Records, [ca. 1900]-1966.

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Records, [ca. 1900]-1966.

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Records include correspondence, subject files, book orders, memos, budgets, accession records, and bibliographies, ca.1900-1980, resulting from the operation of the New York Botanical Garden Library. Includes records of purchase, donation, and sale of books in special collections; and information on the relationship with the Columbia University libraries. Records come from the files of librarians Elizabeth C. Hall, 1937-1960; Sarah Gildersleeve Fife, 1960-1963; Anna Murray Vail, 1900-1907; John Hendley Barnhardt, 1907-1913; Sarah Harlow; and Charles R. Long (current).

ca. 5 linear ft.

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Columbia University

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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...

Fife, Sarah Gildersleeve.

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Harlow, Sarah.

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Long, Charles Alan, 1936-....

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Vail, Anna Murray, 1863-1955.

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New York Botanical Garden. Library

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The Small Collection file contains ca. 500 collections of only a few pages each, largely of plant scientists, or organizations of plant scientists. Some non-plant scientists whose papers contain some botanical or horticultural information are also represented here. From the description of Small collection file, [ca. 1800-1980] (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 155463161 Elizabeth C. Hall was librarian, 1937-1960. From the description of Correspondence, 1912-1959. (U...

Hall, Elizabeth Cornelia

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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...

Barnhardt, John Hendley, 1871-1949.

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