This collection contains the personal and professional papers of Professor Emil Truog which
document his work for the Soil Science Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Truog was involved with a number of professional and scientific organizations as well as
having relationships with industrial concerns in the areas of his study. His papers contain
correspondence documents from his field work, manuscripts, publications, photographs,
scrapbooks, and speeches. The correspondence in this collection documents Truog's work as a
teacher, administrator, and researcher as well as his relationships to various scholarly and
scientific organizations. His scrapbooks document his life and activities in Madison as well
as those of his students.