J.A. Hill papers, 1910-1952
Table of Contents
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Hill, J.A. (John Arthur), 1880-1951
- Title
- J.A. Hill papers
- Dates
- 1910-1952 (inclusive)Date of CollectionDate of Collection
- Quantity
- 3.78 cubic ft. (9 boxes)
- Collection Number
- 400111
- Summary
- The collection includes the papers of John A. Hill, who was a dean of the University of Wyoming College of Agriculture. The collection also include documents relating to the University of Wyoming Wool Department.
- Repository
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American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu - Access Restrictions
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There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
- Languages
- English
Historical Note
John Arthur Hill (1880-1951) was dean of the University of Wyoming College of Agriculture. He arrived in Wyoming in 1901 and entered the University of Wyoming as a student in 1902. After graduating he joined the Wyoming Experiment Station staff as a wool specialist. He married Evelyn Corthell in 1911. Hill became dean of the College of Agriculture and director of the experiment station in 1923. He retired as dean in 1950.
Content Description
The J.A. Hill collection includes correspondence (1910-1927); charts, inventories, and other materials concerning wool and the University of Wyoming Wool Department; as well as printed material about sheep and wool. Also included are a pair of beaded moccasins and a slide rule.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Use
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Restrictions on Use
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Preferred Citation
Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
Administrative Information
Related Materials
There are no known other archival collections created by J.A. Hill at the date of processing.
Acquisition Information
This material was received from John A. Hill in 1948, Mrs. John A. Hill in 1952 and 1962, C. Leroy Johnson in 1977, and the University of Wyoming, College of Agriculture in 2022.
Processing Note
The collection was processed by Kayci Kruhmin in February 2023 and updated by Jamie J. Greene in June 2024.
Detailed Description of the Collection
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Biographies
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Description: J. M. Jones AutobiographyDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: John A. Hill BiographyDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Correspondence
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Description: CorrespondenceDates: 1910-1927Container: Box 2-6
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Description: Correspondence, IncompleteDates: 1914 -1922, UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Correspondence, No DateDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Western Union TelegramsDates: 1913-1922, undatedContainer: Box 1
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Instructions, Directions, and Formulas
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Description: Choroleum DirectionsDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Cooper's Fluid DirectionsDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Directions for Anchor Brand Line and Sulphur DipDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Directions for Cooper's Sheep Dipping PowderDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Directions for Poisoning CoyotesDates: 1917Container: Box 1
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Description: "Instructions to Wool and Mohair Growers Regarding Selection of Samples to be Scoured at the Wool and Mohair Scouring Plant" by L. M. MurphyDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Wool Scouring FormulaDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Zinoleum Number 1 DirectionsDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Miscellaneous
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Description: Advertisement for the Encyclopedia AmericanaDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Advisory Committee to the PresidentDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: "America Manufactures Appreciate Good Wool"Dates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: "American Chain of Prayer" by H. William Bason Cotton YarnsDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Application for a Set of Practical Forms of the Official Wool StandardsDates: 1923Container: Box 1
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Description: Application of Examination for Commission in the Officers Reserve CorpsDates: 1917Container: Box 1
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Description: A Bill for and Act to Appropriate Ten Thousand Dollars for the Construction of a Wool Scouring Plant at the University of WyomingDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Boston Wool Market QuotationsDates: 1917Container: Box 1
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Description: Card from the University of Missouri Acknowledging a LetterDates: 1915Container: Box 1
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Description: Check from the Country Gentleman, PhiladelphiaDates: 1915Container: Box 1
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Description: Civil Service ExaminationDates: 1916Container: Box 1
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Description: Coupon for Insurance Company of North AmericaDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Division Animal Industry, Texas Agriculture Experiment Station Blank ReportDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: "Endorsing Agricultural College Experiment Stations" by J. M . JonesDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Fuller Spiral Slide Rule and BoxDates: UndatedContainer: Box 7
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Description: Imports of Wool at Port of BostonDates: 1922Container: Box 1
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Description: Information Desired by the United States Tariff Commission Concerning the Sheep and Wool Growing IndustryDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Notice of Meeting for Wool Men from Various Agricultural CollegesDates: Circa 1915Container: Box 1
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Description: List of Different Wool Sample TypesDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: List of Home Demonstration AgentsDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: List of Men to see Professor J. A. HillDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: List of Wool included in Lincoln County Pool; to be Offered at Public SaleDates: 1922Container: Box 1
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Description: Minutes of Status of Freshman StudentsDates: 1923Container: Box 1
