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USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection
Collection
Identifier: MS0184
Content Description
The USDA Pomological Watercolor Collection contains approximately 7,000 watercolor paintings of fruit and nut specimens received by the U.S. Department of Agriculture from growers and plant explorers. The paintings were created by artists employed by the USDA Division of Pomology from 1888 to the 1930s. Credit information was written by the artist on each watercolor, and typically includes the name of the property owner, county, city, and state or country where the specimen was grown. Many...
Dates:
1888-1939
William Henry Prestele Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS0137
Content Description
The William Henry Prestele Papers consist of watercolors, pencil sketches, tracings, notes, papers, plant specimens, and an album cover. The collection contains materials created as Prestele worked on illustrations intended for a monograph on American native grapes by Thomas Volney Munson.
Dates:
1889-1890s
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