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David Richards Collection on N.E. Hansen

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Collection Summary

Identifier

MA 49

Title

David Richards Collection on N.E. Hansen

Creator

David Richards: Collector; N.E. Hansen: Originator

Dates

1884-2000

Extent

1.89 linear feet (4 document cases, 1 small document case) photographs

Language

English

Repository

South Dakota State University Archives and Special Collections, Hilton M. Briggs Library, Brookings, South Dakota.

Access note

This collection is open to researchers without restrictions. The materials in the Archives do not circulate and may be used in-house only.

Preferred Citation

Name of item . David Richards Collection on N.E. Hansen. MA 49. South Dakota State University Archives and Special Collections, Hilton M. Briggs Library, Brookings, South Dakota.

Abstract

Richards was an admirer of Dr. Hansen and often stopped to visit him in his office. After Dr. Hansen's death in 1950, David asked for and received, permission to keep a few souvenirs and then dug through the trash filling several boxes with papers of historical value.

This collection is composed South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station bulletins, circulars and reports, manuscripts, correspondence, catalog descriptions, transplanting cards, research projects, and material related to the South Dakota Horticultural Society, collected Russian publications, seed catalogs, clippings and photographs.

Biographical Note

David Richards

David Richards grew up on a ranch on the Belle Fourche River about 20 east of Sturgis, South Dakota in the 1930's. He attended a one room rural school. In 1946, Richards enrolled at South Dakota State College and graduated in 1950.

During his career as a student at South Dakota State College, Richards worked on a research project with Ames, Iowa and the University of Minnesota to discover the best chemical to dwarf lawn grass. And during his senior years, he completed a research project on budding and grafting evergreens. He was on the Rifle Team, president on the Presbyterian Student group, and ROTC.

A rancher in Meade County, South Dakota, Richards has been active in the Meade County Farm Bureau for over 60 years, president of the Meade County Stockgrowers, and helped form Ag Unity. In 1958, Richards was presented with the Outstanding Young Farmer awards by the Sturgis Jaycees.

N.E. Hansen

Niels Ebbesen Hansen (1866-1950), a Danish-American horticulturist and botanist was a pioneer in plant breeding who came to South Dakota and became the first head of the Horticultural Department of South Dakota State College in 1895. He made it his life’s work to find and develop plants and fruits suited for growing on the Great Plains in hopes that they would help ease the hard life of those who chose to live in an area that was as arid as it was frigid. Hansen made eight trips overseas: one at the behest of his professor while he was still in college, three as an explorer for the federal government, two that were financed by the South Dakota Legislature, one to attend the International Congress of Horticulture and one at the invitation of the Soviet government.

Contents Note

Richards was an admirer of Dr. Hansen and often stopped to visit him in his office. After Dr. Hansen's death in 1950, David asked for and received, permission to keep a few souvenirs and then dug through the trash filling several boxes with papers of historical value.

This collection is composed writings for the South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station in the form of bulletins and circulars, manuscripts for articles and publications that include Hansen's notations and corrections, correspondence with friends, colleagues, and customers interested in ordering seeds or rootstocks. Also included are catalog descriptions of plants to be included in seed catalogs, transplanting cards on which researchers will find records of planting and transplanting of plant hybrids, and research projects and reports to the Agricultural Experiment Station and material related to the South Dakota Horticultural Society.

Some items of note are collected Russian publications, seed catalogs and Seeds and Plants Imported published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture which list the plants and seeds imported by Hansen. Researchers will also find some material related to Hansen's travels.

The publications and manuscripts by Hansen related to many different horticultural topics: apples, crabapples, apricots, cherries, currants, grapes, pears, plums, plums, roses, roses, alfalfa, trees, plant genetics and breeding.

Researchers will also find clippings related to Hansen and photographs.

Key Words

Hansen, N.E. (Niels Ebbesen), 1866-1950

Richards, David

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David Richards Collection on N.E. Hansen Container List. MA 49

