COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Personal and family papers include legal documents; diaries; letters from friends and relatives; memorabilia and papers relating to his student days at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Illinois; financial and other records concerning his model farm "Gene's Landing," on Seneca Lake in New York. Professional papers include foreign and domestic correspondence on rose growing and judging; flower photographs; notes and patent books that describe and picture numerous rose varieties and perennials he developed; domestic and foreign parentage seedling books and hybridizing records; and many lectures, articles, photographs, and notes concerning floriculture and his work for Jackson & Perkins Company.
Dates
- 1894 - 1968
Creator
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Eugene Sonnenberg Boerner was a rose hybridist, horticulturist, and director of research for the Jackson & Perkins Company, Newark, New York.
Extent
35 cubic feet.
Abstract
Personal and family papers include legal documents; diaries; letters from friends and relatives; memorabilia and papers relating to his student days at the University of Wisconsin and the University of Illinois.
Physical Description
Correspondence, Legal Documents, Memorabilia, Publications.
General
- Contact Information:
- Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections 2B Carl A. Kroch Library Cornell University Ithaca, NY 14853 (607) 255-3530 Fax: (607) 255-9524rareref@cornell.eduhttp://rmc.library.cornell.edu
- Compiled by:
- RMC Staff
- Date completed:
- May 5, 1970
- EAD encoding:
- RMC Staff, November 2008
- Date modified:
- Jude Corina, February 2018
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- November 2008
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Revision Statements
- 12/07/2018: This resource was modified by the ArchivesSpace Preprocessor developed by the Harvard Library (https://github.com/harvard-library/archivesspace-preprocessor)
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
rareref@cornell.edu