The National Agricultural Library houses a small collection of manuscripts inclusive of account books, broadsides, diaries, business records of private agriculturally related organizations, letters, personal papers, memoirs, photographs, reminiscences, record books and other historical items available in microform copy, the originals of which are located in other depositories.

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