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Manuscripts (documents)

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Records of the American Iris Society

 Collection
Identifier: RA-002
Scope and Contents

This collection consists primarily of the correspondence files of Robert Swan Sturtevant, the first Secretary of the American Iris Society. Principal correspondents include John C. Wister and Harry H. Everett. Also included are minutes, bulletins, a scrapbook, and photographs of various members and specific Society events. There are loose seed catalogs devoted entirely to the Iris as well as an index of seed catalog pages created by a member of the AIS.

Dates: 1913-1934

Edwin DeTurck Bechtel papers

 Collection
Identifier: PP-008
Scope and Contents The Edwin DeTurck Bechtel papers document his activities as a renowned amateur rosarian. The bulk of the collection comprises the manuscripts and copies of articles, reviews and speeches he wrote during the 1950s.Louise Bechtel, his wife, compiled three scrapbooks. "The Pursuit of the Rose" is a collection of Bechtel's published speeches and articles which she prepared in 1963 for the library of the New York Botanical Garden; another scrapbook includes photographs from the...
Dates: 1930-1971; Majority of material found within 1950-1959