History, Art and Biography: National Agricultural Library
 

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8. *History, Art and Biography: National Agricultural Library
http://riley.nal.usda.gov/nal_displa...=8&tax_level=1
&tax_subject=3

The National Agricultural Library is enormous, and its website has many
things to recommend it. *A great place to start on the site is the NAL
Collection, found at the top of the page. Visitors interested in the
food-themed posters from the two world wars that encouraged Americans to
plantVictory Gardens or to eat potatoes instead of wheat will enjoy the
"Beans are Bullets" and "Of Course I Can!" War-Era Food Posters exhibit.
*Not only will visitors find excellent examples of the posters, but the
curator, Cory
Bernat's, explanations provided for each type of poster, and the
differencesbetween the posters from each war are informative and
insightful.
*Clicking on Special Collection, visitors who like fruit will find the
USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection, which illustrated the new
varieties of fruits that were being bred in the mid-1800s.
*Watercolorists were hired to paint the fruit, since scientific
photography was not in use until the late 1800s. *Visitors can read the
biographies of the 13 USDA watercolorists and search, by fruit type, 300
digitized images, out of a collection of 7,700.
The fruits painted include peaches, citrus, apples, and grapes, and each
image includes the artist, where the fruit was grown, and the date of the
watercolor. [KMG]

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