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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
Otto and Isa Degener records
Collection
Identifier: RG-04-07
Scope and Contents
CONTENT WARNING: The Fritz Kuhle file includes government seals with swastikas, as well as references to racial purity and imprisonment in Berlin during World War II. Additionally, other parts of the collection – particularly Series 1 – contain outdated and derogatory language used to describe Asian and Pacific Islander communities.The Otto and Isa Degener records consist of correspondence, research materials, subject files, personal papers, and...
Dates:
1899 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1940 - 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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- Correspondence 32
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- Manuscripts (documents) 4
- Scrapbooks 4
- World War, 1939-1945 4
- Antibiotics -- Research. -- Research 3
- Audiocassettes 3
- Botanical gardens -- New York (State) 3
- Botany -- Study and teaching -- New York (N.Y.) 3
- Field notes 3
- Flower shows -- New York (State) 3
- Fungi -- North America 3
- Horticulture -- Societies, etc. 3
- Horticulture -- Study and teaching 3
- Minutes (administrative records) 3
- Plants -- Classification 3
- Plants -- New York (State) -- Long Island 3
- Administrative reports 2
- Arboretums -- New York (State) 2
- Ascomycetes 2
- Bayard Cutting Arboretum (Long Island, N.Y.) -- History 2
- Botanical exploration -- Venezuela 2
- Botanical exploration--Bolivia. 2
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- Botany, Economic 2
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- Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934. Flora Borinquena. 2
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- 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
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- Animal rights 1
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- Archbold Expedition to New Guinea 1
- Asclepiadaceae. 1
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- French 3
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- New York Botanical Garden 37
- Robbins, William Jacob, 1890-1978 9
- Irwin, Howard S. 8
- Maguire, Bassett, 1904-1991 7
- Merrill, Elmer D. (Elmer Drew), 1876-1956 6
- Steere, William Campbell, 1907-1989 6
- Britton, Nathaniel Lord, 1859-1934 5
- Eaton, Mary E. 5
- Harding, Charles B. 5
- Institute of Economic Botany (New York Botanical Garden) 5
- New York Botanical Garden. Herbarium 5
- New York Botanical Garden. Library 5
- Prance, Ghillean T., 1937- 5
- Montagne, Henry de la, 1888-1982 4
- New York Botanical Garden. Charles B. Harding Laboratory 4
- Barneby, Rupert C. 3
- Britton, Elizabeth Gertrude, 1858-1934 3
- Brown, Addison, 1830-1913 3
- Cary Arboretum 3
- Gleason, Henry A. (Henry Allan), 1882-1975 3
- Hollick, Charles Arthur, 1857-1933 3
- Howe, Marshall A. (Marshall Avery), 1867-1936 3
- Keck, David D. (David Daniels), 1903-1995 3
- Lees, Carlton B. 3
- Lorillard Snuff Mill (New York, N.Y.) 3
- MacDougal, Daniel Trembly, 1865-1958 3
- Moses, Robert, 1888-1981 3
- New York (N.Y.). Department of Parks and Recreation 3
- Samuels, Gary J. 3
- Seaver, Fred Jay, 1877-1970 3
- Sullivant Moss Society 3
- Torrey Botanical Club 3
- United States. Department of Agriculture 3
- Allen, Caroline Kathryn, 1904-1975 2
- American Institute of Biological Sciences 2
- Anderson, A. P. (Alexander Pierce) 2
- Becker, Herman F. (Herman Frederick), 1907-1985 2
- Brown, Dennis Albert, 1926-1978 2
- City University of New York 2
- Clemens, Mary Strong, 1873-1968 2
- Columbia University 2
- Dodge, Bernard O. (Bernard Ogilvie), 1872-1960 2
- Durand, Elias, 1794-1873 2
- Enid A. Haupt Conservatory 2
- Everett, Thomas H. 2
- Gray, Asa, 1810-1888 2
- Harper, R.A. (Robert Almer), 1862-1946 2
- Holmgren, Patricia K. 2
- Horne, Frances Worth, 1873-1967 2
- Horticultural Society of New York 2
- Hubbard, Thomas J. (Thomas Johnson), 1924-2017 2
- Lederberg, Joshua 2
- Lewis, Clarence McK. (Clarence McKenzie), 1876-1959 2
- Lowe, Josiah L. (Josiah Lincoln), 1905- 2
- Maxon, William R. (William Ralph), 1877-1948 2
- Mitten, William, 1819-1906 2
- Olive, Lindsay S. 2
- Raper, Kenneth B. (Kenneth Bryan), 1908-, 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
- Torrey Botanical Society 2
- Torrey, John, 1796-1873 2
- Wasson, R. Gordon (Robert Gordon), 1898- 2
- Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) 2
- Wood, Richard Dawson, 1918- 2
- Abess, Leonard, 1948- 1
- Albert Einstein College of Medicine 1
- Allen, Timothy Field, 1837-1902 1
- American Association of Botanical Gardens and Arboreta 1
- American Association of Museums 1
- American Fern Society 1
- American Horticultural Council. Commission on Nomenclature and Registration 1
- American Horticulture Society. 1
- American Iris Society 1
- American Society of Plant Taxonomists 1
- Anchel, Marjorie 1
- Anderson, Edgar, 1897- 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
- Austin, C. F. (Coe Finch), 1831-1880. 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, 1903-1989 1
- Beals, A. Tennyson (1870-1955) 1
- Bechtel, Edwin DeTurck, 1880-1957 1
- Bechtel, Louise Seaman, 1894-1985 1
- Bennett, Bradley C., 1956- 1 ∧ less
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