Overview
Oakes Ames (1874-1950) graduated from Harvard in 1898, taught botany at Harvard and was director of the Botanical Museum. His papers document his personal and family life, and the field of botany, including teaching, research, and administration of the Botanical Museum.
Dates
- Creation: 1897-1967 (inclusive).
Creator
- Ames, Oakes, 1874-1950 (Person)
Extent
4 cubic feetHistory note
Oakes Ames (1874-1950) graduated from Harvard in 1898, taught botany at Harvard, and was director of the Botanical Museum.
He married Blanche Ames in 1900. His children were Pauline Ames Plimpton, Oliver Ames, Davis Ames, Evelyn Ames Davis, and Amyas Ames.
Arrangement
- General information by and about Oaks Ames
- Correspondence and Writings
- ___ Correspondence with Family and Friends, 1916-1949
- ___ Trips
- ___ Letters from Prof. Oakes Ames
- ___ Journal of Common Things
- ___ Autobiography
- ___ Outlines of Economic Botany--Bussey Institution Lectures
- ___ Unidentified manuscript
- Correspondence about Botany at Harvard, 1920-1935 and 1945-1946
- Arnold Arboretum Controversy, 1935-1966
- Botanical Museum, 1897-1967
- Lectures, 1901-1948
Inventory upate
This document last updated 2022 March 25.
Topical
Creator
- Ames, Oakes, 1874-1950 (Person)
Subject
- Ames, Oakes, 1874-1950 (Person)
- Ames, Blanche (Person)
- Plimpton, Pauline Ames, 1901- (Person)
- Harvard University. Botanical Museum--Administration. (Organization)
- Title
- Ames, Oakes, 1874- Papers of Oakes Ames : an inventory
- Author
- Harvard University Archives
- Language of description
- und
- EAD ID
- hua08003
Repository Details
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