2 collections related to Tree crops -- Research

The Ralph W. Cummings Papers document the personal and professional life of Ralph W. Cummings. The primary focus of the collection is Cummings' career as a professor, researcher and administrator working at North Carolina State University and with international organizations in the fields of soil science and agronomy. The collection also contains the personal papers and letters of Ralph Cummings and the Cummings family papers which include a number of land deeds and legal documents dating from 1840 until 2001 as well as the personal papers of extended family members. Ralph W. Cummings (1911-2001) was born in Reidsville, North Carolina. He was the head of the Department of Agronomy at North Carolina State University from 1942 until 1947. He held a number of administrative positions for the University over the scope of his career, as well as working in research and leadership positions for a number of national and international organizations concerned with world agriculture and agricultural education and research. Less