New York Botanical Garden
Organization
Parallel Names
- N.Y.B.G.
- NYBG
- New York (N.Y.). Botanical Garden
Found in 36 Collections and/or Records:
Carlton B. Lees records
Collection
Identifier: RG-07-02
Abstract
Collection consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, memoranda, journals, financial reports, committee notes and minutes, conference materials, publications, lists, inventories, grants and proposals, personnel files, and exhibition literature.
Dates:
1970-1986; Majority of material found within 1973-1983
Eleanor Cross Marquand papers
Collection
Identifier: PP-043
Abstract
Collection consists of correspondence, lecture notes, and scrapbooks.
Dates:
1905-1934
Henry de la Montagne records
Collection
Identifier: RG-02-06
Scope and Contents
The Henry de la Montagne records primarily consist of correspondence related to fundraising, endowments, and routine internal operations of the Garden. The bulk of the collection pertains to the years when Montagne served as a volunteer administrator. The collection contains no personal or biographical information.These records represent only a small portion of Montagne's administrative files; at least an equal quantity can be found interfiled within the records of the directors...
Dates:
1926 - 1967; Majority of material found within 1937 - 1967
Charles M. Peters records
Collection
Identifier: RG-18-03
Scope and Contents
The Charles M. Peters records include administrative, research, and teaching materials documenting his work with the Institute of Economic Botany (now the Center for Plants, People, and Culture) at the New York Botanical Garden. Through correspondence, reports, field notes, articles, photographic slides, and audiovisual media, the collection documents his tropical ecology and forest management research in Central and South America and Southeast Asia, as well as his teaching career.
Dates:
1980 - 2018; Majority of material found within 1981 - 2010
Plant Records Accession Logs
Collection
Identifier: RG-07-04
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 176 handwritten accession log books maintained by the Plant Records office. These logs document the living plants added to the collections from the 1890s to the 1980s.
Dates:
1896 - 1989
Ghillean T. Prance records
Collection
Identifier: RG-04-23
Scope and Contents
The collection covers Dr. Prance's 25 year career at the New York Botanical Garden from 1963 to the time of his departure in 1988. The collection consists entirely of correspondence and field notebooks. Dr. Prance held several administrative positions throughout his career at the NYBG but much of this correspondence is not arranged to reflect these positions because it was processed in keeping with the arrangement in which it was found. Therefore, there are several specific series left as...
Dates:
1963-1988
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
Stanley G. Ranger papers
Collection
Identifier: PP-050
Scope and Contents
This collection is made up of largely incoming and outgoing correspondence concerning seed exchanges, orders, and maintenance of seeds, bulbs, general plants, and orchids for the New York Botanical Garden. Numerous countries are represented including South Africa, the United Kingdom, Australia, China, French and British Guiana, Fiji, Canada, Ecuador, and Kenya. Companies and institutions represented include colleges and universities, argicultural branches of government, and seed and bulb...
Dates:
1933-1944
Harold William Rickett records
Collection
Identifier: RG-12-01
Abstract
Collection consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, manuscripts, notes, administrative records including budgets, lists, promotional materials, development records, accounting materials, and supplies.
Dates:
1956-1976; Majority of material found within 1963-1973
William J. Robbins records
Collection
Identifier: RG-03-02
Scope and Contents
The William J. Robbins Records document Robbins' career as Director of NYBG from 1937-1958 as well as the history of the institution during this time period.
Dates:
1891 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1963
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Correspondence 22
- Fund raising -- New York (State) -- New York 9
- Black-and-white photographs 5
- Financial records 5
- Photographs 5
- Manuscripts (documents) 4
- World War, 1939-1945 4
- Minutes (administrative records) 3
- Scrapbooks 3
- Annual reports 2
- Arboretums -- New York (State) 2
- Audiocassettes 2
- Bayard Cutting Arboretum (Long Island, N.Y.) -- History 2
- Botanical gardens -- New York (State) 2
- Botany -- New York (State) 2
- Botany--Societies, etc. 2
- Budgets 2
- Flower shows -- New York (State) 2
- Horticulture -- Study and teaching 2
- Personal papers 2
- Plant collecting 2
- Slides (photographs) 2
- Accessions registers 1
- Acrocarpous mosses 1
- Administrative reports 1
- Albums (Books) 1
- Algae -- Caribbean Area 1
- Algae -- North America 1
- Algae, Fossil 1
- Algology -- North America 1
- Amapa Expedition (1961). 1
- Amenia (N.Y.) 1
- Animal rights 1
- Aquatic Plants 1
- Arboretums -- New York (N.Y.) 1
- Arboretums -- New York (State) -- Long Island 1
- Bibliographies 1
- Bogota (NJ). 1
- Booksellers and bookselling 1
- Botanical artists 1
- Botanical exploration -- Brazil 1
- Botanical exploration -- Brazil -- Brazilian Highlands (Brazil) 1
- Botanical exploration -- North America -- Photographs 1
- Botanical exploration -- Suriname -- Photographs 1
- Botanical exploration -- Venezuela 1
- Botanical exploration--Brazil--Amapa (State). 1
- Botanists’ spouses 1
- Botany -- Research 1
- Botany -- Research grants 1
- Botany -- Societies, etc. 1
- Botany -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Rhode Island 1
- Botany, Economic 1
- Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934. Flora Borinquena. 1
- Bronx (New York, N.Y.) 1
- Brosimum alicastrum 1
- Bryology 1
- Cactaceae -- Puerto Rico 1
- Cadastral maps 1
- Calamus 1
- Cassia (Genus) -- America -- Classification 1
- Cassia (Genus)--Identification. -- Identification 1
- Catalogs 1
- Catalogs (documents) 1
- Chestnut blight -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Clematis--Identification 1
- Clippings 1
- Color photography 1
- Coniferae -- Propagation 1
- Contracts 1
- Cos Cob (Conn.) 1
- Deer -- Control -- Hawaii 1
- Diaries 1
- Edwin deTurck Bechtel Rose Garden 1
- Endemic plants -- Hawaii 1
- Environmental protection -- Citizen participation 1
- Field notes 1
- Flora of North America North of Mexico. 1
- Forest Management -- Indonesia -- Kalimantan Barat 1
- Forest Management -- Mexico 1
- Forest Management -- Peru 1
- Forest Management -- Vietnam 1
- Gardening--New Jersey. 1
- Gardens--Design--United States. 1
- Geological Survey (U.S.) -- Geological Division. -- Survey of the Fortieth Parallel (1867-1881) -- Manuscripts 1
- Grant proposals 1
- Grias peruviana 1
- Halenia 1
- Hepaticae -- Caribbean Area 1
- Hepaticae -- North America 1
- Herbaria -- Data processing 1
- Horticulture 1
- Horticulture -- Bibliography -- Catalogs 1
- Horticulture -- New York (State) 1
- Horticulture -- New York (State) -- Long Island 1
- Horticulture -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Horticulture -- Societies, etc. 1
- Introduced organisms -- Hawaii 1
- Inventories 1
- Iridaceae 1
- Jamaica Plain (Boston, Mass.) 1 ∧ less
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