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  • Classification number: 3P
  • Title of Record Series: Helen I. Davis
  • Record Group: Faculty
  • Sub Group: Individuals
  • Date: 11/4/1975
  • Accession Number: A75-2
  • Source: Harriet B. Creighton
  • Restrictions: None
  • Volume: 1 box
Description:

Personal papers of Helen I. Davis (1890-1958); reviewed and occasionally annotated by Harriet B. Creighton, Professor of Botany 1940-1974; dating from c1910 to 1936; integrated with existing files; consisting of photograph albums, notebooks, report; concerning her years at Wellesley as a student and as a faculty member of the Department of Botany; including photographs on Construction of Sage, Botanical Gardens and Hunnewell Arboretum.

Note:

Helen I. Davis, Class of 1912 was associated with Wellesley for many years. She was assistant in Department of Botany 1912-1914; curator of Botany Museum 1913-1914; instructor of Horticulture and landscape gardening 1915-1919, 1920-1921; assistant professor 1921-1930; associate director of Botany greenhouses and gardens 1925-1930; Associate Professor of Botany and Director of Botanic gardens 1930-1947.

Box 1
  • Davis, Helen I.: Student: Botany XIII Lecture Notes and Laboratory Directions, 1911-1912
  • Davis, Helen I.: Student: (2) Notebooks from botany 13
  • Davis, Helen I.: Student: (2) Notebooks from Botany 13
  • Photograph Album: Student Days of Helen I. Davis
  • Davis, Helen I.: Faculty: Sabbatical Report, January 9, 1936
  • Photograph Album: 1925 Construction of Botanic Gardens
  • Photograph Album: Botanic Gardens, 1926 and Construction of Botany Building, 1926-1927
  • Photographs by Helen I. Davis (plans for plantings around Green, Severance, Sage and Shepard House) c. 1930-1931

Created By: Dorothy Brown '09 || Maintained By: Jane Callahan and Ian Graham || Date Created: January 10, 2008 || Last Modified: October 15, 2012