Frank N. Meyer Collection

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Agricultural Explorer Certificate

Description: This certificate identifies Meyer as an agricultural explorer of the United States Department of Agriculture who was visiting Manchuria and other parts of China for "the purpose of Aiding in Agricultural Development, especially along the line of…

Date: 1905

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Deforestation

Description: Wood Cut to be used in tea factory furnaces

Date: 1910

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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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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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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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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 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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