Charles Fergus cabinet photograph collection of nineteenth century botanists, circa 1867-circa 1920.

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Charles Fergus cabinet photograph collection of nineteenth century botanists, circa 1867-circa 1920.

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This collection consists of 29 cabinet photographs of prominent 19th-century botanists, including Addison Brown, M.A. Curtis, Andrew Jackson Downing, William Russel Dudley, William Jackson Hooker, and Augustus B. Langlois. Cabinet photographs, measuring around 4 1/4 by 6 1/2 inches, were introduced by F.R. Window in 1867. The original photographs are undated, but the date of the original photograph may predate the date it was incorporated into a cabinet card.

29 cabinet photographs.

Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Pennsylvania State University Libraries

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Curtis, M. A. (Moses Ashley), 1808-1872

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Moses Ashley Curtis was born in Stockbridge, Mass., and educated at Williams College in Massachusetts. After graduating, he became a tutor for the children of former Governor Edward Bishop Dudley in Wilmington, N.C., returning to Massachusetts in 1833 to study theology. He married Mary de Rosset in 1834, was ordained in 1835, and obtained a post to teach at the Episcopal school at Raleigh, N.C. He became rector of the Protestant Episcopal Church at Hillsborough, N.C., in 1841 and in charge of a ...

Hooker, William Jackson, Sir, 1785-1865

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William Jackson Hooker was the premier English botanist of his time. His early interest in natural history was refined to botany by the fortuitous discovery of a rare moss. His education included travels through Europe, after which he became regius professor of botany at Glasgow. He published extensively, and founded and edited several journals; his main interests were ferns, mosses, and fungi, and he was a pioneer of economic botany. He was appointed first director of Kew Gardens, which became ...

Downing, A. J. (Andrew Jackson), 1815-1852

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American horticulturist and landscape architect. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Newburgh, N.Y., to James Arnold, 1844 Apr. 19. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270526124 Landscape architect, horticulturalist, and writer. From the description of Papers, 1830-1850. (New York State Library). WorldCat record id: 122583167 Andrew Jackson Downing (1815-1852) of Newburgh (N.Y.). Architect, gardener, author and nursery owner. A. J. Downing was i...

Langlois, A. B. (Auguste Barthélemy), 1832-1900

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Fergus, Charles L.

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Charles Leonard Fergus (1918-1987) was a professor of botany and plant pathology at the Pennsylvania State University. From the description of Charles Fergus collection of railroad and travel literature, 1910-1912. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 464224603 From the description of Charles Fergus cabinet photograph collection of nineteenth century botanists, circa 1867-circa 1920. (Pennsylvania State University Libraries). WorldCat record id: 464...

Dudley, William Russel, 1849-1911

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Professor of botany, Stanford University; graduate (B.S., M.S.) of Cornell University; instrumental in establishing the first preserve of redwood trees in California and creating the Dudley Herbarium which was moved from Stanford to the California Academy of Sciences in San Francisco in 1976; originally of Guilford, Conn. From the description of Papers, 1815-1983. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70952206 William Russel Dudley earned his bachelor's (1874) and master's (1876) d...

Brown, Addison, 1830-1913

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Addison Brown was U.S. district judge for the southern district of New York state, 1881-1901. From the description of Addison Brown letter : to Benjamin Harris Brewster, 1882 June 6. (Cornell University Library). WorldCat record id: 63936799 ...