Jeannette Meehan Anderson collection on Thomas Meehan Bulk, 1985-1994 1890-1994

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Jeannette Meehan Anderson collection on Thomas Meehan Bulk, 1985-1994 1890-1994

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Thomas Meehan (1826-1901) was a horticulturalist and nursery owner in the Mount Airy section of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His nursery shipped plants across the globe, and his writings on horticulture influenced taste and design. The Jeannette Meehan Anderson collection on Thomas Meehan, 1890-1994, is comprised almost entirely of photocopies (primary source materials, contemporary articles on Meehan, and more recent scholarly articles). There are also drafts of articles by Anderson about Meehan, Anderson's correspondence about Meehan, Sotheby's appraisals of original Meehan papers and objects, and small number of original Thomas Meehan documents.

2.75 Linear feet

Germantown Historical Society

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Germantown Historical Society

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Bartram's Garden (Philadelphia, Pa.).

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Awbury Arboretum Association

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"In 1852, Henry Cope, a Philadelphia ship owner, bought forty acres of farm land in East Germantown near the home of his daughter and son-in-law, Mary Cope and John Smith Haines. At that time, Germantown--which was not yet part of the City of Philadelphia--was largely undeveloped and an ideal place for country living. A large house was built on the property as a summer home for Henry, his wife Rachel Reeve Cope, and their grown children and families. "Henry Cope named th...

Anderson, Jeannette Meehan

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Germantown horticulturalist and nursery owner Thomas Meehan's publications were widely known in the second half of the 19th century. English-born Meehan came to America in 1848 and for a time worked at Bartram's Garden in southwest Philadelphia. He lived in Franklinville (Mount Airy). He began his nursery with land in Ambler and Mount Airy in 1854, expanding it to 75 acres in 1868 with the purchase of the Jacob Hortter farm east of Chew Street. William Saunders, noted Scottish lands...

Meehan, Thomas, 1826-1901

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