Plant Records Accession Logs
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
Creator
- New York Botanical Garden (Organization)
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
The Plant Records department at the New York Botanical Garden is responsible for accessioning, documenting, describing, and labeling all the plants in the Garden’s living collection. These collections include plants in the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory and the Nolen Greenhouses, as well as the trees, shrubs, and other herbaceous plants found throughout NYBG's 250 acres. Beginning as early as 1896 and up until 1994, plant accessions were recorded in handwritten notebooks, index cards, and hand-drawn maps. In 1994, NYBG began documenting its living collections electronically in a collections management database and GIS software.
Adapted from “Living Collections,” PlantTalk, May 8, 2019, by Kristine Paulus, Deanna F. Curtis, and Todd Forrest.
Extent
4.58 Linear Feet (11 document boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement
The collection is arranged based on the inventory created at the time of acquisition, with items generally organized in numerical order according to their accession numbers.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Plant Records Accession Logs were transferred to the New York Botanical Garden archives from the Plant Records Office in 2017.
Existence and Location of Copies
Portions of this collection are digitized and can be accessed on Mertz Digital.
General
Plant Records Accession Log 85, 71987-72966 was lost as of September 20, 1955.
Creator
- New York Botanical Garden (Organization)
- Title
- Plant Records Accession Logs
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Nicole Font
- Date
- November 2024
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Sponsor
- Processed by Nicole Font, Leon Levy Processing Archivist, in November 2024 with funding from the Shelby White and Leon Levy Foundation.
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