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Manuscripts collection
Collection
Identifier: PRI003
Abstract
Artificial collection of mostly manuscripts, with a few printed items, spanning from the 13th to the 20th Centuries. Items were gifted to Butler or acquired from various sources.
Dates:
1260 - 1927
Jeanette Siron Pelton botanical print collection
Collection
Identifier: PRI001
Scope and Contents
This collection of botanical prints contains original plates from herbals, plant histories, and botanical books and magazines from the 15th through the 19th centuries. The prints provide primary source materials illustrating the technological developments of early modern botanical, pharmacological , and medical sciences as well as the history and development of botanical illustration from woodcuts, to copperplate engravings, to chromolithographs. A few engraved portraits of botanists are...
Dates:
1491 - 1853
John E. Potzger collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS001
Scope and Contents
The collection includes correspondence, papers, publications, photographs, and ephemera that provide insight into John E. Potzger’s pioneering work in pollen studies and postglacial forest succession and his career with Butler’s Botany Department. The collection also contributes to an understanding of Potzger’s career as a teacher in a Lutheran day school, his music studies, his membership in such organizations as the Association of Science and Mathematics Teachers, Phi Kappa Phi, the...
Dates:
1886 - 1975
Sigma Gamma Rho Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS084
Scope and Contents
The Sigma Gamma Rho Collection contains materials documenting nearly a century of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc.’s history, predominately from 1946 through 2014 but including some historical information dating back to the Sorority’s founding in 1922. These materials were collected by the Sorority from the Sorority’s Grand Basilei (Sorority’s Presidents) for the purpose of documenting the history of Sigma Gamma Rho in preparation for the 100th anniversary. The collection contains many...
Dates:
1922 - 2022; Majority of material found within 1946 - 2014
Small Collections
Collection
Identifier: MSS-SM
Scope and Contents
The Small Collections are a grouping of small archival acquisitions from many different sources. More detailed notes about the scope, contents, and history of each small collection may be found at the file level. The collections are housed and described together for administrative purposes.
Dates:
1861 - present
Allegra Stewart Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS002
Scope and Contents
This collection consists of notes taken by Allegra Stewart for her teaching and research, including her thesis and other publications. Subjects include Gertrude Stein, Meredith Nicholson, John Milton, William Shakespeare, Geoffrey Chaucer, American literature, British literature, 20th century fiction, philosophy, poetry and much more. It also includes correspondence, travel and personal journals, manuscript drafts, photographs, oral history interview transcripts, and other materials related...
Dates:
1896 - 1995; Majority of material found within 1910 - 1995
Zoological print collection
Collection
Identifier: PRI002
Abstract
Collection of zoological prints spanning from the 15th to mid 19th centuries.
Dates:
1491 - 1844