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- catalog abstract "The McKelvey papers include articles, research papers and notes, correspondence, photographs, maps, and manuscripts. The papers reflect her activities as a member of the Arboretum Visiting committee, a research associate working with lilacs and yuccas, and a botanical explorer of the Southwestern United States. Material regarding yuccas was formerly deposited in the Library of the Gray Herbarium in Cambridge and has been integrated into the existing collection.".
- catalog contributor b754808.
- catalog date "1919".
- catalog description "Electronic finding aid available http://arboretum.harvard.edu/wp-content/uploads/II_A-4_SDM_2012.pdf".
- catalog description "Inventory available in library; folder level control.".
- catalog description "Papers of Susan Delano McKelvey. Arnold Arboretum Library of Harvard University.".
- catalog description "Susan Delano McKelvey was born in 1883 in Philadelphia. She married a young attorney, Charles Wylie McKelvey, in 1907. McKelvey left New York for Boston after her marriage ended. The collection reflects McKelvey’s activities as a research associate working first on cultivated lilacs, then on yuccas growing in the wild in the southwest, and finally on the natural and cultural history of the western United States. McKelvey began her association with the Arnold Arboretum in 1919 when she contacted Charles Sprague Sargent, the Arboretum’s founding director, wishing to volunteer and to study landscape architecture. With the death of Charles Sprague Sargent in 1927, McKelvey was appointed to Harvard’s ‘Committee to Visit the Arnold Arboretum’ and in 1931 was appointed research associate. McKelvey held both of these positions for the rest of her Arboretum career. She focused on the study of yuccas and plants of the American Southwest and botanized extensively in this area during plant collecting expeditions. McKelvey was a successful botanist, well respected author, and foremost authority on lilacs and yuccas, As a Visiting Committee member dedicated to the Arboretum, McKelvey actively opposed the implementation of the Bailey Plan (1945), which diverted Arboretum funds and sought the transfer of Arboretum resources to the Cambridge campus. This became known as the ‘Arnold Arboretum Controversy’ and played itself out in a divisive court battle during the 1950s and 1960s. Susan Delano McKelvey died in 1964.".
- catalog description "The McKelvey papers include articles, research papers and notes, correspondence, photographs, maps, and manuscripts. The papers reflect her activities as a member of the Arboretum Visiting committee, a research associate working with lilacs and yuccas, and a botanical explorer of the Southwestern United States. Material regarding yuccas was formerly deposited in the Library of the Gray Herbarium in Cambridge and has been integrated into the existing collection.".
- catalog extent "25.5 linear feet.".
- catalog issued "1919".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog spatial "United States".
- catalog spatial "West (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "Agaves.".
- catalog subject "Arnold Arboretum.".
- catalog subject "Botanical gardens.".
- catalog subject "Botany Research.".
- catalog subject "Botany United States History.".
- catalog subject "Lilacs.".
- catalog subject "Plants West (U.S.)".
- catalog subject "Women botanists".
- catalog subject "Yucca.".
- catalog title "Papers of Susan Delano McKelvey (1883-1964), 1900-2005.".
- catalog type "Letters. lcsh".
- catalog type "Notebooks ftamc".
- catalog type "Photographs. ftamc".
- catalog type "collection".