History & People, Inside our Collections
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As
part
of
our
ongoing
Leon
Levy
Foundation
grant
to
provide
access
to
the
New
York
Botanical
Garden’s
institutional
archives,
I
recently
finished
reprocessing
the
...
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History & People, Inside our Collections
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There exists in the NYBG Archives a file cabinet containing many small collections from a great variety of known and unknown individuals on various topics.
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As this summer’s Archival Systems Intern for the LuEsther T. Mertz Library, I worked on several projects to improve digital access to archival collections.
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History & People
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Grab
the
September
2025
issue
when
you
see
it,
and
inside
you'll
find
a
photo
recreation
of
a
New
Yorker
cover
from
June
of
1974,
...
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History & People
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Three years after the emancipation of 250,000 enslaved people in Texas (1865), the first professionally trained Black landscape architect was born: David Augustus Williston.
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This
1950
film
noir
crime
drama
The
Tattooed
Stranger,
which
appears
to
have
been
the
very
first
feature
film
shot
on
location
at
the
New
...
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Helen Fowler O’Gorman was an American sculptor and botanical illustrator whose most well-known work focused on the native flora of Mexico.
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History & People, Inside our Collections
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During
the
1930s,
the
number
of
women
gardeners
at
NYBG
was
sparse.
But
due
to
the
war,
the
Garden’s
personnel
greatly
changed
by
1943,
causing
...
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History & People, Inside our Collections
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As
the
Special
Collections
Catalog
Librarian
at
the
New
York
Botanical
Garden’s
LuEsther
T.
Mertz
Library,
every
so
often
an
item
crosses
my
desk
that
...
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History & People, Inside our Collections
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As
Valentine’s
Day
approaches,
the
rose—a
well-known
symbol
of
love—is
likely
everywhere
you
turn,
but
did
you
know
the
rose
is
also
the
national
flower
...
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