Henrietta Page sketchbook of fungi drawings

Page, Henrietta. [Sketchbook of drawings of fungi], volume II. Contributed in BHL Harvard University Herbarium, Botany Libraries.
The sketchbook was originally unattributed, but Jason Karakehian (BMC archivist) discovered that the sketchbook connects to specimens that are now housed in the fungarium at New York Botanical Garden (NYBG). The specimens were originally part of the Alstead School of Natural history fungarium, which was integrated into the BMC fungarium after the Alstead School’s closing. Jason was able to attribute the sketchbook to Ms. Page by searching the NYBG’s online database of specimens for fungal collections made in Alstead in the years 1900-1903, which yielded a few collections whose labels referred to Henrietta Page by name and referenced specific pages in her sketchbook “Vol. II.”

Page, Henrietta. [Sketchbook of drawings of fungi], volume II. Contributed in BHL Harvard University Herbarium, Botany Libraries.
The sketchbook is a popular new acquisition and has already been used for several classes interested in field notes, women in science, and scientific illustrations.

Page, Henrietta. [Sketchbook of drawings of fungi], volume II. Contributed in BHL Harvard University Herbarium, Botany Libraries.
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