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New York Botanical Garden

 Organization

Parallel Names

  • N.Y.B.G.
  • NYBG
  • New York (N.Y.). Botanical Garden

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Caroline Kathryn Allen papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-002
Scope and Contents

The collection documents Dr. Allen's studies before her association with the New York Botanical Garden, including her studies at Missouri Botanical Garden and her early career at the Arnold Arboretum. It contains correspondence, curricula vitae, bibliographies, reprints and drawings with specimens attached. The collection is arranged into five series.

Dates: 1926 - 1957; Majority of material found within 1932-1948

Records of the American Iris Society

 Collection
Identifier: RA-002
Scope and Contents

This collection consists primarily of the correspondence files of Robert Swan Sturtevant, the first Secretary of the American Iris Society. Principal correspondents include John C. Wister and Harry H. Everett. Also included are minutes, bulletins, a scrapbook, and photographs of various members and specific Society events. There are loose seed catalogs devoted entirely to the Iris as well as an index of seed catalog pages created by a member of the AIS.

Dates: 1913-1934

Marjorie Anchel records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-05-01
Scope and Contents

The Anchel Collection covers her career as a Chemist at The New York Botanical Garden. No other material on her life or career is included.

The collection consists of six series. The records contain primarily correspondence and laboratory notebooks. Other series help to complete the picture of her research career.

Dates: 1931 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1960 - 1975

William Whitman Bailey papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-005
Scope and Contents

Collection of correspondence covering the period 1876- 1904, when Bailey was teaching botany at Brown University. A bound notebook, titled A Diary of a Journey in California and Nevada covering the period 1867-1868 when W. W. Bailey was Botanist of the United States Geological Exploration of the 40th Parallel has been removed from the collection and is cataloged as MSS 001.

Dates: 1865-1943; Majority of material found within 1876-1904

Records of the Bayard Cutting Arboretum

 Collection
Identifier: RA-003
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of records from the files of William Jacob Robbins, Director of the New York Botanical Garden from 1937-1958, and William Campbell Steere, Director from 1958-1977. Both were members of the Board of Trustees with the Bayard Cutting Arboretum.

Dates: 1936-1963

Edwin DeTurck Bechtel papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-008
Scope and Contents The Edwin DeTurck Bechtel papers document his activities as a renowned amateur rosarian. The bulk of the collection comprises the manuscripts and copies of articles, reviews and speeches he wrote during the 1950s.Louise Bechtel, his wife, compiled three scrapbooks. "The Pursuit of the Rose" is a collection of Bechtel's published speeches and articles which she prepared in 1963 for the library of the New York Botanical Garden; another scrapbook includes photographs from the...
Dates: 1930-1971; Majority of material found within 1950-1959

Harriet Barnes Pratt records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-02-05
Scope and Contents The Harriet Barnes Pratt records document the period from her election to the Board of Managers at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) in 1939 until her death in 1969. This collection does not contain personal or biographical information.The bulk of the materials consists of correspondence related to Pratt's involvement in fundraising and planning activities at NYBG. Topics include the post-World War II rebuilding of the Garden, construction of the Charles B. Harding Laboratory...
Dates: 1934 - 1969; Majority of material found within 1939 - 1969

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Correspondence 3
Black-and-white photographs 2
Manuscripts (documents) 2
Albums (Books) 1
Animal rights 1