Photographs of New York Botanical Garden 50th Anniversary, 1941.

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Photographs of New York Botanical Garden 50th Anniversary, 1941.

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Photographs were taken on the occasion of the New York Botanical Garden's (NYBG) Fiftieth Anniversary, 1941, and depict members and directors of the Bronx Chamber of Commerce on the steps of the NYBG's museum building, and looking at cacti in the NYBG's Enid A. Haupt Conservatory. People pictured include William E. Boyland, New York City Tax Commissioner, and director of the Chamber of Commerce; Harry Goodwin, Commissioner of the New York City Board of Assessors and director of the Chamber of Commerce; Bert Gumpert, NEW YORK POST columnist; and others. A third photograph shows William Jacob Robbins, Director of the NYBG, in a laboratory in the basement of the museum building.

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New York Botanical Garden

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Grumpert, Bert.

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Bronx Chamber of Commerce.

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Goodwin, Harry.

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British artist, circa 1841-1925. From the description of Pen and ink drawings illustrating Wordsworth's poems / by Harry Goodwin, 1883-1887. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 301883414 ...

Robbins, William Jacob, 1890-

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William Jacob Robbins was a botanist and plant physiologist. From the description of Papers, 1898-1974. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122589265 William Jacob Robbins (1890-1978) was Director-in-Chief of The New York Botanical Garden from 1937-1958. He was a specialist in plant physiology and microbiology. Robbins studied Bryophyllum and Hedera helix; the nutritional requirements of filamentous fungi; as well as vitamin synthesis, growth and th...

Boyland, William F. (William Frank)

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