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Charles Thom papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-060
Scope and Contents The Charles Thom collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts, research notes, an index card file of mycological literature, photographs, negatives, drawings, and personal papers. It covers his USDA career with the Bureau of Chemistry from 1913 to his retirement in 1942 and post-retirement years to 1953. The bulk of his correspondence falls during the period he was Head of the Division of Soil Microbiology from 1928 with a wide range of mycologists and microbiologists in academia,...
Dates: 1913-1955; Majority of material found within 1928-1953

Torrey Botanical Society records

 Collection
Identifier: RA-007
Abstract

Formats in the collection include copies of club publications, correspondence, ledgers, software, photographs, film, glass plate slides, and copper printing plates.

Dates: 1844-2013; Majority of material found within 1900-1999

John Torrey papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-061
Scope and Contents The collection largely consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence pertaining mostly to Torrey's work as a botanist and professor. Much of the scientific correspondence is in regard to identification of plants from the vast interior of the North American continent collected during government sponsored expeditions. Unrelated letters to and from other correspondents, some of which pre-date Torrey's birth, are also in the collection. It is unclear how Torrey came into possession of these...
Dates: 1768-1888; Majority of material found within 1806-1871

Carl A. Totemeier Jr. records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-07-03
Abstract

Collection consists of incoming and outgoing correspondence, telephone logs, reports, budgets, memoranda, brochures, catalogs, surveys, studies, architectural renderings, meeting minutes, inventories, photographs, and newspaper clippings. All materials pertain to the administrative functions of the Department of Horticulture.

Dates: 1971-1993; Majority of material found within 1985-1991

Percy Train papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-063
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of notebooks, research papers, index cards, and photographic material pertaining to plant specimen collection for Percy Train’s ethnobotanical research on medicinal uses of plants in aboriginal cultures of Nevada.

Dates: 1926-1940; bulk 1938-1940

Lucien Marcus Underwood papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-064
Scope and Contents

The Lucien Marcus Underwood collection consists of correspondence, research papers, manuscripts, lecture notes, and artwork covering the latter part of his botanical career, including that with the NYBG. The research papers include specimen catalogues and lists, some of which relate to the Underwood collection of the NYBG herbarium. Underwood’s field notebooks are separated from the present collection and are located in the Collectors’ Field Notebook collection.

Dates: 1882-1907

Anna Murray Vail papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-065
Scope and Contents

The Anna Murray Vail Papers document the botanical career of Ms. Vail, especially as it pertained to her research in the Asclepiadaceae and Leguminosae families. The collection contains some correspondence, research papers, manuscripts and field notebooks. The papers are arranged in three series.

Dates: 1891-1899

Peter Jacobus Van Melle papers

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Identifier: PP-066
Abstract

Collection contains handwritten notes and correspondence related to a variety of horticulture issues.

Dates: 1932; 1941; undated

Violet Niles Walker papers

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Identifier: PP-062
Abstract

Collection contains incoming and outgoing correspondence, black and white photographs, negatives, journal articles, and notes.

Dates: 1931-1945

Winona H. Welch papers

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Identifier: PP-067
Scope and Contents The Winona Welch Papers (1879-1987) documents Welch's Fontinalaceae and Hookeriaceae research and her career as curator of the Truman G. Yuncker Herbarium at DePauw University. Additionally it documents the transfer of the herbarium to NYBG in 1987 and the issue of Brittonia published as a Festschrift in Welch's honor. It contains photocopies, manuscripts, correspondence, postcards, notes, index cards, photographs, negatives, illustrations, slides. The collection is arranged into 15...
Dates: 1879-1997; Majority of material found within 1922-1987

