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CVR. Charles Valentine Riley Collections

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Identifier: CVR

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Charles Valentine Riley Printing Blocks

 Collection
Identifier: MS0190
Content Description The Charles Valentine Riley Printing Blocks consist of 1,211 woodcuts, electrotypes (electroplated lead molds of original engravings), and metal casts used to illustrate Riley's publications. Approximately 508 blocks were figures for the nine annual reports (1869-1877) produced by Riley when he served as Missouri's first state entomologist. Other printing blocks were used in publications such as American Entomologist and American Entomologist and Botanist. Some of the electrotypes are...
Dates: 1872-1895
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections