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Blog Reel, Campaigns, Garden Stories

Revolutionizing the Garden Industry with Art: Part Two

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J. Horace McFarland’s name is little known today. In the early twentieth century, however, he was a prominent figure in American horticulture and the nascent environmental movement. McFarland (1859-1948) was a master printer, horticulturist, and conservationist, whose Harrisburg, Pennsylvania printing company specialized in horticultural trade publications. He was particularly noted for his use of photographs and color photoengraving in nursery and seed trade catalogs. As a boy, McFarland learned the nursery trade by working in his family’s business, Riverside Nurseries of Harrisburg. His father, who published a small weekly newspaper, gave Horace a printing press in 1878.
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March 26, 2015bySara Lee and Diane Wunsch
Blog Reel, Campaigns, Featured Books, Garden Stories

Revolutionizing the Garden Industry with Art: Part One

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Seventeenth and eighteenth-century America had established nurseries—George Fenwick’s in Connecticut in the 1640s, John Bartram’s in Philadelphia (approximately 1729) and Robert Prince’s on Long Island (1737)—that traded plants to and from Europe. The owners were accomplished botanists and plant collectors.

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March 26, 2015byJulia Blakely
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Finding Artistic Inspiration in Biodiversity Literature

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It’s no surprise that the natural history books and archives available in the BHL collection are of vital importance to scientists and modern scientific research.
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March 12, 2015byGrace Costantino
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Hispanic Heritage Month: The Life and Work of Louis Agassiz Fuertes

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The artwork of Puerto Rican-American Louis Agassiz Fuertes has been featured a few times before on the BHL blog. His paintings are beautiful and eye-catching, and always a treat to visit. Through titles available in BHL, we can even see the evolution of Fuertes’s career— from his earliest professional work to his last. The Ithaca-born ornithologist and artist often drew as a young child, sketching domestic animals and wild birds alike.
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October 2, 2014byAdriana Marroquin
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A Crusade to Save the Golden Lion Tamarin

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Post by Grace Costantino with significant contributions from Field Book Project blog post, “Field Notes from a Battle Against Extinction,” by Sonoe Nakasone.

  A small, endangered primate, the Golden Lion Tamarin (GLT) (also known as the Golden or Lion Marmoset) gets its name from the trademark, vivid orange “mane” surrounding its face. Don’t let the “lion” part fool you, however.

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September 18, 2014byGrace Costantino
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Lepidoptera Love: Nabokov’s Untold Story

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Although Vladimir Nabokov is remembered as one of America’s most venerated novelists, his first and most beloved pastime was not the writing of books, but the chasing of butterflies. Nabokov loved butterflies long before Humbert Humbert fell so tragically in love with his adolescent nymphet and long after American parents had stopped naming their children “Lolita.”

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December 7, 2012byJJ Dearborn
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Post Life & Literature: Themes and Outcomes

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If you happened to be living under a rock for the past two weeks and missed our blog posts, tweets, and posts on Facebook, you might have missed the fact that last week was the Life and Literature Conference, an event hosted by BHL with the express purpose of generating conversations about the priorities for biodiversity literature digitization, particularly as it pertains to BHL, for the next 4-5 years.

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November 22, 2011byMichelle Strizever
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