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University of Michigan Faculty and Staff Portraits, ca. 1860-ca. 1960

Title: University of Michigan Faculty and Staff Portraits ca. 1860-ca. 1960

Portrait photographs of University of Michigan faculty, administrators and staff.

ArchivalResource: 4 linear ft.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-9263?rgn=main;view=text View

Steere, William Campbell, 1907-1989. William Campbell Steere records 1958-1988.

Title: William Campbell Steere records 1958-1988.

Collection documents Steere's research work and professional activities while employed by the New York Botanical Garden.

ArchivalResource: 21 boxes (20.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/47152350 View

Steere, William Campbell, 1907-1989. William Campbell Steere papers, 1938-1950, 1984.

Title: William Campbell Steere papers, 1938-1950, 1984.

Correspondence, diary, reports, and other papers chiefly concerning his activities with the U.S. Office of Economic Warfare in search of cinchona in Guatemala, Colombia, and Ecuador during World War II; also photographs.

ArchivalResource: .4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34419450 View

Records, 1939-1969.

Title: Records, 1939-1969.

Correspondence, 1939-1968, and subject files, 1944-1969, concern Pratt's involvement with the restoration of the NYBG's Snuff Mill, fund raising, and other issues. Correspondents include T.H. Everett, Charles Barney Harding, Henry de la Montagne, Francis Cormier, Robert Moses, William J. Robbins, William C. Steere, and Joseph Swan.

ArchivalResource: .8 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155483224 View

University of Michigan. News and Information Services. Faculty and Staff Files, 1944-2005 (bulk 1960-1995)

Title: News and Information Services (University of Michigan) Faculty and Staff Files: 1944-2005 (bulk 1960-1995)

The Faculty and Staff files contain biographical and background information created and collected by the University of Michigan News and Information Services. News and Information Services is the media relations office of the university. The files represent more than 6,000 individual faculty and staff members. Some files contain photographs.

ArchivalResource: 145 linear feet

https://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-2009097 View

William Campbell Steere records, 1927-1983.

Title: William Campbell Steere records, 1927-1983.

Records include correspondence, subject files, reports, printed material, minutes of staff meetings, 1973-1977, and speeches reflecting the administration of the NYBG, ca.1950-1972. Also included is Steere's correspondence as President of the American Association of Museums, 1968-1970, and Systematic Biology Collections questionnaires completed by systematic biologists, containing their responses to questions about their research and work conditions, 1968. Later records reflect Steere's tenure as President Emeritus and Senior Scientist. Organizations represented include Conference Board on Scientific and Technical Information, 1960's; Committee on Scientific and Technical Communication, 1960's; Council on Biological Sciences; Organization for Tropical Studies; Council of Biology Editors; and many others. Also included is correspondence from Steere's academic career at the University of Michigan Department of Botany, 1927-ca.1950; and at Stanford University Department of Biological Sciences, ca.1950-1958; and correspondence concerning Steere's biology textbooks, and some typescripts. Desk calendars, 1958-1983, and some personal correspondence are included.

ArchivalResource: ca. 75 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155483271 View

Records, 1936-1963.

Title: Records, 1936-1963.

Records are from the files of William Jacob Robbins and William Campbell Steere, who both served on the Board of Trustees of the Bayard Cutting Arboretum. They include minutes of the Board of Trustees, 1953-1963; contracts, 1937-1938; correspondence, 1936-1963; financial records, 1952-1963; and clippings, brochures, and maps.

ArchivalResource: .4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155462122 View

Albert Leroy Andrews correspondence, 1899-1964.

Title: Albert Leroy Andrews correspondence, 1899-1964.

Correspondence reflecting Andrews' expertise in the field of bryology includes inquiries from hobbyists and scholars for determinations of mosses and liverworts; requests by scientific journals for papers and critical analyses of published articles; questions from botanical agencies and societies, government departments, and major academic institutions around the world.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM03849.xml View

Andrews, Albert Le Roy, 1878-1964. Albert L. Andrews correspondence, 1899-1964.

Title: Albert L. Andrews correspondence, 1899-1964.

Correspondence reflecting Andrews' expertise in the field of bryology includes inquiries from hobbyists and scholars for determinations (identifications) of mosses and liverworts; requests by scientific journals for publishable papers and critical analyses of published articles (including The Bryologist, for which Andrews served as Associate Editor from 1938-1949, and the Revue Bryologique edited by Pierre Allorge); questions from botanical agencies and societies, government departments, and major academic institutions around the world. Correspondents include Lewis E. Anderson, John Hendley Barnhart, Hugo L. Blomquist, N.L. Britton, Stewart H. Burnham, Henry S. Conard, Howard A. Crum, W.G. Farlow, A.J. Grout, Leopold Loeske, William R. Maxon, C.L. Porter, Geneva Sayre (President of the American Bryological Society), William Campbell Steere, William Randolph Taylor, Roland Thaxter, C. Warnsdorf, Winona Welch, and numerous others.

