Lamson-Scribner, F.

F. Lamson-Scribner papers, 1885-1938. - 4,500 items. 20 containers. 8 linear feet. - Arranged in 4 series. Series 1: Letterbooks, 1888-1903; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1885-1938; Series 3: Subject File, circa 1890-1938; and Series 4: Scrapbooks, 1891-1927.

Open to research.

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
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
transferred to


Botanist, exhibits specialist, and educator. Full name: Frank Lamson-Scribner. Born 1851. Died 1938.


Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms012185

mm 78029272


Philippines. Bureau of Agriculture.
United States. Department of Agriculture.


Century of Progress International Exposition Chicago, Ill.) (1933-1934 :
Exposição do Centenario do Brasil Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) (1922-1923 :
Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition Philadelphia, Pa.) (1926 :


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.