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W. Atlee Burpee & Company Records - Accretion 2
W. Atlee Burpee Company
Burpee, W. Atlee (Washington Atlee), 1858-1915
Burpee, David, 1893-1980
Wm. Henry Maule (Firm)
James Vick's Sons (Rochester, N.Y.).
AAG.BUR2
Archival Resource Key
200 Cubic feet
circa 1873-1980
The W. Atlee Burpee & Company records, dated circa 1873-1986, document the firm's business activities developing plant varieties, working with contract seedsmen, and marketing and selling seeds. They include seed trial records, seed contracts, sales and acccounting records, inventories, office correspondence, seed catalogs, promotional and instructional materials, advertisements and advertising reports, contest letters, daybooks, photographs, reference materials, and other items relating to the company and some of its competitors. The collection also includes Burpee family papers.
English
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Content Description
This collection documents W. Atlee Burpee & Co., a mail-order seed company based in Philadelphia, from its early beginnings in 1876 when its founder, W. Atlee Burpee, started in the agricultural business, to the 1970s when his son, David Burpee, sold the firm. The collection also includes personal papers of the Burpee family dating back to the mid-nineteenth century.
Business-related content in the collection consists of crop propagation and management records; company correspondence; administrative and personnel records; advertising files; legal papers; property records and plans; reports, studies, and technical data; notes and drafts; files on professional outreach activities and events; trade literature (published by both the Burpee company and a number of its competitors); and awards and certificates received by the company. Significant topics documented in these files include the development of notable flower and vegetable varieties introduced by the company; the impact of World Wars I and II on gardening and the global seed trade; advertising strategies, technology, and innovation; and David Burpee's advocacy of the marigold as the national floral emblem of the United States.
The Burpee family papers consist of personal files unrelated to the company's business operations. These include records generated by W. Atlee's father (David Burpee, 1827-1882) and grandfather (Washington L. Atlee, 1808-1878), as well as W. Atlee's wife, Blanche (1863-1948); David Burpee (1893-1980) and his wife, Lois (1912-1984); and W. Atlee Burpee II (1894-1966). There are genealogical surveys conducted on both the Atlee and Burpee families as well as clippings about family members. W. Atlee and David Burpee's series are the most extensive, and cover their involvement with numerous social and philanthropic clubs and organizations. The series include personal correspondence; financial, accounting, and tax records; travel-related files; reference material; and will and estate papers.
The Burpee collection also has a large number of images related to the Burpee business and family in a variety of formats including photographs, film and glass plate negatives, and advertisement mock-ups. Other formats include architectural and site plans, original artwork for advertisements, films, cassettes, audio tapes, and ephemera.
Biographical / Historical
Washington Atlee Burpee (1858-1915) began a mail-order poultry and livestock business in 1876 in Philadelphia, which he soon expanded to include corn seed for chicken feed. In 1878, he founded W. Atlee Burpee & Co. to sell livestock and vegetable, fruit, and flower seeds through the mail. His company went on to become one of the most notable seed distributors in the world.
In 1888, W. Atlee bought a tract of land named Fordhook Farms in Doylestown, Pennsylvania. It was initially established as an experimental farm to test and evaluate new varieties of vegetables and flowers and to produce seeds for the mail-order market. Burpee spent many summers traveling throughout the United States and Europe visiting farms and searching for the best flowers and vegetables. Certain plants he found were shipped back to the firm for testing and propagation; other seeds were obtained through contracts with growers throughout the U.S., a practice common in the seed industry at that time. Promising varieties were bred with healthier specimens to produce hardier hybrids that were more resistant to disease. Other Burpee trial grounds were later established at Sunnybrook Farm near Swedesboro, New Jersey, and at Floradale Farms in Lompoc, California (1909/1910). The company went on to purchase more land for farming in California, and established sales branch headquarters in Sanford, Florida (circa 1930s), Clinton, Iowa (1942), and Riverside, California (1949).
W. Atlee Burpee married Blanche Simons (1863-1948) in 1892. They had three sons: David (1893-1980); W. Atlee Jr. ("Junior") (1894-1966); and Stuart Alexander (1901-1934). Both David and Junior attended the Blight School in Philadelphia for elementary school and Culver Military Academy in Culver, Indiana for preparatory school. While they both attended Cornell University as undergraduates, they left before graduating due to W. Atlee's poor health. Junior married Jeanetta Lee (1893-1981) in November, 1916, and they had two children: W. Atlee III (1917-1971) and Jeanette (1919-2002). David married Lois Torrance (1912-1984) in 1938, and they had two children: Johnathan (b. 1941) and Blanche (b. 1943). Stuart Alexander was apparently born with a disability; according to census records he worked on farms during his lifetime.
David Burpee took over the family business upon his father's death in 1915; W. Atlee Burpee, Jr. served as treasurer of the firm once he returned from serving in the military. At that time, the Burpee company had 300 employees and was the largest mail-order seed company in the world. It distributed over one million catalogs a year and received on average 10,000 orders a day. Under David's tutelage, the company adapted to contemporaneous shifts in business and advertising methods, advancements in plant science, ever-changing consumer demands, and two World Wars. In response to food shortages experienced during World War I, the Burpee company helped promote a "war gardens" campaign that evolved into a "victory gardens" campaign during World War II.
Both W. Atlee and David used their position as head of a major seed house to lobby congressional debates in regard to two topics: postage rates (W. Atlee) and the designation of a national floral emblem for the United States (David). Both men belonged to The Union League of Philadelphia and The Canadian Society of Philadelphia (which W. Atlee helped found), and served on the boards of directors for hospitals and other charitable organizations. Both father and son were politically aligned with the Republican Party.
The firm reorganized its governing structure in 1917 at which time it changed its name from W. Atlee Burpee & Co. to W. Atlee Burpee Co. Burpee's acquired three seed companies between 1878 and 1970: Luther Burbank Seed Company, James Vick's Seeds, Inc., and the William Henry Maule Company. David Burpee sold the company to the General Foods Corporation in 1970 and served as a consultant for the business until 1973. The Burpee brand was bought by its current owner, George J. Ball, Inc., in 1991.
Arrangement
Collection is arranged into six series:
Series 1: Plant/Farm Related Material
Series 2: Business Records
Series 3: Material Published About the Burpee Company
Series 4: Awards and Certificates
Series 5: Photographic and A/V Materials
Series 6: Burpee Family Papers
The collection's original order was maintained wherever possible, though many records were found scattered throughout the collection and artificial files were necessarily created for them.
Most files are arranged chronologically or alphabetically by person or topic.
Various photographs interspersed in correspondence files were kept where they were originally found. All other photographic and audio/visual materials found on their own were grouped in Series 5 Photographic and A/V Material which documents aspects of both the Burpee company and Burpee family.
Related Materials
Burpee seed catalogs donated to the Smithsonian in 1982 by the W. Atlee Burpee Co. can be found in the Smithsonian Libraries and Archives' Trade Literature Collection at the National Museum of American History.
The Farm Security Administration - Office of War Information Photograph Collection in the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division includes a series of images of Burpee company operations taken in 1943.
The Black Gold Cooperative Library System's Asian/Pacific - Americans on the Central Coast Collection includes images dated 1933-1939 of Japanese employees of the Burpee Co. working at Floradale Farms in Lompoc, California.
Existence and Location of Copies
Copies of numerous Burpee publications including seed catalogs and trade literature are found in other public repositories and special collections. Many of these publications have been digitized and are available online through the Biodiversity Heritage Library at www.biodiversitylibrary.org/ .
Conditions Governing Access
Access to original archival materials by appointment only. Researcher must submit request for appointment in writing. Certain items may be restricted and not available to researchers. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Conditions Governing Use
Archives of American Gardens encourages the use of its archival materials for non-commercial, educational and personal use under the fair use provision of U.S. copyright law. Use or copyright restrictions may exist. It is incumbent upon the researcher to ascertain copyright status and assume responsibility for usage. All requests for duplication and use must be submitted in writing and approved by Archives of American Gardens. Please direct reference inquiries to the Archives of American Gardens: aag@si.edu.
Preferred Citation
Smithsonian Institution, Archives of American Gardens, W. Atlee Burpee & Company Records
General
The project to arrange and rehouse the W. Atlee Burpee & Co. Records received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee.
General
The project to digitize select Burpee records originating from Burpee Co.'s Sanford branch that had been affected by water damage and mold received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee.
Seed industry and trade
Mail-order business -- Catalogs
Gardens -- United States
Horticulture
Vegetables
Trial gardens
Victory gardens
Prize contests in advertising
Advertising, Newspaper -- 20th century
Advertising, magazine -- 20th century
Flower shows
Trade catalogs
Business records
Commercial correspondence
Instructional materials
Ledgers (account books)
Plant/Farm Related Materials
Series 1
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Records related to the W. Atlee Burpee company's plant and farm operations. Records documents the company's technical advancements in plant science, the management of its crops, its early business of breeding and trading livestock, and the firm's non-seed products.
Crops
1.1
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Records related to the search for, development, and management of plants grown by the Burpee company.
Plants
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, plant-specific breeding objectives, novelty plant reports, crop progress and final reports, newspaper clippings, trade literature, photographs, memos, sales and pricing figures, and plant histories related to ornamental and edible plants grown by the Burpee company. The documents were generated mostly by company principals and staff, but material related to outside seed growers and scientists is also present. Also included are general reports from the various Burpee farms involved in seed trials and cultivation; plant descriptions; records related to novelty plant breeding, X-ray mutations, and hybridization; crop estimates; crop lists; and growing costs. Files are arranged generally by flowers and vegetables, followed by mixed crops.
Asters
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1950-1962
296
1
Aster Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
296
2
Asters
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1970
296
3
Begonias
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
296
4
Brachycome
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964, 1967
296
5
Calendulas, X-ray
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1954
296
6
Calendulas
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
296
7
Celosia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1958-1969
296
8
Celosia Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
296
9
Celosia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
296
10
Cosmos
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1933-1934, 1954
296
11
Cosmos
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
296
12
Dahlia Propagation Notes (added to The Nurserymen & Seedsmen Diary & Remembrancer)
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
circa 1924-1930
370
1-4
Dahlias
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
296
13
Gloriosa Daisy Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
296
14
Daylilies
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
296
15
Gladiolus Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
296
16
Larkspur
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1951-1953
296
17
Larkspur
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
296
18
Lilies
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
296
19
Lily Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
296
20
Marigolds
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1933-1950
296
21
Marigolds, Odorless
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1936-1937
296
22
Marigold, Collarette "Crown of Gold"
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1936-1939
296
23
"Wildfire" Marigold, Fertile Hybrids AxF
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1940
296
24
Marigold Breeding
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938-1968
296
25
Marigold, Idabelle Firestone
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939-1940
296
26
Marigold Breeding
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953-1955
296
27
Marigolds
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960-1969
296
28
Marigold Summary
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961-1964
296
29
Marigolds
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962, 1965
296
30
Marigold Triploids
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962-1969
296
31
Marigolds
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
296
32
Marigold Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1965
296
33
Marigolds, Hybrids in General
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963, 1965
296
34
Marigold, Yellow Nugget
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1968
296
35
Marigold, Nugget
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1970
296
36
Marigold, Jumbo
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
296
37
Marigold Hybrid Production for 1967
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
296
38
Marigolds for 1967
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
296
39
Marigolds
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1968
296
40
Marigold, Fantastic
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
296
41
Marigold, Red
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
296
42
Marigolds, General
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1982
296
43
Nasturtium, Double
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1933-1935
296
44
Nasturtium
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1934
296
45
Nasturtium, Super Double
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1934-1935
296
46
Nasturtium, Double and Super Double
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1934-1936
296
47
Nasturtium
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1936-1950
296
48
Nicotiana
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1952
296
49
Pansies
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954
296
50
Pansy Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1966
296
51
Simonet R. Petunias, All Double
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939-1955
296
52
Petunias
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1940-1962
296
53
Petunia Breeding Report, Doubles
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1944
296
54
Petunias
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1966
296
55
Petunia Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
296
56
Phlox
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1947-1953
296
57
Rudbeckia (Dr. A.F. Blakeslee)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1949-1956
296
58
Rudbeckia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954-1959
296
59
Snapdragons
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1941-1969
296
60
Snapdragons
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962-1965
296
61
Snapdragon Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
296
62
Snapdragon Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
296
63
Snapdragons
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1966
296
64
Snapdragons Trials for 1966
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1966
296
65
Snapdragons
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
296
66
Sweet Pea Introductions
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1910-1917
296
67-68
Sweet Peas
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911-1923
296
69
Lathyrus (Sweet Peas)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1914-1915
296
70
Sweet Peas
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
circa 1920-1968
296
71-72
Statement on Pea Stocks
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1922
370
5
Sweet Peas, Floradale Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1924-1927
297
1
Sweet Peas, Floradale Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1927-1928
297
2
Early and Late Flowering Sweet Pea Comparisons
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1927
297
3
Sweet Peas
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1928
297
4
Sweet Pea and Bulb Trials at Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1931
390
1
Sweet Pea Culture
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1934-1940
297
5
Sweet Peas
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1951
297
6
Sweet Peas, Dwarf Late
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
297
7
Sweet Pea Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
297
8
Sweet Peas
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1965
297
9
Sweet Pea Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
297
10
Sweet Pea Novelties
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1967
297
11
Sweet Peas
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
297
12
Sweet Peas, Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
297
13
Sunflowers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963, 1965
297
14
Sunflower Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
297
15
Tithonia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
297
16
Tulip History
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938
297
17
Verbena Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
297
18
Verbena
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964, 1965
297
19
Vines
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
297
20
Zinnia History
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1935-1940
297
21
Zinnias
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939-1953
297
22
Zinnias
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954-1963
297
23
Zinnias
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961-1965
297
24
Zinnia Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
297
25
Zinnias
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1965
297
26
Zinnia Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1966
297
27
Zinnias
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
297
28
Zinnias for 1968
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1968
297
29
Zinnias for 1969
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1970
297
30
Zinnias Trials for 1969, Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
297
31
Flower Seed Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1906
390
2
Notes on Flowers by W. Atlee Burpee and Others
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1912
297
32
Bound Volume of Flower Descriptions
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1916
370
6
Flower Seed Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1917
390
3
Grass Seed
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953
297
33
Flower Reports on Sweet Peas, Geraniums, Pansies, Petunias
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953-1955
297
34
Fordhook and Floradale Seed Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954
297
35
Flower Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955-1956
297
36
Flower Trial Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1956
297
37
Breeding Fowers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1956-1968
297
38
Battelle Memorial Institute Germination Results
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961
297
39
Flower Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
297
40
Bulb Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
297
41
Pansies and Violas
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
297
42
Flower Hybrids List
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
297
43
Perennial Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
297
44
New Flowers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
297
45
Bulbs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
297
46
Flower Trial Reports
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1969-1970
297
47-50
Flower Trial Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971
297
51
California All-America Selections Flower Trial Entries
Archival Resource Key
1 File
July, 1972
297
52
Balsam Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
297
53
Basil (Herbs)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939
297
54
Beans
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1919-1957
297
55
Beans, Lima
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946-1954
297
56
Beans
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
297
57
Beets
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1921-1966
297
58
Beets, Golden
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1970
297
59
Beets, Golden
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1970
297
60
Cabbage, Chinese
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953
297
61
Carrots
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946
297
62
Carrots
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
297
63
Celtuce
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938-1950
297
64
Chard, Rhubarb
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939-1941
297
65
Corn
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1903-1938
297
66
Corn, Illini Chief Super Sweet
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
297
67
Cucumbers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1945-1954
297
68
Curlicress
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963, 1967
297
69
Eggplant
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946
297
70
Lettuce
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
297
71
Melons
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938-1969
297
72
Report on New Mustard
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1903
297
73
Onions
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1944-1948
297
74
Pumpkin, Big Max
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
297
75
Radish, New Carmine
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1923
297
76
Radish
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946-1955
297
77
Spinach, Basella Rubra and Malabar
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1945
298
1
Spinach, Malabar
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
298
2
Squash
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1944-1954
298
3
Tampala
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1943-1950
298
4
Tomatoes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1889-1964
298
5
Tomato Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1924-1926
298
6
Tomato, Pixie
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
298
7
Vegetable Seed Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907
298
8
Vegetable Seed Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1917
390
4
Vegetable Introductions
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1921-1966
298
9
Breeding Vegetables
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1923, 1940-1968
298
10
Vegetable Trials Update
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1931
298
11
Vegetable Histories
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1938
298
12
Vegetables
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1940-1951
298
13
Vegetable Hybrids
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946-1955
298
14
Vegetables
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962-1966
298
15
Vegetables
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1968
298
16
Vegetable Report for 1967
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
298
17
Vegetables
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
298
18
Trials Instructions
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1895
298
19
Plant Notes [fragment]
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1915
370
7
Crop Notes and Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915
298
20
Plant Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1923-1925
298
21
Novelties
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1925-1966
298
22
X-Ray and Mutations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1927-1939
298
23
Plant Description and Culture Log
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1930-1940
401
Plant Breeding Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1933-1976
298
24
Trial Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1934
298
25
Plant Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1934
298
26
Plant Descriptions
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1934-1939
298
27
Breeding and Seed Production Projects
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1935, 1947
298
28
Breeding
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1936-1963
298
29
Miscellanous Plant Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1953
298
30
Tetraploids
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938-1955
298
31
Colchicine
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938-1941
298
32
Forcing Plants for Special Dates
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1940-1960
298
33
Novelties, Procedures, Sales, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1942-1953
298
34
Seed Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1944
298
35
Hybrids, General
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1944-1954
298
36
Burpee Introductions
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1947-1968
298
37
Seed Stock Reports
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1950-1960
298
38-39
Seed Trial Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953
298
40
Plant Breeding Notes on Polyploidy
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953
298
41
Crop Reports and Objectives
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953
298
42
Crop Estimates
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953
298
43
Seed Reports
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1956
298
44-45
Novelty Statements and Classifications
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1956
298
46
Bees
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959, 1967
298
47
Flower Novelties
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961-1966
298
48
Breeding Projects
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
298
49
Triploids
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
298
50
Heat-Tolerant Plants
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
298
51
Purity Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
298
52
Miscellaneous Annual Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
298
53
Novelties for 1965 and On
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
298
54
Everlastings Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
298
55
Novelty Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
299
1
Costs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1966
299
2
Breeding
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1966
299
3
Novelties for 1967
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
299
4
Novelties for 1968
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1968
299
5
Seed
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1968
299
6
Hybrids
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1969
299
7
Seed and Novelties Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
299
8
Novelties for 1969
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1969
299
9
Technical Correspondence, Institut fur Zierpflanzenbau
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
299
10
Breeding
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1973
299
11
Miscellaneous Production
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1970-1972
299
12
Plant Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972-1973
299
13
List of Burpee Plant Introductions, 1877-1975
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1975
299
14
All-America Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
299
15
All-America and Annual Flower Trials at Penn State
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
299
16
All-America Selections for 1968
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1968
299
17
All-America Selections
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
299
18
All-America Selections and National Garden Bureau
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974-1975
299
19
Wooden Stake Used in Trial Bed #3227
Archival Resource Key
circa 1900-1930
410
Crops Suggested for Growing at Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1904
299
20
Crops for Growing at Sunnybrook Farm
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1906-1918
299
21
Crops for Growing at Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1916, 1919
299
22
Greenhouse Plants
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
299
23
Fordhook Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
299
24
Fordhook Trials, Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
299
25
Fordhook Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
299
26
Fordhook Trials, Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
299
27
Fordhook Trials, Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1970
299
28
Floradale Seed Novelties for 1910
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1909
299
29
Floradale Crops
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1912
299
30
Floradale Farms Program for Breeding Work
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939
299
31
Floradale Farms Technical Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955
299
32
Floradale Farms Seed Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
299
33
Floradale Farms Seed Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
299
34
Santa Paula Farms Technical Growing Data
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1955
299
35-36
Santa Paula Farms Seed Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962-1963
299
37
Santa Paula Farms Seed Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1970
299
38
California Farms Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
299
39
Los Altos Crop Reports [Mexico or California]
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953
299
40
Asia, Breeding Production
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
299
41
Plant Finders (Indexes)
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Notebooks, lists, and reports that list crop names along with their corresponding Burpee plant identification number.
Record Book, 1885-1927
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1885-1912
401
Vegetable Seeds
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1902
299
42
Vegetable Seeds
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1903
299
43
Finder for Vegetable Seed Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1919
380
1
Perennials
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1930
390
5
Dahlias
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1930-1931
390
6
Seed Numbering System
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1950
299
44
Proposed Numbering Code for Hybrids
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959
299
45
Seed Numbers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1970
299
46
Inventories
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Seed and plant inventories that list seed stock, stock appraisals, reports on seeds thrown out, cleaned seed, and papered (packaged) seeds. Growing lists and inventory policies are also included.
List of Crops Grown (by Burpee Co. and Other Growers)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1828-1914
299
47
Crop Inventory
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1881-1882
390
7
Seed Value and Stock
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1888-1914
299
48
Crop Inventory
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1896
299
49
Seed Crop Inventories and Contracts
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1899
390
8
Seed Crop Inventories and Contracts
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1900
390
9
Flower Inventory
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1901
299
50
Transfer Stock Ledger
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1905-1912
434
Seed Inventories
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1906-1914
299
51
Seed Inventories and Contracts
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1906-1907
390
10
Seed Inventories and Contracts
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1907-1908
390
11
Value of Seeds Appraised
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907
299
52
Vegetable Inventory (fragment)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907
370
8
Seed Inventories and Contracts
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907, 1914
410
New Plant Varieties
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1909
299
53
Crop Collections Sold
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911
299
54
Plant Inventory and Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1913
390
12
Value of Seeds Thrown Out
Archival Resource Key
1 File
July, 1915
299
55
Crop List (portion)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1915-1930
370
9
Crop Lists
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1921-1925
300
1
Seed Wanted for Papering
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1919-1920
318
7-9
Bulk Stock Requisitions for Seed Order Filling Department
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1920
300
2-5
Growing Lists
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1926-1930
300
6
Farm and Seed Inventories, Floradale Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1927
300
7
Bulb Stock Requisitions for Bulb Order Filling Department
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1932
300
8-10
Bulk Stock Requisitions for Papering Department
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1932
300
11-14
Bulk Seed Requisitions
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1936-1937
394
395
396
Reports on Cleaned Seed, Bulk Stock, and Papered Stock
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1936-1937
300
15-16
Seed Stock Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937
300
17
Quantity of Vegetable Seeds Used
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954
300
18
Floradale and Santa Paula Inventory
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955
370
10
Storage in Transit Seed at Riverside
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1958
300
19
Bulk Seed Inventory, 1959-1963
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
300
20
Inventories, California Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1967
370
11
Crop and Farm Inventories, 1969
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1969
300
21
Seed Inventory Policy
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
300
22
Flower Seeds
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
300
23
Seed Ledger Values and Costs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
300
24
Inventory Memo and Form
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
300
25
Livestock (Poultry, Pigs and Dogs)
1.2
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Notebooks, correspondence, account records, notes, pedigree certificates, and lists related to the company's breeding and sale of livestock. Although a variety of livestock was bred during the company's early years, Scottish Collies were a mainstay of the firm's livestock program. Information regarding the lineage and sale of dogs is routinely represented in these records. The livestock program dwindled after the death of W. Atlee, though files indicate that the breeding of dogs continued into the 1960s.
Notebook (W. Atlee Burpee)
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1873-1874
390
13
Dogs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1883-1953
300
26
Livestock Accounts
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1894-1897
300
27
Stud Dog Breeding Records
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1913
370
12
Kennel Stud Pedigree Book
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1910-1919
370
13
Kennel Stud Record
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1911
370
14
Dog Pedigrees and Registrations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1910 - 1960
300
28
Livestock, L-Z
Archival Resource Key
6 Files
1916-1917
300
29-32
301
1-2
Products
1.3
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, trade literature, and ephemera related to various products sold by the Burpee company in addition to seeds and livestock. The material includes some of the products, along with legal and administrative papers, notes, correspondence, advertisements, and advertisement proofs.
Fordhook Farms Set of Twelve Picture Postcards
Archival Resource Key
1 Postcard
1907
301
3
Burpee's Everbloom
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961-1965
301
4
Burpee's Instant Gardens
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1970
301
5
Burpee Clock
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970-1980
435
Burpee Placemats
Archival Resource Key
circa 1970-1980
407
New Products
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971
301
6
Burpee's 1888 Farm Annual (reproduction)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1975
380
2
Burpee Metal Serving Trays
Archival Resource Key
2 Items
1976
458
Burpee's Garden Calendar for 1977
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1977
406
Burpee's Garden Guide and Calendar for 1978
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978
380
3
Burpee's Garden Calendars
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1982
301
7
Business Records
Series 2
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
The bulk of records range from 1875, when W. Atlee Burpee first went into the agricultural supply business, to the mid-1970s, a few years after David Burpee sold the company to General Foods Corporation. Included are correspondence; legal documents; illustrations; advertising mock-ups and proofs and advertisements; administrative and operational records; proofs and final copies of published materials; and personnel material. Because many of the records were generated at Fordhook Farms, which served as both the company's trial grounds and home of the Burpee family, some personal papers are interspersed in the business records.
Office Files
2.1
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Letters from the company to customers, seed companies, and other businesses and persons; financial and accounting records; sales and contracts; and miscellaneous files outlining the history of the Burpee company.
Company Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Correspondence sent on behalf of the W. Atlee Burpee Co. The bulk of this material was authored by W. Atlee Burpee or high-level staff members. Most of the files were originally housed chronologically and/or alphabetically in cardboard transfer cases labeled "W. A. Burpee Correspondence," and included both original and carbon copies of receipts, contracts, order inquiries, trade literature, general correspondence, notebooks, and photographs. Correspondents include customers from all over the world, contractors, seed companies, Burpee staff, high-ranking government officials and other "notables," and various outside organizations.
After the 'transfer case' phase of file management (ca. 1890-1920), the firm's record keeping system transitioned to one where topical files were created for individual subjects, individuals, etc. For additional company correspondence and other files related to the running of the company, see W. Atlee and David Burpee's personnel papers in Series 2.2 Administrative Records/Personnel.
