Louise Spieker Rankin papers, 1937-1952.

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Louise Spieker Rankin papers, 1937-1952.

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Thirty-eight letters (1937) from Rankin mainly to her mother concerning social life, household management, and travels to India where her husband, Everett H. Rankin (Cornell University Class of 1912), was a Standard Oil representative; a notebook of information she collected on Indian trees (1938); and her diary (1939-1943). Also, her unfinished biography of Liberty Hyde Bailey (319 page typescript) and a letter (1952) from Romeyn Berry, who comments on the completed portion, which deals with Bailey's life up until the time he came to Cornell.

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Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

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Rankin, Louise Spieker, 1897-1951.

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Author. From the description of Louise Spieker Rankin papers, 1937-1952. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 64072881 ...

Rankin, Everett H.

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Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954.

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Liberty Hyde Bailey was instrumental in separating Horticulture from Botany and establishing it as a distinct scientific pursuit. Born on a farm in Michigan in 1858, Liberty Hyde Bailey graduated from the Michigan Agricultural College with a degree in botany. After working with the renowned botanist Asa Gray at Harvard, he returned to Michigan to teach horticulture and landscape gardening. In 1888, he came to Cornell to build a new curriculum in practical and experimental horticulture. In 1904, ...

Berry, Romeyn, 1881-1957

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Columnist, author, lawyer, farmer. From the description of Romeyn Berry family papers, 1636-1960. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63934107 From the guide to the Romeyn Berry family papers, 1636-1960., (Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library) Columnist, lawyer, and graduate manager of athletics at Cornell University. From the description of Romeyn Berry papers,[ca. 1898-1956]. (Cornell University Library)...