PEC. Plant Exploration Collections

Content Description The USDA Plant Introduction Station Records consist of correspondence, notes, reports, plant inventories, photographs, lists, books, and drawings from files compiled by the Bureau of Plant Industry's plant introduction garden in Miami, Florida. The bulk of the files contain primarily notes, correspondence, clippings, and pamphlets on the subject of mangoes. There is also original and copy correspondence between David G. Fairchild and personnel at the Miami station. Other records include...

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The Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Howard Scott Gentry consists of articles, notes, photographs, and Cunningham's drafts of articles on Howard Gentry's expeditions as a plant collector. Cunningham collected these materials to write several articles about Gentry.

Content Description The USDA and National Cancer Institute Plant Collections Records consist of 36 three-ring binders, known as active books, organized geographically. Each active book contains forms, called active sheets, that were used to record data and procurement status for plant species collected in approximately 40 specific geographic areas. Plants represented in the records were collected for studies of their antitumor activity. Active sheets were filed alphabetically by genus and species name within a...

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The Rolla Kent Beattie Photograph Collection consists of negatives that relate to trips to Colorado, California, Hawaii, Florida, the District of Columbia, Japan, Formosa (Taiwan), Hong Kong, Indochina, Cambodia, Malaya, China, France, and England, where he visited shrines, temples, pagodas, gardens, parks, graves, exhibits, and tourist areas. The images document cultural and scenic aspects of the trips.