Joe Johnson was a statewide equine and swine specialist for Washington State University Cooperative Extension in the 1950s and 1960s. He was largely responsible for establishing the 4-H equine program in Washington, and was well known throughout the state for his horse training clinics.
This collection consists of reports and other materials related to Cooperative Extension, mainly at Washington State University, collected by Joe Johnson.
Preliminary inventory:
Binders: WSU-WFA Agricultural Conference, November 19-20, 1964.
Binder (unlabeled): plans (drawings) for farm structures.
Binders: WSU Farm Reporter, 1959-1965.
Binder: Rural shelter handbook (natural disasters, nuclear attack), Texas A and M, circa 1960s.
Binder: 1964 United States Census of Agriculture.
Bound volume: Stud Manager's Handbook (equine), Washington State University, 1961.
Stockman's guides by Ensminger, 1958-1959 and 1956-1957.
Collected reports (USDA and others).
Binder: Farm and Home Planning Reference Book, circa 1950s-1960s.
This is an unprocessed collection. Any arrangement reflects either a pre-existing order from the records' creators or previous custodians, or preliminary sorting performed by staff.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions may apply.
[Item description]
Preliminary Guide to the Joe Johnson Cooperative Extension Papers, 1956-1965 (MS.1985.18)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Washington State University Cooperative Extension transferred this collection to the Libraries in 1985 (MS.1985.18).
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