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New York Botanical Garden Archives.

 Subject
Subject Source: Lcnaf

Found in 63 Collections and/or Records:

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

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

Winona H. Welch papers

 Collection
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

Harry Nichols Whitford papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-068
Scope and Contents

The Whitford papers include five bound books of student class notes from the University of Chicago; manuscripts of papers on tropical forest ecology and economics, primarily of Brazil, but including countries of Central America; and field notes from his research in the Philippines (20 vols.), Canada (2 vols.), and Central and South America (4 vols.).

Dates: 1900-1932

Llewelyn Williams papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-069
Scope and Contents The collection consists of correspondence, manuscripts and typescripts, research papers, personal papers, maps, travel memorabilia, audio tape recordings (dictaphone), film (16mm), artifacts, and photographic material which includes positive and negative prints, glass negatives, and color slides. A portion of the photography appears in scrapbooks and bound publications. The collection covers most of Dr. Williams' career including botanical research and fieldwork with the Chicago (Field)...
Dates: 1902-1974; bulk 1929-1968

Percy Wilson records

 Collection
Identifier: RG-04-33
Scope and Contents

The Percy Wilson collection consists of correspondence, field notebooks, and manuscript of A Provisional List of the Known Trees of Cuba pertaining to his work at the NYBG.

Dates: 1902-1940; Majority of material found within 1925-1940

William Wilson papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-070
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of correspondence covering the entirety of Wilson’s botanical career.

Dates: 1800-1869