Gardening
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Francis Cope Haines gardening notebook
Collection
Identifier: HC.MC-975-11-015
Scope and Content note
This collection is comprised of the single volume gardening notebook of Francis Cope Haines. The notebook lists shrubs, vegetables, and flowers planted each year, clippings about Robert Huey’s Rose Garden, and other clippings related to gardening.
Dates:
1900-1906
Sarah Coates Harris scrapbooks
Collection — Othertype MSS-067
Identifier: SFHL-MSS-067
Abstract
The collection is composed of three scrapbooks compiled by Sarah Coates Harris, Quaker reformer and naturalist of Galena, Illinois. Scrapbook 1 contains newspaper clippings that reflect Harris' activities in horticultural, temperance, suffrage, and other civic endeavors as well as biographical information about her husband and local history. Scrapbook 2 contains botanical cards organized by the month of flowering and a small number of images of the Gould Mine in Nevada. Scrapbook 3 contains...
Dates:
1865-1880
Jackson-Conard Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: SFHL-RG5-217
Overview
The Jackson-Conard Family Papers include correspondence and other manuscripts of the Jackson and Conard families of London Grove Township, Chester County, Pennsylvania. The primary recipients are William Jackson (1746-1834), a Quaker minister, and his nephew, William Jackson (1789-1864), who served a single term in the Pennsylvania State Senate and was active in the anti-slavery movement.
Dates:
1748-1910
Katharine Sergeant White papers
Collection
Identifier: BMC-M56
Overview
Katharine Sergeant White, the first fiction editor of The New Yorker magazine, was born in Winchester, Massachusetts in 1892. In 1914, White graduated from Bryn Mawr College. She married her first husband, Ernest Angell in 1915, and with him she had two children, Nancy and Roger. After a divorce in 1929, Katharine married her second husband, New Yorker staff writer E. B. White. White's career at The New Yorker began in 1925 and continued until her retirement in 1961. As the first...
Dates:
1928 - 1977; Majority of material found within 1945 - 1977
Found in:
Bryn Mawr College
