Gladys Pomeroy Anderson papers
Scope and Contents
The Gladys Pomeroy Anderson collection documents Anderson's curatorship of the Lichen collection of the Sullivant Moss Society. It includes papers of Dr. C.C. Plitt and E.B. Chamberlain. Also documented is Anderson's botanical research and her career as an educator. The collection contains correspondence, notes, lists, index cards, lantern slides, and photographs. There is one tintype. The photographs appear to be divided between family photographs and photographs of sites and specimens. One group of photographs of trolley and train cars appears to be from Baltimore, Md., the home of Dr. C.C. Plitt. The lantern slides document an expedition through Maine. Three seed catalogs for Irises have been removed and are now in the Historic Seed Catalogs Collection. The collection is arranged into nine series.
Dates
- circa 1860-1992
- Majority of material found within 1934-1938
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for research with permission from Mertz Library staff.
Conditions Governing Use
Requests for permission to publish material from the collection should be submitted in writing to the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden.
Biographical / Historical
Gladys Pomeroy Anderson was curator of the lichen herbarium of the Sullivant Moss Society in 1934-1935. Under her care, it was placed with the New York Botanical Garden where it remains today. Marshall Howe made arrangements for the lichen herbarium to be housed in NYBG herbarium where it remains today. She was born in Newark, N.J. on May 16, 1888. She attended N.J. State Normal School, Columbia Teachers College and graduated from Columbia University with a B.S. in 1927. From 1917-1919 she was a special student and assistant in Botany at McGill University. She worked as a photomicrographer for the Canadian Forest Products Laboratory and several rubber companies. It is said that she was instrumental in creating the New Jersey part of the Appalachian Trail. In 1935 she contributed an article "Centraria Fahlunensis var. Frostii (Du Rietz) Zahlb., in New York State and in Pennsylvania" to the May-June issue of The Bryologist (vol. 38, no. 3) . She was the German translator for the Sullivant Moss Society, responsible for translating scientific articles into English. She was married to George Ernest Anderson in1913 and lived in Rahway, N.J. They had one son, George Ernest Anderson, Jr. who was living in Newark, DE in 1971.
Extent
1.9 Linear Feet (6 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The collection is organized into nine series:
- Series 1: Transmission Documents. 1967, 1992.
- Series 2: Correspondence. 1932-1937. Arranged alphabetically.
- Series 3: Botanical Organizations. 1916-1935. Arranged by subject.
- Series 4: Lichen Literature. Circa 1934. Arranged by subject.
- Series 5: Personal Files. 1935-1938. Arranged by subject.
- Series 6: Maps. 1915-1935. Arranged chronologically.
- Series 7: Photographs. Circa 1860-1940. Arranged by subject.
- Series 8: Lantern Slides. Undated. Arranged by number.
- Series 9: Negatives. Circa 1940. Arranged by subject.
Physical Location
Archives, The LuEsther T. Mertz Library, New York Botanical Garden.
Other Finding Aids
Please note that the legacy finding guide is outdated and may contain incorrect information.
Legacy finding guide
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Gladys P. Anderson Collection was donated to the New York Botanical Garden with her herbarium in 1958. Dr. Clark P. Rogerson picked it up and transported it to NYBG. Additional materials were added in 1971, donated by her son; and 1992 from the estate of Mary Fleming and transmitted to NYBG by Antonia Adejo of The Garden Conservancy, Cold Spring, N.Y. The collection was transferred to the Archives from the Bryological Herbarium.
Separated Materials
Negatives have been removed from this collection and placed in the library's film vault.
Processing Information
Originally processed by Laura Zelasnic, Project Archivist, January 2000, with grant funding from The National Endowment for the Humanities. (NEH-PA 23141-98). Converted into EAD, December 2005, by Kathleene Konkle under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) PA-50678-04.
- Feely, Muriel Bolte, 1920-2011
- Lichenes
- Musci
- Sullivant Moss Society -- History -- Sources
- Torrey, Raymond H.
Creator
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Laura Zelasnic
- Date
- January 2000
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Originally processed by Laura Zelasnic, Project Archivist, January 2000, with grant funding from The National Endowment for the Humanities. (NEH-PA 23141-98). Converted into EAD, December 2005, by Kathleene Konkle under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) PA-50678-04.
Revision Statements
- December 2005: Converted to EAD by Kathleene Konkle.
Repository Details
Part of the The Archives of the New York Botanical Garden Repository
New York Botanical Garden, Mertz Library
2900 Southern Boulevard
Bronx NY 10458 United States
ssinon@nybg.org