Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania records 1933-2013

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Morris Arboretum of the University of Pennsylvania records 1933-2013

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The land that is now the Morris Arboretum at the University of Pennsylvania, the official Arboretum of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, was previously the private estate of Quaker siblings John Thompson Morris (1847-1915) and Lydia Thompson Morris (1849-1932). Bequeathed to the University of Pennsylvania in 1933, it was part of the University's Botany Department until, in 1975, it was established as a separate Interdisciplinary Resource Center. The Morris Arboretum at the University of Pennsylvania records, 1933-2013, include the office files of former directors, various administrative and financial records, correspondence, press clippings about the Arboretum, membership reports, programs and ephemera, publicity photographs.

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University of Pennsylvania. Morris Arboretum. Botany Dept.

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University of Pennsylvania. Morris Arboretum.

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The Morris Arboretum at the University of Pennsylvania is the official Arboretum of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was formerly owned by Quaker siblings John Thompson Morris (1847-1915) and Lydia Thompson Morris (1849-1932), who acquired the area through the purchase of two large estates and surrounding lands--Compton in 1887 and Bloomfield in 1913. When Lydia died in 1932, she left the gardens to the University of Pennsylvania as t...

Klein, William M.

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Skinner, Henry T. (Henry Thomas), 1907-1984

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Botanist, director of the National Arboretum. From the description of Papers of Henry T. Skinner [manuscript], 1932-1984. (University of Virginia). WorldCat record id: 647808164 ...

Fogg, John M. (John Milton), 1898-1982

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Dr. John Milton Fogg, Jr., was a botanist, University of Pennsylvania professor, Dean, and Vice Provost, director of the Morris Arboretum, instructor at the Arboretum School of the Barnes Foundation, and director of the Barnes Foundation Arboretum. From the description of John Milton Fogg Papers, 1931-1982. (The Barnes Foundation). WorldCat record id: 704650574 ...

Schramm, Jacob R. (Jacob Richard), 1885-

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The botanist Frank Shipley Collins (1848-1920) was an authority on American algae. He spent his life in Massachusetts where he worked for the Malden Rubber Shoe Company for over three decades. Despite the fact that Collins’ formal education never extended beyond high school, he became a noted phycologist with a particular interest in New England algae. He is generally considered the foremost American algologist of his time. Frank Shipley Collins was born in 1848 in Bosto...