AG. Agriculture, Horticulture, Citrus, Forestry, Animal Husbandry

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In 1881 Pliny Reasoner, just turned eighteen years of age, arrived in Manatee County, Florida, from his home in the Midwest. Over the next seven years, he built Royal Palm Nurseries, an enterprise that would become Florida’s longest established nursery business. This collection documents the founding and early history of Royal Palm Nurseries and contains a run of the nursery catalogs that provide information on early horticulture and the introduction of new plants to Florida.

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Florida sharecropping plantation account book of John W. Raymond, a Massachusetts native who owned a farm near Louise, Florida, in Alachua County.

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This collections contains packaging labels for citrus, lemons, and other products from approximately the 1930s to 1950s.

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Articles of incorporation, history, cashbooks/ledgers, video, and other documents related to the Standard Manufacturing Company. A fiber and brush factory that operated in Cedar Key from 1910 to 1952.

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Digital content captured from websites, social media sites, newspapers, and the University of Florida's Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS) about Florida farmworkers during the COVID-19 pandemic from 2020-2022.

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The Farmworkers collection contains photographs and publications about farmworkers in the United States, including migrant workers, and their struggle to fight for equitable and fair working conditions, including the unionization of farmworkers under labor and civil rights leaders such as César Chávez and Dolores Huerta.

Abstract The collection is a historical record of the Rural Women’s Health Project from its founding, 1991, to the present time this collection has been processed, July 1st 2024. The collection includes community developed posters, workshop and popular education materials as well as user guides related to health issues, health and social equity, family education, natural disaster preparedness and immigrants from North Central Florida. This collection offers a glimpse at community-based work and...

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Collection contains publications on biomass, waste management, and SEBAC (SEquential Batch Anaerobic Composting) written or co-written by David P. Chynoweth.

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Articles written by Becker along with related correspondence and notes, his research notebooks, and photographs depicting Becker's research and the dairy science program.

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Correspondence, reports, research materials and other papers of scientist George Kelso Davis.