Gladys P. Anderson Papers (PP)

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Biography of Gladys P. Anderson

Gladys Pomeroy Anderson was curator of the lichen herbarium of the Sullivant Moss Society in 1934-1935. Under her care, it was placed with the New York Botanical Garden where it remains today. Marshall Howe made arrangements for the lichen herbarium to be housed in NYBG herbarium where it remains today. She was born in Newark, N.J. on May 16, 1888. She attended N.J. State Normal School, Columbia Teachers College and graduated from Columbia University with a B.S. in 1927. From 1917-1919 she was a special student and assistant in Botany at McGill University. She worked as a photomicrographer for the Canadian Forest Products Laboratory and several rubber companies. It is said that she was instrumental in creating the New Jersey part of the Appalachian Trail. In 1935 she contributed an article "Centraria Fahlunensis var. Frostii (Du Rietz) Zahlb., in New York State and in Pennsylvania" to the May-June issue of The Bryologist (vol. 38, no. 3) . She was the German translator for the Sullivant Moss Society, responsible for translating scientific articles into English. She was married to George Ernest Anderson in1913 and lived in Rahway, N.J. They had one son, George Ernest Anderson, Jr. who was living in Newark, DE in 1971.

Scope and Content

The Gladys Pomeroy Anderson collection documents Anderson's curatorship of the Lichen collection of the Sullivant Moss Society. It includes papers of Dr. C.C. Plitt and E.B. Chamberlain. Also documented is Anderson's botanical research and her career as an educator. The collection contains correspondence, notes, lists, index cards, lantern slides, and photographs. There is one tintype. The photographs appear to be divided between family photographs and photographs of sites and specimens. One group of photographs of trolley and train cars appears to be from Baltimore, Md., the home of Dr. C.C. Plitt. The lantern slides document an expedition through Maine. Three seed catalogs for Irises have been removed and are now in the Historic Seed Catalogs Collection. The collection is arranged into nine series.

Restrictions

Access restrictions

This collection is open for research with permission from Mertz Library staff.

Copyright

Requests for permission to publish material from the collection should be submitted in writing to the LuEsther T. Mertz Library of the New York Botanical Garden.

Related Material

New York Botanical Garden

PP -- A.T. Beals Papers

HSC -- Historic Seeds Catalogs Collection

Seperated Material

Negatives have been removed from this collection and placed in the library's film vault.

Administrative Information

Preferred Citation

Gladys P. Anderson (PP), Archives, The New York Botanical Garden.

Acquisition Information

The Gladys P. Anderson Collection was donated to the New York Botanical Garden with her herbarium in 1958. Dr. Clark P. Rogerson picked it up and transported it to NYBG. Additional materials were added in 1971, donated by her son; and 1992 from the estate of Mary Fleming and transmitted to NYBG by Antonia Adejo of The Garden Conservancy, Cold Spring, N.Y. The collection was transferred to the Archives from the Bryological Herbarium.

Processing Information

Originally processed by Laura Zelasnic, Project Archivist, January 2000, with grant funding from The National Endowment for the Humanities. (NEH-PA 23141-98). Converted into EAD, December 2005, by Kathleene Konkle under a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) PA-50678-04.

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