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Alfred Traverse (1925–2015) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0324
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of 13 boxes of materials including ephemera (including programs, circulars, meeting agendas, paper abstracts, and field trip guides) and manuscripts from societies and meetings Traverse was involved with, correspondence, biographical materials, and photographs.The collection is organized according to the date the materials were received. The collection was arranged into 4 series: societies and meetings; photographs; biographical materials; scientific...
Dates:
1948–2001
William Trelease (1857–1945) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0043
Scope and Contents
The letters in this collection relate mainly to Trelease’s determinations of Piperaceae, particularly Piper Linnaeus and Peperomia Ruiz & Pavon, and occasionally of Loranthaceae; a few relate to specimens of Cuscuta, sent to Yuncker through Trelease. There is also a group of letters (ca.1929) relating to a biographical memoir of John Merle Coulter, a book Trelease was writing for the...
Dates:
1893–1944
Emily Walcott Emmart Trueblood (1898–1984) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0102
Scope and Contents
This collection contains:1. Parchment certificate (Washington, 12 December 1953), handwritten and illustrated, stating that Corresponding Membership was conferred upon Emily Walcott Emmart by the Academic Council of the Academy of American Franciscan History “in recognition of her significant contribution to the study of American Franciscan History”2. Typescript letter signed (carbon copy, 29 January 1953) from Mrs. Charles Kingsley Trueblood to Mrs. Winthrop H. Battles,...
Dates:
1953-1974, n.d.
Ignatius Urban (1848–1931) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0049
Scope and Contents
This collection includes one pocket notebook (17 × 11cm) entitled "Itinera et vitae collectorum in Martii Flora Brasiliensis..." of 120 numbered pages with one additional page and one file folder of various sized pages of detailed notes to accompany the notebook. All is handwritten in German.
Dates:
ca.1882–1919, n.d.
George B. Van Schaack (1903–1983) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0116
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of George Booth Van Schaack's personal and professional papers from early adulthood until shortly before his death. The bulk of the collection is correspondence, both with his family and friends as well as with professional contacts throughout his research career. There are also article reprints, personal diaries, legal documents, and handwritten notes. Beyond the standard paper materials, there is also a box of various photographs and negatives and 2 card files. The...
Dates:
1918–1981
Egbert Hamilton Walker (1899–1991) correspondence
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0050
Dates:
1958–1976
Frederick Andrews Walpole (1861–1904) diaries
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0095
Scope and Contents
This collection contains three of Walpole's diaries. The first (March–April 1882) concerns Walpole's train trip from Illinois to California; a walk of 177 miles from Redding, California, to Jacksonville, California; his search for land in southern Oregon, culminating in the purchase of property near Medford; accounts (1883–1885) relating to supplies, farm wages, board and other expenses for this period; and plans for a house. The second diary (January 1900–December 1901) includes accounts...
Dates:
1882–1903
Marjorie Fleming Warner (ca.1871-1960) papers
Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: HIBDARC-122
Content Description
This collection consists of a published copy of A Treatise on Gardening: By a Citizen of Virginia, John Randolph, Jr., (1727–1784) (Richmond: Appeals Press for the William Parks Club, 1924) with several loose author's notes. In addition, there are published articles, almost all written or co-written by Warner, with handwritten notes by the author.
Dates:
1920–1959
Wight, William Franklin (1874–1954) manuscript
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-0149
Content Description
This collection contains Wight's unfinished handwritten manuscript of a flora of Alaska, which was never published.
Dates:
n.d.
Louis Otho Williams (1908–1991) papers
Collection
Identifier: HIBDARC-097
Content Description
This collection consists of Williams’s correspondence (1936–1954], ca.150 pieces) at the United Fruit Company’s Escuela Agrícola Panamericana at Zamorano near Tegucigalpa, Honduras, with Elmer Drew Merrill (1876–1956) at the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. These letters concern the following topics:Honduran specimens Williams sent Merrill as part of an exchange with the Arboretum.Development of the herbarium and scientific program at the Escuela, with references...
Dates:
1936–1973