Institute of Economic Botany (New York Botanical Garden)
Organization
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Board of Trustees records
Collection
Identifier: RG-02-01
Scope and Contents
The Board of Trustees records consist of administrative files, minutes and supporting documentation for Board and committee meetings, Board member files, and material related to Board trips and retreats. Topics in this collection include Garden finances, design and construction projects, long-range planning, staff appointments, policy developments, departmental and committee reports, and general Garden updates. These records show the Garden’s growth and development, its relationships with...
Dates:
1891 - 2024
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
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
Ina Vandebroek records
Collection
Identifier: RG-18-04
Scope and Contents
The Ina Vandebroek records consist of correspondence, notes, questionnaire responses, and grant documentation related to her ethnobotanical and community health research. The collection also includes presentations delivered by Dr. Vandebroek at professional and community events; materials documenting her participation in conferences and symposia; and records concerning her work with the Institute of Economic Botany (now called the Center for Plants, People, and Culture) at the New York...
Dates:
2000 - 2019; Majority of material found within 2005 - 2009
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- Audiocassettes 3
- Correspondence 3
- Botany, Economic 2
- Field notes 2
- Optical disks 2
- Botanical exploration -- Brazil 1
- Botanical exploration -- Venezuela 1
- Brosimum alicastrum 1
- Calamus 1
- Caribbean Americans -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Color photography 1
- Dominican Americans -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Ethnobotany -- Dominican Republic 1
- Ethnobotany -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Financial records 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
- Fund raising -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Grias peruviana 1
- Herbaria -- Data processing 1
- Hispanic Americans -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Medical care -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Medicinal plants -- Dominican Republic 1
- Minutes (administrative records) 1
- Myrciaria dubia 1
- Plants -- Brazil 1
- Plants -- Venezuela 1
- Projeto Flora Amazônica -- Records and correspondence. 1
- Public health -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Slides (photographs) 1
- Spondias mombin 1
- Strategic planning -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Timber -- Brazil -- Pará (Brazil : State) 1
- Traditional medicine -- Dominican Republic 1
- Tropical plants -- Peru 1 ∧ less
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