Papers, [ca. 1933-1943]

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Papers, [ca. 1933-1943]

Walker's correspondence files deal primarily with the propagation of lilies and the activities of the Lily Committee of the American Horticultural Society, of which she was a member. Correspondents include Philip Brierly, Julia Clark, Helen Morganthau Fox, Laurence Howland MacDaniels, Norma B. Pfeiffer, George L. Slate, and Albert M. Volmer.

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Fox, Helen Morganthau, 1884-1974.

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American Horticultural Society. Lily Committee.

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Volmer, Albert Michael, 1896-

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Brierly, Philip.

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Pfeiffer, Norma Billingsley, 1933-

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MacDaniels, L. H. (Laurence Howland), 1888-1986

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Professor of floriculture and ornamental horticulture, Cornell University. Laurence Howland MacDaniels received a B.A. from Oberlin College in 1912, where he was a member of the championship football team. He received a Ph.D. from Cornell in 1917, serving as an instructor in botany from 1914 to 1917. From 1917 and 1919 he worked as a member of the Botanical Raw Products Committee of the National Research Council and for the Bureau of Aircraft Production. In 1919 and 1920...

Walker, Violet Niles.

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Lily enthusiast. From the description of Papers, [ca. 1933-1943] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155462618 ...

Slate, George L. (George Lewis), 1899-1976

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George L. Slate served as Professor of Pomology at the New York State Agricultural Experiment Station at Geneva. He graduated from the Massachusetts Agricultural College in 1922 and earned a Master's degree from Harvard. At Geneva, he was responsible for the small fruit breeding program, naming 11 red raspberries, 6 black raspberries, 3 purple raspberries, 3 blackberries, and 18 strawberries. An avid gardener, he spent many years raising nut trees and lilies as a hobby. He was a founding member ...

Clark, Julia, 1949-

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