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New York Botanical Garden

 Organization

Parallel Names

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

Found in 35 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

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

Ernest L. Scott papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-055
Abstract

Contains black and white photographs; additional text is included on corresponding paper.

Dates: circa 1935-1965

Additional filters:

Subject
Correspondence 21
Fund raising -- New York (State) -- New York 9
Black-and-white photographs 5
Financial records 5
Photographs 5
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Manuscripts (documents) 4
World War, 1939-1945 4
Minutes (administrative records) 3
Scrapbooks 3
Annual reports 2
Arboretums -- New York (State) 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
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
Audiocassettes 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
Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934. Flora Borinquena. 1
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) 1
Bryology 1
Cactaceae -- Puerto Rico 1
Cadastral maps 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
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
Flora of North America North of Mexico. 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
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
Jari River Expedition (1961). 1
Ladies’ Border (New York, N.Y.) 1
Landlord and tenant -- Hawaii 1
Landscape Gardening--New York (State)--Dutchess County 1
Lantern slides 1
Lauraceae 1
Librarians -- Correspondence 1
Librarians -- United States -- Biography 1
Library buildings 1
Long Island State Park Commission 1
Marine algae -- Economic aspects 1
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