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Description: National Wool Growers Association - "Producing Palatable Lamb and Mutton"Dates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: "Offer to Consign"Dates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Pair of Beaded MoccasinsDates: 1910Container: Box 8
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Description: Philadelphia Wool and Textile Association Mission StatementDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Philadelphia Wool and Textile Association Production StatisticsDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Philadelphia Wool and Textile Association ResolutionDates: 1916Container: Box 1
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Description: Phosphate publicationsDates: 1938-1940Container: Box 9
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Description: Plans for Marketing Wool Co-OperativelyDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Poem about WoolDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: PublicationsDates: 1899-1970Container: Box 9
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Description: Questions and Answers Sent out by American Wool and Cotton ReporterDates: 1919Container: Box 1
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Description: Ratings of the United States Civil Service CommissionDates: 1917Container: Box 1
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Description: Resolutions Adopted by the Wyoming Wool Growers AssociationDates: 1918-1919Container: Box 1
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Description: Shipping InstructionsDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Special Mailing List of Wool BulletinsDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Suggestions for Building up Agricultural CollegeDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Suggestions for Contributors to Scientific ServiceDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Summary of Wool Stocks Held by Dealers and ManufacturersDates: 1922Container: Box 1
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Description: To All the Teachers in the University and Normal School Faculty: Will You Help Make English and All-University SubjectDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Tour Information, Northern Great PlainsDates: August 1939Container: Box 9
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Description: Transcript of the Record of Emma Grace ReaderDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: United States Department of Agriculture Bureau of Agricultural Economics - "Wool Notes"Dates: 1922Container: Box 1
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Description: United States Department of Agriculture State Relations Service - "List of Station Publications Received by the state Relations Service During October, 1922Dates: 1922Container: Box 1
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Description: "Wool Conditions Throughout the World Approach Prewar Basis" by George T. WillingmyreDates: 1922Container: Box 1
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Description: Wool Score CardsDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Wool Terms Used by American Wool TradeDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: The Wyoming Agricultural Experiment Station ProjectsDates: 1912Container: Box 1
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News Releases
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Description: "Agriculture as a Vocation" by J. A. HillDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Untitled Article Reporting on a Convention Attended by J.A. HillDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Untitled Article Reporting on Mr. W. T. Ritch, Australian Wool SpecialistDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Newspaper and Magazine Articles
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Description: The Breeder's Gazette - "Lamb Sheds and Shearing Plants"Dates: 1919Container: Box 1
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Description: Commercial Bulletin - "Gives Talk on Re-worked Wool"Dates: 1922Container: Box 1
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Description: Congressional Record - "Speech of Hon. Frank R. Gooding of Idaho"Dates: 1921Container: Box 1
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Description: Extract from the Daily Trade Record - "Wool Requirement in Excess of Supplies, Says London Statist"Dates: 1916Container: Box 1
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Description: The National Wool Grower - "American Territory Versus Australian" By S. B. Hollings, Bradford, EnglandDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Sample Copy of Marketing BulletinDates: 1922Container: Box 1
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Notes and Charts
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Description: Charts Pertaining to Weights and Prices of Sheep and WoolDates: 1920-1922, undatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Notes Pertaining to SheepDates: 1921-1922, UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Research notebook #28Dates: 1900Container: Box 1
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Pamphlets
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Description: College of Agriculture Extension Service - University of Arizona Record Volume X, No. 2, "Fifth Annual Farmers' and Housekeepers' Short Course"Dates: 1916Container: Box 1
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Description: n. a. Permutit Water Rectifucation Systems, The Permutit CompanyDates: 1920Container: Box 1
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Description: National Sheep and Wool Bureau of America - "Facts for Thought: United States Sheep Industry Essential to Well Being and Safety of the United States" by J. B. WilsonDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: The Permutit Company - "Reducing Fuel and Boiler Plant Operating Costs" by B. H. MillerDates: 1922Container: Box 1
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Description: Pyen, Gould, Guinness, LTD - "Annual Review", London and Lancashire Insurance Company LTDDates: 1921-1922Container: Box 1
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Description: Suffolk Sheep Society - Show and Sale ListDates: 1923Container: Box 1
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Photographs
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Description: Photograph of the 16th Company 166 Depot Brigade, Wild West DivisionDates: 1918Container: Box 1
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Postcards
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Description: Postcard from The Atlantic Monthly Co.Dates: 1914Container: Box 1
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Description: Postcard from The University of Cambridge School of AgricultureDates: 1915Container: Box 1