Burpee Co. Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1880-1907
301
8-9
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
7 Files
circa 1880-1920
301
10-16
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1883-1897
301
17
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1887-1915
301
18
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
5 Files
1891-1915
301
19-23
W.A. Burpee Correspondence, C
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1897-1915
301
24
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1902-1903
302
1
W.A. Burpee Co. Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1902-1910
302
2
Burpee Co. Telegrams
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1903-1904
380
4
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1903-1912
302
3
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1904-1905
302
4
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1906
302
5-8
W.A. Burpee Co. Correspondence (outgoing)
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1906-1912
302
9-10
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907-1909
302
11
W.A. Burpee Co. Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1907-1909
302
12-15
Letterpress Copybook of Outgoing Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907-1909
302
16
Letterpress Copybook of Outgoing Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1909-1911
302
17
Letterpress Copybook of Outgoing Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911-1912
302
18
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1910
302
19
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1910
302
20
303
1-2
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
March-September, 1910
303
3-5
W.A. Burpee Correspondence (outgoing)
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1910
303
6-9
W.A. Burpee Correspondence (outgoing)
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1910
303
10-13
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1910-1911
303
14-16
W.A. Burpee Correspondence (outgoing)
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1910-1911
303
17-20
W.A. Burpee Co. Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
5 Files
1911
304
1-5
W.A. Burpee Co. Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1911
304
6-7
W.A. Burpee Correspondence (outgoing)
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
March-October, 1911
304
8-11
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
December 1911 - March, 1912
304
12-15
W.A. Burpee Correspondence, W
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911-1914
304
16
W.A. Burpee Correspondence (outgoing)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911-1914
304
17
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1912
304
18
W.A. Burpee Correspondence (outgoing)
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
February - May, 1912
304
19-22
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
March-September, 1912
305
1-4
W.A. Burpee Correspondence (outgoing)
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
May - December, 1912
305
5-8
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
September - December, 1912
305
9-12
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
5 Files
January - March, 1913
305
13-17
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
March - September, 1913
305
18-21
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1913-1914
306
1
W.A. Burpee Correspondence (outgoing)
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1913-1914
306
2-3
W.A. Burpee Correspondence (outgoing)
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
December, 1913 - March, 1914
306
4-6
W.A. Burpee Dictated Correspondence (outgoing)
Archival Resource Key
5 Files
1913-1915
306
7-11
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
January-August, 1914
306
12-15
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
April-May, 1914
306
16-18
307
1
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
November, 1914 - March, 1915
307
2-5
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
January - February, 1915
307
6-9
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
March, 1915
307
10-13
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
March - June, 1915
307
14-17
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
April, 1915
307
18-19
308
1-2
W.A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
May, 1915
308
3-5
W.A. Burpee Co. Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
6 Files
1915-1917
308
6-11
W.A. Burpee Co. Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1917-1919
308
12-13
W. Atlee Burpee Co. Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1918-1919
308
14-17
W. Atlee Burpee Co. Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1921
370
15
W. Atlee Burpee Co. Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
5 Files
1926
308
18
W. Atlee Burpee Co. Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
14 Files
1928
309
5-18
The White House, Washington, D.C.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1897-1898
309
19
Christmas Cards Received
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1930
380
5
World War I
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1917-1919
309
20
Selective Service Act
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1917-1918
309
21
Food Will Win the War Slogan (regarding World War I)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918
309
22
Canada, Regulations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1922-1928
309
23
Letters from Well-Known People
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1925-1970
309
24
Letters of Interest
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1926-1963
309
25
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929
309
26
G.B. Thayer, Insects and Crops
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1934-1937
309
27
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Aster Yellows and Sweet Peas Disease
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1935-1938
309
28
Seed Samples Sent to Foreign Countries, Mr. Warfield
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938
461
24
W. Atlee Burpee Co. to Fordhook Farms, General Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938-1939
Unknown
Unknown
W. Atlee Burpee Co. to Fordhook Farms, General Correspondence
Seeds for Trial, Mr. Warfield
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939
461
25
National Collection Office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (accounts receivable)
Archival Resource Key
National Collection Office
1 File
1937
Unknown
Unknown
National Collection Office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (accounts receivable)
National Collection Office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (accounts receivable)
Archival Resource Key
1 Folder
1938
Unknown
Unknown
National Collection Office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (accounts receivable)
National Collection Office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (accounts receivable)
Archival Resource Key
1 Folder
1939
Unknown
Unknown
National Collection Office, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (accounts receivable)
Letters from Outside the United States During World War II
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939-1945
310
1
World War II
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1940-1945
310
2
Letters from the Orient
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961-1965
310
3
The White House, Washington, D.C.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1967, 1977
310
4
Acknowledgements for Seeds, Bulbs, etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1970
310
5
Seed Companies
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Correspondence and files related to domestic and foreign seed companies, many of which sold seed stock to the Burpee company. Found in this subseries are technical and business correspondence, company histories, clippings, trade literature, travel itineraries, seed packets, notes, financial reports, and legal documents. Also included is correspondence related to surplus seed offers, lists of seed companies, and notebooks that detail price comparisons.
For the bulk of agricultural trade literature from seed companies other than Burpee, see Series 2.9 Burpee Library and Reference Materials.
Asgrow Seed Co., New Haven, Connecticut
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
310
6
Bodger Seeds, Ltd., El Monte, California
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1931
310
7
D. R. Colegrave Seeds Ltd., England
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1967
310
8
The Conard-Pyle Company, West Grove, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961-1964
310
9
Alex Dickson and Sons, Ltd., Ireland (Hugh Dickson)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911-1915
310
10
Dobbie & Co., Ltd., Edinburgh, Scotland
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
310
11
Samuel Dobie & Son, Ltd., England
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1967
310
12
Samuel Dobie and Son, Ltd., England (Angus C. Barber)
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1966-1967
310
13-14
Samuel Dobie & Son, Ltd., England
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1968
310
15
Samuel Dobie and Son, Ltd., England
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
310
16
Samuel Dobie and Son, Ltd., England (Angus C. Barber)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972-1974
310
17
William Ellison, Roosevelt, New York
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1909-1910
310
18
Excel Seed Co., Plainview, Texas
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
310
19
D. M. Ferry & Co., Detroit, Michigan
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1912
310
20
Ferry-Morse Seed Co.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1956-1967
310
21
Ferry-Morse Seed Co., Mountain View, California (David G. Cuthbertson)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
310
22
Ferry-Morse Seed Co., Mountain View, California (Frank G. Cuthbertson)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
310
23
Ferry-Morse Seed Co., Mountain View, California
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1971
310
24
Henderson Experimental Gardens, Fresno, California
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938-1941
310
25
Peter Henderson & Co., New York
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
310
26
Hurst Gunson Cooper Taber, Ltd., England, Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
310
27
J. J. Grullemans, Bulbs, Holland
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938
310
28
Kelly Brothers Nurseries Inc., Dansville, New York
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1970
310
29
D. Landreth & Sons, Pennsylvania, Bankruptcy
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1903
310
30
D. Landreth, Proposed American Seed Company, Ltd.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1905
310
31
C. S. Liu, Hong Kong
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1950
310
32
Sample Seed Tests sent to E.S. Miller
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1887
390
14
C. C. Morse and Company, San Francisco, California
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907-1908
310
33
C. C. Morse and Company, San Francisco, California
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907-1911
310
34
Northrup, King & Co., Minneapolis, Minnesota
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960-1969
310
35
Oregon Bulb Farms, Jan De Graff, Gresham, Oregon
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938-1965
310
36
George W. Park Seed Co., Greenwood, South Carolina
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1970
310
37
Seed bag from Vicente Peluffo Seeds, Plants, and Livestock, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1890-1915
385
Wm. Rennie Seeds Ltd., Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1960
310
38-39
Rogers Brothers, Alpena, Michigan
Archival Resource Key
6 Files
1911-1914
310
40-45
Vernon Roscoe, England
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1960-1962
310
46-47
Vernon Roscoe, England
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961-1962
310
48
Routzahn Seed Co., Arroyo Grande, California
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907-1908
310
49
T. Sakata & Co., Japan, Hybrid Samples
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961
310
50
O.M. Scott & Sons Co., Marysville, Ohio, Lawns
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1970
310
51
O. M. Scott & Sons, Marysville, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1980
310
52
The Storrs & Harrison Co., Painesville, Ohio (W. F. Therkildson)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1913
310
53
Unwins of Histon, Cambridge, England
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1949-1952
311
1
Vaughan's Seed Co., Illinois
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
311
2
Vilmorin-Andrieux, Paris, France
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1945-1964
311
3
The Wayside Gardens Co., Mentor, Ohio, J. J. Grullemans
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1966
311
4
Westminster Nursery Co., Westminster, California
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
311
5
William Zvolanek & Co., Lompoc, California, Sweet Peas
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
311
6
Seedsmen Condolences in Response to David Burpee's Death
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1980
311
7
Seed Contracts
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1880-1888
311
8-9
Seedsman Correspondence and Offers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1895-1897
311
10
Seedsmen Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1902-1903
311
11
Seedsmen Correspondence and Orders
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1902-1914
311
12
Foreign Seed Contracts
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1905
390
15
Seedsmen Correspondence and Offers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1908
311
13
Foreign Seed Contracts
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1909
390
16
Surplus Seed Offers
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1913-1914
311
14-15
Surplus Seed Offers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1913-1922
311
16
Seedsmen Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1915-1917
311
17-20
Burpee Orders to Seedsmen
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1915-1916
311
21-24
Seed Contracts
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1915-1918
311
25-28
Seedsmen Correspondence and Offers
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1916
311
29
312
1-2
Seedsmen Correspondence and Orders
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1916-1917
312
3-5
Seed Orders
Archival Resource Key
6 Files
1916-1918
312
6-11
Correspondence to and from Seedsmen (and Friends) Abroad
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918-1969
312
12
Surplus Seed Offers
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1919
312
13-15
Seedsmen Correspondence and Offers
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1919-1921
312
16-19
Surplus Seed Offers, A-D
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1921
312
20-21
313
1
Seedsmen Correspondence and Orders
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1921
313
2
Seedsmen Correspondence and Orders
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1921
313
3-6
Seedsmen Correspondence and Orders
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1923
313
7
Seedsmen Contact List
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929-1941
313
8
Seedsmen and Seed Companies
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929-1966
313
9
Foreign Seed Companies
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954-1968
313
10
Foreign Contacts
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1960
313
11
Great Britain
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
313
12
Catalog Requests, English Seedsmen
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
313
13
England
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
313
14
Japan
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1950-1952
313
15
Hong Kong
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960
313
16
Asia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
313
17
Asia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966, 1970
313
18
Australia and New Zealand
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968, 1973
313
19
Rogers Wholesale Price Comparison to Burpee's Red List
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1886
380
6
Landreth's Wholesale Price Comparison to Burpee's Red List
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1890
380
7
Comparative Prices with Other Seedsmen
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1901
313
20
Comparison of Vegetables Offered in Burpee and D. M. Ferry Catalogs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1903
380
8
Comparative Prices with Other Seedsmen
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1907, 1913
313
21
Comparative Prices with Other Seedsmen
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1911
313
22
Comparative Prices of Vegetable Seeds with Other Seedsmen
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1926
401
Color Packet Price Comparison
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
313
23
Price and Variety Comparisons
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1969
313
24
Customer Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Customer letters addressed to the Burpee company containing requests, orders and payments, complaints, photographs, and clippings.
For customer testimonials submitted to the firm, see Series 2.3 Advertising/Customer Testimonials and Contests.
Correspondence and Catalog Requests
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1926-1928, 1957
313
25
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1934
313
26
'"Properties of a Gardener" Clipping from 18th Century Newspaper (reproduction)
Archival Resource Key
1 Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
1965
406
Reproductions
Complaints
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1970
313
27
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1960-1967
313
28
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
313
29
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
313
30
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1971
313
31
Correspondence and Requests
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
313
32
Customers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
313
33
Financial and Accounting
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Records related to the firm's finances including account records, financial statements (yearly and in some cases monthly, weekly, and daily), notes, trial balances, receipts and bills, stock information, supply orders, company-wide appraisals, profit statements, operation and productions costs, and reports and information from financial consultants.
For additional papers documenting company finances and stock adjustments after W. Atlee Burpee's death, see Series 6.3 W. Atlee Burpee/Will-Estate.
Financials and Accounting Notebook (W. Atlee Burpee)
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1878-1885
380
9
Daily Account Book
Archival Resource Key
1 Ledger
1878-1893
380
10
Account Balance Sheets
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1884-1885
370
16
Accounting Records
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1884-1888
313
34
Trial Balances
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1889-1892
370
17
Trial Balances
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1893
370
18
Trial Balances
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1894
370
19
Trial Balances
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1895
371
1
Trial Balances
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1896
371
2
Trial Balances
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1897
371
3
Trial Balances
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1898
371
4
Trial Balances
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1899
371
5
Trial Balances
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1900
371
6
Trial Balances
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1901
371
7
Trial Balances
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1902
371
8
Trial Balances
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1903
371
9
Trial Balances
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1904
371
10
Trial Balances and Financial Records
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1905-1909
371
11
Trial Balances and Financial Records
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1910-1915
371
12
Trial Balances
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1889-1915
371
13
Accounts, Wages and Costs Ledger
Archival Resource Key
1 Ledger
1891-1893
371
14
Daily Account Book
Archival Resource Key
1 Ledger
1893
390
16
Accounts Ledger
Archival Resource Key
1 Ledger
1893-1901
409
Financial Records
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1895-1899
313
35
Account Book (W. Atlee Burpee)
Archival Resource Key
1 Ledger
1896
313
36
Accounts Notebook
Archival Resource Key
1 Ledger
1898
391
1
Financial Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1899-1907
313
37
Trial Balances
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1903-1904
371
15
Trial Balances
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1904-1914
371
16
Daily Business Statements
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1904-1911
313
38
Fordhook Farms Cashbook
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1910-1916
371
17
Account Book (W. Atlee Burpee)
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1911-1912
391
2
Account Book (W. Atlee Burpee)
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1912-1913
391
3
Account Book (W. Atlee Burpee)
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1913-1914
391
4
Account Book (W. Atlee Burpee)
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1914-1915
391
5
Trial Balances and Financial Statements
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1914-1915
371
18
Company Financial Records
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1914-1920, 1960-1968
313
39
Cash Ledger for Business and Family Accounts
Archival Resource Key
1 Ledger
1915-1916
436
Comparative Statement of Profits and Losses
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915-1917
371
19
Financial Statements
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915-1929
313
40
Financial Statements
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1916-1969
313
41
Seed Papering Costs
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1917-1918
313
42
314
1-2
Profit and Loss Analysis for 1918
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1919
314
3
Accounting Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1919
371
20
Financial Statements
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1930-1932
314
4-5
Financial Statements (including Maule, Vick's and Tabor Realty)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1936
371
21
Financial Statements
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1952-1968
371
22
372
1-3
Financial Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1968
314
6
Costs and Expenses
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1969
314
7
Financial Statements
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1970
314
8
Profits
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
314
9
Prices, Costs, Profits, Expenses, etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1970
314
10
Profit and Loss Form
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
314
11
Bills and Receipts
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1911
314
12-13
Supply Orders
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1914
314
14-15
Bills and Receipts
Archival Resource Key
5 Files
January - April, 1914
314
16-20
Bills and Receipts
Archival Resource Key
6 Files
June-December, 1914
314
21-25
315
1
Bills and Receipts
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
August - December, 1914
315
2-5
Freight Receipts
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1914-1915
315
6-8
Supply Contracts
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1915-1917
315
9-12
Supply Orders
Archival Resource Key
5 Files
1916
315
13-17
Bills and Receipts
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
February - July, 1916
315
18-20
Bills and Receipts
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
August-December, 1916
315
21
316
1-2
Post Office Return Receipts
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1916-1918
316
3
Supply Orders
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1916-1918
316
4
Supply Orders
Archival Resource Key
5 Files
1917-1918
316
5-9
Payment Receipts Issued by Charles Meyer
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918
316
10
Purchase Orders and Requisitions
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1918-1919
316
11-14
Cashier's Reports and Analyses of Receipts
Archival Resource Key
5 Files
1922-1923
316
15-19
Cashier's Reports and Analyses of Receipts
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1923-1924
317
1
Financial Statements and Tax Documents
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1916-1918
372
4
Financial Statements and Tax Documents
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1917-1919
372
5
1919 Income Tax Review
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1919
317
2
1930 Income Tax Audit
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1932
317
3
Tax Deductible Gifts of Seeds
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
317
4
Summary of Income, Tax Provisions, and Actual Income Taxes Paid
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1969
317
5
Minutes of First W. A. Burpee Co. Stockholders Meeting
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1917
317
6
Stock Agreement between David Burpee and W. Atlee Burpee Jr.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1919-1942
317
7
List of Stock Certificates (Collateral)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1930
317
8
List of Officers, Directors, and Stockholders
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1931
317
9
Proposed Preferred Stock Issue
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1947-1948
317
10
Report to Burpee Stockholders
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
317
11
Sales and Contracts
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Account ledgers, correspondence, contracts, bills of sale and receipts, sales quotations, financial statements, notes, returned seed slips, memos, and sales meeting minutes. Included are yearly sales summaries for Burpee's and its subsidiaries, records of sales made at flower shows, administrative papers pertaining to Burpee's sales department, and sales reports for crops. Also included are dozens of bound Burpee catalogs (ca. 1896-1967) containing annotated sales figures.
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1896
437
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1900
437
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1935
437
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1936
437
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1937
437
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938
437
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939
437
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1940
437
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1941
437
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1942
438
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1943
438
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1944
438
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1945
438
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946
438
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1947
438
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1948
438
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1949
438
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1950
439
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1951
439
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1952
439
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954
439
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955
439
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1956
439
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1957
439
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1958
439
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960
440
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961
440
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
440
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1963
440
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1964
440
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
440
Bound Burpee Catalogs Annotated with Sales Figures
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
440
Customer/Sales Log by Post Office - California
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1885-1888
409
Customer/Sales Log by Post Office - Colorado
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1885-1888
409
Orders Received (Edward C. Dungan)
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1895-1901
391
6
U.S. Department of Agriculture Seed Contract
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1896-1897
317
12
Orders Received (Edward C. Dungan)
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1902-1908
391
7
Orders Received (Joseph Compton)
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1902-1909
391
8
Papered Seed Sold
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907-1908
317
13
Orders Received
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1909-1917
391
9
Seed Order Quotations
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1912-1913
317
14-16
Sales Orders and Receipts
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
March 1914 - April, 1914
317
17-20
Sales Orders and Receipts
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
June-September, 1914
317
21-24
Sales Orders and Receipts
Archival Resource Key
5 Files
February-March, 1915
317
25-29
Sales Orders and Receipts
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
May-June, 1915
317
30
318
1-3
Sales Orders and Receipts
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
June-August, 1915
318
4-6
Orders Received (Edward C. Dungan)
Archival Resource Key
1 Ledger
1918-1924
391
10
Bulb Catalog Sales
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1922-1929
318
10
Prices and Sales
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1922, 1935
318
11
Sales
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1925-1969
318
12
Sales in Detail
Archival Resource Key
1 File
December, 1930
318
13
Seed Return Slips, A-L
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1930-1931
393
Seed Return Slips, M-Z
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1930-1931
394
Net Annual Sale Charts for Maule, Vick's and Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1930-1932
409
Retail Sales by Classes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1936-1938
372
6
Sales Receipt Book
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1937-1938
380
11
Foreign Sales Correspondence, A
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937
Unknown
Unknown
Foreign Sales Correspondence, A
Foreign Sales Correspondence, A
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938
Unknown
Unknown
Foreign Sales Correspondence, A
Foreign Sales Correspondence, B
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937
Unknown
Unknown
Foreign Sales Correspondence, B
Foreign Sales Correspondence, B
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938
Unknown
Unknown
Foreign Sales Correspondence, B
Foreign Sales Correspondence, Ernst Benary, Erfurt, Germany
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1938
460
1
Foreign Sales Correspondence, C
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937
Unknown
Unknown
Foreign Sales Correspondence, C
Foreign Sales Correspondence, C
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938
Unknown
Unknown
Foreign Sales Correspondence, C
Foreign Sales Correspondence, D
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1937-1938
460
2-4
Foreign Sales Correspondence, E
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1937-1938
460
5-6
Foreign Sales Correspondence, F
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1937-1938
460
7-9
Foreign Sales Correspondence, G
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1937-1938
460
10-12
Foreign Sales Correspondence, H
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1937-1938
460
13-14
Foreign Sales Correspondence, Hjalmar Hartmann & Co., Copenhagen, Denmark
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1938
460
15
Foreign Sales Correspondence, Hurst & Son, London, England
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1938
460
16
Foreign Sales Correspondence, I
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1938
460
17
Foreign Sales Correspondence, J
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1938
460
18
Foreign Sales Correspondence, K
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1937-1938
460
19-20
Foreign Sales Correspondence, L
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1937-1938
460
21-22
Foreign Sales Correspondence, M
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937
460
23
Foreign Sales Correspondence, M
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938
Unknown
Unknown
Foreign Sales Correspondence, M
Foreign Sales Correspondence, Mc
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1938
461
1
Foreign Sales Correspondence, N
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937
Unknown
Unknown
Foreign Sales Correspondence, N
Foreign Sales Correspondence, N
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938
Unknown
Unknown
Foreign Sales Correspondence, N
Foreign Sales Correspondence, O
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937
Unknown
Unknown
Foreign Sales Correspondence, O
Foreign Sales Correspondence, O
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938
Unknown
Unknown
Foreign Sales Correspondence, O
Foreign Sales Correspondence, P
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937
Unknown
Unknown
Foreign Sales Correspondence, P
Foreign Sales Correspondence, P
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938
Unknown
Unknown
Foreign Sales Correspondence, P
Foreign Sales Correspondence, Vicente Peluffo and CIA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1938
Unknown
Unknown
Foreign Sales Correspondence, Vicente Peluffo and CIA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Foreign Sales Correspondence, Philippine Education Co., Manila, Philippine Islands
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1938
461
2
Foreign Sales Correspondence, Q
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1938
461
3
Foreign Sales Correspondence, R
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1937-1938
461
4-6
Foreign Sales Correspondence, S
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1937-1938
461
7-10
Foreign Sales Correspondence, Charles Sharpe & Co., Sleaford, England
Archival Resource Key
1937-1938
461
11
Foreign Sales Correspondence, T
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937
461
12
Foreign Sales Correspondence, T
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938
Unknown
Unknown
Foreign Sales Correspondence, T
Foreign Sales Correspondence, U
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1938
461
13
Foreign Sales Correspondence, V
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1937-1938
461
14-15
Foreign Sales Correspondence, W
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1937-1938
461
16-17
Foreign Sales Correspondence, Watkins & Simpson Ltd., London, England
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1938
461
18
Foreign Sales Correspondence, X-Y
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1938
461
19
Foreign Sales Correspondence, Z
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1938
461
20
U.S. Army Quotations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939
461
27
U.S. Navy Quotations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938
461
28
U.S. Treasury Quotations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938
461
29
U.S. Veterans Administration Quotations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938-1939
461
30
Quotations to Institutions, Connecticut - New Hampshire
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939
461
31
Quotations to Institutions, New Jersey - Wyoming
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939
Unknown
Unknown
Quotations to Institutions, New Jersey - Wyoming
Hallmark Easter Cards with Burpee Seeds
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1945-1970
381
6
Sales Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1943-1958
318
14
Sales Orders
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1956
318
15
Papered Sales by Varieties
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1957
372
7
Purchasers of Big Boy Tomatoes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1957-1958
372
8
Sales Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961-1968
318
16
Analysis of Papered Seed Sales
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
372
9
Johnson Wax Company
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
318
17
Sales Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
318
18
Burpee Annuals Sales Analyses
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1967
318
19
Sales Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1968
318
20
Seed Cost Comparisons
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
318
21
Market Growers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
318
22
Flower Show Sales
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1968
318
23
Burpee Nursery Business
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1970
318
24
Bulb Sales
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
318
25
Wholesale Sales Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1971
372
10
Sales Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1970
318
26
Sales Suggestions
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1920-1960
318
27
Novelties Sales Policy
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955, 1964
318
28
Sales Meetings
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1960
318
29
Sales Department, Organization and Job Descriptions
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960
318
30
Far East Export Business
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960
318
31
Report on Sales Organization
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
318
32
Selling
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
318
33
Company History
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
General files containing information about the firm's history documented in clippings, correspondence, personnel information, ephemera, and trade literature. Also included is a booklet on the firm's history published by the Burpee company in 1996.
For additional files regarding the firm's history, see also Series 3.1 Books which contains documents about the company's operations that were compiled for a number of proposed book projects related to the Burpee company.
W. Atlee Burpee and Early Burpee Co. History
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1874-1968
318
34
Burpee Company History
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1893-1965
318
35
Burpee Company History
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1919-1965
318
36
Burpee Company History and Biographical Sketches
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939-1958
318
37
"The Legacy of W. Atlee Burpee" from Burpee Home Gardener Magazine (reprint)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1996
318
38
Administrative Records
2.2
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Records related to the structure, organization, and running of the company's business operations. The series includes administrative and policy files; papers related to merger opportunities, administrative consultants, and the sale of the company to General Foods Corporation in 1970; and personnel and employment files.
General Administrative Files
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Reports, clippings, correspondence, memos, and policies related to operations, the firm's record keeping systems, insurance, and special company projects (including Burpee Garden Centers). Also included is Burpee stationery and forms that were used for both external and in-house purposes.
Burpee Telegraph Code Log
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1899-1915
318
39
Proposed Rules and Regulations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918
319
1
Valuation Protocols
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1927-1929
319
2
Manual of Standard Procedures for Operating Office
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955
319
3
Report of Customer Service Department
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1958
319
4
Operation Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960, 1968
319
5
Company Objectives
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961
319
6
Company Policies
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1970
319
7
Production
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
319
8
Dealers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
319
9
Seed Number System
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1947-1954
319
10
Office Filing Protocols
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1949
319
11
Burpee Office Telephone Contacts
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1950-1960
369
Burpee Seed Catalog Inventory, 1877-1957
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1957
319
12
Burpee Office File and Seed Catalog Inventories
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1958-1981
319
13
Seed Catalogs Stored for Reference
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
319
14
Computer Tapes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
319
15
Contents of Burpee Company Archives
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1970
319
16
Burpee Company Donation of Records to Smithsonian Institution
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1982-1985
319
17
Insurance Policy
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1921
319
18
Insurance
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939-1956
319
19
Burpee Garden Column
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
319
20
Burpee Franchise Program
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
319
21
Burpee Garden Centers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967, 1970
319
22
Office Stationery
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1880-1980
319
23
Circulars, Forms, Stationery, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1896-1920
319
24-25
Plant Note Forms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1920
319
26
Burpee Co. Folders
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1980
319
27
Office Supplies
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1975
369
Boards and Committees
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Meeting minutes, company by-laws, legal correspondence, notes, and reports relating to Burpee's board of directors; and executive, operating, and planning committees.
