Special Collections Department
403 Parks Library
Iowa State University
Ames, IA 50011-2140

MS 19
Fort Dodge Laboratories
Records, 1890-1951, undated


Descriptive summary

creator: Fort Dodge Laboratories
title: Records
dates: 1890-1951, undated
extent: 4.20 linear feet (10 document boxes)
collection number: MS 19
repository: Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

 

Administrative information

access: Open for research
publication rights: Consult Head, Special Collections Department
preferred citation: Fort Dodge Laboratories Records, MS 19, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

 

Historical note

Founded by Dr. D. E. Baughman in 1911 as the Ames Vaccine Company of Ames, Iowa, the facilities were moved to Fort Dodge, Iowa in 1912.  Renamed the Fort Dodge Serum Company it underwent another name change in 1932, becoming the Fort Dodge Laboratories. In 1945, the company was acquired by the pharmaceutical research corporation American Home Products and is now known as Fort Dodge Animal Health.

With its roots in the development of the anti hog cholera serum, the Fort Dodge Laboratories produces numerous veterinary medicine drugs primarily used in the treatment of farm livestock and household pets.

Fort Dodge has an impressive history of animal health “firsts,” including: the first canine Lyme disease vaccine, first genetically cloned feline leukemia vaccine, the first feline ringworm vaccine, and the first complete line of equine vaccines.

In 1995, Fort Dodge established its worldwide headquarters in Overland Park, Kansas, following the acquisition of the American Cyanamid Company and Syntex Animal Health. In 2002 American Home Products’ (FDAH’s parent corporation) name was changed to Wyeth.

In addition to the worldwide headquarters, Fort Dodge Animal Health had global biological facilities in Fort Dodge, Iowa; Charles City, Iowa; Campinas, Brazil; Sligo, Ireland; Weesp, Netherlands; Olot, Spain; Glenorie, Australia; and Penrith, Australia. Global pharmaceutical facilities are located in Fort Dodge, Iowa; Charles City, Iowa; Varela, Argentina; Olot, Spain; Catania, Italy; Bulsar, India; and Hsinchu, Taiwan until October 2009.

In 2009 Pfizer purchased Wyeth for $68 billion.  To address unfair trade concerns in several markets, Pfizer divested different parts of the FDAH product portfolio to different companies in different markets.  In the US, most of the canine, feline and bovine vaccines were acquired by Boehringer-Ingelheim Vetmedica Inc. (St. Joseph, Missouri), an operating unit of the privately owned Boehringer-Ingelheim company.  BIVI continues to operate at the original location site in Fort Dodge, Iowa.

 

Collection description

The Iowa State University collection represents primarily the work done on development of the manufacturing process for anti-hog cholera serum. H. J. Shore and Marion Dorset discovered anti-hog cholera serum around the turn of the century.

The correspondence in the Iowa State collection is that of H. J. Shores dating from 1918.

The collection also includes an index, which is broken down into four categories. The first section is an index to circular letters and Bureau of Animal Industry letters. At the extreme right is the subject heading, here you look up the topic you are interested in. Going across the page you will see a column labeled circular letters and Bureau of Animal Industry letters. Both these correspond with the number or date of the circular letter or the Bureau of Animal Industry letter which deals with the given topic.

The remaining three sections are merely correspondence, notices, etc. which were placed in this index.

 

Container list

Box

Folder

Title

Dates

1

1

Correspondence: Bureau of Animal Industry

1918-1919

1

2

Correspondence: Bureau of Animal Industry

1920

1

3

Correspondence: Bureau of Animal Industry

1921

1

4

Correspondence: Bureau of Animal Industry

1922

1

5

Correspondence: Bureau of Animal Industry

1923-1924

1

6

Correspondence: Bureau of Animal Industry

1925-1928

2

1

Correspondence: Bureau of Animal Industry

1933

2

2

Correspondence: Government Correspondence

1928-1935

2

3

Correspondence: Hog Cholera Virus

1929-1934

2

4

Correspondence: Anti Hog Cholera Serum

1922-1939

2

5

Circulars: Amendments to the Bureau of Animal Industry orders

1929

2

6

Circulars: Bulletins Issued to Virus Serum Controllers and others

1932

2

7

Circulars: Department of Agriculture (U.S.) Circular Letters.

