L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine) Langstroth papers, 1852-1895 1852-1895

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L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine) Langstroth papers, 1852-1895 1852-1895

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Principally on bees and bee-keeping, especially correspondence and official documentation relating to Langstroth's efforts to win legal recognition of his invention of the movable-frame beehive. There are also fragments of an autobiography, newspaper clippings and pamphlets. Correspondents include editors of bee journals, and manufacturers and suppliers of materials for apiaries, as well as other apiarists. Some items of personal correspondence are also included in the collection.

1.0 ln. ft.; ca. 300 items

American Philosophical Society

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Langstroth, L. L. (Lorenzo Lorraine), 1810-1895

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Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth was an apiarist. From the description of Papers, 1852-1895. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122440361 Lorenzo Lorraine Langstroth (25 December 1810-6 October 1895) was a clergyman, teacher, and apiarist. He was born in Philadelphia, and graduated from Yale University in 1831. He was a Congregational pastor in Massachusetts, during which time he married Anne Tucker (1812-1873) and with whom he had three ch...