A Flora of Germantown With Notes of Nature and Nature Lovers, Being A popular outline survey of the principal native, introduced, and cultivated plants, appearing at Germantown, Philadelphia, the same with time allowance for latitudinal differences being applicable to the entire section of North America lying East of the Mississippi River, and extending from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.

Name/Title

A Flora of Germantown With Notes of Nature and Nature Lovers, Being A popular outline survey of the principal native, introduced, and cultivated plants, appearing at Germantown, Philadelphia, the same with time allowance for latitudinal differences being applicable to the entire section of North America lying East of the Mississippi River, and extending from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico.

Entry/Object ID

2014.28.1129a

Description

In this archival box are found individual envelopes with specifically marked pages of this Jellett scrapbook. Apparently, over time, the scrapbook badly decomposed and in order to protect its integrity, this arrangement was devised. This box includes the Froint cover, Title page and pages 1-218. A Flora of Germantown With Notes of Nature and Nature Lovers, Being A popular outline survey of the principal native, introduced, and cultivated plants, appearing at Germantown, Philadelphia, the same with time allowance for latitudinal differences being applicable to the entire section of North America lying East of the Mississippi River, and extending from Hudson Bay to the Gulf of Mexico. In this archival box are found individual envelopes with specifically marked pages of this Jellett scrapbook. Apparently, over time, the scrapbook badly decomposed and in order to protect its integrity, this arrangement was devised. This box includes the Front cover, Title page and pages 1-218. Please see L-7, 7 (2014.28.1130 for the last part of this scrapbook). A bookplate found inside the Front Cover indicates this book was a gift to The Site and Relic Society of Germantown (now known as The Germantown Historical Society) from the Author in October, 1911.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Library Collection

Publication Details

Author

Jellett, Edwin Costley

Publisher

Germantown Independent Gazette (?)

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Call No.

L-7, 7