Eleanor Cross Marquand papers

Eleanor Cross Marquand was born in New York in 1873. She was married to Professor Allan Marquand, the founder and chairman of the Department of Art and Archaeology at Princeton University. Mrs. Marquand was an authority on the representation and symbolism of flowers and trees in art, particularly of floral emblems in the early Christian church. For this she was recognized with an honorary Master of Arts Degree from Princeton in 1948. She was only the fourth woman in the university's history to be so honored. She was the first woman to serve on the Princeton Board of Education as well as being active in the Village Improvement Association. She also served on the board of the State Hospital in Trenton where the nurses home is named for her.

Marquand belonged to the New York Botanical Garden, the Garden Club of America, the Horticulture Society of New York and the Garden Club of Princeton. In addition to speaking on plant illustration and the pine barren vegetation, she wrote for the Garden Club of America Bulletin and the Journal of the New York Botanical Garden.

In 1950, her estate bequeathed Mrs. Marquand's botanical and horticulture library to the New York Botanical Garden. It consists of 408 volumes and a collection of notebooks, scrapbooks, photographs, seed and nursery catalogs, reprints, pamphlets, and periodicals.