Prince family manuscript collection manuscript 1779-1914.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Prince family manuscript collection manuscript 1779-1914.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/506454376

The Prince Family Manuscript collection contains correspondence, account books, notebooks, and journals that provide an insight into the difficulties of maintaining a large nursery in the early years of the American nation. Much of the material concerns business dealings between members of the Prince family and those transacting business with them. The remaining portion of the material deals with observations on and experiments with plants.

14 boxes (8 linear feet)

National Agricultural Library, NAL

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 7630565

National Agricultural Library, NAL

Related Entities

There are 3 Entities related to this resource.

Prince family.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w64c22f8 (family)

This material is concerned with the most productive and innovative years of the Prince nurseries, which were based in Flushing, Long Island, New York. During these years, the nursery was owned and operated by William Prince Jr. and William Prince, his son. Their Linnaean Gardens developed into experimental grounds for cultivating native American species and for testing European and Asian species. From the description of Prince family manuscript collection manuscript 1779-1914. (Natio...

Prince, William, Jr.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6417kv9 (person)

Prince, William, 1725-1802

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6sb657w (person)