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New York Botanical Garden Archives. 63
Correspondence 16
Fund raising -- New York (State) -- New York 9
New York Botanical Garden -- History -- Sources. 6
Financial records 5
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Manuscripts (documents) 4
Horticulture -- Societies, etc. 3
Minutes (administrative records) 3
Photographs 3
Scrapbooks 3
Torrey Botanical Club -- History -- Sources. 3
World War, 1939-1945 3
black and white photographs. 3
correspondence. 3
correspondence. aat. 3
photographs. 3
Administrative reports 2
Annual reports 2
Antibiotics -- Research. 2
Arboretums--New York (State). 2
Ascomycetes. 2
Bayard Cutting Arboretum (Long Island, N.Y.) -- History 2
Black-and-white photographs 2
Botanical exploration -- Brazil. 2
Botanical exploration -- Venezuela. 2
Botanical exploration--Bolivia. 2
Botanical gardens--New York (State). 2
Botany -- New York (State) 2
Botany--Societies, etc. 2
Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934. Flora Borinquena. 2
Bronx (New York, N.Y.) 2
Flower shows--New York (State). 2
Forests and forestry -- South America. 2
Fungi -- Growth. 2
Fungi -- North America -- Classification. 2
Gleason, Henry A. (Henry Allan), 1882-1975. -- Archives. 2
Horticulture -- United States 2
Howe, Marshall A. (Marshall Avery), 1867-1936--Archives. 2
Hypocreales. 2
Institute of Economic Botany (New York Botanical Garden) 2
Lauraceae 2
Metasequoia glyptostroboides. 2
Mycologia. 2
New York Botanical Garden--Archives. 2
New York Botanical Garden--History--Sources. 2
New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium -- Records and correspondence. 2
Pacaraima-Venezuela Expedition, Inc. 2
Paleobotanists 2
Pathogenic fungi. 2
Plant hormones. 2
Plants -- Classification 2
Plants -- Cuba. 2
Plants -- New York (State) -- Long Island. 2
Plants -- Philippines. 2
Plants -- Venezuela. 2
Psilocybe. 2
Women botanists 2
annual reports. aat. 2
budget. aat. 2
letters. correspondence. 2
Accessions registers 1
Achlya 1
Acrasiales. 1
Acrocarpous mosses 1
Actinomycetales 1
Agaricaceae--Florida. 1
Agaricaceae. 1
Agaricales 1
Agricultural inventions 1
Alaska -- Discovery and exploration -- Photographs. 1
Albums (Books) 1
Algae, Fossil. 1
Algae--Caribbean Area. 1
Algae--North America. 1
Algology--North America. 1
Amanita 1
Amanita muscaria -- Photographs 1
Amapa Expedition (1961). 1
Amenia (N.Y.) 1
American Horticulural Society. Lily Committee 1
American Philosophical Society -- History -- Sources. 1
Amorphophallus titanum -- Photographs -- Specimens 1
Andros Island (Bahamas) -- Maps 1
Angiospermae -- Classification 1
Angiospermae -- Evolution 1
Animal rights 1
Antibiotics -- Research 1
Aquatic Plants. 1
Arboretums -- New York (N.Y.) 1
Arboretums -- New York (State) -- Long Island 1
Archbold Expedition to New Guinea. 1
Asclepiadaceae. 1
Aspergillus -- Cultures and culture media. 1
Aspergillus -- Photographs. 1
Aspergillus. 1
Association for Tropical Biology -- Records and correspondence. 1
Astragalus 1
Audiocassettes 1
Austin, C. F. (Coe Finch), 1831-1880. Artificial key to genera of California hepaticae. 1
Austin, C. F. (Coe Finch), 1831-1880. Notes on Jungermannia crenuliformis. 1
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Spanish; Castilian 3
German 2
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New York Botanical Garden 19
New York Botanical Garden. 10
Irwin, Howard S. 7
Robbins, William Jacob, 1890-1978 6
Eaton, Mary E. 5
