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Milton Whitney

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English: Milton Whitney
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Portrait of Milton Whitney (1860-1927), Chief of the Division of Agricultural Soil (later alternately known as the Division of Soils and/or Bureau of Soils), a partner in the National Cooperative Soil Survey (NCSS). Established in 1896, the NCSS cooperatively investigates, inventories, documents, classifies, and interprets soils and disseminates, publishes, and promotes the use of information about the soils of the United States and its territories. As Chief, Whitney oversaw geography and chemistry-based surveys designed to understand, manage, conserve and sustain the nation's soil resources

Travis P. Hignett Collection of Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory Photographs, Science History Institute. Philadelphia.
Depicted people Depicted person: Milton Whitney
Date between circa 1910 and circa 1919
date QS:P571,+1910-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1910-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1919-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Medium Print, Photographic , Original, Negative
institution QS:P195,Q5090408
Object history Travis Hignett Collection. The images are from the United States Department of Agriculture (U.S.D.A.) Fixed Nitrogen Research Laboratory (F.N.R.L.) and date from the 1920s-1950s. Many of the images are mounted on scrapbook pages and were originally in scrapbook albums.
Credit line Gift of Travis Hignett, Science History Institute.
Notes Image downloaded with permission from the Science History Institute, as part of the Wikipedian in Residence initiative.
Source https://digital.sciencehistory.org/works/3484zh29n
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