New York Botanical Garden
Organization
Parallel Names
- N.Y.B.G.
- NYBG
- New York (N.Y.). Botanical Garden
Found in 15 Collections and/or Records:
Charles Barney Harding records
Collection
Identifier: RG-02-07
Scope and Contents
The Charles Barney Harding records contain material covering the period of Harding's tenure on the Board of Managers. While some records of note survive, most of Harding’s Garden-related documents were destroyed after his death. The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence and proposals concerning the formation of the Mary F. Cary Arboretum, the construction of the Charles B. Harding Laboratory, alterations to the Museum building, and the budgetary challenges faced by...
Dates:
1947 - 1978; Majority of material found within 1950 - 1978
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
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
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. The records are divided into nine series and are organized in the following four groups:
Correspondence, 1920-1980
Administrative Records, 1891-1980
Financial Records, 1930-1960
Education,...
Dates:
1891 - 1980; Majority of material found within 1930 - 1963
Additional filters:
- Subject
- Correspondence 10
- Fund raising -- New York (State) -- New York 7
- Financial records 4
- Manuscripts (documents) 4
- World War, 1939-1945 3
- Bayard Cutting Arboretum (Long Island, N.Y.) -- History 2
- Black-and-white photographs 2
- Botanical gardens -- Administration -- New York (State) -- New York 2
- Botany -- New York (State) 2
- Scrapbooks 2
- Accessions registers 1
- Acrocarpous mosses 1
- Administrative reports 1
- Albums (Books) 1
- Animal rights 1
- Arboretums -- New York (N.Y.) 1
- Arboretums -- New York (State) -- Long Island 1
- Botanical gardens -- Design and construction -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Botany -- Research 1
- Botany -- Societies, etc. 1
- Botany -- Study and teaching (Higher) -- Rhode Island 1
- Bryology 1
- Cadastral maps 1
- Catalogs (documents) 1
- Contracts 1
- Diaries 1
- Edwin deTurck Bechtel Rose Garden 1
- Geological Survey (U.S.) -- Geological Division. -- Survey of the Fortieth Parallel (1867-1881) -- Manuscripts 1
- Halenia 1
- Horticulture -- New York (State) -- Long Island 1
- Horticulture -- New York (State) -- New York 1
- Horticulture -- Societies, etc. 1
- Iridaceae 1
- Lauraceae 1
- Library buildings 1
- Long Island State Park Commission 1
- Memorandums 1
- Minutes (administrative records) 1
- Musci -- Caribbean Area 1
- Musci -- North America 1
- Musci -- West Indies 1
- Mycology -- Research 1
- Newspaper clippings 1
- Personal papers 1
- Photoengravings (prints) 1
- Photograph albums 1
- Photographs 1
- Plant collecting 1
- Plants -- Identification 1
- Pleurocarpous mosses 1
- Printing plates 1
- Rosa -- Culture 1
- Rosa -- Varieties 1
- Seeds -- Catalogs and collections -- North America 1
- Slides (photographs) 1
- Taraxacum 1
- Women botanists 1
- Women philanthropists 1 ∧ less
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