Box Folder Description Date(s)
1 1 The 1924 Search for Hardy Pears (manuscript from a travel lecture) 1925
1 2 Almata Apple (catalog description) 1942
1 3 Annual Report of the Department of Horticulture, South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, N.E. Hansen, Professor of Horticulture 1936
1 4 Anoka Apple (catalog description) undated
1 5 Apricots Grafted on Plum Records 1937
1 6 Ata Crabapple (catalog description) 1945
1 7 Bark Ringing (manuscript) 1943
1 8 Better Fruits and Gardens for South Dakota (Letter to the South Dakota State Budget Board from the South Dakota State Horticultural Society, N.E Hansen, Secretary) 1922
1 9 Bismer Apple (catalog description) 1927
1 10 Breeding Hardy Apricots with Sweet Kernels (research project) 1936
1 11 Breeding Hardy Fruits (research project, manuscript) 1906
1 12 Breeding Hardy Strawberries (South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 103) N.E. Hansen, Charles Haralson 1907
1 13 The Breeding of Hardy Fruits [apples] (manuscript) undated
1 14 Breeding Hardy Ornamentals (manuscript) undated
1 15 Bulletins by Niels E. Hansen (list) undated
1 16 Caragana, The Great Hedge Plant for the Northwest (manuscript and publication) 1922
1 17 Carmel Apple (catalog description) 1919
1 18 Catalog of Wild American Crabapples and their Hybrids (manuscript) undated
1 19 Chance Apple (catalog description) 1919
1 20 Collected Russian publication - In Russian (Cyrillic) 1889-1937
1 21 Collected Russian Publications - How Russian is Solving Her Problems by Carl A. Hansen 1935
1 22 Collected Russian Publications - On Technology by J. Stalin 1932
1 23 Collected Russian Publications - The Russian Land Law 1919
1 24 Collected Russian Publications - Twenty-Five Years of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR by Academician A.A. Baikov American Russian Institute 1944
1 25 Collecting Hardy Pears Among the Hunghuitzi Bandits in Northwest Asia undated
1 26 Cooking Test of Frozen Wild Crabs [crabapple] (manuscript) undated
1 27 Co-operative Tests of Alfalfa from Siberia and European Russia (South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 141) N.E. Hansen 1913
1 28 Correspondence - Hansen undated
1 29 Correspondence - Hansen 1905-1910
1 30 Correspondence - Hansen 1914-1917
2 1 Correspondence - Hansen 1923-1924,1926
2 2 Correspondence - Hansen 1930-1939
2 3 Correspondence - Hansen 1941, 1944-1946, 1948, undated
2 4 Developing the Raspberries of Siberia (manuscript) undated
2 5 Eat and Apple Every Day (manuscript) undated
2 6 Elta Apple (catalog description) 1927
2 7 Evergreen for South Dakota (South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 102) N.E. Hansen 1907
2 8 Experiments in Plant Heredity (South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 237) N.E. Hansen 1929
2 9 Fifty Years Work as Agricultural Explorer and Plant Breeder (Transactions of the Iowa State Horticultural Society, Volume 79) 1944
2 10 Fifty Years Work with Thornless Roses (manuscript) undated
2 11 Floriculture, A Hobby (a radio talk prepared for NYA to be broadcast over WNAX, Yankton, SD) 1937
2 12 Fragrant Plums (manuscript) undated
2 13 Frost-evading Apples (manuscript) undated
2 14 Fruits, Old and New and Northern Plant Novelties (South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 309 1937
2 15 Fruit Stocks Where the Mercury Freezes (Report and Proceedings of the 9th International Horticultural Congress, London) 1930
2 16 Fruits and Ornamentals - Horticulture Tour SDSC 1942
2 17 Future of the American Wild Crabapple (manuscript) undated
2 18 The Genetics of Hardy Double Roses (research project) 1929
2 19 Getting the Blue Out of the Red [Roses] (manuscript) undated
2 20 The Hansen Bush Cherry (catalog description) undated
2 21 The Hansen Formula for Thornless Roses is Rosa blanda x Rosa alpina (manuscript) undated
2 22 Hansen with Alfalfa (photographs) undated
2 23 Hardiness Against Cold (manuscript) undated
2 24 Hardy Fruit List for South Dakota 1937
2 25 Hardy Grapes (catalog description) undated
2 26 Hardy Roses Already Introduced 1938
2 27 Hardy Roses for South Dakota (South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 240) 1929
2 28 Hansen Hybrids of Prunus besseyi (manuscript) undated
2 29 Heterosis or Hybrid Vigor in Animals and Plants (manuscript) undated
2 30 Hibkee Apple (catalog description) 1916
2 31 History of American and Russian Apples (manuscript) undated
2 32 Hopa Red-Flower Crabapple (catalog description) 1920
2 33 Horticulture Tour of South Dakota State College 1942
2 34 Hybrid Corn, Alfalfa, Fruits, Roses (manuscript) undated
2 35 Improvement of the Pear (manuscript) undated
2 36 Improving the Native American Crabapple (manuscript) undated