Meeting Minutes
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1916-1965
319
28-30
Board of Directors
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1945-1969
319
31
Executive Committee
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1956-1969
319
32-34
Operating Committee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
319
35
Nursery, General Merchandise and Supplies Committees
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
319
36
Executive Committee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1966
319
37
Planning Committee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
319
38
Report to the Burpee Company Board of Directors
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
319
39
Vegetable Committee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
319
40
Executive Committee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1968
319
41
Atlantic City Meeting, Memos and Correspondence Generated During
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
319
42
Planning Committee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
319
43
Planning Committee Meeting, 1967 ("To Be Thrown Away")
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1967-1970
319
44-46
Atlantic City Meeting, David Burpee and Jerome Kantor
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
319
47
Planning Committee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
319
48
Planning Committee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1970
319
49
Atlantic City Meeting, Memos and Correspondence Generated During
Archival Resource Key
1 File
May 28-June 3, 1969
319
50
Atlantic City Meeting, Memos and Correspondence Generated During
Archival Resource Key
1 File
April 1970
320
1
Executive Committee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
320
2
Planning Committee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
320
3
Administrative Consultants
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Files related to outside consultants who prepared administrative and operational reports for the firm. Report topics include the implementation of computer systems, personnel structure, department operations, and general workflow analyses.
Burpee & Co. System Notes by Herbert G. Stockwell & Co., CPA, Philadelphia
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1916
320
4-5
Reports on Operations by Day & Zimmermann, Inc., Engineers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1944
320
6
Operation Studies
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1948-1953, 1961
320
7
Report on Company Employee System by Conant, Clawson & Company
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1949
320
8
Operation Reports and Recommendations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953-1965
320
9
Report on Installation of IBM Addressograph System by L. A. Darmstaetter
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954
320
10
Reports and Recommendations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954-1955
320
11
Operations Reports by Penn State Management Program
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1955-1956
320
12-13
Report on Management Position Specifications by Penn State
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1956
320
14
Report and Recommendations by N. Richard Diller, Penn State
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1956
320
15-16
Management Reports by Coverdale and Colpitts, Consulting Engineers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960-1962
320
17
Coverdale and Colpitts, Consulting Engineers (Charles W. Gillespie)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962-1966
320
18
Computer Proposal by C.H. Kindsvater
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
320
19
Report and Recommendation on a Cost Accounting System by William Yoder
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
320
20
Report on Employee Benefit Plans by Ostheimer and Company, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
320
21
Lawrence E. Brown & Co., Accounting Services
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
320
22
Facilities Planning Study by Robert E. Lamb, Inc., Facilities Planning Engineers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1968
320
23
Recommendations for Improving Management Controls and Increasing Profits by Price Waterhouse & Co.
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1967
320
24-25
Price Waterhouse & Co.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1969
320
26
Gerald F. Rorer, Rorer-Amchem, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1969
320
27
Norman Knipe, Management Counsel
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1970
320
28
Norman Knipe, Management Counsel
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1971
320
29
Norman Knipe, Jr., Management Counsel
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
320
30
Burpee Co. Merger Offers and Sale
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, and notes that document potential adjustments to the company's business structure, as well as the company's sale to General Foods Corporation in 1970. Included are correspondence with banks, Duns and Bradstreet reports, financial statements, and trade literature related to companies interested in joining with the Burpee firm in some capacity. This subseries also includes legal and financial documents, correspondence (most notably with William D. MacDowell, president of the Burpee Co. after it was acquired by General Foods), stock information, contracts, and press release announcing the sale of the W. Atlee Burpee Co. in 1970.
General Foods Corporation
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
320
31
General Mills, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968, 1970
320
32
General Foods Corporation
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
320
33
General Foods Corporation Acquisition
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
320
34
Burpee Sale to General Foods Corporation
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
320
35
Acquisition of Capital Stock of W. Atlee Burpee Company by General Foods Corporation
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1970
372
11-12
David Burpee Agreement with W.A. Burpee Company
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1976
320
36
General Foods Corporation, Burpee
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1970-1973
320
37-38
General Foods Corporation
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1974
320
39
General Foods Corporation Stock
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972-1973
320
40
David Burpee Communications with William D. MacDowell
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
320
41
William D. MacDowell, Duplicate Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1971
320
42
William D. MacDowell, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971-1972
320
43
William D. MacDowell, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
321
1
William D. MacDowell, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
321
2
Business Consolidations and Offers for the Burpee Business
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1958-1967
321
3
Real Estate Offers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1969
321
4
Mergers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1967
321
5
Bank of New York
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
321
6
Banks
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1969
321
7
Oregon Bulb Farm
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
321
8
Swift & Company (McDowell--O'Hara)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
321
9
Bank of America
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
321
10
Merger Propositions
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
321
11
George J. Ball, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1969
321
12
Burpee Company Merger
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
321
13
Banks
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1969-1970
321
14-15
Personnel
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Staff files, papers generated or compiled by company staff, and hiring records. ii. Personnel material includes files, clippings, and photographs associated with company staff as well as salary records, resumes, workers' compensation files, injury reports, ephemera from Burpee/Maule company picnics at Fordhook Farms, and issues of Burpee News (the company's in-house bulletin, 1968-1971).
The Poultry Review, Vol. III, No. 81, "The Fanciers," Article by W. Atlee Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1874
372
13
W. A. Burpee Notebook
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1876
391
11
W. A. Burpee Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1889-1914
321
16-17
W. A. Burpee Drafts and Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1890-1915
372
14
W. A. Burpee Notebook
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1890
381
7
W. Atlee Burpee's Instructions to the Company
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1894
321
18
W. A. Burpee Letters Submitted to The Florists' Exchange
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1895
321
19
W. A. Burpee Notebook
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1899-1901
391
12
W. A. Burpee Notes and Drafts
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
circa 1900-1915
372
15-16
W. A. Burpee Notebook
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
circa 1900-1915
321
20
W. A. Burpee Notebooks
Archival Resource Key
2 Notebooks
1903
321
21
"Quality in Seeds," Address by W. A. Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907
321
22
W. A. Burpee Notebook
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1907
391
13
Tributes to Edwin Lonsdale Upon His Taking Over Floradale Farms by W. Atlee Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1909
372
17
W. A. Burpee Notebook
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1911-1912
321
23
The Florists' Exchange, "Twenty-Five Years of Progress for the Mail-Order Seed Trade," Manuscript by W. Atlee Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 Manuscripts (document genre)
November, 1913
321
24
W. A. Burpee Notebook
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1915
321
25
W. A. Burpee Meeting of the "Superb Six"
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915
321
26
David Burpee Notebook
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1914
391
14
David Burpee Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1917-1924
321
27
David Burpee Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1927-1928
321
28
David Burpee, Miscellaneous Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929-1937
321
29
David Burpee Notebook
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
circa 1930
391
15
David Burpee Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1930-1960
321
30
David Burpee, Files and Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1944-1950
321
31
David Burpee, Correspondence and Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1948-1952
321
32
David Burpee, Correspondence, Reports, and Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1950-1959
321
33
David Burpee, Correspondence, Reports, and Notes
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
circa 1950-1960
321
34-35
David Burpee, Memos and Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953
321
36
David Burpee, Correspondence and Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953-1954
321
37
David Burpee, Correspondence and Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953-1955
321
38
David Burpee, Administrative Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1953-1961
321
39-40
David Burpee, Miscellaneous Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955
321
41
David Burpee, Files, Reports, and Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962-1963
322
1
David Burpee, Fordhook Office File
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
322
2
David Burpee, To Be Filed
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1966
322
3
David Burpee, Files, Reports, and Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
322
4
David Burpee, Files to Review
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
322
5
David Burpee, Computer Talk
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
322
6
David Burpee, To Be Filed
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
322
7
David Burpee, To Be Filed
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1968
322
8-9
Miscellaneous Files Found in David Burpee's Study
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
322
10
Files from David Burpee's Study
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1968-1970
322
11-13
David Burpee, Correspondence and Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1969
322
14
David Burpee, Miscellaneous Memos
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
322
15
David Burpee, Correspondence, Files, and Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
322
16
Files from David Burpee's Study
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1969
322
17-18
David Burpee, Notes and Letters Not Sent
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1971
322
19
David Burpee, Pending File
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972-1973
322
20
David Burpee, Business Papers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972-1975
322
21
David Burpee, W. Atlee Burpee Company (All Branches Except J.J. Mondry, Santa Paula)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972
322
22
David Burpee, W. Atlee Burpee Company (All Branches Except J.J. Mondry, Santa Paula)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
322
23
W. Atlee Burpee Company (All Branches Except J.J. Mondry, Santa Paula)
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1973-1974
322
24-25
David Burpee, Correspondence and Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
322
26
David Burpee, Correspondence and Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1975
322
27
David Burpee, Correspondence with Hugh Dickson (Uncle)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915-1949
322
28
David Burpee, Howard M. Earl's Departure
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918
322
29
David Burpee, Executive Order Log
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918
406
David Burpee, Expense Report
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1920-1921
323
1
David Burpee, Memberships
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1969
323
2
David Burpee, Professional Appointments
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1943
323
3
David Burpee, Direct Mail
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1952-1967
323
4
David Burpee, President's Letters
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955-1960
323
5
David Burpee, Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1960
323
6
David Burpee, Thoughts on Business Operations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938-1965
323
7
David Burpee, Future of W. Atlee Burpee Co.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959, 1968
323
8
David Burpee, Business Cards
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1960-1973
323
9
David Burpee's Chairman and CEO Announcement
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
323
10
David Burpee, Correspondence with Frank Cuthbertson
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1971
323
11
David Burpee, Gardening with Seeds
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965, 1967
323
12
David Burpee, Highlights from How to be Brief by Rudolf Flesch
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
323
13
David Burpee, Green Plants
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
323
14
David Burpee, Henry Ford Maxims
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966, 1970
323
15
David Burpee, H. Woodward McDowell (The Fidelity Bank)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1970
323
16
David Burpee, Expenses
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
323
17
David Burpee, Matters to Consider
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
323
18
David Burpee, Christmas Card Acknowledgements to Employees
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972
323
19
David Burpee, Africa
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1966
323
20
David Burpee, Asia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
323
21
David Burpee, Central America
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946
323
22
David Burpee, England, 1967
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1967
323
23
David Burpee, England
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1974
323
24
David Burpee, Pompano Beach, Florida Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
December 1969-January 1970
323
25
David Burpee, Florida
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
323
26
David Burpee, Philadelphia, General
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962-1966
323
27
David Burpee, Philadelphia Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
323
28
David Burpee, Philadelphia Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
323
29
David Burpee, Philadelphia Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
323
30
David Burpee, Report on Growing Flower and Vegetable Seeds in India
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
323
31
David Burpee, India
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1970
323
32
David Burpee, Seed Distribution in Israel
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962-1965
323
33
National Association of Gardeners, "The Future of Flower Gardening in America," Address by David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1917
323
34
Articles and Talks by David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1916-1968
323
35-37
Speeches and Writings by David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1928-1964
323
38
"Inheritance of Doubleness in the Flowers of Tropaeolum Majus," Manuscript by William H. Eyster and David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 Manuscripts (document genre)
circa 1935-1950
323
39
Talks by David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1936-1971
323
40
Talks by David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1957
323
41
Talks by David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1970
323
42
Talks by David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971
323
43
David Burpee, Files, B-G
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962-1964
323
44
David Burpee, Files, H-O
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963, 1964
323
45
David Burpee, Files, P-S
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
323
46
David Burpee, Files T-Z
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961-1964
323
47
David Burpee, Files, A-G
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
323
48
David Burpee, Files, H-W
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
323
49
David Burpee, Files, A-D
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
323
50
David Burpee, Files, F-O
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
323
51
David Burpee, Files, P-W
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
324
1
David Burpee, Files, A-B
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
324
2
David Burpee, Files, C-F
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
324
3
David Burpee, Files, G-M
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
324
4
David Burpee, Files, N-V
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
324
5
David Burpee, Files, A-F
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
324
6
David Burpee, Files, G-L
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1969
324
7
David Burpee, Files, N-P
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
324
8
David Burpee, Files, A
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1970
324
9
David Burpee, Files, A-E
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
324
10
David Burpee, Files, F-G
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1970
324
11-12
David Burpee, Files, H
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
324
13
David Burpee, Files, I- J
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
324
14
David Burpee, Files, K
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
324
15
David Burpee, Files, L
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
324
16
David Burpee, Files, M
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962-1970
324
17
David Burpee, Files, N -O
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
324
18
David Burpee, Files, P
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1970
324
19-20
David Burpee, Files, P-Z
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
324
21
David Burpee, Files, Q-R
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
324
22
David Burpee, Files, S
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1970
324
23-24
David Burpee, Files, T
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
324
25
David Burpee, Files, U- V
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
324
26
David Burpee, Files, W-Z
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
324
27
David Burpee, Files, A
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1971
324
28
David Burpee, Files, B
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1970-1971
324
29-30
David Burpee, Files, C
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1971
325
1
David Burpee, Files, D
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1971
325
2
David Burpee, Files, G
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1971
325
3
David Burpee, Files, 1972
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971-1972
325
4
David Burpee, Files, A-B
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972
325
5
David Burpee, Files, C-D
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971-1974
325
6
David Burpee, Files, E-H
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972
325
7
David Burpee, Files, I-M
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972
325
8
David Burpee, Files, N-P
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972
325
9
David Burpee, Files, Q-S
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972
325
10
David Burpee, Files, T-Z
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972
325
11
David Burpee, Files, A
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
325
12
David Burpee, Files, B
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
325
13
David Burpee, Files, N-O
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972-1973
325
14
David Burpee, Files, P-Q
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969, 1973
325
15
David Burpee, Files, R-S
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
325
16
David Burpee, Files, S-V
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
325
17
David Burpee, Files, W-Z
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
325
18
David Burpee, Files, A
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
325
19
David Burpee, Files, B
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
326
1
David Burpee, Files, C
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
326
2
David Burpee, Files, D-E
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
326
3
David Burpee, Files, F- G
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
326
4
David Burpee, Files, H-J
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
326
5
David Burpee, Files, K- L
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
326
6
David Burpee, Files, M
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
326
7
David Burpee, Files, M (1974)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960-1980
326
8
David Burpee, Files, N-O
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
326
9
David Burpee, Files, P
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
326
10
David Burpee, Files, R
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
326
11
David Burpee, Files, S
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
326
12
David Burpee, Files, T-V
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
326
13
David Burpee, Files, W-Z
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
326
14
David Burpee, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1977-1978
326
15
David Burpee, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915-1980
326
16
Lois Torrance Burpee, Writings
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1966
326
17
W. Atlee (Bill) Burpee III, Files and Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946-1969
326
18
W. Atlee (Bill) Burpee III, Files and Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
326
19
Carroll, Walter Scott, Special Investigation
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918
326
20
Condit, Al, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
326
21
Condit, Al, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
326
22
Condit, Al, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
326
23
Cuthbertson, David G., Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1965
326
24
Cuthbertson, David G., Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1967
326
25
Darlington, E. D., Address, Growing Flowers from Seeds
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1901
326
26
Darlington, E. D., Vegetable Varieties and Culture
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1908-1912
326
27
Darlington, E. D. and Edwin Lonsdale, Articles
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1908, 1915
372
18
Dietrick, H.B., Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1970
326
28
Earl, Howard M., Files and Memos Received from W.A. Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1890-1900
372
19
Earl, Howard M., Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1895-1905
326
29
Earl, Howard M., Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911-1919
326
30
Earl, Howard M., Resignation
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1917-1918
326
31
Earl, Howard M., Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1940
326
32
Edgecombe, Dr. S. W., Articles and Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1930-1944
326
33
Gyles, Mattie, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1970
326
34
Heeps, Angus, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1968
326
35
Holton, Carter, Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1933-1939
326
36
Holton, Carter, Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1936-1950
327
1
Holton, Carter, Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953-1970
327
2
Kantor, Jerome H., Master's Thesis: "Preliminary Inheritance Studies in Tagetes Erecta"
Archival Resource Key
1 Manuscripts (document genre)
1938
327
3
Kantor, Jerome H., Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1965
327
4
Kantor, Jerome H., Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1970
327
5
Kemph, Al, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
327
6
Kerr, George, "Asters for Profit; and How to Control the Aster 'Yellows'" in The Country Gentleman
Archival Resource Key
1 Magazines (periodicals)
1915-04
402
Lehr, Raymond L., Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918-1953
327
7
Little, Thomas M., Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938
327
8
Maclean, Hugh , Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1931
327
9
Mondry, John J., Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972-1973
327
10
Nordgren, Karl E., Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1965
327
11
Nordgren, Karl E., Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1970
327
12
Schumacher, R. W., Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1968
327
13
Shifriss, Oved, Talk, "What Ye Have Sown Ye Shall Reap"
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1945
327
14
Sissons, Ronald, Article Manuscripts
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1961
327
15
Smith, Grace W., Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1980
327
16
Therkildson, W. F., Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918-1919
327
17
Torrey, Ted C., Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1970
327
18
Woodroffe, Fleeta Brownell, Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1969
327
19
Zoller, Robert, Draft Articles on David Burpee and Burpee Company
Archival Resource Key
1 Manuscripts (document genre)
1958
327
20
Manuscripts by Burpee Company Personnel
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1935-1955
327
21
Articles by Burpee Company Personnel (Reprints)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1940-1956
327
22
Salary Notice Forms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1911
327
23
Payroll and Expenses, Castle Valley Farm
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1917-1922
327
24
Payroll, Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918, 1920
327
25
Payroll, Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1919-1922
372
20
Employee Salaries
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1920-1922
372
21-22
Weekly Wage/Time Book
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1926-1928
391
16
Employee Salaries
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953-1954
327
26
Labor Costs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1961
327
27
Bonuses
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1 File
1966
327
28
Personnel Actions
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1882-1916
327
29
Workmen's Compensation Act
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1 File
1915
327
30
Workmen's Compensation Notices and Forms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915
327
31
Employee Notices and Lists
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1928-1940
327
32
Employees
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1930, 1958-1960
327
33
Internal Revenue Code's Definition of "Agricultural Labor"
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1937
327
34
Employee Injury Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1940-1944
327
35
Company Organization
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1950-1955
327
36
Company Notices
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1957-1960
327
37
Employee Suggestion Plan
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960-1961
327
38
Employee Policies
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
327
39
IRS Social Security Forms for Fordhook "Servant" Employees
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
327
40
Minimum Wage
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
327
41
Employee Lists and Notices
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1970
327
42
Company Notices
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
327
43
Personnel Lists
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1978
327
44
Burpee News Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1970
327
45
Burpee News
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1974
327
46
Maule Company and Burpee Company Picnic
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929
327
47
Employee Picnic at Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
September 1930
327
48
Employee Picnic at Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
October 1931
327
49
Pensioners' Luncheon at Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
October 1969
327
50
Applications for Farm Work Employment, See Mr. Warfield
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938
461
26
Personnel Ads
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1943, 1953-1954
327
51
Chinese Student Applicants
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946-1949
327
52
Job Descriptions by Prigmore
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960
327
53
Job Specifications
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961
327
54
Employment
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
327
55
Employment
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
327
56
Arrowsmith, Alan
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
327
57
Employment
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1970
327
58
Apte, Surendras
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
327
59
Employment
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1969
327
60
Personnel Ads
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
327
61
Advertising
2.3
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Files and images related to Burpee's extensive advertising and marketing efforts. Included are correspondence, records, and reports generated by publishers, advertising agencies, and Burpee advertising staff; ad mock-ups, proofs and graphics; papers related to promotional and publicity campaigns, and premium seed offers; and customer correspondence and testimonials.
Records and Reports
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, studies, costs, clippings, advertising schedules, and listed returns from the company's advertising efforts and catalog sales.
Advertising Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1890-1898
327
62
Advertising Costs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1892-1912
372
23
Advertising Report
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1905
327
63
Advertising
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911-1968
327
64
Mailing List Report
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1924
327
65
Advertising and Sales Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1925-1929
327
66
Saturday Evening Post, Advertising
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938
327
67
Gardening, General
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1952
327
68
Advertising for 1957
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1956
327
69
Advertising for Spring 1961
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1960
327
70
Advertising Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960-1964
328
1
Advertising Offers for 1961-1965
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960-1967
328
2
Test Advertising Program for Kay Seed Co.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
328
3
Advertising Analysis
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
372
24
Advertising Rates
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
328
4
Advertising Offers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
328
5
Advertising Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
328
6
Advertising Clippings and Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1966
328
7
Advertising for 1965
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1965
328
8
Advertising
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
328
9
Advertising, Bulbs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
328
10
Advertising Offers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
328
11
Catalog Advertising and Sales
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1968
328
12
Advertising Offers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
328
13
Advertising for Spring Season
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
328
14
Advertising Flyers and Mailing
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
328
15
Early Orders
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
328
16
Advertising Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1968
328
17
Advertising for Spring Season 1967
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
328
18
Advertising for 1967
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
328
19
Advertising Schedules for 1967
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
328
20
Dealer Advertising for 1967
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
328
21
Advertising for 1968
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1969
328
22
Advertisements to Commercial Growers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
328
23
Advertising, California
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
328
24
Advertising Schedules for 1968-1969
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1968
328
25
Advertising for 1969
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1969
328
26
Advertising, Magazines
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
328
27
Advertising Schedules for 1969
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1969
328
28
Advertising for 1970
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1970
328
29
Advertising, Magazines
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
328
30
Advertising Ideas
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1970
328
31
Advertising Schedules for 1970-1971
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1970
328
32
Advertising
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946, 1970
328
33
Advertising for 1970-1971
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1971
328
34
Advertising for 1971
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
328
35
Advertising Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971
328
36
Advertising
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971-1972
328
37
Advertising
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
328
38
Check from N. W. Ayer & Son, Advertising Agency, Philadelphia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1910
328
39
William F. Fell and Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (printer)
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1911-1912
328
40-42
William F. Fell and Company, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (printer)
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1913-1914
328
43-46
The American Florist, Chicago, Illinois
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1924
328
47
Advertising Correspondence, A
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1928
328
48
329
1
American Colortype Company
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1928-1929
329
2-3
Association of National Advertisers, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1928
329
4
Bromfield & Company Advertising, New York, New York
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1928
329
5-6
The Canadian Florist
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1928
329
7
The Canfield Paper Company
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1928
329
8
A. T. De La Mare Horticultural Advertising Agency
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1928
329
9
Doubleday, Doran and Company
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1928
329
10
English Trade Papers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1928
329
11
The Farm Journal
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1928
329
12
Rotoprint Gravure Co.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1928
329
13
Media Analysis Export Report by The Aitkin-Kynett Co., Advertising
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1958
329
14
Garden Market Report and Discussion Notes, Aitkin-Kynett Co. Inc. Advertising
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
329
15
Aitkin-Kynett Co., Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
329
16
Aitkin-Kynett Co., Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
329
17
Public Relations Program for W. Atlee Burpee Co. by Earle Palmer Brown & Associates, Public Relations and Advertising
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959
329
18
Stanley Arnold and Associates, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960-1963
329
19
Stanley Arnold and Associates, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1967
329
20
Forbes Marketing Research Survey
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961-1962
329
21
Ballard & Walter, Inc., Public Relations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
329
22
Ballard & Walter, Inc., Public Relations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
329
23
E. M. Freystadt Associates, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1963-1964
329
24-25
E. M. Freystadt Associates, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
329
26
Advertising, K. F. Stedman (Burpee Advertising Manager)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
329
27
Advertising, K. F. Stedman
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
329
28
Advertising, K. F. Stedman
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
329
29
Advertising, K. F. Stedman
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1969
329
30
Advertising, K. F. Stedman
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
329
31
"A Study of the Vegetable Seed Market in the United States" by David G. Cuthbertson
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
329
32
Sweeney, Krist & Dimm, Publishers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
329
33
Flower and Garden Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1966
329
34
Advertising, Derek Fell
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1967
329
35
Advertising, Derek Fell
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1968
329
36
Burpee Planting Guide (booklet proposal by Derek Fell)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
329
37
Advertising, Derek Fell
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1970
330
1
Flager Advertising, Inc. (Morse I. Flagler)
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1965
330
2-3
Flager Advertising, Inc. (Morse I. Flagler)
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1967
330
4-5
Flager Advertising, Inc. (Morse I. Flagler)
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1968
330
6-7
Flager & Nelson, Inc. (Morse I. Flagler)
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1969
330
8-9
Flager & Nelson, Inc. (Morse I. Flagler)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
330
10
Heeps, Angus, Photography of Burpee Plants
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1966
330
11
Carelton, Dr. R. Milton, Merchandising House Plants
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1968
330
12
Catalog Printers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
330
13
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (Lakeside Press)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1968
330
14
R.R. Donnelley & Sons Co. (Lakeside Press)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969, 1970
330
15
Advertising, Peter Jenkins
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1968
330
16
Advertising, Peter Jenkins
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1969
330
17-18
Advertising, Peter Jenkins
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
330
19
Advertising, House Agency
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
330
20
Advertising, Earl Hess
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1970
330
21
Burpee's Farm Annual (annotated)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1895
380
12
Burpee's Farm Annual (annotated)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1899
380
12
Burpee's Farm Annual (annotated)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1901
380
12
Burpee's Farm Annual (annotated)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1902
380
13
Burpee's Farm Annual (annotated)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1903
380
13
Burpee's Farm Annual (annotated)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
2 copies
1906
380
13-14
Burpee's Farm Annual (annotated)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1908
380
14
Burpee's Farm Annual (annotated)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1909
380
14
Burpee's New Annual (annotated)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1910
380
15
Burpee's Annual (annotated)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1915
380
15
Burpee's Annual (annotated)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1 complete copy and miscellaneous pages from another copy
1916
380
15-16
Burpee's Annual (annotated)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1917
380
16
Burpee's Offering (annotated)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1917
380
16
Burpee's Seeds (annotated)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1960
380
17
Burpee's Seeds (annotated)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1961
380
17
Burpee's Seeds (annotated)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1962
380
17
List of Varieties We Should Offer at 5 Cents Per Packet On Account of Our Wholesale Trade
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1930
330
22
Burpee Catalog Distribution
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1902-1913
330
23
Plant Name Suggestions
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1903-1907
330
24
1905 Farm Annual Logistics
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1905
330
25
Farm Annual Statement
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907
330
26
Catalog Distribution Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918
330
27
Burpee Vegetable Introductions Dropped from Burpee Annual, 1933-1949
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1949
330
28
Burpee Catalog Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1951-1953
330
29
Burpee Annuals and Novelties
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1956-1957
330
30
Burpee Annuals
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1956-1967
330
31
Burpee Annual 1958
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1957-1958
330
32
Burpee Annual 1959
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1956-1959
330
33
Names of Plant Varieties
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1957-1962
330
34
Burpee Annual 1961 and Bulb Catalog 1960
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1961
330
35
Burpee Annual 1961
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1961
330
36
Fall Bulb Catalog
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961, 1964
330
37
Plant Names
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962-1969
330
38
Seed Catalogs, General
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1965
330
39
Burpee Annual 1965, Printing Quotations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1965
330
40
Fall Bulb Catalog
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
330
41
Burpee Annual 1965 Cost
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
330
42
Blue List 1966
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
330
43
Burpee Annual 1966
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
330
44
Red List 1966
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
330
45
Catalogs, Retail 1966
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
330
46
Nursery Catalog
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
330
47
Catalogs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
330
48
Bulb Catalog Mailing Lists
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
330
49
Blue List
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
330
50
Supplementary Catalogs and Mailing Pieces
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
330
51
Catalog Cost
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
330
52
Catalog 'Ins and Outs' (Plant Varieties)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
330
53
Catalog Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
330
54
Blue and Red Lists
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1968
330
55
Catalog Fall 1967
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1968
330
56
Burpee Annual 1967, Mailing Dates and Lists
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
330
57
Burpee Annual 1967, Advertising Comparisons
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
330
58
Burpee Annual 1967, Prices
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
330
59
Burpee Annual 1968
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1968
330
60
Bulb Catalog 1968
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
331
1
Burpee Annual 1968
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
331
2
Catalog Fall 1968
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1968
331
3
Blue and Red Lists
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
331
4
Christmas Gift Catalog
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1969
331
5
Supplementary Catalogs 1968-1971
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1969
331
6
Bupee Annual 1969
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1966-1969
331
7-8
Blue, Red, Yellow and Pink Lists 1969-1970
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1970
331
9
Fall and Winter Catalogs 1969-1970
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1970
331
10
Burpee Annual 1970
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1968-1969
331
11-13
Burpee Annual 1971
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1971
331
14
Bulb Catalog 1971
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1971
331
15
Burpee Annual 1972
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
331
16
Burpee Annual General
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972-1974
331
17
Burpee Annual 1973
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
331
18
Catalog 'Ins and Outs' (Plant Varieties)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
331
19
Burpee Annual 1974
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972-1974
331
20
Catalog 'Ins and Outs' (Plant Varieties)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1975-1977
331
21
Combination Post Cards Returns
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1916-1925
331
22
Combination Post Cards Returns
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1926
331
23
Combination Post Cards Returns
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1927-1930
331
24
Seed Packets
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1947-1968
331
25
Seed Packets
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
331
26
Seed Packets
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1966
331
27
Seed Packet Prices
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1969
331
28
Seed Packaging
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1970
331
29
Seed Packet Prices
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
331
30
Color Seed Packets
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
331
31
House Plants
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971
331
32
Vegetable Seed Prices
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
331
33
Seed Prices
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1966
331
34
Contract Price Lists
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1969
331
35
Contract Price List
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
331
36
Ad Copy, Graphics, Mock-ups and Proofs
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Text and graphics used in the creation of Burpee catalogs and advertisements; flower and vegetable illustrations and photographs; written drafts by W. Atlee Burpee; page proofs; ad mock-ups; and ephemera including printing blocks, metal printing plates, and pieces of printing type.