1915-1941

3

1

Circulars: Department of Agriculture (U.S.) Monthly Notices

1927-1935

3

2

Circulars: Department of Agriculture (U.S.) Monthly Notices

1936-1945

3

3

Circulars: Instruction Sheets (Serum Preparation and Laboratory Technique)

1938-1940

3

4

Circulars: USDA Licenses Issued

 

3

5

Circulars: Report of Chief of Bureau of Animal Industry

1914-1930

3

6

Circulars: Report of Chief of Bureau of Animal Industry

1931-1941

3

7

Circulars: Report of Chief of Bureau of Animal Industry

1941-1947

4

1

Circulars: Report of Chief of Bureau of Animal Industry

1948-1951

4

2

Circulars: Report of the Secretary of Agriculture

1915-1917

4

3

Circulars: Report of Canadian Veterinary Director General

1913-1918

4

4

Circulars: U.S. Veterinary Licenses and Permits
Biologics Produced and Destroyed

1932,1936

4

5

Circulars: Miscellaneous Papers

1931-1934

4

6

Pamphlet Series: Anaplasmosis

1934

4

7

Pamphlet Series: Anemia

1929

4

8

Pamphlet Series: Anthelmintics

1920

4

9

Pamphlet Series: Avian

1938

4

10

Pamphlet Series: Avian

1934-1940

4

11

Pamphlet Series: Avian

1915-1941

5

1

Pamphlet Series: Avian

1920-1950

5

2

Pamphlet Series: Bacteria and Bacterins

1931

5

3

Pamphlet Series: Bacteriology

1911-1938

5

4

Pamphlet Series: Blood Serum

1923

5

5

Pamphlet Series: Bovine

1919-1935

5

6

Pamphlet Series: Bovine

1925-1948

5

7

Pamphlet Series: Bovine

1935-1941

6

1

Pamphlet Series: Bovine

1914-1943

6

2

Pamphlet Series: Canine

1913-1940

6

3

Pamphlet Series: Chick, Eggs etc.

1914-1930

6

4

Pamphlet Series: Clostridium Chauvei

undated

6

5

Pamphlet Series: Diptheroid Toxin

1932-1952

6

6

Pamphlet Series: Distemper

undated

6

7

Pamphlet Series: Drugs

1917-1934

6

8

Pamphlet Series: Equine

1909-1941

6

9

Pamphlet Series: Equine Encephalomyelitis

1913-1938

6

10

Pamphlet Series: Equine Encephalomyelitis

1931-1936

6

11

Pamphlet Series: Fox Encephalitis

1930-1934

6

12

Pamphlet Series: Fur Bearing Animal

1931

6

13

Pamphlet Series: Genetics

1934

7

1

Pamphlet Series: Hemmorhagia Septicema

1919-1934

7

2

Pamphlet Series: Hog Cholera

undated

7

3

Pamphlet Series: Homo Sapiens

1914-1943

7

4

Pamphlet Series: Homo Sapiens

1914-1943

7

5

Pamphlet Series: Insects

1914-1934

7

6

Pamphlet Series: Laboratory Animals

1914-1932

7

7

Pamphlet Series: Meat Inspection

1934

7

8

Pamphlet Series: Meningococci

1917-1930

7

9

Pamphlet Series: Nodular Worm Disease of Sheep

undated

7

10

Pamphlet Series: Opthalmia

1933

7

11

Pamphlet Series: Ovine

1925-1943

7

12

Pamphlet Series: Parasites

1911-1943

7

13

Pamphlet Series: Paratyphoid

1918-1934

8

1

Pamphlet Series: Phenothiazine

1940-1942

8

2

Pamphlet Series: Piroplasmosis

1931-1934

8

3

Pamphlet Series: Pneumococcus

1925-1935

8

4

Pamphlet Series: Poliomyeliti

1930

8

5

Pamphlet Series: Porcine

1914-1936

8

6

Pamphlet Series: Porcine

1914-1938

8

7

Pamphlet Series: Porcine

1909-1936

8

8

Pamphlet Series: Porcine

1913-1940

8

9

Pamphlet Series: Porcine

1917-1951

9

1

Pamphlet Series: Porcine

1890-1949

9

2

Pamphlet Series: Pregnancy, Semen, Spermatazoa

1933-1934

9

3

Pamphlet Series: Rabbits

1920

9

4

Pamphlet Series: Rabies

1930-1932

9

5

Pamphlet Series: Rats and Mice

1925-1949

9

6

Pamphlet Series: Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever

1931-1937

9

7

Pamphlet Series: Serum

1934

9

8

Pamphlet Series: Sulfa Drugs

1942

9

9

Pamphlet Series: Trichomonas Vaginalis and Foetus

1941

9

10

Pamphlet Series: Tuberculosis

1928-1935

9

11

Pamphlet Series: Typhoid Fever

1917-1932

9

12

Pamphlet Series: Vaccine Virus

1929-1930

9

13

Pamphlet Series: Water Purification

1931

9

14

Miscellaneous Papers: Selected Papers from the 12th
International Veterinary Congress

1934

9

15

Miscellaneous Papers: Announcements of the Department of Agriculture

1907-1941

10

1

Miscellaneous Papers: Announcements of the Department of Agriculture

1915-1946

10

2

Miscellaneous Papers: Legal Aspects of U. S. Department of Agriculture

1915-1940

10

3

Miscellaneous Papers: Index

1919-1948

10

4

Miscellaneous Papers: Baughman, Daniel - Biographical Information

1998-2010, undated