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Description: Postcard with Photograph of a Two Year Old Hamshire RamDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Postcard with Photograph of Casper, Wyoming, Petro RefineryDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Programs and Schedules
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Description: Government and University Wool Demonstration Car, February 11, 3 CopiesDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Program for the Wool Growers (for the next twenty years)Dates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Program Outlining Sheep and Wool Work for the University of WyomingDates: 1922Container: Box 1
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Description: Tentative Programme for Wool Marketing Conference, Johnson and Natrona Counties, WyomingDates: 1922Container: Box 1
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Description: Wool School at Worland, March 14-16Dates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Receipts and Invoices
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Description: Account Sales Costs and Appraisal Certificates from the Macintosh and Hitchcock CompanyDates: 1943-1945Container: Box 1
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Description: Account Sales Costs from the Colonial Wool CompanyDates: 1944-1946Container: Box 1
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Description: "An Interesting Bill"Dates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Inspector's Report to Burroughs Adding Machine CompanyDates: 1915Container: Box 1
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Description: Invoice to the University of Wyoming from Willm. Copper and Nephews CompanyDates: 1918Container: Box 1
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Description: Monthly Statement to the University of Wyoming from Brown and Sharpe Manufacturing CompanyDates: 1922Container: Box 1
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Description: Receipt from B. Hepworth and CompanyDates: 1919Container: Box 1
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Description: Receipts from the Denver Fire Clay Company for Laboratory Equipment and MaterialsDates: 1922Container: Box 1
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Reports
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Description: Cooperative Extension Work in Agriculture and Home Economics State of Wyoming - Field Report of Weighing DemonstrationsDates: 1922Container: Box 1
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Description: Extracts from Division of Sheep Annual Report, Department of Agriculture, Union of South Africa 1913-1914Dates: 1913-1914Container: Box 1
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Description: Incomplete Report on Wool SamplingDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: MiscellaneousDates: 1926-1950Container: Box 9
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Description: Report of Chicago Conference Called by the National Wool Warehouse and Storage CompanyDates: 1923Container: Box 1
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Description: Report of the Committee on Credit for Applied MusicDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Report of Wool Department for Quarter Ending December 31, 1922Dates: 1922Container: Box 1
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Description: Report of Wool Department for Quarter Ending March 31, 1922Dates: 1922Container: Box 1
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Description: Report of Wool Department for Year Ending June 30, 1920Dates: 1920Container: Box 1
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Description: Report of Wool Specialist for Month Ending July 20, 1911Dates: 1911Container: Box 1
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Description: Report of Wool Specialist for Month Ending June 30, 1912Dates: 1912Container: Box 1
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Description: Report of Wool Specialist for Month Ending May 20, 1911Dates: 1911Container: Box 1
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Description: Report of Wyoming Wool Growers AssociationDates: 1919, UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Report on Wool Samples sent by J. M. JonesDates: 1921Container: Box 1
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Description: "Reports on the Dry Process of Wool Scouring" by J. A. HillDates: 1919Container: Box 1
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Description: "The Sheep and Wool Conference at Washington D.C." by J. M. JonesDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Wool Stock Report, June 30, 1922Dates: 1922Container: Box 1
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Description: Wool Stock Report, September 30, 1922Dates: 1922Container: Box 1
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Wool Project Number 21
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Description: Preliminary Report of Wool Project Number 21, Volume 2 BinderDates: 1952Container: Box 6
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Description: Wool Project Number 21 DataDates: 1949Container: Box 6
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Wool Demonstration Car
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Description: Advertisement for Wool Demonstration CarDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Wool Car - Possible Schedule from Cheyenne NorthDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: "Wool Demonstration Car Begins Tour"Dates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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University of Wyoming, Wool Department
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Description: Inventory of Property in Laboratory of Wool DepartmentDates: 1920Container: Box 1
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Description: Inventory of Property in Office of Wool DepartmentDates: 1920Container: Box 1
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Description: Requisitions for Laboratory Equipment and MaterialsDates: 1922-1923, UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Shrinkage Test of Government WoolDates: 1921Container: Box 1
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Description: Statement of ProjectsDates: UndatedContainer: Box 1
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Description: Wool Department BudgetDates: 1922Container: Box 1
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Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Sheep -- Breeding -- Wyoming
- Sheep industry -- Wyoming
- Wool industry -- Wyoming
- Agriculture -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Wyoming
Corporate Names
- University of Wyoming. College of Agriculture
- University of Wyoming. Wool Department
- University of Wyoming. Wool Division
- University of Wyoming -- Faculty
Geographical Names
- Wyoming -- History -- 1890-1918
- Wyoming -- History -- 1919-1945
- Wyoming -- History -- 1946-1999
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