Conditions Governing Use
A number of the photographic images in this subseries come from non-Burpee sources; therefore, third party copyright issues may apply.
Flower and Vegetable Watercolors and Illustrations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1880-1915
372
25
Proofs, Graphics and Notes
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
circa 1885-1930
331
37
372
26
Burpee's Select List of Novelties and Specialties in Seeds, and Wholesale Price List for Market Gardeners and Florists Proof
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1887
331
38
W. Atlee Burpee's Signature and Company Address Variants
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1890-1900
372
27
Catalog Illustrations, Watercolors
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1890-1915
372
28
Advertising Artwork
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1890-1915
373
1
Catalog Illustrations of Vegetables
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1895-1919
331
39-41
Watercolor of Sweet Peas for 1900 Burpee's Annual by Paul de Longpre
Archival Resource Key
1 Watercolor
1896
425
Advertisement Copy and Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1898-1913
331
42
Burpee Catalog Copy for 1899
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1899
331
43
Plant Descriptions and Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1910
331
44
Catalog Illustrations, Chromolithographs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1915
331
45
Burpee Catalog and Ad Copy
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1915
331
46
Catalog Illustrations, Watercolors
Archival Resource Key
1 Watercolor
circa 1900-1920
332
1
Instructional Leaflet Drafts
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1925
332
2
Paintings of Flowers
Archival Resource Key
1 Paintings (visual works)
circa 1900-1930
332
3
Vegetable and Flower Image Proofs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1930
407
Advertising Proofs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1903-1909
332
4
Catalog Proofs of Business Operations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1904-1910
332
5
Catalog Proofs of Farm Operations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1904-1910
332
6
Catalog Proofs of State Fairs and Customers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1904-1908
332
7
Catalog Proofs and Copy
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1906
373
2
Catalog and Ad Proofs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1906-1912
332
8
Burpee Farm Annual Copy
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907
332
9
Catalog and Advertising Proofs and Copy
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907-1908
373
3
Annotated Bound Burpee Catalog
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907
380
18
Annotated Bound Burpee Catalog
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1908
381
1
Annotated Bound Burpee Catalog
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1909
381
2
Plant Descriptions
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907-1910
332
10
Advertisement Copy and Proofs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1908
332
11
Advertising Copy (including 'Burpee's Seeds Grow' slogan)
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1909
332
12
Notes for Farm Annual
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911
332
13
Advertisement Proofs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1912-1914
332
14
Burpee Catalog Mock-up
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1913
381
3
Catalog Proofs of Flowers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1913-1915
332
15
Advertisement Copy and Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1913-1915
332
16
"A Friendly Fireside Chat by the Founder after Forty Years," Manuscript
Archival Resource Key
1 Manuscripts (document genre)
1915
332
17
W. A. Burpee's 'Last Long Dictation' (regarding notes on catalog proof)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915
332
18
Wm. F. Fell Co., Catalog Proof
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918
381
4
Wm. F. Fell Co., Catalog Proof
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1919
381
5
Canadian Notices Copy and Proofs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1921-1929
332
19
David Burpee Signature (from catalog)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1920-1950
332
20
Burpee, Maule, and Vicks Catalog Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1932
332
21
Flower Garden Guide Mock-Up
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1947-1948
332
22
Advertisement Images and Mock-ups
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1950-1970
401
1955 Burpee Annual Layout
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954
332
23
Advertising Mock-ups and Artwork
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1956-1965
407
Seed Mailing Bags Mock-up and Proof
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960-1965
332
24
Advertising Proofs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1965
332
25
Burpee's Wholesale Prices for Commercial Growers, 1965 Proof
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1965
431
Burpee's Home Gardening Manual Manuscript and Mock-up
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
332
26
Fall Garden Catalog Color Page Proofs
Archival Resource Key
9 Files
1969
432
Fall Garden Catalog Proofs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972
332
27
House Beautiful Ad Mock-up
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
332
28
Burpee Vegetable Cookbook Proposed Outline
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
332
29
David Burpee Portrait Mock-ups
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1930-1945
411
1
Publicity Mock-ups
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1940-1960
411
2
Luther Burbank Portrait Mock-up
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1930-1950
411
3
Business and Farm Operations Mock-ups
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1940-1960
411
4
Catalog Cover Mock-ups
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1956
411
5
Catalog Cover Mock-ups
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1958
411
6
Catalog Cover Mock-ups
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959
411
7
Catalog Cover Mock-ups
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960
411
8
Catalog Cover Mock-ups
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961
411
9
Catalog Page Mock-ups
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1940-1960
411
10
Fall Bulb Catalog Mock-ups
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1957-1962
411
11
Ad Mock-ups and Artwork
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
circa 1940-1960
411
12-15
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Abroma
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1940
411
16
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Achillea
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
411
17
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Ageratum
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1938-1948
411
18
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Alyssum
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1906-1963
411
19
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Amarathus and Amethyst
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1920-1958
411
20
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Amaryllis
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1952-1956
411
21
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Anchusa
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
411
22
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Anemone
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1956-1959
411
23
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Anthemis
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1958
411
24
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Aquilegia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1943-1960
411
25
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Arabis
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1948
411
26
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Arctotis
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1934-1965
411
27
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Armeria
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
411
28
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Asparagus Fern
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1955
411
29
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Asters
Archival Resource Key
4 Photographs
1942-1968
411
30-33
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Balsam
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1952
411
34
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Begonia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1940-1955
411
35
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Bellis Perennis
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1947-1949
411
36
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Bells of Ireland
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1955
411
37
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Bignonia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1944-1947
411
38
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Blue Lace Flower (Didiscus coeruleus)
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1957-1958
411
39
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Brachychome
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1954-1955
411
40
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Brodiaea
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1934-1960
411
41
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Bromallia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
411
42
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Bulbs
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
411
43
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Cactus
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1954-1963
411
44
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Caladiums
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1948-1949
411
45
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Calceolaria
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1958
411
46
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Calendula
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1939-1951
411
47
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Callas
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1941-1956
411
48
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Calliopsis
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
411
49
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Calochortus
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1934-1945
411
50
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Camassia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
411
51
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Campanula
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1939-1954
411
52
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Canary Bird Flower
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1928
411
53
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Candidum
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
411
54
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Candytuft
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1922-1958
411
55
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Cannas
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
412
1
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Carnations
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1957-1965
412
2
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Catananche
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
412
3
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Celosia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1930-1965
412
4
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Centaurea
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1928-1958
412
5
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Cerastium
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1943-1944
412
6
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Cheiranthus
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
412
7
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Chrysanthemum (Annual)
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1937-1947
412
8
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Chrysanthemum (Perennial)
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1930
412
9
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Cineraria
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1930-1958
412
10
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Clarkia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1950-1951
412
11
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Clematis
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
412
12
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Cleome
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1943
412
13
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Cobaea
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1943
412
14
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Coleus
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1956-1958
412
15
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Columbine
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
412
16
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Coral Bells
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
412
17
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Coreopsis
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1929
412
18
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Cosmos
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1942-1956
412
19
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Crepis
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1938-1939
412
20
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Crocus
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1953
412
21
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Crucianella
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1942
412
22
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Cyclamen
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1943-1947
412
23
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Cynoglossum
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1940-1942
412
24
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Daffodil
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1940-1960
412
25
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Dahlias
Archival Resource Key
2 Photographs
1923-1958
412
26-27
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Daisy, Gloriosa
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1950-1960
412
28
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Daisy, Tahoka
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1936
412
29
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Day Lily
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1963
412
30
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Delphinium
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
412
31
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Dianthus
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1938-1958
412
32
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Diascia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
412
33
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Digitalis
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1954
412
34
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Dimorphotheca
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1941-1942
412
35
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Doronicum
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
412
36
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Eranthis
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1956
412
37
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Eschscholtzia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1938-1950
412
38
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Euphorbia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
412
39
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Fairy Lily
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1943-1944
412
40
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Forget-Me-Not
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1942-1947
412
41
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Freesias
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1956
412
42
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Fritillaria
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1956
412
43
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Gaillardia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1930-1965
412
44
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Gerbera
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1957-1958
412
45
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Geum
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
412
46
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Gilia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1952-1953
412
47
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Gladiolus
Archival Resource Key
2 Photographs
1940-1958
412
48-49
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Gloxinia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1938-1958
412
50
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Godetia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
412
51
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Gomphrena
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
412
52
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Gypsophila
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1965
412
53
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Helianthemum
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1949-1950
412
54
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Helichrysum
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1939-1959
412
55
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Heliophila
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1938
412
56
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Heliotrope
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1943-1944
412
57
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Heteropappus
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1943-1944
412
58
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Heuchera
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1951-1952
412
59
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Hibiscus (Giant Mallow Marvels)
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1947
412
60
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Hollyhock
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1942-1956
412
61
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Hunnemannia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
412
62
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Hyacinths
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1939-1959
412
63
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Hyacinthus Candicans
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1938-1944
412
64
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Grape Hyacinth (Muscari)
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1956
412
65
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Iberis
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1942-1943
412
66
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Impatiens
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
412
67
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Ipomoea
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
412
68
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Iris
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1942-1956
412
69
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Ismene
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1942-1943
412
70
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Ixia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1956
412
71
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Kochia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
412
72
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Larkspurs
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
412
73
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Lilies
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1940-1960
412
74
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Marigolds
Archival Resource Key
4 Photographs
circa 1940-1960
413
1-4
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Nasturtium
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1940-1960
413
5
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Petunias
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1940-1960
413
6
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Phlox
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1940-1960
413
7
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Physalis
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
413
8
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Platycodon
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1942-1943
413
9
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Polyanthus (Primula Veris Elatior)
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
413
10
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Poppies
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1955-1956
413
11
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Portulaca
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
413
12
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Primula
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1954-1963
413
13
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Pyrethrum
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1940
413
14
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Ranunculus
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
413
15
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Ricinus
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1955
413
16
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Rose
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
413
17
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Rudbeckia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1955-1960
413
18
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Saint Paulia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
413
19
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Salpiglossis
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1947
413
20
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Salvia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
413
21
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Sanvitalia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1938
413
22
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Saponaria
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
413
23
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Scabiosa
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1938-1950
413
24
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Schizanthus
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1946-1947
413
25
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Scilla
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1946-1956
413
26
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Shasta Daisy
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1946-1947
413
27
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Sidalcea
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1951
413
28
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Sideritis
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1946
413
29
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Snapdragons (Antirrhinum)
Archival Resource Key
7 Photographs
circa 1940-1983
413
30-36
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Snapdragons
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
423
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Snowdrops
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
413
37
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Snowflakes (leucojum)
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1956
413
38
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Sparaxis
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
413
39
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Star of Texas
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1947-1948
413
40
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Statice
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1939-1961
413
41
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Sternbergia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
413
42
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Stevia
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1942-1943
413
43
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Stocks
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1940-1959
413
44
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Sunflower
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1947-1967
413
45
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Sweet Peas
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1897-1960
413
46
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Sweet Sultans
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
413
47
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Sweet William
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1930
413
48
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Tulips
Archival Resource Key
4 Photographs
circa 1940-1960
414
1-4
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Tulipa Dasystemon
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
414
5
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Valeriana
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
414
6
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Verbena
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1940-1969
414
7
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Vinca
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1938-1942
414
8
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Viola
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
414
9
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Violet, Dogtooth (Erythronium dens-canis)
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1956
414
10
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Viscaria
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1957-1958
414
11
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Waterlilies
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
414
12
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Xeranthemum
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
414
13
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Zinnias
Archival Resource Key
7 Photographs
circa 1940-1968
414
14-20
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Miscellaneous Flowers
Archival Resource Key
2 Photographs
circa 1940-1960
414
21-22
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Cabbage
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1940-1960
414
23
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Carrots
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1940-1960
414
24
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Celery
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1940-1960
414
25
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Celtuce
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1940-1960
414
26
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Corn
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1940-1960
414
27
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Cucumber
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1940-1960
414
28
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Dandelion
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
414
29
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Eggplant
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1939-1963
414
30
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Endive
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1943-1961
414
31
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Garlic
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
414
32
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Gourds
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1963
414
33
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Herbs
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1942-1946
414
34
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Horseradish
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1941-1947
414
35
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Kale
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
414
36
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Kohlrabi
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1942-1955
414
37
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Leeks
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
414
38
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Lettuce
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1941-1963
414
39
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Mushrooms
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
415
1
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Muskmelons
Archival Resource Key
2 Photographs
1948-1968
415
2-3
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Mustard
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1945-1960
415
4
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Okra
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1962
415
5
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Onions
Archival Resource Key
2 Photographs
1907-1967
415
6-7
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Parsley
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1918-1963
415
8
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Parsnips
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1941-1967
415
9
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Peas
Archival Resource Key
3 Photographs
1938-1968
415
10-12
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Peanuts
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1946
415
13
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Peppers
Archival Resource Key
2 Photographs
1940-1967
415
14-15
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Plums
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1930
415
16
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Potatoes
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1943
415
17
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Pumpkins
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1925-1964
415
18
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Radish
Archival Resource Key
2 Photographs
1926-1963
415
19-20
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Rhubarb
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1946-1947
415
21
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Rutabaga
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1943
415
22
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Salisfy
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1946
415
23
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Soy Beans
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1940-1960
415
24
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Spinach
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1946-1960
415
25
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Squash
Archival Resource Key
2 Photographs
1940-1961
415
26-27
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Swiss Chard
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1940-1960
415
28
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Tampala
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1943-1947
415
29
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Tomatoes
Archival Resource Key
6 Photographs
1925-1970
415
31-32
416
1-4
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Turnips
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1956-1963
415
30
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Watermelons
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1939-1960
416
5
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Zucchini
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1940-1960
416
6
Stock Photographs and Ad Mock-ups, Miscellaneous Vegetables
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1930-1960
416
7
Printing Block for Burpee's Fall Bulb Catalogue
Archival Resource Key
1 Printing plate
circa 1885-1905
386
Printing Block of W. Atlee Burpee Portrait
Archival Resource Key
1 Printing plate
circa 1900-1915
386
Printing Blocks of Engravings and Letters
Archival Resource Key
155 Printing plates
circa 1900-1915
386
Catalog of Type Specimens, Vol. 1 from Wm. F. Fell Co., Printers
Archival Resource Key
1 Book
circa 1915-1930
441
Burpee Type Faces
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1930
373
4
Printing Plates of Red Emperor
Archival Resource Key
2 Printing plates
circa 1955-1965
442
Printing Plates of Red Emperor and Improved Asters
Archival Resource Key
3 Printing plates
circa 1955-1965
443
Printing Plates of Burpee's New and Special Flowers
Archival Resource Key
6 Printing plates
circa 1955-1965
444
Printing Plates
Archival Resource Key
5 Printing plates
circa 1955-1965
445
Promotions and Publicity
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Files related to the company's many efforts to promote its seeds, a particular plant, product, or itself. Records include clippings, press releases, trade literature, correspondence, and postcards. Found in this subseries are papers related to the Yankee Clipper, the first cross-Atlantic commercial mail flight; television program and radio broadcast files; reports and correspondence from public relation consulting agencies; and numerous clippings about Burpee plant novelties. Also included are files documenting instances when the company sent marigolds, promoted as the "friendship flower," to foreign countries.
Burpee's Bush Lima Celluloid Paper Cutter (envelope opener)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1895
369
General
Burpee's Farm Annual advertised this paper cutter as a free souvenir to customers who ordered a minimum amount of merchandise.
Boutonniere Holders
Archival Resource Key
6 Files
1912
392
Radio Broadcasts
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929
332
30
Mrs. Herbert Hoover Sweet Pea
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929-1932
332
31
Burpee's Seeds Grow Envelope Opener (with Sanford address)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1930-1960
369
"Come-Pakt" Planned Gardens (International Paper Company)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1934
332
32
Parrots (promoting Burpee slogan)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1936-1937
332
33
Myna Bird (promoting Burpee slogan)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1957-1958
332
34
Marigolds for Queen Mary Flown on Yankee Clipper
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1939
373
5-7
Marigolds Sent to Royal Family in England (first transatlantic flower shipment)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939-1961
332
35
Publicity and Public Relations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939-1967
332
36
Camel Cigarettes Advertisement
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1940
332
37
Airplane, The Marigold
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1945-1947
332
39
Clare Boothe Luce Sweet Pea
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953
332
40
Congratulation Letters to David Burpee for Person to Person Program Appearance
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1957
332
41-42
Television Programs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1957-1963
332
43
Publicity Costs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959
332
44
Marigolds Sent to Emperor of Japan
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960, 1970
332
45
Publicity Policy
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960
332
46
Mary Helen Marigold
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960, 1966
332
47
Brownie Scout Marigold
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961
332
48
Penn State Marigold
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961
332
49
Mr. Sam Marigold
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961-1962
332
50
Mr. Sam Marigold, Texas Trips
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960-1963
332
51
Free Burpee Plants
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
332
52
Marigolds Sent to to German Chancellor Ludwig Erhard
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
332
53
Verbena Name Suggestions
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
332
54
Verbena Letter Acknowledgements
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
332
55
First Lady Marigold
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1967
332
56
Publicity
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1974
332
57
Promotion
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
332
58
Publicity, Garden Writers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967, 1969
332
59
Marigold Christmas Cards and Seed Packet Acknowledgements
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1969
332
60
New Alaska Marigold
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
332
61
David Burpee Appearance on To Tell The Truth Program
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
332
62
Premiums
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Premiums were contractual marketing relationships between Burpee's and a partner company developed in an effort to promote both parties through the distribution of Burpee seeds. Material includes correspondence, trade literature, clippings, seed packets, reports, and notes. Burpee partnerships included the Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, Quaker Oats, and Kraft.
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. (regarding Idabelle Firestone Marigold)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1940-1941
332
63
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1950
332
64
Premiums, Printed Matter
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1950-1976
373
8
Premiums
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1952-1963
332
65
Mail Order Seed Business
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960
332
66
Richfield Poppies
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
332
67
Bayuk Cigars Inc. Premium
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
332
68
Co-op Mailings (Outright Sale of Color Seed Packets)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
332
69
Advertisements by Burpee's Premiums Partners
Archival Resource Key
1 Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
1967
332
70
Premiums for 1968
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1968
332
71
Premiums
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
332
72
Premiums
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
332
73
Customer Testimonials and Contests
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
A major component of W. Atlee Burpee's business philosophy was creating a product the consumer could trust. One method of instilling this trust was highlighting customer testimonials and contests in the company's trade literature. This subseries contains customer correspondence (handwritten letters, transcriptions, and excerpts), postcards, clippings, and photographs.
Also found in this series are files related to Burpee's White Marigold competition which began in 1954 and lasted until 1975. For this contest, contestants were asked to submit seeds for a truly white marigold. The company offered prizes for nearest-to-white marigolds for two decades, but it was not until 1975 that the $10,000 prize was awarded to Alice Vonk of Iowa. This was by far the company's most extensive—and expensive— promotional project. The records include correspondence and memos sent between the company, hired judges, and customers; press releases; magazine and newspaper clippings; technical correspondence regarding White Marigold trials; and photographs.
Customer Testimonials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1897-1898
333
1
Customer Testimonials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1898-1903
333
2
Customer Testimonials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1903-1910
333
3
Customer Testimonials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1906-1912
333
4
Lawn Grass Testimonial in The Horticultural Trade Journal
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1910
333
5
Customer Testimonials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1913-1915
333
6
Customer Testimonials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1914-1915
333
7
Customer Testimonials
Archival Resource Key
5 Files
1915
333
8-12
Customer Testimonials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1919-1964
333
13
Customer Testimonials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1920-1961
333
14
Customer Testimonials for Celtuce
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1941
333
15
Customer Testimonials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1958-1960
333
16
Customer Testimonials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1970
333
17
Customer Testimonials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1968
333
18
Customer Testimonials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
333
19
Poems about Burpee Flowers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1930-1970
333
20
Good Housekeeping Contest Submissions for March Puzzle
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1906
333
21
Burpee's "The Reasons Why" Letter Contest
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911
333
22
Market Growers' Journal's 'Experience Stories' Letter Contest
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1914
333
23
Successful Farming Letter Contest
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915
333
24
Successful Farming Letter Contest
General
In 1915, Successful Farming magazine announced a letter-writing contest asking the public to answer the question, 'Which seed, tree, or plant advertisement in the March issue of Successful Farming contains the best offer and the most valuable information?' This file is comprised of letters written in support of W. Atlee Burpee & Co.'s advertisement.
Contests
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1925, 1965-1975
333
25
WLIT Radio Contest and Burpee Promotions
Archival Resource Key
5 Files
1926
333
26-30
Printer's Ink Advertising Contest
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1932-1933
333
31
White Marigold Offer
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1950-1961
333
32
White Marigold Contest
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955
333
33
White Marigold Contest
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1958-1969
334
1
White Marigold Contest
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1967
334
2
White Marigold Contest
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1969
334
3
White Marigold Contest
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1972
334
4
White Marigold Contest
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
334
5
White Marigold Contest
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1976
334
6
White Marigold Contest, Santa Paula
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972-1974
334
7
White Marigold
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
334
8
White Marigold Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1975
334
9
White Marigold Contest
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1975-1977
334
10
White Marigold Contest Winner, Alice Vonk
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1975-1976
334
11
White Marigold Trial Records
Archival Resource Key
2 Notebooks
1954-1959, 1960-1962, 1962-1965, 1965-1970
334
12-13
White Marigold Trial Entry Numbers
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1955-1971
334
14-15
White Marigold Entries, for Growing in 1964
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1963-1964
334
16-18
White Marigold Entries, for Growing in 1965
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1964-1965
334
19-20
White Marigold Entries for Growing in 1966
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1965-1966
334
21-23
White Marigold Entries for Growing in 1967
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
334
24
White Marigold Entries Grown in 1968
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1968
334
25
White Marigold Entries Grown in 1969
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1969
334
26
White Marigold Entries Grown in 1970
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1969-1970
334
27-28
335
1-2
White Marigold Entries for 1971 Trials
Archival Resource Key
5 Files
1970-1971
335
3-7
White Marigold Entries Grown in 1972
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1971-1972
335
8-9
White Marigold Trials in 1972
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972-1973
335
10
White Marigold Judges, Judging and Awards
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955-1966
335
11
White Marigold Judging
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972
335
12
White Marigold Judging
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974-1976
335
13
White Marigold Contest Press
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1955-1975
335
14-15
Reader's Digest Article on White Marigold by Andrew Hamilton
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
335
16
White Marigold Printed Matter
Archival Resource Key
1 Magazines (periodicals)
1975
407
White Marigold Contest Press Releases
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1975
335
17
Legal Matters
2.4
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, legal documents, patent and trademark applications, plans, legislative acts, land agreements, and papers from Burpee's legal counsel. Notable topics include W. Atlee Burpee's original partnership with Gustavus S. Benson (1876 to 1878); the controversy and lawsuit surrounding Henry A. Dreer's Bush Lima; land and zoning issues between the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and the Burpee Co.; and the acquisition of rights to Luther Burbank's property—both intellectual and real.
W. Atlee Burpee and David Burpee each used one legal office for their business and personal matters: Herman Yerkes served as W. Atlee's legal advisor, while the Philadelphia firm of Morgan, Lewis and Bockius served in that capacity for David. Especially for David, pockets of personal- and business-related legal documents are found in his personnel files and family papers.