ArchivalResource: 2.6 cubic ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63939251 View

Sayre, Geneva. Papers of Geneva Sayre, 1929-1994 (inclusive)

Title: Papers of Geneva Sayre, 1929-1994 (inclusive)

The papers of Geneva Sayre, n.d., 1929-1994 comprise approximately fifteen linear feet and document GS's research in bryology. The collection contains primarily correspondence, notes, manuscripts, drafts, memorabilia, grants, notebooks, and collection lists.

ArchivalResource: ca. 15 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/175317079 View

Steere, William Cambell, 1907-. [Selections]

Title: [Selections] 1921-1982.

ArchivalResource: 3 v. in 5 (140 items)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/12363899 View

Photographs, [ca. 1890-1940]

Title: Photographs, [ca. 1890-1940]

Miscellaneous photographs of plants, the museum building, the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory and other New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) buildings, unidentified botanists, postcards showing NYBG buildings and grounds, and individual and group portraits of NYBG staff and administrators, ca.1890's-1940's. Individuals pictured include Harriet Barnes Pratt, Charles Barney Harding, William Campbell Steere, Frances W. Horne, and Elizabeth Gertrude Knight Britton. Also included is a photo album, 1935-1940, which documents improvements and repairs made to NYBG buildings and grounds including the Bronx Park East stone wall; museum roof (a WPA project); reconstruction of the Conservatory, 1937; repair of the Bronx River path; control of Dutch elm disease; and flood damage, 1936.

ArchivalResource: ca. 3 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155463093 View

Farlow Reference Library collection of botanists papers, 1855-1946 (inclusive).

Title: Farlow Reference Library collection of botanists papers, 1855-1946 (inclusive).

Composite collection of papers of botanists, gathered by the Farlow Reference Library, Harvard University, from various sources. Each scientist's papers generally comprise a folder and typically include the following: letters, manuscripts for publication, Exsiccati and specimen lists, botanical drawings, photographs, and notes. Materials document the research of botanists affiliated with various private and governmental institutions both in the United States and Europe, of amateur cryptogamic botanists, and of illustrators. Included are the algae drawings of Charles Bullard and a card index created by Edward B. Chamberlain.

ArchivalResource: ca. 5 linear ft. (7 boxes).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122557083 View

Wiggins, Ira L. (Ira Loren), 1899-1987. Ira L. Wiggins papers, 1926-1985.

Title: Ira L. Wiggins papers, 1926-1985.

The bulk of the collection is professional correspondence. Wiggins maintained long-term contact with a number of prominent botanists and participated in many professional exchanges of information and specimens, often dealing with identification of certain flora. His field trips are described in great detail in this correspondence as well as in the various reports he wrote. There is correspondence on his work with the Belvedere Scientific Fund in Baja California and Stanford University correspondence relating to his administrative duties over the years. Also included are files relating to Wiggins' duties with the American Fern Society and the Arctic Institute of North America. Additional papers (added in 1983 and 1986) also include papers relating to Wiggin's work in Ecuador, 1944; notes from field trips to the Sonoran desert, 1926-37; and collected materials and drafts of biographies on A. W. C. T. Herre, Gilbert M. Smith, and Carl B. Wolf.

ArchivalResource: 9.25 linear feet.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122383558 View

William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century.

Title: William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century.

Journal reprints on evolutionary biology.

ArchivalResource:

http://rmc.library.cornell.edu/EAD/xml/dlxs/RMM06776-S.xml View

Cronquist, Arthur. Arthur Cronquist records 1939-1992.

Title: Arthur Cronquist records 1939-1992.

Collection documents Cronquist's scientific and teaching careers as well as his administrative work at NYBG. Artwork is found in the Art and Illustration Collection. Field notes are found in the Field Collector's Notebooks Collection.

ArchivalResource: 32 boxes (25.4 lin. ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/43351789 View

Alumni Association (University of Michigan), Individual Photographs, ca. 1880-ca. 1960s

Title: Alumni Association (University of Michigan),Individual Photographs ca. 1880-ca. 1960s

Photos of University of Michigan alumni, faculty and staff collected by the University Alumni Association.

ArchivalResource: 8 linear ft.

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-8730p?rgn=main;view=text View

Steere, William Campbell, 1907-1989. William Campbell Steere records, 1958-1988.

Title: William Campbell Steere records, 1958-1988.

Collection documents Steere's research work and professional activities while employed by the New York Botanical Garden.

ArchivalResource: 21 boxes (20.5 linear ft.)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155483677 View

Gleason, Henry A. (Henry Allan), 1882-1975. Reminiscences of Henry Allan Gleason : oral history, 1973.

Title: Reminiscences of Henry Allan Gleason : oral history, 1973.

ArchivalResource: Transcript: 129 leaves.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/122481401 View

Matthaei Botanical Gardens (University of Michigan) records, 1907-[ongoing], 1911-2002

Title: Matthaei Botanical Gardens (University of Michigan) records 1907-[ongoing] 1911-2002

Established in 1897, the Matthaei Botanical Gardens, with its mission to study and disseminate knowledge of plants as they exist in nature, serves as an educational resource for the university and local community. The records document the Gardens' various organizational, research, and community service activities.

ArchivalResource: 10 linear feet, 2 reels of microfilm, and 3 outsize volumes

http://quod.lib.umich.edu/b/bhlead/umich-bhl-8728?rgn=main;view=text View