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Thurber-Woolson Botanical Collection, 1803-1918Finding AidFinding aid prepared by Linda Seidman.Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.2003
Administrative InformationAcquired from Harry Thurber Woolson, 1911, 1919 Processed by Linda Seidman. Preferred CitationCite as: Thurber-Woolson Botanical Collection (MS 65). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst. The collection is open for research. Return to the Table of Contents Scope and Contents of the CollectionLetters, photographs, engravings, and clippings compiled by George Thurber, agrostologist, horticultural writer, and editor of American Agriculturist from 1863 to 1885, and augmented by George Clark Woolson, father of Harry Thurber Woolson. Bulk of the collection is the nearly 1,000 letters written by 336 correspondents, primarily botanists and other scientists, including Asa Gray, Louis Agassiz, John Torrey, Frederick Law Olmsted, John James Audubon, Henry Ward Beecher, Jefferson Davis, Edward Payson Roe, Donald G. Mitchell, and George Brown Goode. Letters are bound; binding done by Reimann. Return to the Table of Contents Search TermsReturn to the Table of Contents |
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