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Warren Dean papers
Collection
Identifier: PP-024
Scope and Contents
The Warren Dean collection consists of photocopied reports, articles, reprints, correspondence, and a typescript relating to the botany, economy, and history of rubber-producing trees of Brazil, especially Hevea brasiliensis. An associated collection of journals, reports, and trade publications was removed and integrated into the collection of the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, a bibliography of which is included in the collection below.
Dates:
1932-1987
CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE -- Otto Degener records
Collection
Identifier: RG-04-07
Scope and Contents
The Otto Degener records consist entirely of correspondence ranging from his student years at the Massachusetts Agricultural College (now the University of Massachusetts at Amherst) in the late 1910's up to the time of his death in January 1988. There are no Degener field notebooks in the collections of the NYBG. In 1968, Dr. Degener began to deposit his papers with the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, beginning with his earliest correspondence from 1915. From 1973 on he began to...
Dates:
1920 - 1987
Bernard Ogilvie Dodge records
Collection
Identifier: RG-05-05
Scope and Contents
The Bernard Ogilvie Dodge collection consists of correspondence; research, business, and personal papers; manuscripts and typescripts; and graphic material such as photographs, diagrams, charts, lantern slides, and watercolor illustrations pertaining to his career at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1924-28), the NYBG (1928-47), and post-retirement work to 1957.
Dates:
1901-1959; Majority of material found within 1928-1957
Downtown Office records
Collection
Identifier: RG-02-02
Scope and Contents
The Downtown Office records consist of materials related to the fundraising activities of the Downtown Office following World War II, up to 1950. Since fundraising was the primary function of the office, most of the records focus on this activity, though the collection also includes general administrative materials.The records primarily document the work of Mildred Saffel, manager of the Downtown Office, with materials related to President Joseph R. Swan and Director William J....
Dates:
1943 - 1950; Majority of material found within 1944 - 1948
Kent Parsons Dumont records
Collection
Identifier: RG-04-08
Abstract
Collection consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, specices lists, research and determinations, legal documents regarding importation and copyrights, postcards, photographs, and specimens.
Dates:
1962-1983; Majority of material found within 1965-1980
Franklin Sumner Earle records
Collection
Identifier: RG-04-09
Scope and Contents
The Franklin Sumner Earle records consist of correspondence during the period of his work at the NYBG and immediately after (1901-1907). Watercolor illustrations of Caribbean fungi composed by Esther J. Skehan Earle (F. S. Earle’s wife) are part of the William A. Murrill collection (Series 6: Artwork) and are housed in the NYBG Art & Illustration collection. Field notebooks are located in the Collectors’ Field Notebook collection.
Dates:
circa 1896-1907; Majority of material found within 1901-1907
Thomas A. Edison papers
Collection
Identifier: PP-025
Scope and Contents
The collection documents the research of the Edison Botanical Corporation in its search for a natural rubber source native to the United States. It contains carbon copies of typewritten transcriptions of 46 of the 53 research notebooks and Experiments 974-1334 towards the invention of the Electric Lightbulb. These were transcribed by Mrs. Lillian Roth of Irvington N. J. in 1963 from the microfilmed versions located at Edison National Historic Site in W. Orange N. J. They were given to Harold...
Dates:
1880 - 1964; Majority of material found within 1927 - 1930
Job Bicknell Ellis papers
Collection
Identifier: PP-026
Scope and Contents
The Job Bicknell Ellis collection consists of correspondence, research papers, catalogues, a hand-sewn pouch of loose notes, and artwork which includes two volumes of watercolor illustrations as well as pen and ink and pencil sketches entitled Figures of North American Fungi, in slip-cased covers. Most of the material relates to the later part of his career (from c. 1880) of collecting and identifying fungi, with representative correspondence from a broad range of mycologists and botanists...
Dates:
1857 - 1903; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1903
Thomas H. Everett papers
Collection
Identifier: PP-027
Scope and Contents
The papers of T. H. Everett cover his entire career at the NYBG and include memorabilia from earlier years. The collection consists of biographical materials, lectures, articles, awards, resource materials, consultation projects, encyclopedia manuscripts, photographs, slides and negatives.
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Dates:
1913 - 1991
William Cashman Ferguson papers
Collection
Identifier: PP-028
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of the correspondence and research notes related to the accompanying manuscript entitled Contributions to the Flora of Long Island.
Dates:
1921-1930
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