Arnold Arboretum collection of photographs, 1870-

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Arnold Arboretum collection of photographs, 1870-

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A botanical and horticultural record begun in the 1880s as an adjunct to the Arboretum's living collection, library, and herbarium, the photographs document the living collection; the areas of the world from which plants were collected; the plant collectors and their expeditions; and horticultural and botanical techniques and practices. Photographs also record the development of taxa in the Arboretum, a landscape designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and Charles Sprague Sargent. The historic collection has about 10,000 prints of living plants from all over the world, ca. 1870-1940. The views collection, also ca. 1870-1940, contains about 3,000 prints of plants in their native habitats. People, events, and customs are depicted in many of the landscapes, among them China, Tibet, Australia, Japan, India, Turkey, Cuba, and England. About 600 images of U.S. and foreign arboreta, gardens, and parks date from 1900-1940. Smaller collections include botanist J. G. Jack's approximately 100 pictures taken in Colorado, 1898; botanist Susan Delano McKelvey's approximately 300 pictures of the southwestern U.S., particularly habitat images of yucca plants; the Frank Meyer collection, 1905-1916, of 250 images of agricultural techniques in China, Korea, Siberia, and Turkestan; plant explorer Ernest Henry Wilson's approximately 7,700 images, primarily from Asia, Australia, New Zealand, and Africa of collecting expeditions taken between 1907 and 1922; the plant explorer Joseph Rock's 1,000 views of flora in Burma, China, France, and Hawaii. A lantern slide collection includes all botanical and horticultural subjects, and about 1,000 35mm slides depict activities at the Arnold Arboretum and at other arboreta and botanic gardens.

ca. 23,000 images.

Harvard University, Arnold Arboretum, Horticultural Library, Jamacia Plain

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Jack, John G. (John George), 1861-1949

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John George Jack was born in Chateauguay, Quebec, Canada on April 15, 1861. In 1882 Jack became a member of the American Association for the advancement of Science in where he made contacts that eventually let to employment at the Arnold Arboretum. From 1882 to 1885 Jack attended lectures given by Harvard professors including Dr. Hermann August Hagen, Professor Alpheus Hyatt, and George Goodale. In 1891, Jack came to the Arnold Arboretum to work and to study under Charles S. Sargent. He became L...

Meyer, Frank Nicholas

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Frank N. Meyer was born Frans Meijer in Amsterdam in 1875. His family was not well off financially so young Frans was sent to work at the Amsterdam Botanical Gardens at age 14 as a gardener's helper. He proved an able assistant and worked his way up to the position of head gardener in charge of the experimental garden. His aptitude caught the attention of the director of the experimental garden Hugo de Vries who became his mentor and encouraged him to take some university courses on botany. Meye...

Rehder, Alfred, 1863-1949

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Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930

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Ernest Henry Wilson was born in Chipping Campden, Gloustershire, England in 1876. In 1892 he was employed at Birmingham Botanical Gardens as a gardener and also studied botany at Birmingham Technical School and at the Royal College of Science in South Kensington. In 1897 he worked for the Royal Botanical Garden at Kew; in 1899 he was sent by the nursery firm of Veitch & Sons, to China to collect seeds and living plants. Wilson returned in 1902 and went on a second trip for Veitch, 1903-1906....

Rock, Joseph Francis Charles, 1884-1962

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Not only a botanist, plant collector, naturalist, and explorer, Joseph Rock was also a philologist, linguist, and anthropologist. Beginning in 1924 Rock explored northwest China and Tibet, collecting plant material for the Arnold Arboretum and ornithological specimens for Harvard's Museum of Comparative Zoology. On his 1924 expedition Rock collected 20,000 herbarium specimens and many packages of propagative material. Few new species were found but Rock lived up to Sargent's principal objective,...

McKelvey, Susan Delano, 1883-1964.

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Susan Delano McKelvey was born in 1883 in Philadelphia, PA; a socialite, a cousin of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt. A 1906 graduate of Bryn Mawr, she married a young attorney named Charles Wylie McKelvey in 1907. She later left New York and her husband to start a new life in Boston. The couple, who officially divorced in 1930, had two sons. In 1919, McKelvey contacted Charles Sprague Sargent the director of the Arboretum, and as a volunteer was first assigned to washing clay pots. Sargent ...