Oral history project interview transcript, 1973.

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Oral history project interview transcript, 1973.

In this interview with Charles R. Long (Director of the NYBG Library) Hall discusses her childhood, education at Radcliffe College, the Ambler School of Horticulture, and Columbia University, and her career as a horticultural therapist and botanical librarian.

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The Columbia University community and administration mobilized to the fullest extent in answer to the entry of the United States into World War I. Summed up by President Nicholas Murray Butler in the 1918 Annual Report, the effects of the war on the University were far-reaching: "Students by the hundred and prospective students by the thousand entered the military, naval, or civil service of the United States; teachers and administrative officers to the number of nearly four hundred...

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Long, Charles R. (Charles Robert), 1936-

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Charles R. Long conducted work with the Pacific Ocean Biological Survey in 1964. Co-authored Endangered plant species of the world and their endangered habitats : a compilation of the literature. Smithsonian Institution Archives Field Book Project: Person : Description : rid_75_pid_EACP74 ...

Radcliffe College

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Vocational short courses and institutes were initiated by the Radcliffe Appointment Bureau to train students for careers after graduation. Among these courses were: the Institute on Historical and Archival Management, 1954-1960; Communications for the Volunteer, 1965-1968; Summer Secretarial Course, 1935-1955, and the Radcliffe Publishing Course (formerly Publishing Procedures Course), 1947-, which continues to offer a six-week summer course in publishing. From the description of Rad...

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Horticulturist. From the description of Reminiscences of Elizabeth Cornelia Hall : oral history, 1973. (Columbia University In the City of New York). WorldCat record id: 122608682 Librarian, horticultural therapist. Hall was Librarian at New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), 1937-1963, and Associate Curator of Education, 1963-1967. She has also been librarian at the Horticultural Society of New York, 1930-1937, 1967-ca.1981. From the descript...