Washington Agricultural College first employed a botanist in 1893. A Department of Botany and Zoology came into existence in about 1895. A separate Botany Department was organized in 1907, and continues to the present (2000AD). The Botany faculty has included many well-known botanical scientists. Further documentation of the Botany Department can be found at the University Libraries, chiefly in the form of personal papers of various members of the faculty. See also WSU Publications 37.
Contains glass slides of plant life studied by the WSU Botany Department in the 1920s.
This is an unprocessed collection. Any arrangement reflects either a pre-existing order from the records' creators or previous custodians, or preliminary sorting performed by staff.
Items are mostly labeled with scientific plant name and location, as well as dated. Slides are in no particular order.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions apply.
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Preliminary Guide to the Washington State University Botany Department Photographs (Lantern slides), circa 1920s (UA1985-40)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
This material was transferred to WSU Libraries' MASC by Belinda Starkey of Botany on August 11, 1985 and retained as UA1985-40. She had acquired these from Art Cridland, formerly a professor in the Botany Department. These photos probably were assembled by Harold St.John and Fermen L. Pickett.
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