F. Lamson-Scribner papers, 1885-1938.
Material type:
Mixed materialsDescription: 4,500 items; 20 containers; 8 linear feetSubject(s): - Philippines. Bureau of Agriculture
- United States. Department of Agriculture
- Century of Progress International Exposition (1933-1934 : Chicago, Ill.)
- Exposição do Centenario do Brasil (1922-1923 : Rio de Janeiro, Brazil)
- Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition (1926 : Philadelphia, Pa.)
- Agriculture -- Exhibitions
- Agriculture -- Philippines
- Exhibitions -- Brazil -- Rio de Janeiro
- Exhibitions -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Exhibitions -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia
- Brazil -- Centennial celebrations, etc
- Chicago (Ill.) -- Centennial celebrations, etc
- Philadelphia (Pa.) -- Centennial celebrations, etc
- Botanists
- Educators
- Exhibits specialists
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Correspondence, letterbooks, memoranda, reports, notes, scrapbooks, printed matter, photographs, and other papers pertaining chiefly to Lamson-Scribner's exhibits work for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. Includes material on exhibits he helped prepare for the Exposição do Centenario do Brasil in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1922-1923; Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition in Philadelphia, Pa., 1926; and Century of Progress International Exposition in Chicago, Ill., 1933-1934. Also documents his service as chief of the Philippines Bureau of Agriculture in the Philippines, 1901-1904.
Glass plate negatives transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
Botanist, exhibits specialist, and educator. Full name: Frank Lamson-Scribner. Born 1851. Died 1938.
Collection material in English.
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