W.A. Burpee Legal and Financial Records
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1893-1909
373
9
Herman Yerkes, Legal Matters
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1919-1924
373
10
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938-1941
335
18
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1942-1943
335
19
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1944-1946
335
20
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1947
335
21-22
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1948
335
23-24
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1949
336
1-3
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1950-1951
336
4-5
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1952-1953
336
6-7
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954
336
8
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1955
336
9-10
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1956
336
11-12
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1957
336
13-14
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1958
336
15-16
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1959
336
17-19
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1960
337
1-3
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1961
337
4-5
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
337
6
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
337
7
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
337
8
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
337
9
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
337
10
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
337
11
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
337
12
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1970
337
13-14
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971
337
15
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1972
337
16-17
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1973
337
18-19
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1974
337
20-21
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Personal
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959, 1969
337
22
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Dead Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1961
337
23-24
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Dead Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1963
337
25-26
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Dead Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1964
338
1-2
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Dead Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
338
3
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Dead Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
338
4
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Dead Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
338
5
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Dead Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1969
338
6-7
W. A. Burpee and Gustavus S. Benson Jr. Partnership
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1876-1878
338
8
Henry A. Dreer, Inc., Fordhook Lima Controversy
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907
373
11
W.Atlee Burpee vs. Henry A. Dreer
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907-1908
338
9
Bell Telephone Company
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1914
373
12
Isabel Drummond vs. W. Atlee Burpee & Co.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918
338
10
Warranty of Seeds
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1919
338
11
Lettuce Lawsuit
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1921
338
12
Reading Company
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1943-1944
338
13
Burpee's Color-in Garden, Ludlow Kravis Controversy
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1947-1949
338
14-15
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Wording of Burpee Ads
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1947-1967
338
16
Copyright Law of the United States
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1909
338
17
Burpee Names and Trademarks
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1908-1965
338
18
Plant Patents
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1924-1964
338
19
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Trademarks
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954
373
13
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Trademarks
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955
373
14
Golden Greenhouse Patent
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1961-1963
338
20-21
Marigold Patent and Trademarks
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962-1964
338
22
Trademarks
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1968
338
23
New Warranty Clause
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
338
24
Burpee Properties and Real Estate
2.5
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Land agreements, correspondence, contracts, reports and plans generated by consulting companies, employee lists, clippings, photographs, and memos related to the firm's various branches and properties. The records primarily document physical and logistical aspects of the properties, but administrative, sale, and seed production information are also found in some of the files. For records directly related to the growing of seeds at various Burpee farms, see Series 1 Plant/Farm Related Material.
Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
Biographical / Historical
The company's first office building was located at 223 Church Street in Philadelphia. It then relocated to 475-477 North Fifth Street in 1883. In 1888, W. Atlee purchased the original acreage of what would ultimately be named "Fordhook Farms" in Doylestown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, 25 miles north of Philadelphia. The company added warehouse space to its Philadelphia operations in 1898. In 1936, the company moved its headquarters to Hunting Park Avenue and Eighteenth Street in Philadelphia.
Established in 1888 as the company's experiment and production grounds, Fordhook Farms included a number of outbuildings as well as the family home of W. Atlee and Blanche Burpee, which later became the home of David and Lois Burpee. The home currently serves as a bed and breakfast under the name The Inn at Fordhook Farm.
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, property appraisals, photographs, plans and building specifications, clippings, property inventories, and legal documents pertaining to company sites in Pennsylvania.
475-477 North 5th Street Property, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1882-1894
373
15
475-477 North 5th Street Property, Cornice Accident
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1898
338
25
475 North 5th Street Property, Agreement and Specifications for New Seed Warehouse
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1898
373
16
Inventory of Office Supplies and Equipment
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1920
373
17
479-487 North 5th Street Property, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1909-1910
373
18
5th Street Deed
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1917
338
26
Olney Avenue (Grange Farm), Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1928-1950
338
27-28
Olney Avenue (Grange Farm), Tax and Interest Receipts
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929-1947
338
29
Olney Avenue (Grange Farm), Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1948
338
30
Sauquoit Silk Manufacturing Co.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1935, 1945
338
31
1721 West Hunting Park Avenue, "First Order Received in Store of New Building"
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1935
338
32
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius, Philadelphia Real Estate
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1941-1968
338
33-34
Philadelphia Real Estate
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1948-1969
338
35
Facilities Planning Study for Philadelphia Facility
Archival Resource Key
Robert E. Lamb Inc. Facilities Planning Engineers
1 File
1967-1968
338
36
Philadelphia Office Operations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
338
37
Fordhook Farms, History
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1903-1967
338
38
Fordhook Farms, Receiving Book
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1888-1894
391
17
Fordhook Farms, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1893-1907
338
39
Fordhook Farms, Inventory and Expenses Ledger
Archival Resource Key
1 Ledger
1893-1915
373
19
Fordhook Farms, Construction
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1893-1910
338
40
Fordhook Farms, Proposed Siding
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1894
339
1
Fordhook Farms, Section of the Proposed Garden for W. Atlee Burpee
Archival Resource Key
Duhring & Howe
1 Watercolor
circa 1910-1915
410
Plan for Rose Arbor Panel
Archival Resource Key
Elliott & Leonard
1 Blueprint
circa 1910-1920
379
8
Fordhook Farms, Plans for Sun Parlor in House
Archival Resource Key
DeArmond, Ashmead & Bickley
2 Drawings (visual works)
1917
379
9
Fordhook Farms, Plot Plans of Property
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1917-1929
339
2
Fordhook Farms, Plan of Layout
Archival Resource Key
2 Blueprints
1918
431
Analysis and Summary of Costs at Fordhook and Castle Valley Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918
339
3
Fordhook Farms, Operations Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1919-1920
339
4
Fordhook Farms, Plans for Alterations and Additions to Barn ("Not Used")
Archival Resource Key
Okie, E. Brognard
2 Blueprints
circa 1920-1945
433
Fordhook Farms Expense Book
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1927-1928
392
1
Fordhook Farms, Proposed Field Office
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1928-1929
339
5
Fordhook Farms, Plan for Field Office
Archival Resource Key
Martin, A. Oscar, 1873-
1 Blueprint
1929
432
Fordhook Farms, Trial, Show and Roadside Gardens
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1928-1929
339
6
Fordhook Farms, U.S. Census
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1930
339
7
Fordhook Farms, Roadside Stand Alterations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1931
339
8
Fordhook Farms, Artificial Grow Lighting
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1936
339
9
Fordhook Farms, Plan of Fordhook and Warden Farms with Proposed By-passes Marked
Archival Resource Key
1 Drawings (visual works)
1939-1940
456
Fordhook Farms, Plans for Greenhouse
Archival Resource Key
American-Moninger Greenhouse Manufacturing Co.
6 Blueprints
1941
379
10
Fordhook Farms, Background Planting Plan
Archival Resource Key
Lintleman, E, Helaine
1 Map
1945
432
Fordhook Farms, Plans for Alterations to Barn
Archival Resource Key
Martin, Fred F., 1904-1971
9 Blueprints
1945
433
Fordhook Farms, Plans and Specifications for Headhouse
Archival Resource Key
Martin, Fred F., 1904-1971
1 File
1946-1947
373
20
Fordhook Farms, Estate of Sarah (Burpee) Scott, Fordhook Cottage
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1948
339
10
Fordhook Farms, Appraisals and Damages
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1949-1970
339
11-12
Fordhook Farms, Plan for Greenhouse Boiler
Archival Resource Key
United States Radiator Corporation (Detroit, Michigan)
1 Drawings (visual works)
1951
379
11
Fordhook Farms, Route 202 Condemnation of Burpee Property
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1952
379
12
Fordhook Farms, Guest Book
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1958-1968
339
13
Fordhook Farms, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960-1969
339
14
Fordhook Farms, Specifications for Alterations to Barn
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961
339
15
Fordhook Farms, Plans for Alterations to Barn
Archival Resource Key
Brumbaugh, G. Edwin
7 Drawings (visual works)
1961
379
13
Fordhook Farms, Operations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1965
339
16
Fordhook Farms, Property Valuation
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1968
373
21
Fordhook Farms, Usage of Fordhook Farms, Lawrence E. Brown & Co, CPA
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
339
18
Fordhook Farms, David Burpee Lease Agreements with W.A. Burpee Company
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972-1980
339
19
Fordhook Farms, Fordhook By-Pass/Right-of-Way Condemnation
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1971
339
20
Fordhook Farms, Fordhook By-Pass/Right-of-Way Condemnation
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
373
22
Fordhook Farms, Fordhook By-Pass/Right-of-Way Condemnation
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1971
373
23
Fordhook Farms, Land Condemnation Issue (William H. Eastburn)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971
339
21
Fordhook Farms, Pennsylvania Highway Department, Condemnation of Land
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1972
339
22
Fordhook Farms, Condemnation, Public Utility Commission Tract-Railroad Crossing Area
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972
339
23
Fordhook Farms, Condemnation, South of Railroad
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972-1974
339
24
Fordhook Farms, Condemnation, North of Railroad
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972-1974
339
25
Fordhook Farms, Roy F. Weston, Environmental Scientists and Engineers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1973
339
26
Fordhook Farms, Report on Evaluation of Water Supply System
Archival Resource Key
Weston, Roy F.
1 File
1970
339
27
Fordhook Farms, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1973
339
28
Fordhook Farms, Water Well and Pump House
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972-1973
339
29
Fordhook Farms, Property Surveys (Right of Way)
Archival Resource Key
9 Drawings (visual works)
circa 1972-1975
379
14
Fordhook Farms, Real Estate and Resale of Land
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1975-1976
339
30
Fordhook Farms, Bucks County Conservation District
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1977-1979
339
31
Fordhook Farms, Land Matters, Law Office of Eastburn and Gray
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978
339
32
Fordhook Farms, USDA Soil Conservation Service
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978-1979
339
33
Fordhook Farms, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978-1981
339
34
Fordhook Farms, Plans for Pack and Field Trials in David Burpee Garden
Archival Resource Key
2 Drawings (visual works)
circa 1992-1993
432
Buehrle Farm, Plans for Barn
Archival Resource Key
Martin, Fred F., 1904-1971
2 Drawings (visual works)
1945
431
Buehrle Farm, Plans for Barn
Archival Resource Key
4 Drawings (visual works)
1945
379
15
Buehrle Farm, Plans and Specifications for Alterations to Apartment House
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946
379
16
Buckman Farm, Real Estate
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1922, 1950, 1957
373
24
Castle Valley Farm, Real Estate
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1916-1948
373
25
Castle Valley Farm, Account Book
Archival Resource Key
1 Ledger
1929-1931
392
2
Hart Property/Show Gardens, Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1928-1965
374
1-2
Hart Property/Show Gardens, Burpee "Show Gardens" Best Sellers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939
339
35
Quinn D. Hibbs Property, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1924
374
3
Otto Lock Farm, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1897-1945
374
4
J. Y. Smith Farm, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1922-1957
374
5
Emma J. and Cyrus J. Walter Property, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1913
339
36
Warden Farm, Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1924-1966
339
37-38
Warden Farm, Plans for Warden By-Pass
Archival Resource Key
5 Drawings (visual works)
circa 1961-1970
431
Warden Farm, Soil Percolation Testing Report
Archival Resource Key
Weston, Roy F.
1 File
1972
339
39
Wye Tract, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961-1963
339
40
Zetty Farm, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1880-1917
374
6
Zetty Farm(?), Bucks County Trust Co., Joel Malsbury
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1904-1905
339
41
Zetty Farm, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1917-1941
339
42
Old Deeds
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1888-1931
374
7
Analysis of Farm Labor
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918-1919
410
Contracted Work
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1924-1941
339
43
Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1928-1965
339
44
Mortgages
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1935
339
45
Dutch Elm Disease Eradication, Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1940
339
46
Appraisal of Doyletown Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1945
339
47
Farm Appraisal Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1949, 1951
339
48
Survey and Plan of Doylestown Property
Archival Resource Key
Ritchie, W. D.
3 Drawings (visual works)
1956
379
18
Joseph Barness and Son, Bucks County, Pennsylvania (Realtor)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1966
339
49
Proposed New Building
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
339
50
California
Archival Resource Key
Biographical / Historical
The company first acquired land in California for the purpose of growing sweet peas in a consistent and temperate environment—rather than the more seasonal and less predictive climate of Pennsylvania—in 1909/1910. The original property, named "Floradale" by the property's first manager, Edwin Lonsdale, was located 160 miles north of Los Angeles in Lompoc, California. In 1944, the Burpee Co. acquired an additional property—also for the purpose of growing warm-weather plants—approximately 90 miles south of Floradale Farms in Santa Paula. The company often referred to its entire California operation as Floradale. A West Coast sales branch was established in Riverside, California in 1949.
Scope and Contents
Reports, general administrative and technical correspondence, property lease statements, progress and final reports, clippings, memos, and notes.
Report of Howard M. Earl's Trip to California
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907
374
8
Floradale Farms, Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907-1916
339
51
Floradale Farms, Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1909-1915
339
52-53
Floradale Farms, Report of Howard M. Earl's Trip to California
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911
339
54
Floradale Farms, Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1912
339
55
340
1-2
Floradale Farms, Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
5 Files
1915
340
3-7
Floradale Farms, Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1916
340
8-10
Floradale Farms, Files, William T. Hoag
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918-1950
340
11
Floradale Farms, Inventory of Plant and Equipment
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1919
374
9
Floradale Farms, Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1921
340
12
Floradale Farms, Sale of Floradale by David Burpee to W. Atlee Burpee Co.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1923
340
13
California Trip, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1928
340
14
Floradale Farms, Notes on Mr. Simpson's Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929
340
15
Floradale Farms, Diagram of Sedimentary Layers in Drilled Well
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929
340
16
Floradale Farms, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1935-1969
340
17
Floradale Farms, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953-1954
340
18
Floradale Farms, Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955
340
19
Potential California Land Purchases
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955
340
20
Floradale Farms, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
340
21
Santa Paula Farms, Files, Al Condit
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
340
22
David Burpee Files Compiled During California Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
340
23
Floradale Farms, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
340
24
Floradale Farms, Reports and Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
340
25
David Burpee Files Compiled During California Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
340
26
David Burpee Files Compiled During California Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
340
27
Floradale Farms, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
340
28
Floradale Farms, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
340
29
California, Files, Al Condit
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
340
30
Floradale Farms, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
340
31
Santa Paula Farms, Files, Al Condit
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
340
32
California, Files, John J. Mondry
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
340
33
Riverside, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1948-1959
340
34
Riverside, Property
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1949-1963
340
35
Riverside, Survey Report with Position Descriptions
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1956
340
36
Riverside, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
340
37
Riverside, Files, Gerald Burke
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
340
38
Riverside, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
340
39
Riverside, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
340
40
Riverside, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
340
41
Riverside, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
340
42
California Trip Notebook (David Burpee)
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1928
392
3
California Trip Notebook (David Burpee)
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1937
392
4
California Trip Notebook (David Burpee)
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1938
392
5
California Trip Notebook (David Burpee)
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1951
392
6
David Burpee Files Compiled During California Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955
341
1
David Burpee Report on California Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
December, 1963 - January, 1964
341
2
David Burpee Files Compiled During California Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
December, 1963 - January, 1964
341
3
David Burpee Expenses, California Trips
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1968
341
4
David Burpee Files Compiled During California Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
December, 1966 - January, 1967
341
5
David Burpee Files Compiled During Ojai, California Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
November, 1967
341
6
David Burpee Files Compiled During Ojai, California Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
November - December, 1968
341
7
David Burpee Files Compiled During California Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
June, 1968
341
8
David Burpee Files Compiled During California Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
June, 1969
341
9
David Burpee Files Compiled During California Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
July - August, 1969
341
10
David Burpee Files Compiled During California Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
November, 1969
341
11
David Burpee Files Compiled During California Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
July - August, 1969
341
12
David Burpee Files Compiled During California Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
June, 1971
341
13
David Burpee Files Compiled During California Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
August, 1971
341
14
David Burpee Files Compiled During California Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
June - July, 1973
341
15
David Burpee Files Compiled During California Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
August, 1973
341
16
David Burpee Files Compiled During California Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
341
17
Florida
Archival Resource Key
Biographical / Historical
The Burpee firm established a sales branch in Sanford, Florida, (sometime in the 1930s?) dedicated to its foreign (and possibly wholesale) business sales. According to a Nomination Form submitted to the National Register of Historic Places Inventory for the Sanford Commercial District in 1976, the property was still owned by the Burpee Co. at that time.
Scope and Contents
Files include general and accounting correspondence and financial statements.
Conditions Governing Access
Files from the Sanford office were subjected to water damage at some point and require preservation photocopying. Select files are not accessible for research use at the present time.
Sanford, General Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1939
461
21-23
Sanford, Accounting Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1938
Unknown
Unknown
Sanford, Accounting Correspondence
Sanford, Accounting Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
5 Files
1939
462
1-5
Sanford, Report of Trip by E. W. Buch
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939
341
18
Sanford, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961-1968
341
19
Sanford, Florida Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
February, 1967
341
20
Iowa
Archival Resource Key
Biographical / Historical
The facility in Clinton, Iowa was established as a Midwest sales branch in 1942 in response to increased sales brought about by the proliferation of victory gardens during World War II.
Scope and Contents
Records include real estate documents, clippings pertaining to the branch's opening, correspondence with branch managers, lists of employees, and reports.
Clinton, Kelly Factory Building Real Estate
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1941-1968
341
21
Clinton, "Clinton Welcomes W. Atlee Burpee Company" from The Clinton Herald
Archival Resource Key
1 Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
1943
341
22
Clinton, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929-1957
341
23
Clinton, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1942-1951
341
24
Clinton, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1965
341
25
Clinton, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
341
26
Clinton, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
341
27
Clinton, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
341
28
Clinton, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1971
341
29
New Jersey
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, clippings, estate plan, and land agreement pertaining to the firm's lease and subsequent ownership of Sunnybrook Farm in Swedesboro, New Jersey. For plant production lists from this farm, see Series 1.1 Crops/Plants.
Sunnybrook Farm, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1895-1908
341
30
Sunnybrook Farm, Transfer of Deed
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1921
341
31
Latin America
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Records relating to a number of contract farms in South America, Mexico, and Costa Rica established by the Burpee firm to grow specific crops. This series contains contracts, sales, correspondence, crop lists, and expense reports.
Costa Rica, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939-1942
341
32
Costa Rica, Reports on Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1944
341
33
Mexico, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1949-1953
341
34
La Paz, Mexico, Agreement and Program
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953
341
35
La Paz, Mexico, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955
341
36
Mexico and Latin America, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953-1959
341
37
Mexico and Latin America, FIles
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960
341
38
Los Mochis, Sinaloa, Mexico, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1970
341
39
South and Central America, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
341
40
Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Records relating to either unidentified Burpee properties or leased farms, or files that are general in nature. Materials include land deeds; property lists detailing costs, inventories, and comparative information; and correspondence.
Plan for Unidentified Trial Beds
Archival Resource Key
1 Drawings (visual works)
circa 1920-1950
379
17
Notes and Inventories for Facilities
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911
341
41
Stock and Equipment Inventories and Appraisals
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915, 1918
374
10
Real Estate
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1927-1962
341
42
Inventory Summary of Burpee Assets
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929
341
43
Farms, "See also Legal File"
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966, 1968
341
44
Company Leases and Farm Costs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1956, 1970
341
45
Burpee Buildings and Operations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1969
341
46
W. Atlee Burpee Co. Property Appraisals
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
341
47
Farm Production Costs and Crop Values
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
341
48
Costs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
341
49
Burpee Subsidiaries and Realty Companies
2.6
Archival Resource Key
Biographical / Historical
The Burpee Co. involved itself with the acquisition of three seed companies between 1878 and 1970 when it was sold to General Foods Corporation: William Henry Maule Company, James Vick's Seeds, Inc., and the Luther Burbank Seed Company.
It also established the Tabor Realty Company, a means used by David Burpee to consolidate personal and company properties under a single realty company.
Scope and Contents
This series includes files related to seed companies acquired by the Burpee firm as well two realty companies proposed/established by the Burpee Co. Included are correspondence, financial statements and reports, inventories, notes, legal documents, photographs, board meeting minutes and trade literature.
While the majority of Burpee subsidiaries' files are found in this series, additional records are scattered throughout the collection, particularly in Series 2.1 Business Records/Office Files/Financial and Accounting and Series 2.3 Business Records/Advertising.
Luther Burbank Seed Co.
Archival Resource Key
Biographical / Historical
Upon the death of Luther Burbank (1849-1926)—an esteemed horticulturalist and plant scientist, as well as a Burpee relative—the rights to his experiments and business property were initially purchased by Stark Brothers Nurseries of Louisiana, Missouri. Stark subsequently sold limited rights to Burbank's business and name to the Burpee company, including the "Luther Burbank Treasure Chest" acquired by the Burpee firm in 1931.
Company History
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1898-1960
341
50-51
Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1905-1909
341
52
Trade Literature Transcriptions
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1906-1939
341
53
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1910-1947
341
54
Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1910-1960
374
11
Company Memorabilia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1913-1983
341
55
Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1920-1940, 1968
341
56
Advertising and Business
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1923-1958
341
57
"In the Garden with Burbank" Newspaper Columns
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1925
341
58
Burbank Seeds Catalogs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1926
342
1
Burbank Gardens
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1927-1933, 1940
342
2
Stark Bros. Nurseries (re: sale of Luther Burbank Seed Co.)
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
circa 1927-1955
342
3-4
Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929-1955
342
5
List of Burbank Seeds from Treasure Chest
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1930
342
6
Financial Statements
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955-1965
374
12
Luther Burbank Seed Co. and James Vicks Seeds, Inc. Advertising
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1958-1959
342
7
Luther Burbank Seed Co. and James Vicks Seeds, Inc. Business Matters
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959
342
8
Luther Burbank
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1968
342
9
William Henry Maule Co.
Archival Resource Key
Biographical / Historical
William Henry Maule was a lifelong friend and early business partner of W. Atlee Burpee. He became involved with Benson, Burpee & Co. in 1877 and then continued his partnership with Benson (Benson, Maule & Co.) until embarking on a business under his own name in 1885. The Burpee firm purchased the assets of Maule's in 1926, and then incorporated it in 1927. In 1947, Burpee's officially merged with the William Henry Maule Company.
Wooden Crate, "Maule Seeds"
Archival Resource Key
1 Item
circa 1880-1900
459
Trade Literature and Seed Catalogs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1884-1913
342
10
How to Make the Garden Pay by T. Greiner
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1890
381
8
Seed Catalog Covers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1895-1900
374
13
Seed Catalogs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1927-1935
342
11
Orders Received
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1891-1902
392
7
Orders Received
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1895-1901
392
8
Orders Received
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1901-1909
392
9
William Henry Maule
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1913
342
12
Maule Agreement with Burpee Co. and Other Business Matters
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1926-1929
342
13-14
Corporate Papers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1926-1940
374
14
Maule Acquisition
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1926-1947
342
15
Financial Statements
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1927-1931
374
15
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1928
342
16
James Vick's Seeds, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
Vick's Illustrated Monthly, Vols. I, II, V, VII, VIII, IX, XIII
Archival Resource Key
7 Books
1878-1890
385
Legal Proceedings and Minutes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1928-1962
342
17
Correspondence and Notes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1931-1966
342
18
James Vick's Garden and Floral Guide
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1935
342
19
Financial Statements
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1952-1965
374
16
Realty
Archival Resource Key
Biographical / Historical
While proposed around 1911, the W. Atlee Burpee Realty Company was not established. the Tabor Realty Company was established by David Burpee in 1929.
These companies were an attempt by W. Atlee and David Burpee to consolidate personal and company properties under a single realty company.
W. Atlee Burpee Realty Co., Proposal
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1911-1915
374
17
Tabor Realty Company, Passbook
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1929-1946
392
10
Tabor Realty Company, Charter and Olney Property
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929-1970
342
20
Tabor Realty Company, Financial Statements
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929
342
21
Tabor Realty Company, Financial Statements
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1931, 1936
374
18
Tabor Realty Company, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1942-1947
342
22
Professional Activities and Outreach
2.7
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Records related to Burpee company events, trips, and advocacy campaigns, as well as papers related to professional organizations, governments, and individuals involved with the horticultural trade business. The bulk of files related to the Burpee company's philanthropic endeavors are also included in this series.
Professional Organizations
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Trade literature, photographs, event invitations and programs, press releases, clippings, correspondence, notes, ephemera, and meeting minutes relating to numerous organizations in which the Burpee firm was involved in some way.
