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Conard-Pyle Company records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0634
Abstract

The Conard-Pyle Company of West Grove, Pennsylvania, was a large horticultural enterprise that specialized in the cultivation and hybridization of roses, best known for its famed Star Roses. The papers chronicle Conard-Pyle's evolution from a small-scale retail business to an influential wholesaler, as well as the financial, legal, and marketing concerns of a major nursery company.

Dates: 1891-2000

Conard-Pyle Company records supplement

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0634s
Abstract

The Conard-Pyle Company records supplement includes substantial additions to the series in the original collection, as well as records which constitute three new series related to the Atlantic Coast Nurseries, Inc., printed material, and Robert Pyle's professional papers.

Dates: 1868-2000; Majority of material found within 1910-2000

Peter Owen publishing records

 Collection
Identifier: MSS 0571
Abstract

Peter Owen publishing records is the publisher’s archive (1950s-1995) of an independent British firm renowned for its international list of major authors and avant garde works. The bulk of the collection consists of the production files of selected works, primarily from the 1980s and 1990s, including edited typescripts, proofs, and other materials documenting the process of turning an author’s manuscript into a finished book.

Dates: 1951-1995

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Clippings (information artifacts) 2
Financial records 2
Marketing 2
Motion pictures (visual work) 2
Photographs 2
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Roses--History--20th century 2
Slides (photographs) 2
Agreements 1
Anthologies 1
Audio cassette 1
Autobiographies 1
Biographies (documents) 1
Book jackets 1
Contracts 1
Correspondence 1
Diaries 1
Editors (assembling, revising) 1
Essays 1
Faxes 1
France--Description and travel 1
Galley proofs 1
Gardening--History--19th century 1
Gardening--History--20th century 1
Gardening--Periodicals 1
Gardening--Societies, etc.--History--20th century 1
Gardening--United States--History--20th century 1
Greeting cards 1
Histories (literature genre) 1
Horticultural products industry--History--20th century 1
Horticulture--History--19th century 1
Horticulture--History--20th century 1
Illustrations (layout features) 1
Interviews 1
Kennett Square (Pa.)--History--20th century 1
Layouts (printer matter) 1
Lectures 1
Letters (correspondence) 1
Licenses 1
Memorandums 1
Negatives (photographic) 1
Nonfiction 1
Novels 1
Nurseries (Horticulture)--History--19th century 1
Nurseries (Horticulture)--History--20th century 1
Nurseries (Horticulture)--United States--History--20th century 1
Obituaries 1
Page proofs 1
Pamphlets 1
Patents 1
Periodicals 1
Photocopies 1
Plant hybridization--History--20th century 1
Plants, Cultivated--Patents 1
Plants, Cultivated--Patents--History--19th century 1
Plants, Cultivated--Patents--History--20th century 1
Poetry 1
Postcards 1
Press kits 1
Press releases 1
Publishers 1
Publishers and publishing--Great Britain--History--20th century 1
Reviews (document genre) 1
Roses--Breeding--United States--History--20th century 1
Roses--History--19th century 1
Stock certificates 1
Translations (documents) 1
Translators 1
Transparencies 1
Travel--History--20th century 1
Typescripts 1
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Names
Conard-Pyle Co. 2
Atlantic Coast Nurseries, Inc. 1
Bernard, Oliver 1
Bode, Charles Gustav, 1901- 1
Bowles, Paul, 1910-1999 1