Service Bulletins, photographs, slides, and newspaper and magazine articles.

Administrative Information

Statement of Provenance: This collection was donated to the University.

Copyright statement: Copyright © 2001. The University of Tennessee Libraries. All Rights Reserved. Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute these materials for educational, research, and not-for-profit purposes, without fee and without a signed licensing agreement, is hereby granted, provided that the above copyright notice and this paragraph appear in all copies, modifications, and distributions. For commercial license to use contact, University of Tennessee Libraries, Office of the Dean, Permissions, 1015 Volunteer Boulevard, Knoxville, TN 37996-1000.

Biographical Note: The College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources has been an established part of the University of Tennessee since it became a land-grant institution following the Civil War in the 1870s. Since then, it has founded the Agricultural Extension Service in Knoxville, TN, and branches across the state of Tennessee, hosted the East Tennessee Farmers Convention and 4-H clubs. The Institute of Agriculture at the University of Tennessee includes Dairy, Poultry, Animal Husbandry, Horticulture, Argonomy, Agricultural Machinery, and other related fields.

Scope and Content Note: This collection includes materials gathered in the preparation of a history of the Institute of Agriculture and Agricultural Experiment Station at the University of Tennessee. It was compiled in preparation for the bicentennial celebration of the University of Tennessee in 1994 by Dr. Horace Smith. Dr. Smith's death in 1994 delayed the final product until 1999, when the completed manuscript, Honored Calling: A History of the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, was published.
    Series I includes publications, including Agricultural Experiment Station bulletins from the late eighteen hundreds, containing articles such as "Weeds of the Farm," "The Chinch Bug," "A Chemical Study of the Cotton Plant," "Grasses of Tennessee, Part II," as well as Leaflets and Circulars from 1932-1957. There is also a publication on the UT-AEC Agricultural Research Laboratory at Oak Ridge, TN, from 1966 that outlines some of the radiation experiments being done on plants and animals.
    Series II includes research materials, including unpublished histories on the University and the Institute of Agriculture, newsletters, correspondence, articles, and various notes on the department's history.
    Series III includes digital and visual materials, including digital files of the college history on 5 1/2 inch and 3 1/2 inch floppy disks, and photographs. Photographs include students, faculty, the campus, experiments, farm scenes, and the East Tennessee Farmers Convention. There are also portraits of Harcourt Morgan, Charles Dabney, O. P. Temple, and various other agriculture faculty, as well as photographs including turn of the century agriculture students, the UT Farm, and UT buildings. There is a collection of older photographs used in the Farmer's Convention exhibit entitled "Century of Progress" in 1961. The slide collection includes slides from the mid to late twentieth century, including slides of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, campus, the UT Farm, and agricultural photographs from other states.
    Oversize materials include color and black and white drawings of Morrill Hall, oversize editions of the Tennessee Farmer and Homemaker from 1961, and an agricultural scrapbook, filled with primarily newspaper articles relevant to the Agricultural College and Experiment Station.

Arrangement: This collection has four series:

Series I: Publications
Series II: Research Materials
    Subseries a. Histories, unpublished
    Subseries b. Other materials
Series III: Audio-visual materials
    Subseries a. Digital
    Subseries b. Photographs
Series IV: Oversize

LCSH:
University of Tennessee, Knoxville
University of Tennessee, Knoxville--Institute of Agriculture

Series/Container List:

Series I: Publications

Box I:
Folder 1: W. F. Ranney, Production Capacity of Farms of Different Size Groups, Jefferson County, Tennessee. Rural Research Series Monograph No. 163, University of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, Knoxville, TN, 1944. (1 of 3)
Folder 2: W. F. Ranney, Production Capacity of Farms of Different Size Groups, Jefferson County, Tennessee. University of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, Knoxville, TN, 1944. (2 of 3)
Folder 3: W. F. Ranney, Production Capacity of Farms of Different Size Groups, Jefferson County, Tennessee. University of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station, Knoxville, TN, 1944. (3 of 3)
Folder 4: Haley Read, Partners with India: Building Agricultural Universities. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois, 1974.
Folder 5: Volunteer Leaders: A bicentennial directory of some notable alumni of the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 1794-1994
Folder 6: University of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin, vol. 1, no. 1-3, 1895.
Folder 7: University of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin, vol. 2, no. 1, 3-4, 1889.
Folder 8: University of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin, vol. 3, no. 2, 4, 6, 1890.
Folder 9: University of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin, vol. 4, no. 3, 5, 1891.
Folder 10: University of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin, vol. 7, no. 1, 1894.
Folder 11: University of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin, vol. 8, no. 4, 1895.
Folder 12: University of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin twelfth annual report, with Bulletins for vol. 12, no. 1-4, 1899.
Folder 13: University of Tennessee Agricultural Experiment Station Leaflets and Circulars, 1932-1957.
Folder 14: United States Department of Agriculture Bulletins, 1924-1938; Tennessee Department of Conservation, "Common Forest Trees of Tennessee: How to Know Them," 1938.
Folder 15: UT-AEC Agricultural Research Laboratory, Oak Ridge, TN, 1966.
Folder 16: UTAG Publications (Tennessee Farm and Home Science, Volunteer Dairyman), 1961-1971

