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Speeches from conferences, task force reports, and twenty year plan.

Illustrations of various insect species (predominantly beetles, flies, and ants) drawn with the intention of being featured in the text "Insects in Kansas" by the Kansas Department of Agriculture. Illustrations not selected for publishing are specified and still included within the collection.

Faculty members from the Department of Entomology at Kansas State College (now Kansas State University) in Manhattan received support (ca. 1940-43) from a somewhat unusual source to complete a work of practical utility describing the region’s insect fauna. Their patron was none other than the Federal Art Project (FAP) of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) - the largest agencies of their kind that provided employment relief during the Great Depression under President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal policies. More than a dozen and a half regional artists were recruited and trained in the exacting techniques of scientific illustration, for which stringent standards of performance were uniformly applied. Through their efforts, more than a hundred pen-and-ink habitus drawings were prepared for the identification manual, Insects in Kansas (1943), published by the Kansas State Board of Agriculture.

Box contains various photographs of 4-H events including reunions, IFYE, conferences, club congress, 4-H roundup, Rural life camp, state fairs, and rock springs.

Photographs and descriptions of various Agricultural tools used in the process of farming. Some pictures and descriptions include Electric Motors, Motor Wagon, Electric Wiring. Along with photos about rural electrification there are also educational photos and descriptions about biological and agricultural engineering.

Bulletins and reprints (1891-1940), Department of Veterinary Medicine Agricultural Experiment Statistics Project Reports (1958-1964), faculty reprints (1961-1970), Report to the National Board Examination Committee on the Veterinary Medical Licensing Program (1982), student stress considerations data (1982-1984), College of Veterinary Medicine Admissions Committee and data (1982-1988).

Box contains documents pertaining to 4-H, the Adult Council, the Fair board, the Farm Service Agency, and community development. 4-H Documents include meeting minutes, guest books, member list, record books as well as historian and reporter notebooks. Fair board documents include correspondences to and from board members. Community development documents include correspondence from community coordinator Dale L. Ladd.

Photographs and descriptions of the various buildings that are used for farming whether that is storing crops that are harvested or the barns in which animals are stored during the farming and harvesting process.