Manuscripts

Frank Weinberg correspondence

Description: The collection consists of letters discussing mainly botanical information, especially on cacti, orchids, and rare plants. There are numerous letters from Joseph Nelson Rose, associate curator of the U.S. National Museum at the Smithsonian Institution.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1901-1912
Call number: mssHM 36820-36826
Creator: Weinberg, Frank(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of William Hertrich. Transferred from Huntington Botanical Gardens Library, January 1972.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.
Rights: The Huntington Library does not require that researchers request permission to quote from or publish images of this material, nor does it charge fees for such activities. The responsibility for identifying the copyright holder, if there is one, and obtaining permission rests with the researcher.
Associated people: Rose, J. N. (1862-1928.)
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Frank Weinberg correspondence

Manuscripts

The collection consists of letters discussing mainly botanical information, especially on cacti, orchids, and rare plants. There are numerous letters from Joseph Nelson Rose, associate curator of the U.S. National Museum at the Smithsonian Institution.

mssHM 36820-36826

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Correspondence; Alwin Berger manuscript

Manuscripts

A collection of 648 items from 1918 to 1937, it consists of correspondence, manuscripts, documents and photographs primarily related to Rost's interests in cacti. Included is a typewritten manuscript of his book Something about cacti, a translation of Alwin Berger's Kakteen (1929), and articles by Ernest N. Rost and his wife Etta Newbury Rost, who wrote under the pseudonym Esther Norton. Correspondents in the collection include Joseph Nelson Rose, Curator of Botany at the Smithsonian Institution and Nathaniel Lord Britton, director of the New York Botanical Gardens. The collection also contains 505 photographs, including 287 photographs of cacti and succulent plants which were to be included in Something bout cacti, 3 oversize photograph albums, and approximately 800 glass plate negatives.

mssRost

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Ernest Christian Rost papers

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Photographs coordinated with the numbers on manuscript of "Something about cacti" in Box 2

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Glass plate negatives

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Frank Weinberg correspondence

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