Professional Organizations, Printed Matter, M,S
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1908-1965
381
9
Agricultural Hall of Fame
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961
342
23
All-America Selections
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1933-1954, 1969
342
24
All-America Selections
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1950-1960
342
25
All-America Selections
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1956-1969
342
26
All-America Selections, Trials at Pennsylvania State University
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1965
342
27
All-America Selections
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1969
342
28
All-America Selections
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
342
29
All-America Selections
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1977
342
30
All Britain Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1970
342
31
American Garden Foundation
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1945-1954
342
32
American Garden Foundation, National Garden Institute and Victory Gardens
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946
342
33
American Horticultural Council Annual Meeting
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1958
342
34
American Horticultural Society
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
342
35
American Horticultural Society, 24th American Horticultural Congress
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
342
36
American Horticultural Society, American Horticultural Congress Convention, "Garden Writers' Day" 1969
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1970
342
37
American Horticultural Society, 28th American Horticultural Congress
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
342
38
American Horticultural Society, 33rd Annual Congress
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978
342
39
American Seed Trade Association
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1894-1922
342
40
American Seed Trade Association
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1925-1966
342
41
American Seed Trade Association's Telegraph Code
Archival Resource Key
1 Book
1895
381
10
American Seed Trade Association, Annual Report
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1903
381
11
American Seed Trade Association, Floral Stamps
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959
342
42
American Seed Trade Association
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1968
342
43
American Seed Trade Association, Chicago Meeting
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
342
44
American Seed Trade Association
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
342
45
American Seed Trade Association
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1973
342
46
Marigold Society of America, Incorporation
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1975, 1978
342
47
Marigold Society of America, Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1978
342
48
343
1
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Alabama
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978-1983
343
2
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Dothan, Alabama
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1980-1982
343
3-4
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Alaska
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1982
343
5
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Arizona
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1982
343
6
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Arkansas
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1981
343
7
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, California
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1978-1983
343
8-9
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Colorado
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978-1983
343
10
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Connecticut
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978-1983
343
11
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Delaware
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1982
343
12
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Washington, D.C.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978
343
13
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Florida
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978-1983
343
14
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Georgia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1980-1982
343
15
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Hawaii
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1983
343
16
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Idaho
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1983
343
17
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Illinois
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1978-1983
343
18-19
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Indiana
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978-1982
343
20
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Iowa
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978-1982
343
21
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Kansas
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979
343
22
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Kentucky
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979
343
23
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Louisianna
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978-1982
343
24
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Maine
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1980-1982
343
25
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Maryland
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978-1983
343
26
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Massachusetts
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978-1983
343
27
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Michigan
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978-1982
343
28
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Minnesota
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978-1983
343
29
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Mississippi
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1981
343
30
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Missouri
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1983
343
31
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Montana
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1982
343
32
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Nebraska
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1982
343
33
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, New Hampshire
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978-1981
343
34
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, New Jersey
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978-1982
343
35
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, New Mexico
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1980
343
36
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, New York
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978-1982
343
37
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, North Carolina
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1980-1983
343
38
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, North Dakota
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1980-1982
343
39
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978-1982
343
40
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Oklahoma
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1983
343
41
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Oregon
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1983
343
42
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978-1983
343
43
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Rhode Island
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1981-1982
343
44
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, South Carolina
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1982
343
45
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, South Dakota
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1982
343
46
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Tennessee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1983
343
47
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Texas
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1983
344
1
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Vermont
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1980-1982
344
2
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Virginia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1983
344
3
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Washington
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978-1983
344
4
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, West Virginia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1981-1982
344
5
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Wisconsin
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1982
344
6
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Canada
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1982
344
7
Marigold Society of America, Membership Applications, Foreign
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1982
344
8
Men's Garden Club of Los Angeles
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974, 1977
344
9
National Council on Business Mail, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961
344
10
National Council of Commercial Plant Breeders
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
344
11
National Council of State Garden Clubs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
344
12
The National Farm School (later Delaware Valley College), Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907-1926
344
13
Delaware Valley College
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1965-1975
344
14
Delaware Valley College, Talk
Archival Resource Key
1 File
May 21, 1972
344
15
Delaware Valley College
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
344
16
Delaware Valley College
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
344
17
National Garden Institute, War Gardens
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946-1947
344
18
National Junior Horticultural Association
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967, 1971
344
19
The National Sweet Pea Society, Annuals and Bulletins
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1911-1973
381
12-13
The National Sweet Pea Society, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1970
344
20
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970, 1983
344
21
Philadelphia Society for Promoting Agriculture
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
344
22
Royal Horticultural Society
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1970
344
23
Town Hall Project, Mexico
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954
344
24
Wholesale Seed Merchants' League
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1898-1903
344
25-26
Wholesale Seedsmen's League, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1905-1910
344
27
Wholesale Seedsmen's League, Seed Naming Conventions
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1908
344
28
Wholesale Seedsmen's League, Capital Stock Certificate
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918
407
Garden Clubs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1965
344
29
Horticultural Societies
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
344
30
Organizational Involvement
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953-1954
344
31
Organizational Involvement
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955
344
32
Philanthropic Activities
Archival Resource Key
Biographical / Historical
The Burpee company was heavily involved in philanthropic activities, particularly through the donation of its seeds. It partnered with a number of organizations to do this.
Scope and Contents
For more on the company's philanthropy, see Series 2.1 Business Records/Office Files/Company Correspondence and Series 2.1 Business Records/Financial and Accounting.
Burpee Awards and Fellowships
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1927-1973
344
33
Burpee Award in Horticulture
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1949-1978
344
34
Burpee Friendship Foundation
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971
344
35
Seeds for Relief
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1932-1933
344
36
National Recovery Administration
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1933-1934
344
37
Agricultural Missions, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946, 1970
344
38
Agricultural Missions, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1967
344
39
National Garden Bureau, Seeds for Peace
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1955-1965
344
40
People-to-People Program
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1958-1960
344
41
Philadelphia More Beautiful Initiative
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959
344
42
Capitol Beautification Program, Washington, D.C.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962-1965
344
43
Society for a More Beautiful National Capitol, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
344
44
National Park Service (Beautification Program)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
344
45
CARE
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1968
344
46
Men's Garden Club of America
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
344
47
Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission Flower Garden
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
344
48
Catholic Church, Free Seeds
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
344
49
Beautifying America
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1973
344
50
Beautifying America
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1968
344
51
Gratis Seed Packets
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1969
344
52
The Friendship Force
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1977-1982
344
53
Company Trips and Contacts
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Files related to trips taken on behalf of the Burpee firm by W. Atlee and David Burpee, along with research and sales trips taken by high-ranking staff members. Included are internal and external correspondence, clippings, trade literature, reports (both descriptive and analytical), itineraries and travel ephemera, notes, contact lists, expense reports, and photographs.
Notes on Trials and Crops in Europe by W. Atlee Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1909
374
19
Reports on European Trips
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1909-1913
345
1
Trip to Florida and Cuba
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1913
345
2-4
Notes on European Trip by David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1914
374
20
Trip to Costa Rica and Guatemala by David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
December, 1940 - January, 1941
345
5
Trips to Europe by David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1949, 1966
345
6
Report on Trip to Europe by E. Helaine Lintleman
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1951
345
7
Japan
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954, 1960
345
8
Japan, Sawada Home
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960-1962
345
9
Hawaii
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954-1961
345
10
Trip to California, Hawaii and Japan by David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960
345
11
Visit to Pennsylvania State University by David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960
345
12
Trip to Europe by David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961
345
13
Trip to Europe by E. P. Bugbee Jr.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959, 1961
345
14
Sales Trip Report for Hawaii, Manila, Australia, New Zealand, and Tahiti by Gerald Burke
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
345
15
Trip to Europe by David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
345
16
England Trip
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
June, 1964
345
17-18
Reports from Asia by Carter Holton
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
345
19
Trip Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1966
345
20
England
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
345
21
Nursery Trip Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
345
22
Chicago, Illinois Trip by David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
March, 1967
345
23
Trip Itineraries
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
345
24
California and Far East Trip by Jerome H. Kantor
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
345
25
Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Carter Holton
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
345
26
Reports on Asia Trips
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967, 1970
345
27
Asia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
345
28
Reports on Paris Trip by W. Atlee Burpee III
Archival Resource Key
1 File
March, 1969
345
29
Report of Sales Trip to Europe and Middle East by J.O. Moncrief
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1970
345
30
Trip Itineraries and Schedules for David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1970
345
31
Washington, Clinton, Chicago, Minneapolis and New York Trip by David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
February - March, 1970
345
32
Trip Expenses for David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1971
345
33
Contact Lists
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1920
345
34
Contacts, Africa
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1948, 1965
345
35
Contacts, Alabama
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1928, 1951
345
36
Contacts, Alaska
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1936, 1964
345
37
Contacts and Trips, Arizona
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938, 1954
345
38
Contacts, Arkansas
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1930-1960
345
39
Contacts and Trips, Asia and Turkey
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1931-1932
345
40
Contacts in Australia, New Zealand, South Africa
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1949, 1962-1964
345
41
Contacts, Baltimore
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938, 1942
345
42
Contacts, Bermuda
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1931
345
43
Contacts and Trips, Boston
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1928-1970
345
44
Contacts and Trips, California
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1951, 1970
345
45
Contacts and Trips, Canada
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1946-1974
345
46-47
Contacts, Caribbean
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1965
345
48
Contacts and Trips, Chicago
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1930-1970
345
49
Contacts, Chile
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1935
345
50
Contacts and Trips, Clinton, Iowa
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946-1968
345
51
Contacts and Trips, Colorado
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1948-1967
345
52
Contacts and Trips, Connecticut
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1942-1953
345
53
Contacts, Costa Rica
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
345
54
Contacts and Trips, Cuba
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953-1954
345
55
Contacts, Ecuador
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954
345
56
Contacts, Egypt
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
345
57
Contacts and Trips, England
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946-1967
345
58
Contacts and Trips, Europe
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1934-1966
346
1
Contacts and Trips, Florida
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1934-1966
346
2
Contacts, France
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
346
3
Contacts, Georgia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1934-1946
346
4
Contacts, Hawaii
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962-1970
346
5
Contacts and Trips, Illinois (except Chicago)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1933-1941
346
6
Contacts, India
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
346
7
Contacts, Indiana
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1930-1950
346
8
Contacts and Trips, Iowa
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1942-1963
346
9
Contacts, Italy
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1965
346
10
Contacts, Jamaica
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938-1962
346
11
Contacts and Trips, Japan
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954-1965
346
12
Contacts, Kentucky
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1931
346
13
Contacts, Louisiana
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1951-1952
346
14
Contacts, Maine
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929
346
15
Contacts, Massachusetts
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1942
346
16
Contacts and Trips, Mexico
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1949-1963
346
17
Contacts and Trips, Michigan
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1932-1968
346
18
Contacts, Minnesota
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937
346
19
Contacts, Missouri
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1942
346
20
Contacts, Nebraska
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1944
346
21
Contacts, New Hampshire
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1952-1957
346
22
Contacts, New Jersey
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1943-1970
346
23
Contacts, New Mexico
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937
346
24
Contacts and Trips, New York City
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929-1969
346
25
Contacts and Trips, New York
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1931-1934
346
26
Contacts and Trips, North Carolina
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946-1969
346
27
Contacts and Trips, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929-1960
346
28
Contacts, Oklahoma
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1930-1960
346
29
Contacts and Trips, Oregon
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955-1965
346
30
Contacts and Trips, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1958-1963
346
31
Contacts, Peru
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960
346
32
Contacts, Portugal
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1956-1966
346
33
Contacts and Trips, Puerto Rico
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1933-1968
346
34
Contacts and Trips, South America
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1962
346
35
Contacts and Trips, South Carolina
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939-1964
346
36
Contacts, Tennessee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1935-1960
346
37
Contacts and Trips, Texas
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1936-1965
346
38
Contacts and Trips, Virginia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1943-1969
346
39
Contacts and Trips, Washington, D.C.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929-1970
346
40
Contacts and Trips, Washington State
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1935-1966
346
41
Contacts, West Indies
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1957
346
42
Contacts, West Virginia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1935-1960
346
43
Advocacy
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Documents pertaining to two causes the Burpee company lobbied on behalf of: postal rates (an issue closely related to the firm's mail order business); and David Burpee's efforts to designate the marigold as the United States' national floral emblem. Files include correspondence, governmental proceedings, , fact sheets, clippings, notes, Christmas cards, and photographs.
Philadelphia Seed Merchants, Seed Growers and Seed Importers, Suggested Tariff Revision
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1896
346
44
Congressional Free Seed Distribution Program
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1901-1907
346
45
Suggested Improvements in Mailing of 3rd and 4th Class Matter, Address by W. Atlee Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1902
346
46
Postmaster General's Address on Improvement of the Postal Service
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907
374
21
Legislation Concerning Seed Business
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1907
346
47
Parcel Post Legislation (Bourne Bill)
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1912
346
48-49
Federal Postal Bill
Archival Resource Key
5 Files
1924
346
50-54
Postage Rates and Equipment
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954-1968
346
55
Fifty Cent Bill Proposal
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1969
346
56
National Postal Forum
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
346
57
National Floral Emblem, Marigold Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1936-1962
346
58
National Floral Emblem, Marigold History and Information
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1936-1980
346
59
National Floral Emblem, Marigold Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954-1970
347
1
National Floral Emblem, Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955-1969
347
2
National Floral Emblem, Washington, D.C. Lobbying
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1956-1963
347
3
National Floral Emblem
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1958-1972
347
4-7
National Floral Emblem Debate
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959
347
8
National Floral Emblem, Congressional Resolutions
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1971
347
9
Salutes to National Floral Emblems
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1961
347
10
National Flower
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1962
347
11
National Floral Emblem, Congressman Willard S. Curtin
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1962
347
12
National Floral Emblem, 1964-1967
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1967
347
13
National Floral Emblem, Congressional Debate
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1968
347
14
Thank You Letters from Senators and Mrs. Eisenhower for Flowers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1968
347
15
Arguments and Testimonial Support in Favor of Marigold as National FLower
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1969
347
16
National Floral Emblem, 1968-1970
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1970
347
17
National Floral Emblem, Congressional Records and Press Releases
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1961, 1980
347
18
National Floral Emblem, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960-1961
347
19
National Floral Emblem, Letters in Support of Marigolds
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961-1963
347
20
National Floral Emblem, Senator Everett M. Dirksen
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1961-1970
347
21-22
National Floral Emblem, Senator Everett M. Dirksen
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1968
347
23
National Floral Emblem, Senator Everett M. Dirksen
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1970
347
24
Senator Dirksen Marigold
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1970
347
25
Senator Dirksen Marigold Seeds, Thank You Letters from Senators
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
347
26
Senator Dirksen Marigold Seeds, Thank You Letters from Congressmen
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
347
27
National Floral Emblem, Senator Everett M. Dirksen
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1970
347
28
National Floral Emblem, Louella (Mrs. Everett M.) Dirksen
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1974
347
29
National Floral Emblem, Congressman William H. Aryes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
347
30
Thank You Letters from Senators and Congressmen for Marigolds
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1968
347
31
National Floral Emblem, Marigold Boosters
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1970
347
32
National Floral Emblem, Letters in Support of Marigold
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
347
33
National Floral Emblem, Congressman Edward G. Biester Jr.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966
347
34
Marigold Acknowledgements
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
347
35
Marigold Bouquets Sent and Acknowledgements
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1970
347
36
National Floral Emblem, Marigold Congressional Lobby Reports
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
348
1
Marigold Fact Sheets
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1970-1975
348
2
National Floral Emblem, Informational Packet: "Reasons Why…"
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1970-1980
348
3
Marigold as National Floral Emblem, 1971
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959 - circa 1971
348
4
Marigold Bouquet Acknowledgements from Congressmen
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971
348
5
State and National Flowers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1970-1975
348
6
National Floral Emblem, Washington, D.C.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972-1973
348
7
Marigold Thank You Letters
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
348
8
Marigold as National Floral Emblem
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1975
348
9
Marigold Thank You Letter from President Jimmy Carter
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1980
348
10
National Floral Emblem, Printed Material
Archival Resource Key
1 Magazines (periodicals)
1959
402
National Floral Emblem, Publicity, Washington, D.C.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1961
348
11
National Floral Emblem, Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1 Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
1959-1965
348
12
National Floral Emblem, Burpee Promotion of Marigold
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1970
348
13
National Floral Emblem, Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1 Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
1959-1978
348
14
National Floral Emblem, Art Buchwald
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
348
15
National Floral Emblem, Panorama Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
348
16
Marigolds, Great Britain
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1966
348
17
National Floral Emblem, Home Gardener, National Flower Vote
Archival Resource Key
5 Files
1969
348
18-22
National Floral Emblem, Marigold Clippings (David Burpee & Senator Everett M. Dirksen)
Archival Resource Key
1 Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
1970
374
22
Marigold Article in Reader's Digest by Frank J. Taylor
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1972
348
23
National Floral Emblem, Dorothy Whittier, Herald Advertiser
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
348
24
Pekin Marigold Festival
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
348
25
Marigold Wagon (Charlotte Bass)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1976-1977
348
26
National Floral Emblem, Charlotte Bass
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1976-1977
348
27
Marigold Christmas Cards
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1968
348
28
Marigold Christmas Cards
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962-1970
348
29
Marigold Christmas Cards
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
348
30
Marigold Christmas Cards
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1973
348
31
Marigold Christmas Card
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1970
348
32-33
Marigold Christmas Card and Seed Packet Acknowedgements
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971-1972
348
34
Marigold Christmas Cards
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972
349
1
Marigold Card and Seed Packet Acknowledgements
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972
349
2
Marigold Card
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
349
3
Marigold Card Acknowledgements
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
349
4
Christmas Cards from Senators, Congressmen and Governors
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
349
5
Marigold Card 1974-1975
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
349
6
Marigold Card Acknowledgements
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
349
7
Marigold Card
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1980
349
8
Sample of Homespun Wool Dyed with Marigold
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1960-1975
387
American Marigold for National Flower of U.S.A. Matchbooks
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1960-1975
387
Events
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Records related to flower shows the company designed exhibits for, "previews" the firm hosted to promote new flower varieties, and events held at Fordhook Farms. Files include programs, invitations, correspondence, clippings, some sales and expense reports, event itineraries, and photographs.
Fordhook Farms Events, Printed Material
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1903-1978
349
9
374
23
American Seed Trade Association and Wholesale Seedsmen's League, "A Day at Fordhook"
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1903
349
10
American Seed Trade Association, "A Day at Fordhook"
Archival Resource Key
1 File
June 1910
349
11
American Seed Trade Association, "A Day at Fordhook"
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1923
349
12
Fordhook Field Days and Company Parties
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1930, 1944-1946
349
13
Symposium on Horticulture of China at Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1945-1946
349
14
Report of Proceedings of Symposium on Horticulture of China (from Adelphia Reporting Bureau)
Archival Resource Key
2 Manuscripts (document genre)
1945
349
15-16
Report of Proceedings of Symposium on Horticulture of China
Archival Resource Key
1 Manuscripts (document genre)
1945
349
17
Proceedings on Symposium on Horticulture of China
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1945
349
18
Daffodil Days Program at Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
April 1954
349
19
Entertaining at Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955-1968
349
20
American Management Association Course at Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1958-1961
349
21
Gatherings at Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1978
349
22
Map to Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 Map
circa 1970-1975
349
23
Fordhook Farms Visitors' Guide
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1976
349
24
Inn at Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1986-1998
349
25
Preview and Address for Nasturtiums, New York, New York
Archival Resource Key
1 File
January, 1936
349
26
Preview and Address for Nasturtiums, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
1 File
February, 1936
349
27
Preview and Address for Collarette Marigold, New York, New York
Archival Resource Key
1 File
October, 1936
349
28
Preview and Address for Collarette Marigold, "Crown of Gold," Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
1 File
February, 1937
349
29
Preview and Address for New Marigolds and Other Flowers, New York, New York
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937
349
30
Preview and Address for New Marigolds, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
1 File
January, 1938
349
31
Preview and Address for Red and Gold Hybrid Marigolds, New York, New York
Archival Resource Key
1 File
February, 1939
349
32
Preview and Address for Red and Gold Hybrid Marigolds, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
1 File
March, 1939
349
33
Preview and Address for New David Burpee Zinnias, New York, New York
Archival Resource Key
1 File
September, 1939
349
34
Preview and Address for New Tetra Marigold, New York, New York
Archival Resource Key
1 File
January, 1940
349
35
Preview and Address for Idabelle Firestone Marigold, New York, New York
Archival Resource Key
1 File
January, 1941
349
36
World Premieres, Santa Barbara
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1941, 1958-1959
349
37
Preview and Address for Celtuce and Calendula, New York, New York
Archival Resource Key
1 File
January, 1942
349
38
Previews, General
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946-1959
349
39
World Premiere of Luther Burbank Zinnia, New York, New York
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1947
349
40
World Premiere of Yellow Climax and Orange Climax Hybrid Marigolds, New York, New York
Archival Resource Key
1 File
September, 1957
349
41
Future Previews
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1957
349
42
Louisiana Purchase Exposition
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1904
349
43
National Sweet Pea Society of America, Sweet Pea Exhibition
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911
349
44
The National Sweet Pea Society, Printed Material
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911
402
Sesqui-Centennial International Exposition, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1926
350
1
The National Sweet Pea Society, Thirty-fourth Exhibition (Burpee Cup)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1934
374
24
Seedlings for New York Sweet Pea Day
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1924
350
2
Victory Garden Harvest Show
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1943
350
3
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1957-1968
350
4
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962-1964
350
5
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
350
6
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
350
7
Flower Show, Chicago 1968
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1968
350
8
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1969
350
9
Flower Show, Chicago 1969
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1969
350
10
Flower Shows 1970
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1969-1970
350
11-12
Flower Show, Chicago 1970
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1970
350
13
Flower Shows 1971
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
350
14
Flower Show, Chicago 1971
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
350
15
Flower Show, Chicago 1973
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
350
16
Comments about 1973 Philadelphia Flower Show
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
350
17
Flower Show, Chicago 1974
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
350
18
Flower Show, Philadelphia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
350
19
The Pennsylvania State University Horticultural Show
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1980
350
20
Comments about 1980 Philadelphia Flower Show by Jeannette Lowe
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1980
350
21
List of Burpee Cash Prizes Awarded at Fairs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1881-1908
350
22
Flower Shows and Previews, Printed Material
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1915-1985
350
23-24
374
25
Santa Barbara Fiesta
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959
350
25
Materials Published by the Burpee Co.
2.8
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Printed matter published by the Burpee Co. for its customers including seed catalogs, notices, special offer lists, order forms, and instructional materials.
Burpee Catalogs
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Included are copies of the company's annual catalog, Red and Blue Lists (wholesale and market-gardener catalogs, respectively), supplemental and seasonal catalogs, and catalog mailing envelopes. This series does not contain a complete run of all Burpee seed catalogs.
Bound copies of the Burpee catalog were often stamped with the name of a Burpee principal like David Burpee and interleaved with blank pages for notetaking. (Bound copies in this series do not include any annotations.) Some of the bound copies include a copy of the annual catalog as well as all of the supplemental and seasonal catalogs that were issued in a particular year.
Biographical / Historical
From 1879 to 1909 the title of the Burpee catalog was Burpee's Farm Annual. The name was changed for one year to Burpee's New Annual, and then to Burpee's Annual until 1929. (Burpee staff often used the abbreviation "B.A." to refer to the Burpee Annual in the company files.) In the early 1930s the catalog was titled Burpee's Garden Book, and then in 1935 changed to Burpee Seeds. In the late 1960s the title was changed to Burpee Seeds and Everything for the Garden.
W. Atlee Burpee's Catalogue of High-Class Land and Water Fowls
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1875-1876
447
Burpee's Farm Annual and Catalogs
Archival Resource Key
60 Booklets
1883-1929
446
Burpee's Farm Annual and Catalogs
Archival Resource Key
50 Booklets
1930-1987
447
Portion of 1896 Catalog Cover
Archival Resource Key
1 Chromolithograph
framed circa 1960-1975
384
14
Burpee Gardens
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1998
350
26
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
2 copies
1894
449
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1895
449
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1896
449
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1897
449
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1901
449
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1910
449
450
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1912
450
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1913
450
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1914
450
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1916
450
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
2 copies
1917
450
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
2 copies
1918
450
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
2 copies
1919
450
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1920
450
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1922
450
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1924
450
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
2 copies
1925
450
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
3 copies
1926
450
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
5 copies
1927
450
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
2 copies
1929
450
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
3 copies
1930
450
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
5 copies
1931
451
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1932
451
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
2 copies
1933
451
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1935
451
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1936
451
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1937
451
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1938
451
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
2 copies
1940
451
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1941
451
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1943
451
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1944
451
Burpee Catalogs (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1941-1944
451
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1945
451
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1947
451
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1948
451
Burpee Catalogs (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1945-1948
451
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1949
451
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1950
451
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1951
452
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1952
452
Burpee Catalogs (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1949-1952
451
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
6 copies
1953
452
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
5 copies
1954
452
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
6 copies
1955
452
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
6 copies
1956
452
Burpee Catalogs (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1953-1956
452
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
2 copies
1957
452
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
3 copies
1958
452
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
3 copies
1959
452
453
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
4 copies
1960
453
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
4 copies
1961
453
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
5 copies
1962
453
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
6 copies
1963
453
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
6 copies
1964
453
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
6 copies
1965
453
454
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
6 copies
1966
454
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
7 copies
1967
454
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
7 copies
1968
454
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
7 copies
1969
454
455
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
5 copies
1970
455
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
5 copies
1971
455
Burpee Catalog (bound copies)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
3 copies
1972
455
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1973
455
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1974
455
Burpee Catalog (bound copy)
Archival Resource Key
1 Trade catalog
1975
455
Burpee Catalog, 1976
Archival Resource Key
455
Burpee's Manual of Thoroughbred Live Stock and Fancy Poultry
Archival Resource Key
6 Booklets
1893-1898
447
Burpee's Catalogue of Scotch Collie Dogs and Fancy Poultry
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1900
447
Collie Catalog
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
circa 1901
447
Collie Catalogue Supplement
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1906
447
Color Pages from Burpee Annuals
Archival Resource Key
1 Chromolithograph
1892-1915
350
27
Chromolithograph of "Sweet Peas Painted from Nature as Grown at Fordhook Farm"
Archival Resource Key
1 Chromolithograph
1895
Item is in poor physical condition and requires conservation.
457
Burpee Annual Mailing Envelopes
Archival Resource Key
2 Envelopes
1904-1918
374
26-27
Catalog Mailing Envelopes
Archival Resource Key
1 Envelope
circa 1961-1967
350
28
Catalog Supplements
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1906-1916
448
Red List Wholesale Catalogs
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1892-1929, 1971
448
Blue Lists For Market Gardeners and Florists
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1892-1922, 1974
448
Seasonal Planting Catalogs
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1893-1956
448
Special Lists of Burpee Seeds
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1893-1900
448
A Bright Book About Seeds
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1895
448
Advance Wholesale Prices for 1906
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1905
Unknown
Unknown
Selection, A Few of the Choicest Vegetables and Most Beautiful New Sweet Peas
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1908
448
Burpee's Selected Nursery Stock
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
circa 1950-1965
448
Burpee Gifts for Gardeners at Christmas
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1968
448
Miscellaneous Catalog Pages (photocopies)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1885-1900
350
29
Burpee Fall Planting Catalogs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
350
30
Special Catalog Envelopes
Archival Resource Key
3 Envelopes
circa 1900-1925
374
28-29
375
1
Catalogs and Supplements (Duplicates)
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1890-1976
449
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Various mailing cards, notices, circulars, and order forms distributed to Burpee customers. Included are notices for specific seed collections; remittance notices; promotional fliers for varieties; supplements; out of stock notices; complaint acknowledgement cards; and post cards.
Benson & Burpee Advertising Card
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1876
350
31
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1872-1899
387
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1876-1915
381
14
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1880-1915
350
32
Scrapbook of Burpee Notices
Archival Resource Key
1 Scrapbook
1887-1888
379
20
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1893-1899
350
33
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1900
350
34
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1915
387
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1901
350
35-36
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1902
350
37
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1905
350
38
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1906
350
39
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907
350
40
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1908
351
1
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1909
351
2-3
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1910
351
4-5
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911
351
6
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1912
351
7-9
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1913
351
10
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1914
351
11
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915
351
12
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1916-1976
381
15
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1916-1980
387
Notices, Lists, Order Forms, Etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1928-1976
351
13
Burpee's Prize Supplements
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1902-1913
381
16
Postal Cards
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1904
410
Combination Post Cards
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1904-1924
387
Bulb Notices
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1910-1930
351
14
Form Letters (including index of form letters)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1915
351
15
Mailing Cards
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1919-1928
351
16
Order Acknowledgement Cards
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1926-1927
351
17
Complaint Acknowledgement Card
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1927
351
18
Subsistence Gardens
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1934
351
19
Collarette Marigold, "Crown of Gold"
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937
351
20
Envelopes
Archival Resource Key
2 Envelopes
circa 1900-1920
351
21-22
Burpee Envelopes and Shipping Tags
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1940
375
2
Instructional Materials
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
"How-to" manuals and other material published by the Burpee Co. on a variety of agricultural topics including garden and lawn care, pest control, flower and vegetable culture, manure manufacturing, and cookbooks.
