Frank N. Meyer Collection

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Meyer and Fairchild

Description: Frank Meyer (right) converses with renowned plant explorer Dr. David Fairchild. At the young age of 22, Fairchild helped to create the USDA's Office of Foreign Seed and Plant Introduction where he served as chairman from 1904-28. Throughout Meyer's…

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Route, Meyer's

Description: From Tiflis to Wladikonkas

Date: 1910

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Route, Meyer's

Description: From Tiflis to Wladikonkas

Date: 1910-05-11

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Deforestation

Description: Wood Cut to be used in tea factory furnaces

Date: 1910

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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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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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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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