2 37 Indians Used the Wild Crabapples (manuscript) undated
2 38 International Apples (manuscript) undated
2 39 International or Three-Species Apples (manuscript) undated
2 40 Invoice cards 1921
2 41 K4425 Crab Apple 1918-1926
2 42 K5094 Crab Apple 1914-1932
2 43 K5237 Crab Apple 1919-1926
2 44 Kasha Apple (catalog description) 1945
2 45 Kazan Apple (catalog description) 1934
3 1 Large Trees of Harbin Pear (catalog description) undated
3 2 A Letter to the Soviet State Planning Commission, Leningrad (manuscript) 1933
3 3 Lina Apples (catalog description) 1933
3 4 List of Books on Social Engineering the will help in understanding the Psychology of Horticulture undated
3 5 Luther Burbank's Plant Contributions ; The Luther Burbank Society and Its Work ; By-Laws of the Luther Burbank Society 1945
3 6 Maga Apple (catalog description) 1922
3 7 Map of China and Adjacent Regions Showing Changli, Ichang, and Liaoyuan 1921
3 8 Map of Manitoba, Canada Showing Chief Habitat of Sand Cherry 1927
3 9 Michurin's Frost-resistant Trees for State and Collective Farms (manuscript) 1941
3 10 Mountain Ash as a Rootstock for Pears (manuscript) 1941
3 11 Natural Hybrids of Wild Crab and Apple (manuscript) undated
3 12 Nebo Apple (catalog description) 1940
3 13 New Hardy Fruits for the Northwest (South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 339) 1940
3 14 New or Rare Apples (catalog description) undated
3 15 Northern Plant Novelties (South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Pamphlet 29, 32, 34 1944-1946
3 16 Notes of Hardy Alfalfas (manuscript) 1909
3 17 Oacoma - A Delicious New Native Plum (manuscript) undated
3 18 The Ornamental Trees of South Dakota (South Dakota Agricultural Experimental Station Bulletin 260) 1931
3 19 Oxbo Apple (catalog description) 1922
3 20 Plant Introductions (South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 224) 1927
3 21 (1.) Plants for Dry Western Uplands (2.) Some New Hybrid Plants (publication) 1914
3 22 Plums in South Dakota (South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 93) 1905
3 23 The Predication of Winterkilling (manuscript) undated
3 24 Principle in the Breeding of the Apple, Pear, Plum, Bush Cherry and (Prunus Besseyi), Grape, Raspberry, (rubus), Gooseberry (ribes), and other fruits; also in the Breeding of Alfalfa and the Rose (manuscript) undated
3 25 Progress in Breeding Hardy Roses (manuscript) 1938
3 26 Progress in Plant Breeding 1. New Fruits: Plum, Sand Cherry, Crab Apple, Raspberry 2. A New Rose 3. Pears Immune to Blight 4. A Field Method of Hybridizing Alfalfa (South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 159) 1915
3 27 Progress with Golden Currants (manuscript) undated
3 28 Progress with Hardy Roses (article manuscript) undated
3 29 Prospects for Hardy Apricots and Other Fruits (for Annual Meeting, South Dakota State Horticultural Society) 1936
3 30 Question and Answers on Fruit Culture - Orchard Tree Fruits (manuscript) undated
3 31 Raspberries, Blackberries, and Dewberries (South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 104, N.E. Hansen, Charles Haralson) 1907
3 32 Red Apples with Red Flowers and Red Flesh (manuscripts) undated
3 33 Red Flesh Winter Apple (catalog description) 1946
3 34 Red Roses and Red Fleshed Apples (manuscript) 1943
3 35 Red Flesh Crabapples (catalog description) 1928
3 36 The Relative Value of Homozygous and Heterozygous Parents in the Breeding of the Apple, Plum, Cherry, Grape, and Other Fruits (Sonderabdrjckaus den Verandlungen des V. Internationalen Kongresses Für Vererbungswissenschaft Berlin 1927
3 37 Rhubarb Under Glass (Florists Exchange and Horticultural Trade Worlds) 1943
3 38 Root-grafts of Wild Crabapples (catalog description) undated
3 39 A Russian Cartoon [poem] (from Pasque Petals) by N.E. Hansen 1945 circa
3 40 Sasha Apple (catalog description) 1919
3 41 Seed Catalogs : 1884, 1902 1884, 1902
3 42 Seeds and Plants Imported No. 1-1000 (U.S. Department of Agriculture) undated
3 43 Seeds and Plants Imported No. 1001-1900 (U.S. Department of Agriculture) 1899
4 1 Seeds and Plants Imported No. 24430-25191 (U.S. Department of Agriculture) 1909
4 2 Seeds and Plants Imported No. 55814-56144 (U.S. Department of Agriculture) 1922
4 3 Seeds and Plants Imported No. 107748-110197 (U.S. Department of Agriculture) 1935
4 4 Semla Apple (catalog description) 1940
4 5 Sereda Apple (catalog description) 1916
4 6 The Shade, Windbreak, and Timber Trees of South Dakota (South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 246) 1930
4 7 A Siberian Crab with Smooth Basin (catalog description) undated
4 8 Siberian Crabapple Seedlings and Hybrids (manuscript) undated
4 9 Siberian Upland Alfalfa (manuscript) undated
