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Cornell Botanic Gardens records

 Collection
Identifier: 34-4-2302

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Newspaper clippings, brochures, drawings for proposed buildings and gardens, and photographs. Also, videotape of the "The 150th Birthday Celebration of Beebe Lake," May 1, 1988.

Includes journals kept by gardeners from 1956-1999.

Now includes oversized maps and drawings of gardens and natural areas supervised by Cornell Plantations.

Dates

  • 1945 - 2021

Creator

Language of Materials

Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

In 2016 the Cornell Plantations changed names to the Cornell Botanic Gardens.

Extent

3.4 cubic feet.

215 items. : maps/drawings

Abstract

Newspaper clippings, brochures, drawings for proposed buildings and gardens, journals and photographs. Oversized maps, plans and drawings. Also, videotape of the "The 150th Birthday Celebration of Beebe Lake," May 1, 1988.

RELATED MATERIALS

See also the video A Journey Through Time and Nature, Cornell Plantations Path and Robert E. Jones Cornell Plantations papers, #34-4-4130.

Physical Description

Diaries, maps/charts, movie film, newspapers.

Status
Completed
Author
Compiled by RMC Staff
Date
August 2014
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script

Repository Details

Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository

Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)