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Collection Overview
| Size | 11.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 5,000 items) |
| Abstract | H. A. (Harry Ardell) Allard (1880-1963) was a native of Massachusetts, graduate of the University of North Carolina, 1905, naturalist, specialist in the United States Department of Agriculture, 1906-1946, and author of several hundred articles on biological subjects. The collection includes Allard's correspondence with other scientists, government departments, researchers, and his son, Howard F. Allard; an autobiography; extensive diary entries, 1899-1948; reading and field notes; illustrations and graphs; photographs; a bibliography of published works; and writings of Allard on natural history, plant behavior, photoperiodism, the tobacco mosaic virus, and various other subjects. |
| Creator | Allard, H. A. (Harry Ardell), 1880-1963. |
| Language | English |
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Subject Headings
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Biographical
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H. A. (Harry Ardell) Allard (1880-1963) was a native of Massachusetts, graduate of the University of North Carolina, 1905, naturalist, specialist in the United States Department of Agriculture, 1906-1946, and author of several hundred articles on biological subjects.
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Scope and Content
The collection includes H. A. Allard's correspondence with other scientists, government departments, researchers, and his son, Howard F. Allard; an autobiography; extensive diary entries, 1899-1948; reading and field notes; illustrations and graphs; photographs; a bibliography of published works; and writings of Allard on natural history, plant behavior, photoperiodism, the tobacco mosaic virus, and various other subjects.
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Series 1. Papers, 1880-1949 and undated.
Arrangement: chronological
Papers are chiefly correspondence of H. A. Allard with other scientists, government departments, and researchers on the subjects of natural history and plant behavior. Letters, 1945-1949, to Allard from his son, Howard F. Allard, in the Dominican Republic and Peru are also included as well as some personal records, honorary degrees and memberships, and photographs.
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Series 2. Diary, 1899-1953 and undated.
Arrangement: chronological
The series includes H. A. Allard's intermittent diary with some notes on botanical subjects. Also included are some typed transcriptions of the same.
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Series 3.
Miscellaneous Writings
Includes digests of papers and articles by H. A. Allard on many subjects in natural history.
Note that original file folder titles have, for the most part, been retained.
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Series 4. Illustrations
Note that original file folder titles have, for the most part, been retained.
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Items Separated
Photographs (PF-2977/1-4; SF-P-2977/1-8).
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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007
Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton, and Jodi Berkowitz, March 2011
This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.
This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.
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