All About Sweet Peas
Archival Resource Key
2 Booklets
1892
388
Sweet Peas Up-To-Date (1st, 2nd and revised editions)
Archival Resource Key
16 Booklets
1897-1917
388
Flowers for Every Home (4th, 6th, 14th and revised editions)
Archival Resource Key
8 Booklets
1895-1914
388
How to Grow Cabbages and Cauliflowers Most Profitably
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1888
388
Cabbage and Cauliflower for Profit (1st and revised editions)
Archival Resource Key
6 Booklets
1894-1912
388
Burpee's How to Grow Melons for Market (1st, 4th, 6th and 20th editions)
Archival Resource Key
6 Booklets
1888-1911
388
How to Cook Vegetables (1st and 21st editions)
Archival Resource Key
Rorer, S. T., 1849-1937
2 Booklets
1891, 1912
388
Potatoes for Profit (2nd and 17th editions)
Archival Resource Key
3 Booklets
1895, 1912
389
Vegetables for the Home Garden (2nd, 9th, 10th and revised editions)
Archival Resource Key
7 Booklets
1896-1914
389
Onions for Profit (4th, 13th and 16th editions)
Archival Resource Key
6 Booklets
1896-1913
389
How and What to Cook in a Kitchen Garden (20th edition)
Archival Resource Key
2 Booklets
1912
389
The Food Value of Fresh Vegetables
Archival Resource Key
Leffmann, Henry, 1847-1930
2 Booklets
2 editions, 5 copies in total
1914
389
Best Ways to Cook Fresh Vegetables
Archival Resource Key
Scott, Anna B. Storck, 1856-
1 Booklet
3 copies
1915
389
What, When and How to Plant: A Guide for the Home Vegetable Garden
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1917
381
17
Garden Talk: Hints on Growing and Harvesting Vegetables
Archival Resource Key
Burpee, Lois
5 Booklets
1980
382
1
Snap Peas
Archival Resource Key
2 Booklets
1980
382
1
Injurious Insects and the Use of Insecticides (7th edition)
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1893
389
Selection in Seed Growing. Embracing Papers Read at the World's Horticultural Congress
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1894
389
A Year's Work at Fordhook Farm
Archival Resource Key
Wheelock, E. J.
1 Booklet
1895
351
23
Small Gardens for Small Folks
Archival Resource Key
Fullerton, Edith Loring
1 Booklet
1912-1918
382
2
Burpee's Two Dollar Garden Collection of Vegetables for 1919
Archival Resource Key
1 Poster
1919
433
Planting Plan for Burpee's Home Garden Collection of Vegetables for 1919
Archival Resource Key
1 Poster
1919
433
Grandma's Victory Vegetable Garden
Archival Resource Key
Weber, Clara
1 Booklet
1942
375
3
Burpee's Color-in Garden and Seeds that Grow for Boys and Girls
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1947
375
4
Burpee American Gardening Series
Archival Resource Key
3 Books
1991
351
24
Instructional Leaflets
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
circa 1896-1925
382
3-5
Instructional Booklets
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
circa 1899-1970
387
Root Crops for Stock Feeding, and How to Grow Them (8th, 11th and 13th editions)
Archival Resource Key
4 Booklets
1899-1912
389
Manures: How to Make and How to Use Them (20th edition)
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1911
389
Ads
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Burpee advertisements that were published in various newspapers and magazines. Some of the ads were clipped from publications, while other publications featuring Burpee ads were kept in their entirety.
Burpee's Welcome Oats
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1884
351
25
Marigold Advertising
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1930-1940
351
26
Christmas Gift Box
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1950-1960
351
27
"Grown From Burpee Seeds" Posters
Archival Resource Key
6 Posters
circa 1960-1970
407
Newspaper Ads
Archival Resource Key
1 File
January - July 1932
397
Newspaper Ads
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
March 1935
398
399
Newspaper Ads
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
April 1935
399
400
Newspaper and Magazine Ads
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1883-1915
351
28
375
5-7
Magazine Ads
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1883-1915
402
Magazine Ads
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1883-1915
407
Newspaper and Magazine Ads
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1919-1929
351
29
375
8
Magazine Ads
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1930-1939
402
Newspaper and Magazine Ads
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1930-1939
352
1
375
9-10
Newspaper and Magazine Ads
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1940-1949
352
2
375
11
Magazine Ads
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1940-1949
402
Newspaper and Magazine Ads
Archival Resource Key
5 Files
1950-1959
352
3
375
12-15
Publication Advertising, Fall Bulb Campaign
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959
352
4
Newspaper and Magazine Ads
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1960-1977
375
16-17
Magazine Ads
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960-1977
402
Promotions
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1976
352
5
"After 100 Years, We Still Guarantee" Poster
Archival Resource Key
1 Poster
1976
406
"After 100 Years, We Still Guarantee" Flier
Archival Resource Key
5 Pamphlets
1976
376
8
Seed Packets
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
An assortment of Burpee seed packets, ranging from late-nineteenth-century examples lacking images to packets with colorfully photographed images distributed in the 1970s. Some of the packets include seeds.
Seed Packets
Archival Resource Key
11 Files
circa 1896-1921
352
6-16
Seed Packets (framed for Inn at Fordhook Farm)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1902
406
Seed Packets
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962-1975
352
18
Seed Packets
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1975-1981
352
17
Seed Packets
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1980-1981
352
19
Press Releases
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Releases issued by the Burpee Co.mpany in the 1960s and 1970s to announce significant events and new plant releases.
Press Releases
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1965
352
20
Press Releases
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1975
352
21
Burpee Library and Reference Materials
2.9
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Printed material that was collected by the Burpee firm for general reference purposes. Topics covered by this material include trade literature; business, advertising, and gardening publications; and agricultural and scientific journals.
Seed and Agricultural Trade Literature
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Catalogs, notices and circulars, envelopes, cable code books, ephemera, bulletins, and miscellaneous publications generated by Burpee's competitors. This subseries also contains articles written about some of Burpee's competitors. Most of tThe trade literature is filed alphabetically by firm name.
Seed and Agricultural Trade Literature, A
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1903-1924
352
22
Seed and Agricultural Trade Literature, B
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1890-1956
352
23-25
353
1
Seed and Agricultural Trade Literature, C
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1908-1952
353
2-4
Robert Carrier Herb Garden by Carters Tested Seeds Ltd.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
353
5
Seed and Agricultural Trade Literature, D
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1886-1955
353
6-7
Seed and Agricultural Trade Literature, E-F
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
circa 1890-1956
353
8-9
Seed and Agricultural Trade Literature, G-H
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
circa 1890-1956
353
10-12
403
Seed and Agricultural Trade Literature, J-K
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1898-1908
353
13
Seed and Agricultural Trade Literature, L
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1899-1939
353
14
Seed and Agricultural Trade Literature, M
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1898-1952
353
15
Seed and Agricultural Trade Literature, N
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1908
353
16
Seed and Agricultural Trade Literature, P-R
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
circa 1900-1975
353
17
403
Seed and Agricultural Trade Literature, S
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1901-1967
353
18-19
354
1
Seed and Agricultural Trade Literature, T, V
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1902-1932
354
2-4
Seed and Agricultural Trade Literature, W
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1895-1928
354
5
Seed and Agricultural Trade Literature, Z
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1912-1930
354
6
Articles on Other Seed Companies
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955-1956
354
7
Early Seedsmen in the U.S.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
354
8
General Garden and Agricultural Reference
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Home, garden, agricultural, and lifestyle publications; technical essays and journals covering plant science, propagation, and pests; and books on a variety of agricultural topics collected by the Burpee Co.
Nasturtium, Plate #753 from Phytanthoza Iconographia
Archival Resource Key
Weinmann, J. A. (Johann Anton), 1782-1858
1 Chromolithograph
circa 1736
425
Clippings and Articles
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1893-1915
375
18
Gardening and Lifestyle Magazines
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1903-1962
403
Clippings and Articles
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1916-1959
354
9
375
19
376
1
Gardening and Lifestyle Magazines
Archival Resource Key
3 Magazines (periodicals)
1937-1938
403
Clippings and Articles
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1960-1979
354
10
376
2-3
Horticultural Journals and Studies
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1903-1962
382
6-8
Plant Articles and Manuscripts
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1930-1950
354
11
Plant Articles and Manuscripts
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1940-1976
354
12-13
Seasonal Garden Chromolithographs (presumbly for catalog covers)
Archival Resource Key
6 Chromolithographs
circa 1890-1920
403
Fairy Tales from Brentano
Archival Resource Key
A.C. Armstrong & Son
1 File
circa 1890-1915
403
Greenhouse Management
Archival Resource Key
Taft, L. R. (Levi Rawson), 1859-
1 Book
1898
382
9
A Naturalist in Western China
Archival Resource Key
Wilson, Ernest Henry, 1876-1930
1 Book
1913
382
10
Library, Herbarium, Lab Equipment, etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915
354
14
"The Business Man and His Farm"
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1924
354
15
Myths and Legends of Flowers, Trees, Fruits, and Plants
Archival Resource Key
Skinner, Charles M. (Charles Montgomery), 1852-1907
1 Book
1925
382
11
Roadside Marketing
Archival Resource Key
Watts, Gilbert S.
1 Book
1928
382
12
The Home Gardener's Pronouncing Dictionary
Archival Resource Key
Hottes, Alfred Carl, 1891-1955
1 Book
1930
383
1
"A Package of Seeds," Poem
Archival Resource Key
Guest, Edgar A. (Edgar Albert), 1881-1959
1 File
circa 1931
354
16
The South African Garden Manual
Archival Resource Key
1 Book
1933
383
2
A Plant Hunter in Tibet
Archival Resource Key
Kingdon-Ward, F. (Francis), 1885-1958
1 Book
1934
383
3
Nasturtium, Plate #3 from Catalogus Plantarum, 1730 (reproduction)
Archival Resource Key
4 Prints
circa 1936
425
"The Inheritance of Some Flowers and Plant Characters in Zinnias"
Archival Resource Key
Pollard, Leonard H. (Leonard Heber), 1909-1998
1 Manuscripts (document genre)
circa 1938-1939
354
17
From Vegetable Waste to Fertile Soil
Archival Resource Key
Bruce, Maye E. (Maye Emily), 1879-1964
1 Book
1943
383
4
10,000 Garden Questions Answered by 15 Experts
Archival Resource Key
Rockwell, F. F. (Frederick Frye), 1884-1976
1 Book
1944
383
5
"Seed Packets and Onion Seed Viability"
Archival Resource Key
Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research
1 File
1949
354
18
Lilium
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1949-1953
354
19
Actes des Conferences Internationales Pour la Protection des Obtentions Vegetales
Archival Resource Key
1 Book
1974
376
4
"Fifty Years of Federal Farm Programs" Address by Lane Palmer
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978
354
20
"Here's The Dirt" Manuscript
Archival Resource Key
Roscoe, George Boggs, 1907-
3 Manuscripts (document genre)
circa 1980-1984
354
21-23
Business Reference
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Publications, trade literature, and leaflets relating to business, advertising, and financial topics.
Biographical / Historical
One notable file in this subseries includes the writings of philosopher, writer, publisher, and founder of the Roycroft arts community, Elbert Hubbard. Hubbard and W. Atlee Burpee apparently admired each other's work; W. Atlee was featured on the cover of Hubbard's publication, The FRA, in 1914.
Printers' Ink
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1901-1932
383
6-10
Advertising and Business Journals
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1903-1930
383
11-12
384
1
Advertising and Business Journals
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1913-1924
376
5
Printing and Advertising Trade Literature
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1967
354
24
Non-Seed Trade Literature
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1915
354
25
Business Reply Cards, Advertising Reference
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1920-1960
384
2
Card Samples
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1927-1928
354
26
Elbert Hubbard Writings
Archival Resource Key
Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915
2 Files
circa 1908-1916
376
6-7
Some Oxaline
Archival Resource Key
Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915
1 Booklet
1910
354
27
Bentley's Complete Phrase Code Book
Archival Resource Key
1 Book
1920
354
28
Seed-related Cartoons
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1931-1961
354
29
Advertising Layout: The Projection of an Idea
Archival Resource Key
Chenault, Richard S.
1 Book
1946
404
Advertising Strategy, Alden's
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1950-1965
354
30
Management and Consultants
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1955-1970
354
31
Failure of Curtis Publishing Company
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
376
9
"Caltech: 1881-1966," section from Independent Star-News
Archival Resource Key
1 Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
1966
379
19
Excerpts from Confessions of an Advertising Man by David Ogilvy
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966, 1968
354
32
Financial
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
354
33
Reports from Other Companies
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971
354
34
Materials Published About the Burpee Co.
Series 3
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Records related to books and articles written by outside authors—published or not—that showcase or briefly mention the W. Atlee Burpee Company. While most of the material relates to articles or clippings from specific publications, Series 3.2 Articles/Garden Writers includes correspondence that pertains to the company's relations with a variety of garden writers.
Books
3.1
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
This series includes correspondence between the Burpee firm, publishing companies, and authors; and extensive research material on the history of the Burpee Co. compiled for proposed books by Warner Olivier and Irving Townsend (not written) and Garden to Order: The Story of Mr. Burpee's Seeds and How They Grow by Ken Kraft (published in 1962). The research material includes original and copied correspondence, photographs, clippings, reports, notes, advertisements and proofs, plant descriptions, Burpee trade literature, maxims authored by W. Atlee and David Burpee, legislative proceedings that affected the company, and reports compiled by company staff.
Biographical / Historical
In wake of a series of Saturday Evening Post articles by Frank J. Taylor in the late 1930s, David Burpee was in contact with a number of publishing companies to discuss the writing of a book about the Burpee company. The files in this series document Burpee book projects between 1938 and 1976; only one, Garden to Order: The Story of Mr. Burpee's Seeds and How They Grow written by Ken Kraft in 1962, was carried through to publication.
Proposed Books about the Burpee Co., 1938-1961
Archival Resource Key
Olivier, Warner
Book Proposals
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938-1956
354
35
J. B. Lippincott Company, Publishers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939-1956
355
1
Burpee Book (J. B. Lippincott)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1948-1951
355
2
Lee/Sheridan Associates, Hawthorn Books, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1956
355
3
Warner Olivier Article on David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1949-1950
355
4
Warner Olivier Research, General
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1874, 1910-1915, 1947-1949
355
5-6
Warner Olivier Research, Family History
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911-1913
355
7
Warner Olivier Research, W.Atlee Burpee as a Person
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1899, 1908-1915
355
8
Warner Olivier Research, W. Atlee Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907-1915, 1938, 1949
355
9
Warner Olivier Research, David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1905, 1949
355
10
Warner Olivier Research, Miscellaneous (David Burpee)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1910-1924, 1938
355
11
Warner Olivier Research, David Burpee Talks
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1936-1943
355
12
Warner Olivier Research, Anecdotes and Personalities
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1949
355
13
Warner Olivier Research, Political and Outside Activities and Customer Testimonials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1874, 1910-1925
355
14
Warner Olivier Research, Seeds and Livestock
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1881-1900
355
15
Warner Olivier Research, Sweet Peas
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1905-1915
355
16
Warner Olivier Research, Special Flowers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911-1913
355
17
Warner Olivier Research, Marigolds
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1938
355
18
Warner Olivier Research, Zinnias
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1942-1949
355
19
Warner Olivier Research, Tetraploids
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1948
355
20
Warner Olivier Research, Snapdragons
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1949
355
21
Warner Olivier Research, Other Flowers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1949
355
22
Warner Olivier Research, Other Vegetables
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1912, 1949
355
23
Warner Olivier Research, Hybrid Vegetables
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1948
355
24
Warner Olivier Research, Advertising and Catalog
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1892-1949
355
25
Warner Olivier Research, Advertising
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1909-1915
355
26
Warner Olivier Research, Controversies in Advertising
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1910-1914
355
27
Warner Olivier Research, Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1897, 1949
355
28
Warner Olivier Research, Santa Paula
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1948-1949
355
29
Warner Olivier Research, W. Atlee Burpee's Ideas for Business
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907-1915, 1938
355
30
Warner Olivier Research, Seedsmen
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1908-1914, 1938
355
31
Warner Olivier Research, Luther Burbank
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1909-1920
355
32
Warner Olivier Research, Business
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1910-1918
355
33-34
Warner Olivier Research, Postage and Seed Legislative Bills
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1909-1914
355
35
Warner Olivier Research, Children's Gardens
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1912-1914
355
36
Warner Olivier Research, Growers, Buyers and Breeding Trends
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1943-1949
355
37
Warner Olivier Research, Flies and Bees
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939-1949
355
38
Warner Olivier Research, Harvest
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1949
355
39
Warner Olivier Research, Miscellaneous Articles
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1948-1949
355
40
Proposed Books about Burpee Co.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960-1961
355
41
Garden to Order: The Story of Mr. Burpee's Seeds and How They Grow by Ken Kraft, 1962
Archival Resource Key
Research, Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961
355
42
Research, Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1961-1962
355
43-44
Ken Kraft, Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
356
1
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962-1963
356
2
List of People Sent a Copy of Garden to Order
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
356
3
Publicity Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
356
4
Ken Kraft, Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1970
356
5
Research, Loose Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1936-1964
356
6
Research, Information, Duplicates
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959, 1962
356
7
Research, Information, Pending
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
356
8
Research, Duplicates of Rough Drafts - Patents
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
356
9
Research, Scholarships, Fellowships, etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
356
10
Research, Chapter 2, Information
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
356
11
Research, Chapter 3, Historical Data
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
356
12
Research, Chapter 6, Vegetables
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953-1962
356
13
Research, Chapter 7, Something New
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1957-1962
356
14
Research, Chapter 8, Hybrids
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
356
15
Research, Chapter 10, Catalog Information
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961-1962
356
16
Research, Chapter 11, Seed Factory
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
356
17
Research, Chapter 12, Seeds for War and Peace
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
356
18
Research, Chapter 13, Customers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
356
19
Research, Chapter 14, Tips From Experts
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961-1962
356
20
Research, Chapter 16, Names
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
356
21
Research, Chapter 18, Anecdotes and Testimonials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961
356
22
Research, Chapter 19, The Winners
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959, 1962
356
23
Research, Chapter 20, Pretty as a Picture
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
356
24
Research, Chapter 21, Edible Oramentals
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
356
25
Research, Chapter 22, Be Your Own Plant Breeder
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
356
26
Research, Chapter 25, White Marigold
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961-1962
356
27
Research, Chapter 26, Gourmet in the Garden
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
356
28
Research, Chapter 27, The 12-Month Garden
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
356
29
Research, Chapter 28, What You'll Be Planting x Years From Now
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
356
30
Comments on Manuscript
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962
356
31
Garden to Order: The Story of Mr. Burpee's Seeds and How They Grow
Archival Resource Key
Kraft, Ken
1 Book
1962
384
3
Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Burpee Co. records did not include a copy of Garden to Order. This copy was obtained from an online bookseller.
Proposed Books about the Burpee Co., 1964-1976
Archival Resource Key
McGraw Hill Publishing Co., W. Atlee Burpee Biography Idea
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
356
32
Research Material
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1900-1975
356
33
Possible Content for David Burpee Book
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1922-1969
356
34-35
Notes for Book
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960-1975
356
36
Research Material, Book
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1969
356
37
Research Material, Book
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1984
356
38
Irving Townsend Research, Historic Vegetable Descriptions
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1884-1975
356
39
Irving Townsend Research, Loose Files
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1900-1981
356
40-41
Irving Townsend Research, Miscellaneous
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1935-1975
356
42
Irving Townsend Research, Materials from Lois Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1935-1976
356
43
Irving Townsend Research, Duplicates
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1944-1975
356
44
Irving Townsend Research, Notes for Book
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1949
356
45
Irving Townsend Research, Duplicates
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1950-1973
356
46
Irving Townsend Research, Marigold for National Floral Emblem and Other Stories
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959
356
47
Irving Townsend Research, "Book?", Marigolds
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1963
356
48
Irving Townsend Research, Content to be Worked On
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1975
356
49
Irving Townsend Research, Stories by David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971-1976
356
50
Irving Townsend Research, Marigolds
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1970-1975
356
51
Book Agreement with Irving Townsend (regarding David Burpee memoirs)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1975
356
52
David Burpee Memoirs, 1973
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1976
356
53
Beverley Jackson (regarding David Burpee memoirs)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
356
54
Doubleday & Company, Inc., Evelyn Metzger (regarding David Burpee memoirs)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
356
55
Research, Proposed Marigold Book, 1973
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938-1983
356
56
Research, Proposed Marigold Book
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1940-1970
357
1
Research, Proposed Marigold Book
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1979
357
2
Articles
3.2
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Included in this subseries are newspapers and magazines containing Burpee articles, stories and blurbs clipped from publications, and copied or transcribed articles as well as files that document communications between the Burpee Co. and horticultural and garden writers with correspondence and manuscript drafts.
Newspaper and Magazine Articles and Clippings
Archival Resource Key
Article About Early Burpee Advertising and Slogan from Printers' Ink
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1890, 1915
357
3
Philadelphia: Pictorial and Biographical
Archival Resource Key
1 Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
1911
376
10
W. Atlee Burpee Biographical Statement for Who's Who
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1911-1915
357
4
Copy Relating to Burpee Co. by Leigh Mitchell Hodges
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915-1917
357
5
Popular Gardening, Vol. XXIII
Archival Resource Key
1 Magazines (periodicals)
1921
376
11
Nasturtium Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1933-1934
357
6
Saturday Evening Post, "I'm Still Looking for a Yellow Sweet Pea"
Archival Resource Key
Taylor, Frank J., 1894-1972
1 Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
1938
407
Saturday Evening Post, Testimonial Letters for "The Missionary and Mary's Gold" and "I'm Still Looking for a Yellow Sweet Pea"
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938
357
7
Stories for Saturday Evening Post by David Burpee and Frank Taylor
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1938-1950
357
8
Saturday Evening Post, "Double Cross in the Corn Patch" by Frank J. Taylor
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1939
357
9
Saturday Evening Post, "They've Grown Some New Posies for the Ladies" by Frank J. Taylor
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1945, 1951
357
10
Life Magazine, April 22, 1946 issue
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1945-1946
357
11
Manuscripts for Good Housekeeping
Archival Resource Key
1 Manuscripts (document genre)
1955
357
12
"The Burpee Seed Story" (reprint from Ideas That Became Big Business
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1959-1967
357
13
Home Gardener, "Marigolds for Everyone" by John Hayhurst
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1960-1975
357
14
National Geographic Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1968
357
15
Who's Who in America Entries for David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1980
357
16
Who's Who in the World Entry for David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978-1979
357
17
Garden Journal Article by David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1975
357
18
David Burpee Cover Story in Today: The (Phildelphia) Inquirer Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1976
407
Announcement for David Burpee Cover Story in The Phildelphia Inquirer
Archival Resource Key
1 Poster
1976
407
David Burpee Cover Story in Bucks County Courier Times Accent! Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1976
407
Newspaper Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1884-1915
357
19
Newspaper and Magazine Clippings
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1889-1915
376
12-13
Newspaper and Magazine Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1893-1915
376
14
Newspaper Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1902-1904
357
20
Magazine Articles
Archival Resource Key
1 Magazines (periodicals)
1905-1977
404
Burpee Co. Scrapbooks
Archival Resource Key
2 Scrapbooks
1911-1925
408
Newspaper and Magazine Clippings
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1916-1929
357
21
376
15
Articles and Clippings about David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1920-1967
357
22
Newspaper and Magazine Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1923-1939
377
1
405
Newspaper and Magazine Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1926-1945
357
23
Newspaper and Magazine Clippings
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1930-1939
357
24
377
2-3
Newspaper and Magazine Clippings
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1940-1949
357
25
377
4
Newspaper and Magazine Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1940-1959
377
5
Newspaper and Magazine Clippings
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1950-1959
357
26-28
Newspaper and Magazine Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960-1968
357
29
Newspaper and Magazine Clippings
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1960-1969
357
30
377
6
Newspaper and Magazine Clippings
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1960-1976
357
31-32
358
1
Magazine Articles
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1970
405
Newspaper and Magazine Clippings
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1970-1987
358
2-4
377
7
List of Burpee Magazine and Newspaper Articles
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1926-1959
358
5
Writers
Archival Resource Key
Frank J. Taylor, Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937-1951
358
6
Frank J. Taylor, Marigold Information
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954-1970
358
7
Frank J. Taylor, Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1970
358
8
Proposed Marigold Book by Helen Welshimer
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939
358
9
Flower Publications
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1949
358
10
Garden Writers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1950-1951
358
11
The Ettinger Company, Public Relations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955
358
12
Clare Ogden Davis
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961-1965
358
13
The Reader's Digest
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1956-1971
358
14
Home Garden Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1970
358
15
Garden Writers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1971
358
16
Garden Writers' Day at Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1940
358
17
Garden Writers' Day at Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1941
358
18
Garden Writers' Luncheon at Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961
358
19
Garden Writers' Luncheon
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1980
358
20
Awards and Certificates
Series 4
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Awards, correspondence, lists, newspaper clippings, and press releases documenting awards and certificates received by the Burpee Co.mpany for a variety of exhibits, projects, and the breeding and production of specific plant varieties. Most of the awards were presented by professional organizations including All-America Selections and the Royal Horticultural Society, and at flower show competitions.
