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Plants of the Americas : the second edition of Nikolaus von Jacquin's Selectarum stirpium Americanarum historia
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Ammal, E. K. Janaki (Edavaleth Kakkat Janaki), 1897-1984, (1951-1953)
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Botanical Survey of India; Laboratoire de Genetique. Institut National Argonomique, Paris; Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew; and Royal Horticultural Society (Great Britain) Included: Chromosome Interrelationships in Species of Cultivated Camellia
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Gene Bauer collection of botanical prints and ephemera
Visual Materials
A collection of 28 booklets and envelopes created from July 1972 to May 1974 by artist and horticulturist Gene Bauer. The booklets were produced monthly to highlight native California plants and were mailed to members from the California Garden Club, Inc.'s 26 districts. Bauer selected plants by visiting public gardens throughout California and emphasized a plant for each region represented by members of the Club. The booklets in this collection were all addressed to Elaine Conze (1912-2008), member of California Garden Club, Inc., and former president of the Gardeneers Garden Club in Palos Verdes, California. The booklets feature Bauer's screenprints with varying designs and angles of plants on the covers, interior pages, and accompanying envelopes. Bauer originally drew colored pencil sketches of the plants, then hand-screened them. The cover pages of Bauer's booklets are signed and include a screen print on cardstock, with illustrations inside the interior images screen printed on colorful tissue paper. She mailed the envelopes through the United States Postal Office and adorned them with screen print images and pictorial stamps. Some plants, trees, shrubs, and flowers depicted range from unique species of lilies, buckwheat, and maple trees, to poppies, palm trees, fir trees, and other plants all native to California. The versos of the booklets include the edition numbers of printed booklets made, with Elaine Conze often receiving the 18th or 19th edition of the total series. Textually, the booklets include poetry, essays, and messages from Bauer, a state map identifying locations of plant growth, and historical information about the plant species and habitats.
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Register of plants; miscellaneous correspondence; photographs
Manuscripts
The collection consists of correspondence and other papers related to the development of the San Marino Ranch and the Huntington Botanical Gardens, the construction of the Huntington residence and of the Huntington Library, and the city of San Marino, California. There are also articles related to botanical gardens and specific plant species. Of note in the collection is correspondence between William Hertrich and Henry Edwards Huntington relative to the ranch and library. Box 24 consists of photographs and negatives related to Hertrich on the Huntington Library gardens and a luncheon in April 1951.
mssHHH 1-1802
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Alexander von Humboldt letter to N. Maze
Manuscripts
This four-page letter, written in French by Alexander von Humboldt, is probably to his French publisher N. Maze. In the letter, Humboldt talks about his financial problems trying to publish Nova genera et species plantarum. He details problems he is having with the German government and also gives a breakdown of the publication expenses.
mssHM 70386
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Gene Bauer collection of botanical prints and ephemera
Visual Materials
A collection of 28 booklets and envelopes created from July 1972 to May 1974 by artist and horticulturist Gene Bauer. The booklets were produced monthly to highlight native California plants and were mailed to members from the California Garden Club, Inc.'s 26 districts. Bauer selected plants by visiting public gardens throughout California and emphasized a plant for each region represented by members of the Club. The booklets in this collection were all addressed to Elaine Conze (1912-2008), member of California Garden Club, Inc., and former president of the Gardeneers Garden Club in Palos Verdes, California. The booklets feature Bauer's screenprints with varying designs and angles of plants on the covers, interior pages, and accompanying envelopes. Bauer originally drew colored pencil sketches of the plants, then hand-screened them. The cover pages of Bauer's booklets are signed and include a screen print on cardstock, with illustrations inside the interior images screen printed on colorful tissue paper. She mailed the envelopes through the United States Postal Office and adorned them with screen print images and pictorial stamps. Some plants, trees, shrubs, and flowers depicted range from unique species of lilies, buckwheat, and maple trees, to poppies, palm trees, fir trees, and other plants all native to California. The versos of the booklets include the edition numbers of printed booklets made, with Elaine Conze often receiving the 18th or 19th edition of the total series. Textually, the booklets include poetry, essays, and messages from Bauer, a state map identifying locations of plant growth, and historical information about the plant species and habitats.
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