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- catalog abstract "Collection consists of correspondence, papers, a sound recording, photographic slides, photographic prints, and ephemera, all relating to China and covering the years 1942 to 1944 when Dr. Dykstra worked in China, where he had been sent by the U.S. State Department, to introduce improved corn and potato varieties as a contribution to China’s war effort.".
- catalog alternative "Papers of Dr. Theodore Dykstra.".
- catalog contributor b13200685.
- catalog coverage "China Description and travel.".
- catalog date "1942".
- catalog description "Collection consists of correspondence, papers, a sound recording, photographic slides, photographic prints, and ephemera, all relating to China and covering the years 1942 to 1944 when Dr. Dykstra worked in China, where he had been sent by the U.S. State Department, to introduce improved corn and potato varieties as a contribution to China’s war effort.".
- catalog description "Finding aid available.".
- catalog description "Papers of Dr. Theodore Dykstra, Harvard-Yenching Library.".
- catalog description "Theodore Dykstra was born in Oldeboorn, The Netherlands, on Dec. 23, 1896. In 1914 he immigrated to Oregon. He obtained his B.A. degree from Oregon State College at Corvallis in 1923, and his M.A. (1926) and PhD (1938) from the University of Wisconsin. In 1926, Dykstra was employed by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture as a plant pathologist in Corvallis, Oregon. In 1935, he served as the U.S. delegate to the 6th International Botanical Congress, held in Amsterdam. Upon his return from Europe he transferred to the Main Experimental Station of the U.S. Department of Agriculture at Beltsville, Maryland. In September 1942, Dr. Dykstra, then an employee of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Division of Fruit and Vegetable Crops and Diseases, was detailed by the U.S. Secretary of State to “assist the Chinese Government in the breeding of better corn and potato varieties as a contribution to the Chinese war effort” (letter to Dykstra from the Asst. Secretary of State, September 14, 1946). Dykstra was dispatched to Chungking, China’s wartime capital. Dr. Dykstra took with him to China photographic equipment for recording the field conditions and the visual results of plant breeding. After the completion of his one-year appointment, Dykstra was reappointed for an additional year, finally leaving China in mid-1944. Upon his return from his mission in China, Dr. Dykstra went to The Netherlands with the [U.S.] Foreign Economic Administration (previously named Office of Economic Warfare), where he was responsible for the agricultural rehabilitation of Holland following the end of the Second World War. In 1946, he transferred to the Agricultural Extension Service at Louisiana State University at Baton Rouge, where he stayed until his retirement in 1966.".
- catalog extent "2.5 linear feet (2 boxes)".
- catalog issued "1942".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "China Description and travel.".
- catalog spatial "China.".
- catalog subject "Agriculture China.".
- catalog subject "Agriculturists China.".
- catalog subject "Dykstra, Theodore P., 1896-".
- catalog subject "Potatoes Breeding China.".
- catalog title "Papers of Dr. Theodore Dykstra.".
- catalog title "Papers. 1942-1944 (inclusive).".
- catalog type "collection".