Series II: Research Materials: Subseries a: Histories, unpublished

Folder 17: Chronology of the History of the College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, 1869-1993
Folder 18: History of Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, unfinished manuscript
Folder 19: History of Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, 1994.
Folder 20: History of Livestock Judging
Folder 21: History of Scholarships, College of Agricultural Sciences and Natural Resources, by Dr. John McDow, 1993.
Folder 22: A Brief History of Teaching at the Department of Ornamental Horticulture and Landscape Design, 1972-1990
Folder 23: "The Way It Was and Changes Wrought," no date.
Folder 24: UTAG histories, miscellaneous
Folder 25: US and UT Histories
Folder 26: History Insert-UTAG
Folder 27: History Insert II
Folder 28: History Insert III

Series II: Research Materials: Subseries b: Other materials

Box 2:
Folder 1: Agricultural Campus Buildings
Folder 2: Agricultural Educational Programs
Folder 3: Agricultural Institute News
Folder 4: Bicentennial Agricultural book project
Folder 5: Bicentennial publications
Folder 6: Biographical Articles
Folder 7: Departmental Newsletters
Folder 8: Faculty Remembrances and Notes
Folder 9: Graduates and Alumni
Folder 10: India Project
Folder 11: Inventions--McClung Museum
Folder 12: Land-Grant Centennial, 1962-1991
Folder 13: Morgan Hall's 75th Anniversary
Folder 14: Notes on Harcourt Morgan's Moosehead
Folder 15: NC State--Back Home with UT
Folder 16: Plant Science
Folder 17: Scholarships
Folder 18: Student Inquiries, 1930-32
Folder 19: Tennessee Extension Review
Folder 20: Tennessee Farmer, 1970
Folder 21: Third Tuesday
Folder 22: USDA Club Program Committee, 1953-1980
Folder 23: USDA Club Meeting notices, 1969-1978
Folder 24: USDA Club Directories, 1952-1963
Folder 25: Miscellaneous papers

Series III: Audio-visual materials: Subseries a: Digital Materials

Folder 26: College History
Item 1: Disk 1: College History, gifts, scholarships, preface, introduction, enrollment, misc. ASCII, 5 1/2 inch floppy disk; Horace Smith Disk 1. 3 1/2 inch floppy. With print index.
Item 2: Disk 2: College History, gifts, scholarships, preface, introduction, enrollment, misc. non-ASCII, 5 1/2 inch floppy disk; Horace Smith Disk 2. 3 1/2 inch floppy. With print index.
Item 3: Disk 3: College 1, ASCII, Depart. Histories, building, farms, library, student activities, honors, faculty honors, 5 1/2 inch floppy disk, ; Horace Smith Disk 3. 3 1/2 inch floppy. With print index.
Item 4: Disk 3: College 1, ASCII, 5 1/2 inch floppy disk, with print directory of files.
Item 5: Disk 4: Non-ASCII, Departmental Histories, building, farms, library, student activities, honors, faculty honors, 5 1/2 inch floppy disk; Horace Smith Disk 4. 3 1/2 inch floppy. With print index.

Series III: Audio-visual materials: Subseries b: Photographs

Box 3:
Folder 1: Agriculture Campus and UT Farm
Folder 2: Agriculture Classes, 1938-1948
Folder 3: Faculty Portraits
Folder 4: Student and Faculty Groups
Folder 5: Student Activity Pictures
Folder 6: Student Banquet, 1964
Folder 7: Chemistry Lab
Folder 8: Erosion Control, 1938-1946
Folder 9: Extension Conference, 1945-46
Folder 10: Farm Scenes
Folder 11: Farmer's Convention Exhibit photographs
Folder 12: Foam Backed photos, Agriculture Students
Folder 13: Foam Backed photos, Animal Husbandry
Folder 14: Foam Backed photos, 4-H club
Folder 15: Plant Science Building, prebuilding photos
Folder 16: Plant and Soil Science Experiments, 1932-1956
Folder 17: Seed Production Foundation Meeting, 1924
Folder 18: Soybeans
Folder 19: Miscellaneous photographs
Folder 20: Slides, no date (1 of 2)
Folder 21: Slides, no date (2 of 2)
Folder 22: Glass Plate: Ag. Building, Cornerstone Laying with Harcourt Morgan
Folder 23: Glass slides, unmounted, no date.
Folder 24: Negatives and Contact sheets

Series IV: Oversize

Box: 4:
Folder 1: Morgan Hall Art
Folder 2: Oversize photographs
Folder 3: Tennessee Farmer and Homemaker, 1961; National Geographic Map
Folder 4: Oversize UTAG History publications
Folder 5: Agriculture Scrapbook