4 10 Some Apples and Crabapples (manuscripts) : und undated
4 11 Some New Fruits (South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 130) 1907, 1911
4 12 Some New Fruits and Some New Alfalfas (publication) 1911
4 13 Some Sterile and Fertile Plant Hybrids (manuscript) 1925-1926
4 14 South Dakota Golden Apple (catalog description) 1944
4 15 A Study of Northwestern Apples (South Dakota State College Experiment Station Bulletin 76) 1902
4 16 Successful Hybrids of the Hansen Bush Cherry (manuscript) undated
4 17 Sugar Apple (catalog description) 1919
4 18 Taming the Wild Plum (manuscript) undated
4 19 Tender Plants note Made Hardy by Selection (manuscript) undated
4 20 The Tom Thumb Cherry undated
4 21 Topworking Apples on Hardy Stocks (manuscript) undated
4 22 Thornless Rose Understocks (manuscript) undated
4 23 Three Pax Roses (catalog description) undated
4 24 Tolmo Apple (catalog description) 1932
4 25 Tours - South Dakota (reports, expenses) 1913
4 26 Transplanting Alfalfa (South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 167) 1916
4 27 Transplanting Cards - Apple 1919
4 28 Transplanting Cards - Currants 1919
4 29 Transplanting Cards - Gooseberry 1919-1920, 1923
4 30 Transplanting Cards - Plums 1924
4 31 Transplanting Cards - Unknown Plants 1921
4 32 Transplanting Cards - Various Plants 1914-1915
4 33 Travel - Siberia 1913
4 34 Travel - United States 1933-1934
4 35 Turkestan Alfalfa (manuscript ) undated
4 36 Twenty-two Standard Apples Originated by Niels E. Hansen (list) undated
4 37 Untitled Manuscript undated
4 38 Vital Problems of Russian Horticulture (manuscript) 1940
4 39 Volga Apple (catalog description) 1933
4 40 Wakpala Apple (catalog description) 1928
4 41 The Western Sand Cherry (South Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station Bulletin 87) 1904
4 42 What is the Vitamin C Content in South Dakota Native Currants? (manuscript) undated
4 43 Winter Apples on the Prairies (manuscript) undated
4 44 Work with the Grapes ; Work with Roses ; White Sweet Clover, a Hardy Siberian Form for the North ; Proso Grain Millet (manuscript) undated
4 45 Work with Hardy Pears (manuscript) undated
4 46 The World-wide Quest of the Thornless Rose (manuscript) undated
4 47 Zaza Crabapple (catalog description) 1933
5 1 Articles and Clippings on Hansen 1915, 1942, 1950-1951, 1999-2000
5 2 Collected Russian Publications - Soviet Russia Today 1942
5 3 International Journals, Seed Catalogs (Danish, German) 1894-1939
5 4 The Land of Noah's Ark (manuscript) undated
5 5 Northern Plant Novelties for ... (Department of Horticulture, State College, N.E. Hansen) 1934, 1937-1939, 1941-1942
5 6 Program for Developing the Western Marginal Lands 1934
5 7 Report for the Horticulture Department (July 1, 1910-July 1, 1911 1911
5 8 Report for the Horticulture Department (July 1, 1911-July 1, 1912) 1912
5 9 Report of the Horticulture Department (July 1, 1916-June 30, 1917) 1917
5 10 Smaller Apple Trees Better for the Prairie (manuscript) undated
5 11 Some Sterile and Fertile Plant Hybrid (manuscript and Memoirs of the Horticultural Society of New York, Volume 3, pp. 229-232) 1927
5 12 South Dakota State Horticultural Society Annual Meetings (programs) 1921-1923, 1926
5 13 Travel - Possible Siberian Travel Notes (in Danish ?) undated

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This collection is open to researchers without restrictions. The materials in the Archives do not circulate and may be used in-house only.

Researchers conducting extensive research are asked to make an advance appointment to access archival material. Please call or e-mail prior to visiting the collection and indicate as much detail as possible about a particular topic and intended use.

South Dakota State University supports access to the materials, published and unpublished, in its collections. Nonetheless, access to some items may be restricted as a result of their fragile condition or by contractual agreements with donors.

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Copyright restrictions apply in different ways to different materials. Many of the documents and other historical materials in the Archives are in the public domain and may be reproduced and used in any way. There are other materials in the Archive carrying a copyright interest and must be used according to the provisions of Title 17 of the U.S. Code. The Archive issues a warning concerning copyright restrictions to every researcher who requests copies of documents. Although the copyright law is under constant redefinition in the courts, it is ultimately the responsibility of the researcher to properly use copyrighted material.

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Crystal J. Gamradt, 2013 September 9.