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Juli Anna Janis<\/a> worked as an intern with Kenneth G. Karol<\/a>, Ph.D., Assistant Curator in the Lewis B. and Dorothy Cullman Program for Molecular Systematics, whose specialty is algae.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

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There are certain things that one expects to see preserved in an herbarium, and these are primarily of a biological nature: plants, fungi, and algae.<\/p>\n

Recently, though, while mounting algae that the University of California Berkeley\u00a0had given to The New York Botanical Garden,\u00a0I realized that the William and Lynda Steere Herbarium<\/a> also collects materials that are accidentally archived. The algae specimens from Berkeley arrived still pressed between sheets of newspaper contemporaneous with the specimens.<\/p>\n

I\u00a0have seen algae pressed in envelopes, grocery lists, and ephemera of all sorts, but these newspapers have been the greatest treasure yet: around fifty pages ranging between 1895 and 1970, complete with illustrations, advertisements, and a few historic headlines. Here is a page from the fashion section of the San Francisco Examiner<\/em> of 4 March 1928:<\/p>\n\"Vintage<\/a>\n

In another context, these newspapers would have been the archival objects worth preserving\u2013as valuable artifacts of human culture and history\u2014but in an herbarium, they have survived as the storage medium for precious material of a different sort: Chara<\/em> and Nitella<\/em> algae specimens.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s more hiding away in NYBG’s vast herbarium than plant specimens\u2014enjoy a glimpse into the Jazz Age with a recently unearthed vintage newspaper’s fashion articles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":1936,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[440,359],"yoast_head":"\nAccidentally Archived - Science Talk Archive<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/science-talk\/2015\/01\/accidentally-archived\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Accidentally Archived - Science Talk Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"There's more hiding away in NYBG's vast herbarium than plant specimens\u2014enjoy a glimpse into the Jazz Age with a recently unearthed vintage newspaper's fashion articles.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/science-talk\/2015\/01\/accidentally-archived\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Science Talk Archive\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2015-01-22T19:07:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2015-01-22T19:31:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/science-talk\/content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/0115-JuliAnna.Newspaper-1200x868.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"868\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Juli Anna Janis\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/science-talk\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/science-talk\/\",\"name\":\"Science Talk Archive\",\"description\":\"Exploring the science of plants, from the field to the lab\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/science-talk\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/science-talk\/2015\/01\/accidentally-archived\/#primaryimage\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/science-talk\/content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/0115-JuliAnna.Newspaper-1200x868.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/science-talk\/content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/0115-JuliAnna.Newspaper-1200x868.jpg\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":868,\"caption\":\"Vintage Newspaper\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/science-talk\/2015\/01\/accidentally-archived\/#webpage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.nybg.org\/blogs\/science-talk\/2015\/01\/accidentally-archived\/\",\"name\":\"Accidentally Archived - 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