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New York Botanical Garden. Library 5
Steere, William Campbell, 1907-1989 5
Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934 4
Montagne, Henry de la, 1888-1982 4
New York Botanical Garden. Charles B. Harding Laboratory 4
Prance, Ghillean T., 1937- 4
Barneby, Rupert C. 3
Brown, Addison, 1830-1913 3
Harding, Charles B. 3
Lorillard Snuff Mill (New York, N.Y.) 3
Maguire, Bassett, 1904- 3
Maguire, Bassett, 1904-1991 3
Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956 3
Merrill, Elmer Drew, 1876-1956. 3
Moses, Robert, 1888-1981 3
New York (N.Y.). Department of Parks and Recreation 3
New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium 3
Robbins, William Jacob, 1890- 3
Samuels, Gary J. 3
Seaver, Fred Jay, 1877-1970. 3
Sullivant Moss Society 3
Allen, Caroline Kathryn, 1904-1975 2
Becker, Herman F. (Herman Frederick), 1907-1985 2
Cary Arboretum. 2
Clemens, Mary Strong, 1873-1968. 2
Columbia University 2
Dodge, Bernard Ogilvie, 1872-1960. 2
Durand, Elias, 1794-1873 2
Everett, Thomas H. 2
Gleason, Henry A. (Henry Allan), 1882-1975. 2
Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 2
Harper, Robert Almer, 1862-1946. 2
Hollick, Charles Arthur, 1857-1933 2
Holmgren, Patricia K. 2
Horne, Frances Worth, 1873-1967. 2
Keck, David D. 2
Lederberg, Joshua. 2
Lees, Carlton B. 2
Lewis, Clarence McK. (Clarence McKenzie), 1876-1959 2
Lowe, Josiah L. (Josiah Lincoln), 1905- 2
MacDougal, Daniel Trembly, 1865-1958 2
New York Botanical Garden--History--Sources. 2
Olive, Lindsay S. 2
Raper, Kenneth B. (Kenneth Bryan), 1908- 2
Rose, J. N. (Joseph Nelson), 1862-1928 2
Saffel, Mildred 2
Small, John Kunkel, 1869-1938. 2
Smith, Alexander Hanchett, 1904- 2
Steere, William Campbell, 1907-1989. 2
Wasson, R. Gordon (Robert Gordon), 1898- 2
Wood, Richard Dawson, 1918- 2
Abess, Leonard, 1948- 1
Allen, Timothy Field, 1837-1902 1
American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta 1
American Fern Society 1
American Horticultural Council. Commission on Nomenclature and Registration 1
American Institute of Biological Sciences 1
American Iris Society 1
American Society of Plant Taxonomists 1
Anchel, Marjorie 1
Anderson, A. P. (Alexander Pierce) 1
Anderson, A.P (Alexander Pierce). 1
Anderson, Gladys P. (Gladys Pomeroy), 1888- 1
Anderson, Jean F. (Jean Ferris), 1915-2009 1
Andrews, Albert Le Roy, 1878-1964 1
Arnold Arboretum 1
Asheshov, Igor Nicholas, 1891- 1
Bailey, Jacob Whitman, 1811-1857 1
Bailey, William Whitman, 1843-1914 1
Baldwin, Henry DeForest, 1931-1997 1
Baldwin, William, 1779-1819 1
Barksdale, Alma Whiffen, 1916-1981 1
Barnhart, John Hendley, 1871-1949. 1
Barr, Margaret E. 1
Bartram, Edwin B. (Edwin Bunting), 1878-1964. 1
Bass, Edward P., 1945- 1
Beadle, George Wells, 1903- 1
Beals, A. Tennyson (1870-1955) 1
Bechtel, Edwin DeTurck, 1880-1957 1
Bechtel, Louise Seaman, 1894-1985 1
Bennett, Bradley C., 1956- 1
Best, G. N. (George Newton), 1846-1926 1
Bigelow, Howard E. (Howard Elson), 1923-1987 1
Blake, S. F. (Sidney Fay), 1892-1959 1
Bonner, John Tyler. 1
Borin, John G., 1905-1993 1
Brewer, William Henry, 1828-1910 1
Brinley, John R. (John Rowlett), 1861-1946 1
Britton, Elizabeth Gertrude, 1858-1934 1
Brooklyn institute of arts and sciences. Museum. 1
Brown, Dennis Albert, 1926-1978 1
Brown, Dennis Albert, 1926-1978. 1
Bu'Lock, J. D. (John Desmond) 1
Buckley, S. B. (Samuel Botsford), 1809-1884 1
Buriticá, Pablo, 1943- 1
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