Liberty Hyde Bailey papers
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COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Personal, family, and professional papers relating to the life and work of Liberty Hyde Bailey and including correspondence, manuscripts, scrapbooks, journals, photographs, publications, genealogical and biographical information. Also records of the Bailey Hortorium. Correspondence and records of the Commission on Country Life. Also includes glass negatives of Bailiwick orchards and house construction; correspondence and agreements with Macmillan Company; photographs; Bailey's correspondence with his brother Marcus and daughter Ethel; and deeds, abstracts and title searches for the Bailey house on Sage Place; war ration books; agreement of gift of the Bailey Hortorium. Includes Bailey correspondence with Macmillan Company. Also, tape recordings (12 cassettes) and transcripts of an interview with Bailey by George H. M. Lawrence, 1951-1952, audio reels with interview by Edith Fox and Jackson Towne, 11/06/1951 and his typewriter and camera.
Includes a 1901 Junior Naturalist Club certificate signed by Bailey.
CD (MS Power Point) with posters prepared at Michigan State University using Cornell photographs, celebrating the 150th anniversary of the birth of Liberty Hyde Bailey, 2008. The posters were exhibited at the 2008 annual meetings of the American Society for Horticultural Science (July) and at the Great Lakes Expo (Michigan Horticultural Society and Michigan Vegetable Growers (December).
Printing block for the Loganberry illustration from "Gentes Herbarum," with page from the journal showing the illustration and a modern print; other various printing blocks, as well.
Dates
- 1854 - 2004
- Majority of material found within 1870 - 1958
Creator
- Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde), 1858-1954. (Person)
- Lawrence, George H. M. (George Hill Mathewson), 1910-1978. (Person)
- Cornell University. Junior Naturalist Club (Organization)
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
CHRONOLOGY
- March 15, 1858
- Liberty Hyde Bailey, Jr. born near South Haven, Michigan
- 1862
- Sarah Harrison Bailey, Liberty Hyde Bailey, Jr.'s mother, dies
- 1863
- Liberty Hyde Bailey, Sr. marries Maria Bridges
- 1873
- Liberty Hyde Bailey, Jr. delivers first public speech, "Birds," to the South Haven Pomological Society and is elected Ornithologist of the organization
- 1877-1882
- Attends Michigan Agricultural College in Lansing, Michigan; studies Botany under the instruction of Dr. William Beal; meets Annette Smith
- 1882
- Graduates from Michigan Agricultural College with a Bachelor of Science degree
- 1882
- Works in Springfield, Illinois as a reporter for the Morning Monitor
- Feb. 1883
- Moves to Cambridge, Massachusetts to work as an assistant to Harvard botanist Asa Gray
- June 1883
- Marries Annette Smith
- 1885
- Accepts professorship at Michigan Agricultural College; publishes first book "Talks Afield: About Plants and the Science of Plants"
- 1886
- Receives Master of Science degree from Michigan Agricultural College
- June 29, 1887
- Daughter Sara May Bailey born
- 1887
- Invited to give a series of lectures at Cornell
- 1889
- Begins work as a Professor of Practical and Experimental Horticulture at Cornell
- Nov. 17, 1889
- Daughter Ethel Zoe Bailey born
- 1899
- Appoints Anna Botsford Comstock as first female professor at Cornell
- 1904
- Becomes Dean of New York State College of Agriculture at Cornell
- 1908
- Leads a Commission on Country Life at the request of President Theodore Roosevelt
- 1911
- Appoints Martha Van Rensselaer and Flora Rose as Professors in Home Economics
- 1913
- Retires from position of Dean; begins a Herbarium at home on Sage Place
- 1917-1949
- Travels around the world on plant collecting expeditions
- 1926
- Elected President of the Botanical Society of America
- 1935
- Gives Hortorium to Cornell
- 1935
- Daughter Sara dies
- 1938
- Wife Annette dies
- 1944
- Bailey's idea for a campus arboretum, botanical garden, and research field is realized with the opening of the Cornell Plantations
- Mar. 15, 1948
- Bailey misses 90th birthday party in Ithaca because he is on plant collecting trip in West Indies
- Dec. 25, 1954
- Bailey dies at his home in Ithaca
- 1958
- United States Post Office issues a commemoration stamp honoring gardening and horticulture in America
Extent
43.4 cubic feet. (43.4 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Material relating to the life and work of Liberty Hyde Bailey.
SERIES LIST
Series I. Personal, 1845 - 1955
Series II. Correspondence, 1879 - 1963
Series III. College of Agriculture, Cornell, and Education, 1891 - 1950
Series IV. Bailiwick, 1892 - 1934
Series V. Country Life Commission, 1905 - 1960
Series VI. Hortorium and Plant Collecting, 1887 - 1959
Series VII. Writings
Series VIII. Biographical Information, 1890-1990
Series IX. Photographs
Series X. Cyanotype albums and negatives
Series XI. Honors and Awards 1888-2004
Series XII. Miscellany 1887 - 1959
SEPARATED MATERIAL
Several items relating to Bailey including the Bailey plow, portrait painted by Henry S. Hubbell for Bailey Hall, gold medals, canes, are located in the College of Agriculture Dean's Office, Chair of Plant Science's Office, and Mann Library. The Bailey Hortorium also houses Bailey books, publications, photographs, and artwork.
Physical Description
Correspondence, photographs, negatives, audio recordings, newsclippings, published material, scrapbooks, memorabilia.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524 rareref@cornell.edu http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- Sarah K. Gordon, Elaine Engst,Harlan Banks
- Date completed:
- July 20, 2004
- EAD encoding:
- Sarah K. Gordon,Peter Martinez, July 20, 2004Evan Earle, July 2013
- Date modified:
- FRedrika Loew, October 2018
- Bailey, Ethel Zoe.
- Bailey, Marcus.
- Botany -- Study and teaching.
- Butterfield, Kenyon L. (Kenyon Leech), 1868-1935.
- Comstock, Anna Botsford, 1854-1930.
- Education, Rural.
- Gray, Asa, 1810-1888.
- Liberty Hyde Bailey Hortorium
- Macmillan Company
- New York State College of Agriculture
- Page, Walter Hines, 1855-1918.
- Pinchot, Gifford, 1865-1946.
- Printing blocks.
- Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945.
- Schurman, Jacob Gould, 1854-1942.
- United States Country Life Commission
- White, Andrew Dickson, 1832-1918.
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by Sarah K. Gordon, Elaine Engst, Harlan Banks
- Date
- July 20, 2004
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- ENG
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu