urn:taro:ttu.ua.00075 Agronomy Department: An Inventory of the Its Scrapbook, 1936-1958, at the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Lynn Whitfield The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library
The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Texas Tech University MS 41041 Lubbock, Texas 79409 Phone: (806)-742-3749 Fax: (806)-742-0496 Webpage: http://swco.ttu.edu/ Contact Person: Reference Archivist
November 1, 2000 Text converted and initial EAD tagging provided by Apex Data Services, February 2001. Finding aid written in English. Tue Jul 22 14:48:18 CDT 2003 urn:taro:ttu.ua.00075 converted from EAD 1.0 to 2002 by v1to02.xsl (20030505). Inventory for the Agronomy Department Scrapbook, 1936-1958 Lynn Whitfield The Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, November 1, 2000 Descriptive Summary Texas Technological College. Dept. of Agronomy Agronomy Department, Scrapbook, 1936-1958 The scrapbook pertains to the establishment and history of Texas Technological College's Plant Industry Club from 1936-1958. U 13.1 Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University 1 scrapbook (1.0 linear foot) English. Biographical Sketch

Founded during the 1936 spring semester, the Plant Industry Club was established in order to stimulate leadership and scholarship in the students of the Plant Industry department at Texas Tech University. Nineteen students became the charter members and elected Rex Johnson as their president. Activities included Tech's first apple judging team, selling roses for the first Flower Tag Day, and sponsoring a flower judging team and a grain judging team.

 Scope and Content

Donated by Dr. Chester Jaynes, the leather bound scrapbook concerns the establishment and the history of the Plant Industry Club at Texas Technological College from 1936-1958. Also included is the organization's constitution and meeting minutes.

 Index Terms

The subject headings used by the Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library are derived from the Library of Congress and/or locally developed.

Subjects (Organizations) Plant Industry Club (Texas Technological College) Texas Technological College. Dept. of Agronomy Subjects Agriculture Agronomy Agronomy--Texas--Societies, etc. Agronomy--Texas, West--Societies, etc., Scrapbooks Acquisition

Gift, 1975

 Access Restrictions

Open for research

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Lynn Whitfield, November 1, 2000

Agronomy Department Scrapbook, 1936-1958, Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas

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