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Agricultural education.

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Cully A. Cobb Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-47
Scope and Contents The Cully A. Cobb papers consist of correspondence, reports, and other documents concerning the career and family of Cully A. Cobb. Series 1, Secretary of Agriculture Candidacy, consists of materials documenting Cobb’s candidacy for Secretary of Agriculture in 1932. It includes letters from, and copies of letters to, extension workers, experiment station personnel, college and university officials, agricultural associations and organizations, commercial manufacturers, and editors...
Dates: 1846 - 1973; Majority of material found within 1932 - 1970

Lois P. Dowdle "Mrs. Cully" Cobb Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-48
Scope and Contents The collection documents the life and career of Lois Pauline Dowdle (1889-1987), the wife of agricultural leader and publisher Cully A. Cobb.Series 1, Personal, 1915-1987, includes documents, many photocopies, related to Mrs. Cobb’s travel, interest in ‘The Parsonage’ families and their careers, social events, and church involvement (including a religious poem written and autographed by General William Brougher), along with biographical and memorial materials. Among the...
Dates: 1904 - 1987

Dean Colvard Presidential Papers

 Collection
Identifier: A1979-39
Dates: 1960 - 1966

Lyle Engnar Nelson Papers

 Collection
Identifier: MSS-784
Scope and Content

MSU Agronomy papers, diaries, legal documents, memoirs, and obituaries, belonging to Lyle Nelson, faculty of Mississippi State University in Agronomy from 1952 to 1986. The collection also includes travel logs and records from his time in the Philippines as well as publications by Dr. Nelson.

Dates: 1952 - 2016