Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Page Seed Company records
- Dates:
- 1896-1958
- Creators:
- Ian Brabner and Page Seed Company
- Extent:
- .4 Linear Feet (1 box)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Page Seed Company Records (Collection 499). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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A collection of approximately 425 incoming and outgoing letters and invoices documents the business activities of the Page Seed Company, founded in 1896 by Erford Lydell Page and Cornelia Page in Greene, Chenango County, New York. Letterheads on outgoing letters (1901-1946) and outgoing invoices (1911-1958) trace the company's changes in emphasis over time, from "growers of seeds, bulbs and plants (1901-1913) to "seedsmen" (from 1912), "growers and importers of seeds" (1913-1914), "growers and importers of garden, field and flower seeds" (1920-1923), "growers and importers of seeds" (1930), or "growers and wholesalers of seeds" (1956-1958). Incoming letters (1896-1957) and invoices (1897-1942) chiefly quote seed availability and prices, or shipments send or received, or involve order or contract disputes.
- Acquisition information:
- Purchased from Ian Brabner from the Franklin E. Murphy, M.D. Fund, 2015.
- Processing information:
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Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
- Names:
- Ian Brabner
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2020-11-19 12:32:50 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical objects belong to the UCLA Library Special Collections. All other rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC Regents do not hold the copyright.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Page Seed Company Records (Collection 499). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library12-077 Center for Health Sciences, Box 951798Los Angeles, CA 90095-1798, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-6940