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Faurot Hall, circa 1905

Fruit Experiment Station Archives

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The Fruit Experiment Station Archives consists of business and general correspondence, plot records, fruit planting and breeding records, working douments, machinery and book catalogs, labor records, ledgers, manuscripts, ephemera, photographs, film negatives, glass plate negatives, maps, blueprints, and other documents that can be associtated with 100-plus years of history of a fruit experiment station.

The archives are stored at the Fruit Experiment Station, also known as the Missouri State University - Mountain Grove Campus; most are housed in the Paul Evans Library of Fruit Science and are managed by the librarian.

The librarian and staff are slowly sorting through and indexing the contents of the archives, readying them for research access. As the contents of the boxes becomes known, a box list, or finding aid, is created. The staff hope that in the future these finding aids will be converted to webpages for all to browse.

Also, special items that have been either digitized or transcribed into HTML code will be linked from this site.

Digitization projects:

  • A Fruitful Heritage: Images of the Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station

    Station Histories:

  • Outline of the History of the Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station - Compiled by Director James Moore September, 2004
  • The Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station, Written Jan. 21, 1955, by Director Paul Shepard
  • Centennial of the State Fruit Experiment Station by Marilyn Odneal

    Special items from the Archives:

  • Publications of the Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station - This includes the Bulletins, Circulars, Mimeograph Series (MS), Miscellaneous Publications, MP series, Fruit News Notes published through the Station's history.

    Finding Aids:
    (forthcoming)

    Related Historic Sites:

  • Missouri State Fruit Experiment Station Historical References
  • Historic Faurot Hall (with a link to it's site on the National Register of Historic Places)

    Paul Evans Library of Fruit Science - University Archives - Missouri State University
    Missouri State University - Mountain Grove Campus
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