Scope and Contents: This collection contains ink and pencil sketches, watercolors, chromolithograph and photocopy reproductions, photographs, and negatives of orchid illustrations from the Oakes Ames Orchid Herbarium at the Harvard University Herbaria. Artists include Blanche Ames, Oakes Ames, Dorothy O. Allen, Ruth Barton, Gordon Winston Dillon, Lesley Andrew Garay, J.G. Hall, James Laird Macfarlane, Dorothy H. Marsh, Henry G. Moon, Magdalena Peña de Sousa, Eleonar B. Phillips, Charles Schweinfurth, Elmer W....

Scope and content: The collection consists of 217 small watercolors of orchids from the Loddiges Nursery in London England. The paintings were created from 1844-1856 and feature orchids that were collected between 1804-1847. The scientific name, number, collection date, collection location, and illustration date are on the back of the mat.

Scope and content: The Greenwood papers comprise approximately 20 linear feet of correspondence, notes, lists, field journals, manuscript material, plant descriptions, illustrative matter, pressed plant material, photographs, slides, and stereoscopic images. Original order has been maintained. The bulk of the collection consists of files arranged alphabetically by genus and species. The collection contains over 3000 slides taken by Greenwood, primarily of orchids but also of landscapes and his travels.

Scope and Contents: One of six unpublished volumes of original paintings of orchids by Rodrigues, 1869-1888. Most illustrations are signed "J. Barbosa Rodrigues, del. d'ap. nat." Illustrations are numbered in pencil and annotated in various hands including A. Cogniaux, F.C. Hoehne, and R.A. Rolfe. The volume is bound in vellum with decorated front and back covers by Livaria J. Leite, Livros Sobre o Brasil, Rio. The other five volumes are held in Rio de Janeiro Botanical Garden. The paintings were...

Scope and Content: The Ames Papers consists of two manuscripts for articles on orchids of the Philippines. Orchidaceae Halconenses is a draft of an article bearing the same title, published in the Philippine Journal of Science in 1907. New Species, New Combinations contains descriptions of plants arranged alphabetically by Latin plant name. It is described as having been prepared for Fascicle V of Orchidaceae (1915), but is quite different from the...