Agriculture -- Economic aspects.

Documents, publications, research and audiovisual materials relating to the academic career of Dr. Carmen Diana Deere. The collection includes materials related to her research in the field of women, gender and development, materials related to her LASA presidency, her doctoral research and materials written in collaboration with Colombian sociologist Magdalena León.

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.