Frank N. Meyer Collection

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Pyrus calleyana, natural size. Neg. No. 13262.

Description: From from Meyer's South China Exploration typescript: Pyrus calleryana, natural size. A somewhat small-flowering type of a wild Calleryana pear, with rather tomentose foliage, which isn't full grown yet. Three fruits of last year's crop has…

Date: 1917-04-07

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Pyrus calleryana. Neg. No. 13264.

Description: From from Meyer's South China Exploration typescript: Pyrus calleryana. A fairly large specimen of a Calleryana pear, found growing brotherly together with a pine tree, Pinus massoniana. Very few trees find pine trees congenial mates, but this…

Date: 1917-03-31

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Pyrus calleryana. Dwarf wild Calleryana pears. neg. No. 13267.

Description: From from Meyer's South China Exploration typescript: Pyrus calleryana. Dwarf wild Calleryana pears, only a few feet high, growing in sterile, decomposed porphyrious rock on a badly eroded mountain top, elevation c.a. 2,000 ft. a.s. This photo…

Date: 1917-03-31

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Phyllostachys sp. Drying bamboo paper. Neg No. 13296.

Description: From from Meyer's South China Exploration typescript: Phyllostachys sp. Drying bamboo paper of the dry sandy and pebbly part of a mountain stream. These oblong squares of paper measure 6 x 8 inches and sell locally at the ridiculously low price of…

Date: 1917-04-02

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Paeonia suffruticosa. A very large specimen of tree peony. Neg. no. 13300.

Description: From from Meyer's South China Exploration typescript: Paeonia suffruticosa. A very large specimen of tree peony, having 75 flowers of a beautiful blush-rosy color. The plant is between fifty and sixty years of age and tho an old stalk dies off at…

Date: 1917-04-12

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Soya Max. Five pots are filled with broken soy bean cake from which a cheap sauce is made. neg. no. 13284.

Description: From from Meyer's South China Exploration typescript: Soya Max. The five pots are filled with broken soy bean cake from which a cheap sauce is made; the pots wholly contain vinegar which is made here from wheat and millet bran. Great heat and great…

Date: 1917-05-05

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Deforestation

Description: Wood Cut to be used in tea factory furnaces

Date: 1910

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Route, Meyer's

Description: From Tiflis to Wladikonkas

Date: 1910-05-11

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Route, Meyer's

Description: From Tiflis to Wladikonkas

Date: 1910

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