National Sweet Pea Society of America (later the American Sweet Pea Society) Certificates
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1915
407
Sweet Pea Awards
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1909-1929
358
21
Membership Certificates
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918-1965
358
22
International Flower Show Awards
Archival Resource Key
1 Award
1923-1969
377
8
Bulletin of the American Dahlia Society, Burpee Awards
Archival Resource Key
1 Award
1928
358
23
Donation Certificates
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1931, circa 1960
358
24
Pennsylvania Awards and Certificates
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1936-1975
358
25
Certificate of Meritorious Service from the Office of Price Administration
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946
425
Awards to David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1950-1981
358
26
International Flower Show Citation
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1957
417
60
Royal Horticultural Society Awards of Merit for Sweet Peas
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1957-1971
358
27
American Horticultural Council Citation
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1958
406
Association of German Gardeners Certificate of Honor
Archival Resource Key
1 Watercolor
1959
407
All-American Selections Awards
Archival Resource Key
1 Award
1962-1969
358
28
Henry Eckford Medal to David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1964
358
29
National Council of State Garden Clubs Award to David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
358
30
Royal Horticultural Society Awards of Merit for Marigolds
Archival Resource Key
1 Award
1964, 1970
358
31
All Britain Trials Silver Award
Archival Resource Key
1 Award
1969
377
9
Chicago World Flower and Garden Show Award
Archival Resource Key
1 Award
1969
358
32
406
Honorary Awards
Archival Resource Key
1 Award
1972
358
33
List of Awards Given to Burpee Co.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1972
358
34
Proclamation of "David Burpee Day" in Ravenna, Ohio
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
358
35
George Robert White Medal of Honor
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979
384
15
Photographic and A/V Material
Series 5
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Photographic images and audiovisual material that document the farm and business operations of the Burpee Co., its many promotional efforts, and members of the Burpee family. Numerous other photographs found scattered throughout the collection have been retained in their original file except in rare instances when images have been removed from a file for preservation purposes.
For image files related to advertising mock-ups, see Series 2.3 Ad Copy, Graphics, Mock-ups, and Proofs.
Images
5.1
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Image formats range from glass plate negatives, film negatives, and transparencies to photographs and 35mm slides.
Farm Operations
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Images that document Burpee farm operations such as trial grounds, personnel working in the field, plant portraits, buildings and structures, and livestock. Numerous staged images show David Burpee inspecting the Burpee trial gardens in California. Included in this subseries are images of the Burpee family home at Fordhook Farms.
Brachycome
Archival Resource Key
1 Glass plate negative
1918
419
Brachycome
Shasta Daisy
Archival Resource Key
1 Glass plate negative
1918
419
Shasta Daisy
David Burpee in Petunia Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954
426
1
David Burpee, Jerome Kantor and Walter Manfrina in Petunia Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954
426
2
David Burpee, Phyllis Learned and W. Atlee Burpee III in Petunia Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954
426
3
David Burpee and W. Atlee Burpee III in Petunia Fields
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1954
426
4-5
Sweet Peas
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1895-1930
416
8
Field of Wawona Cupid Sweet Peas
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1898-1915
425
Field of Eliza Eckford Cupid Sweet Peas
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1900-1915
425
Field of Royal Robe and Miss Hunt Half Dwarf Sweet Peas
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1900-1915
425
Sweet Peas
Archival Resource Key
3 Photographs
circa 1900-1930
425
Dwarf Japanese Double "Model Plate"
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1900-1930
425
David Burpee with David Burpee Zinnias
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1940
426
6
David Burpee in Fields of Hybrid Zinnia near Solvang
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1952
426
7-8
David Burpee in Field of Hybrid Zinnias
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1954
426
9-10
Flower Portraits
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900
426
11
Bush Lima
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900
426
12
Beans
Archival Resource Key
2 Glass plate negatives
circa 1890-1915
422
Beans
Jones Stringless Wax White Seed Beans
Archival Resource Key
1 Glass plate negative
circa 1890-1915
422
Jones Stringless Wax White Seed Beans
Challenger Bean
Archival Resource Key
1 Glass plate negative
circa 1890-1915
422
Challenger Bean
Small Carolina Bean
Archival Resource Key
1 Glass plate negative
circa 1890-1915
422
Small Carolina Bean
Knickerbocker Bean
Archival Resource Key
1 Glass plate negative
circa 1890-1915
422
Knickerbocker Bean
20th Century Bean Pods Grown by Abel Steele-Ferguson, Ontario, Canada
Archival Resource Key
2 Glass plate negatives
circa 1900
421
Bean Pods Grown by Abel Steele-Ferguson, Ontario, Canada
20th Century Wax Bean
Archival Resource Key
3 Glass plate negatives
circa 1901
422
20th Century Wax Bean
Old Homestead Bean
Archival Resource Key
2 Glass plate negatives
1902
422
Old Homestead Bean
Celery
Archival Resource Key
1 Photographic print
Mounted
circa 1900
425
Pyle Corn
Archival Resource Key
1 Glass plate negative
1905
420
Pyle Corn
Lettuce
Archival Resource Key
1 Glass plate negative
circa 1903-1905
420
Lettuce
Peas
Archival Resource Key
2 Glass plate negatives
circa 1900-1910
420
Peas
Burger's Stringless Peas
Archival Resource Key
2 Glass plate negatives
1905
420
Burger's Stringless Peas
Prize Winner Peas
Archival Resource Key
1 Glass plate negative
1906
420
Prize Winner Peas
Royal Salute Peas
Archival Resource Key
1 Glass plate negative
1906
420
Royal Salute Peas
Peas
Archival Resource Key
3 Glass plate negatives
circa 1908
419
Peas
Chalk's Jewel Tomato
Archival Resource Key
1 Glass plate negative
1905
420
Watermelons
Archival Resource Key
1 Cyanotypes (photographic prints)
circa 1900
426
13
Miscellaneous Vegetables
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1898-1926
416
9
Portaits of Plants from Trial Gardens
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1926-1928
416
10
Portraits of Onion Specimens Received from Seedsmen
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1926
416
11
Fordhook Farms, Main House and Spring House
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1888-1920
426
14
Fordhook Farms, Grounds and Buildings
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1888-1940
416
12
Fordhook Farms, Cow Pond
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1890--1900
416
13
Fordhook Farms, Summer Cottage (seed house in back)
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1890--1900
416
13
Fordhook Farms, House
Archival Resource Key
1 Glass plate negative
circa 1890-1900
421
Fordhook Farms, House
Fordhook Farms, Seed Trials and Cold Frames
Archival Resource Key
6 Glass plate negatives
circa 1890-1900
421
Fordhook Farms, Seed Trials and Cold Frames
Fordhook Farms, Seed House
Archival Resource Key
2 Glass plate negatives
circa 1890-1900
421
Fordhook Farms, Seed House
Fordhook Farms, Trial Grounds
Archival Resource Key
7 Glass plate negatives
circa 1890-1920
419
Fordhook Farms, Trial Grounds
Fordhook Farms, Views of Grounds and Surrounding Landscape
Archival Resource Key
6 Glass plate negatives
circa 1890-1915
419
Fordhook Farms, Views of Grounds and Surrounding Landscape
Fordhook Farms, Seed Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 Glass plate negative
circa 1890-1915
419
Fordhook Farms, Seed Trials
Fordhook Farms, Seed Trials
Archival Resource Key
5 Glass plate negatives
circa 1890-1915
421
Fordhook Farms, Seed Trials and Barn
Archival Resource Key
1 Glass plate negative
circa 1890-1915
421
Fordhook Farms, Seed Trials and Barn
Fordhook Farms, Early Seed Trials and Horse Teams
Archival Resource Key
1 Glass plate negative
circa 1890-1915
420
Fordhook Farms, Early Seed Trials and Horse Teams
Fordhook Farms, Horse Teams
Archival Resource Key
3 Glass plate negatives
circa 1890-1900
421
Fordhook Farms, Horse Teams
Fordhook Farms, Cold Frames
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1 Glass plate negative
circa 1890-1900
421
Fordhook Farms, Cold Frames
Fordhook Farms, Seed Trials and Laborers
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2 Glass plate negatives
circa 1890-1915
421
Fordhook Farms, Seed Trials and Laborers
Fordhook Farms, Fordhook House (?)
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1 Glass plate negative
circa 1890-1915
420
Trial Grounds and Cold Frames
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1 File
circa 1900-1910
426
15
Fordhook Farms, Trial Grounds and Farm Operations
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1 File
circa 1900-1915
416
14
Fordhook Farms, Looking Toward Rt. 202
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1 Photograph
circa 1900-1920
423
Buckman, Getty, Warden and Lock Farms
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1 File
circa 1900-1930
426
16
Fordhook Farms, House and Outbuildings
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2 Files
circa 1900-1940
426
17
Fordhook Farms, Vegetable Trials
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5 Glass plate negatives
1903-1905
419
Fordhook Farms, Vegetable Trials
Fordhook Farms, Tennis Players on Lawn with Horse-drawn Lawnmower(?)
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1 Glass plate negative
1903-1905
419
Fordhook Farms, Tennis Players on Lawn with Horse-drawn Lawnmower(?)
Fordhook Farms, Horse Teams
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1 Glass plate negative
1903-1905
419
Fordhook Farms, Horse Teams
Fordhook Farms, House
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1 Glass plate negative
1903-1905
419
Fordhook Farms, House
Fordhook Farms, House and Lawn with Horse-drawn Lawnmower(?)
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1 Glass plate negative
419
Fordhook Farms, House and Lawn with Horse-drawn Lawnmower(?)
Fordhook Farms, Fordhook Cottage (Gate House)
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1 Glass plate negative
1903
420
Fordhook Farms, Fordhook Cottage (Gate House)
Fordhook Farms, House
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1 Glass plate negative
1903
419
Fordhook Farms, House
Fordhook Farms, Vegetable Trials
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3 Glass plate negatives
circa 1903
420
Fordhook Farms, Vegetable Trials
Fordhook Farms, Farm Operations
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1 File
circa 1910
426
18
Blanche Burpee Rose Garden
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1 Photograph
circa 1910-1920
423
Fordhook Farms, Tree Planting
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1 File
circa 1910-1930
426
19
Fordhook Farms, Trial Grounds
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7 Negatives (photographic)
circa 1930-1950
416
15
Fordhook Farms, Trial Grounds
Fordhook Farms, David Burpee with Petunia Trials
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2 Negatives (photographic)
2 Photographs
circa 1930-1950
428
3
416
15
Fordhook Farms, David Burpee with Petunia Trials
Fordhook Farms, Bulb Trials
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1 Negatives (photographic)
1 Photograph
circa 1930-1950
428
3
416
15
Fordhook Farms, Bulb Trials
Fordhook Farms, Mansion
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1 File
circa 1930-1950
428
1
Fordhook Farms, Main House
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1 Photograph
circa 1930-1960
423
Fordhook Farms, Aftermath of Greenhouse Fire
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1 File
1937
416
16
Fordhook Farms, House and Lawn
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7 Negatives (photographic)
circa 1945-1950
428
2
Fordhook Farms, House and Lawn
Fordhook Farms, House Fire
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1 File
February, 1949
416
17
Fordhook Farms, Documentation of Storm Damage for Income Tax Purposes
Archival Resource Key
72 Photographs
black and white
3.5 x 5 in.
circa 1950
427
General
The project to conserve these photographs received Federal support from the Smithsonian Collections Care and Preservation Fund, administered by the National Collections Program and the Smithsonian Collections Advisory Committee, and from the Smithsonian Collections Care Initiative, administered by the National Collections Program.
Fordhook Farms, House and Outbuildings
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1 File
circa 1970
426
20
Family Vegetable Garden
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1 File
1978
416
18
Aerial Photograph, possibly of Fordhook Farms
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1 Photograph
circa 1920-1950
456
Aerial Photographs of Pennsylvania Farm(s)
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Wood Aerial Surveys, Inc.
3 Photographs
1932
425
Fordhook Farms, Collie Puppies
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900
416
19
Fordhook Farms, Collies and Kennel
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5 Photographs
circa 1900-1915
423
Fordhook Farms, David Burpee with Swine
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1910-1915
423
Floradale Farms, Farm Operations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1910-1932
427
Trial Beds (likely Floradale Farms)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1910-1914
426
21
General
Images include W. Atlee Burpee and his sons David and W. Atlee Jr. An accompanying image shows a group of people including W. Atlee Burpee at the Sutro Baths and Museum in San Franscisco, California.
David Burpee with Crops
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1910-1914
416
30
W. Atlee Burpee with David and W. Atlee Jr. Discussing 'Floradale Fairy'
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1 File
1912
426
22
Trial Beds
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1 File
circa 1920-1935
416
20
Irrigating on Huyck Ranch
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1 File
1924
426
23
Floradale Farms, David Burpee
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2 Files
circa 1925-1935
426
24-25
Floradale Farms, Farm Operations and Outbuildings
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1 File
circa 1926
426
26
Floradale Farms, David Burpee and Head Hybridist Thomas Little Planning Next Year's Flowers
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3 Negatives (photographic)
3 Photographs
circa 1935-1940
426
24-25
Floradale Farms, David Burpee and Head Hybridist Thomas Little Planning Next Year's Flowers
Floradale Farms, David Burpee with Marigold Trials
Archival Resource Key
15 Negatives (photographic)
15 Photographic prints
circa 1935-1940
426
24-25
Floradale Farms, David Burpee with Marigold Trials
Floradale Farms, David Burpee with Queen Wilhelmina Sweet Peas
Archival Resource Key
9 Negatives (photographic)
9 Photographic prints
circa 1935-1940
426
24-25
Floradale Farms, David Burpee with Queen Wilhelmina Sweet Peas
California Trial Fields, David Burpee with Marigold Burpee Gold
Archival Resource Key
4 Negatives (photographic)
4 Photographic prints
circa 1935-1940
428
5
California Trial Fields, David Burpee with Marigold Burpee Gold
California Trial Fields, David Burpee with Cactus Flowered Marigold Mrs. Lippincott
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1 Negatives (photographic)
1 Photographic print
circa 1935-1940
426
24-25
California Trial Fields, David Burpee with Cactus Flowered Marigold Mrs. Lippincott
California Trial Fields, David Burpee with Sweet Pea Trials
Archival Resource Key
10 Negatives (photographic)
10 Photographic prints
circa 1935-1940
428
4-5
California Trial Fields, David Burpee with Sweet Pea Trials
Floradale Farms, David Burpee Inspecting Trial Fields
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
circa 1935-1945
416
21-23
Floradale Farms, David Burpee and Others in Nasturtium Beds
Archival Resource Key
4 Negatives (photographic)
circa 1935-1945
428
6
Floradale Farms, David Burpee and Others in Nasturtium Beds
Floradale Farms, David Burpee and Manager Bill Hoag with Tripteris
Archival Resource Key
1 Negatives (photographic)
circa 1935-1945
428
6
Floradale Farms, David Burpee and Manager Bill Hoag with Tripteris
Floradale Farms, Tractor in Fields
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1 Photograph
1936
425
Floradale Farms, David Burpee with Calendula Orange Fluffy
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3 Negatives (photographic)
3 Photographic prints
1939
426
24-25
Floradale Farms, David Burpee with Calendula Orange Fluffy
Floradale Farms, David Burpee in Test Block Examining New Calendula Tip Top
Archival Resource Key
5 Negatives (photographic)
5 Photographic prints
circa 1935-1940
416
21-23
Floradale Farms, David Burpee in Test Block Examining New Calendula Tip Top
California Trial Fields, David Burpee in Field of Goldenrod Snapdragons, Antirrhinum
Archival Resource Key
1 Negatives (photographic)
1 Photographic print
1939
426
24-25
California Trial Fields, David Burpee in Field of Goldenrod Snapdragons, Antirrhinum
California Trial Fields, David Burpee with Unidentified Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 Negatives (photographic)
1 Photographic print
circa 1935-1940
428
5
California Trial Fields, David Burpee with Unidentified Trials
California Trial Fields, David Burpee with Cosmos, Orange Ruffles
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1 Negatives (photographic)
1 Photographic print
circa 1939
426
24-25
California Trial Fields, David Burpee with Cosmos, Orange Ruffles
California Trial Fields, David Burpee with Blanche Burpee Cynoglossum
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2 Negatives (photographic)
2 Photographic prints
circa 1939
426
24-25
California Trial Fields, David Burpee with Blanche Burpee Cynoglossum
California Trial Fields, David Burpee Examining Zinnias
Archival Resource Key
7 Negatives (photographic)
7 Photographic prints
circa 1939
426
24-25
California Trial Fields, David Burpee Examining Zinnias
Floradale Farms, David Burpee Examining Novelties
Archival Resource Key
2 Negatives (photographic)
2 Photographic prints
1941
426
24-25
Floradale Farms, David Burpee Examining Novelties
California Trial Fields, David Burpee with Snapdragon Trials
Archival Resource Key
2 Negatives (photographic)
2 Photographic prints
1950
426
32-33
California Trial Fields, David Burpee with Snapdragon Trials
California Trial Fields, David Burpee in Unidentified Trials
Archival Resource Key
4 Negatives (photographic)
4 Photographic prints
circa 1950-1955
426
32-33
David Burpee and Unidentified Woman in Greenhouse
Archival Resource Key
1 Negatives (photographic)
1 Photographic print
circa 1950-1955
426
32-33
David Burpee and Unidentified Woman in Greenhouse
Santa Paula, David Burpee Examining Zinnia Novelties
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1954
426
27-30
Floradale Farms, Personnel
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954
426
31
David Burpee in Trial Fields
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
circa 1954-1964
426
32-33
David Burpee, Cuthbertson, Lowe and Others in California Trial Fields
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
426
34
Los Altos Crop Reports (Trial Fields)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953
416
24
Los Altos Crop Reports (Trial Fields)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953
426
35
Floradale Farms, David Burpee in Sweet Pea Fields, Giant-Salmon Pink
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1956
426
36-37
Floradale Farms, David Burpee Among Marigold Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
426
38
Floradale Farms, David Burpee Inspecting Golden Climax Marigold Production
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1967
426
39
Santa Paula, David Burpee Inspecting Zinnia Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
416
25
Santa Paula, Marigold Trials
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1965-1970
416
26
Sunnybrook Farm
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1904
416
27
Sanford, Personnel in Fields
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1935
426
40
W. Atlee Burpee with Other Seedsmen
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1895-1905
416
28
Unidentified Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1905-1930
416
29
David Burpee with Crops and Plants
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1930-1965
416
31
David Burpee with Personnel
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1930-1960
426
41
Unidentified Trial Fields
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1930-1960
428
3
David Burpee in Unidentified Trial Fields
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
circa 1940-1960
428
4-5
Floradale Farms, David Burpee and Personnel with Sweet Pea Trials
Archival Resource Key
5 Negatives (photographic)
circa 1935-1945
428
6
Floradale Farms, David Burpee and Personnel with Sweet Pea Trials
Business and Office Operations
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Images of Burpee personnel performing tasks in the Philadelphia warehouse, papering department, mailing and shipping room, printing room, computer room, and a number of other settings. Also included are portraits and candid photographs of W. Atlee and David Burpee and other high-ranking staff members as well as images of a handful of other seedsmen sent to by the firm.
Business Operations
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
circa 1900-1920
416
32-33
Business and Office Operations
Archival Resource Key
17 Photographs
circa 1900-1910
423
Propagation Lab
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1945-1960
416
34
W. Atlee Burpee Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1880-1920
427
33
W. Atlee Burpee Portraits
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1890-1915
416
35
W. Atlee Burpee Portrait
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1 Photograph
circa 1900
423
W. Atlee Burpee Portrait
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1 Photograph
circa 1900-1915
425
W. Atlee Burpee Portraits
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3 Glass plate negatives
circa 1905-1915
420
W. Atlee Burpee Portraits
David Burpee Portrait
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1 Photograph
circa 1913-1916
423
David Burpee Portraits
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2 Photographs
1925, 1928
423
David Burpee Portraits
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2 Files
circa 1930-1980
416
36-37
David Burpee with Burpee Catalog
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1 Photograph
1943
426
42
David Burpee Portraits
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4 Files
circa 1950-1980
426
43-46
Painting of David Burpee (reproduction)
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Smith, William Arthur, 1918-1989
1 Photograph
1956-1970
425
David Burpee with Marigolds
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1 Photograph
circa 1960-1965
425
David Burpee and W. Atlee Burpee Jr. with Unidentified Men
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1 Photograph
circa 1916-1920
423
David Burpee at Meeting in Salem, Oregon
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1 File
1946
416
38
David Burpee with Others including Burpee Staff
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1 File
1949-1979
416
39
David Burpee with David Ogilvy
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1 File
1972-1973
426
47
W. Atlee Burpee Jr.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1945-1955
416
40
Mr. and Mrs. Bill Hoag
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1935-1945
426
48
Richard Bloy Portrait
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1 Photograph
1960
426
49
Carter Holton Portrait
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1960
426
50
Karl Nordgren Portrait
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1 Photograph
circa 1970
416
41
W. Atlee (Bill) Burpee III in John's Greenhouse
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1 File
1971
416
42
Peter Jenkins' Citizenship Party
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1 File
1974
426
51
Employee Picnic
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1 File
circa 1940
426
52
Alexander Forbes (seedsman) Portrait
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1 Photograph
circa 1900-1920
416
43
A.B. Greer Trial Ground where Company Found 'Copenhagen Market' Cabbage
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1 Photograph
circa 1905-1914
425
Publicity and Public Relations
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Scope and Contents
Included are images documenting various promotional campaigns of the Burpee Co.; celebrities posing with Burpee flower varieties; the Burpee trademark seal; and pictures documenting Burpee's White Marigold contest.
Burpee Sign at Raceway
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1 File
circa 1900
426
53
Burpee Trademark Seal
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1 File
circa 1900
416
44
"I Buy My Seeds From W. Atlee Burpee Co/I Don't" (comparison photos)
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1 File
circa 1910-1915
416
45
David Burpee with Marigold Arrangements
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3 Negatives (photographic)
3 Photographs
circa 1930-1950
428
5
David Burpee with Marigold Arrangements
David Burpee and Public Relations
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1 File
circa 1935-1970
416
46
Airmail Delivery of Marigolds to England
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1 File
1939
416
47
Yankee Clipper Delivery
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1 File
1939
423
Publicity Shots
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939
416
48
Photo of David Burpee for Camel Cigarette Ad
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1 File
circa 1940
426
54
425
Publicity Shots
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1940
416
49
Publicity Shots
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1 File
1941
416
50
Wartime Workers Quarters at Fordhook Farms
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Wide World Photos, Inc
1 File
1943 August 24
416
51
Wartime Workers Quarters at Fordhook Farms
General
During World War II, the workforce in the United States experienced labor shortages due to the millions of men serving in the military at the time, leaving many companies to rely on women to fill a variety of positions. In 1943, David Burpee, of W. Atlee Burpee and Company, assembled a group of female horticultural students from Cornell University, New Jersey Agricultural College, and other schools to maintain the company's Fordhook Farms, cultivate plants, and harvest seeds. Burpee renovated an old farmhouse into a dormitory for the women to reside in during their time working for the Burpee Farm. These images document the leisure activities the women engaged in after the workday ended, such as reading, writing letters, playing the piano, swimming, playing badminton, and eating together.
Scope and Contents
This series of photographs was taken by the Philadelphia bureau of Wide World Photos, Inc., a news reporting service that provided content to newspapers and magazines. They were accompanied by a list of lengthy captions supplied by World Wide Photos that was likely intended for newspaper copy. The Burpee collection at AAG includes only some of images in the World Wide Photos series of women working at Fordhook Farms.
Women
Woman staffers engaging in leisure activities inside the farmhouse
BUR0574
Archival Resource Key
1 Item
1943
416
51
Women engaging in leisure activities inside the farmhouse
General
Caption provided by Wide World Photos, Inc.: "Girl "AG" students man plant farm Doylestown, PA. After a hard day's work, the girls relax in the farmhouse dormitory. They read, knit, write letters, talk, play cards -- and even kibitz."
Leisure
Women staffers eating together in the farmhouse dining area
BUR0575
Archival Resource Key
1 Item
1943
416
51
Women eating together in the farmhouse dining area
General
The women of Fordhook Farms dine together, three at each table, within the farmhouse's designated dining area.
Women staffers washing dishes in farmhouse kitchen
BUR0576
Archival Resource Key
1 Item
1943
416
51
Women washing dishes in farmhouse kitchen
General
Caption provided by Wide World Photos: "Girl "AG" students man plant farm Doylestown, PA. - Top: "K.P." is a part of the girls' routine. Wiping dishes here are: Joyce Lockwood of Detroit, Mich., Wellesley College student; Jane Milles of Isle of Pines, Cuba, of the Ambler (PA.) School of Horticulture, and Mary Edith Riner of Cheyenne, Wyo., University of Michigan."
Women staffers swimming and sitting beside the pool (pt. I)
BUR0577
Archival Resource Key
1 Item
1943
416
51
Women swimming and sitting beside the pool (pt. I)
General
After a day of work on the farm, the women of Fordhook Farms enjoy swimming in the nearby pool and basking in the sun together.
Women staffers swimming and sitting beside the pool (pt. II)
BUR0578
Archival Resource Key
1 Item
1943
416
51
Women swimming and sitting beside the pool (pt. II)
General
After a day of work on the farm, the women of Fordhook Farms enjoy swimming in the nearby pool and basking in the sun together.
Women staffers playing badminton outside of the farmhouse
BUR0579
Archival Resource Key
1 Item
1943
416
51
Women playing badminton outside of the farmhouse
General
Two women engage in a game of badminton outside of the farmhouse as others sit and watch.
Lawn sports
Sports
Corner of farmhouse interior
BUR0580
Archival Resource Key
1 Item
1943
416
51
Corner of farmhouse interior
General
This photograph documents a corner of the farmhouse's interior which features a "Plant a Victory Garden" propaganda poster that popularized during WWI, a Burpee's Seeds poster, and a bookshelf displaying books, seed packets, and viles of seeds.
Burpee horticulturist Helaine Lintleman seated at desk inside farmhouse
BUR0581
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1943
416
51
Burpee horticulturist Helaine Lintleman seated at desk inside farmhouse
General
A woman sits and writes at a wooden desk with many binders and a vase with flowers placed in front of her. On the walls are Burpee's Seeds posters and a War (Victory) Garden poster that popularized during WWI.
David Burpee and WAVES Posing with Sweet Peas at Hunter College, New York
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1945
416
52
Staged Publicity Shots of Sweet Peas in Gunther Greenhouse
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1 File
1946
416
53
Mrs. Dwight D. Eisenhower Petunia
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1 File
1946
416
54
The Marigold Airplane
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1 File
circa 1946-1963
417
1
WJZ Radio Interview at Fordhook Farms
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1 File
1948
417
2
Margaret O'Brien Sweet Pea
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1949
417
3
Unidentified Vegetable Garden with Woman and Children (possibly Fordhook Farms?)
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1 Negatives (photographic)
circa 1945-1950
428
2
Unidentified Vegetable Garden with Woman and Children (possibly Fordhook Farms?)
Woman with Flower Arrangement
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1 File
circa 1945-1955
426
55
Giant Marigold-F1 Hybrid Climax
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1 File
1957
426
56
Myna Bird
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1 File
1958
426
57
David Burpee with Governor Price Daniel of Texas
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1 File
1962
417
4
Big Boy Hybrid Tomato
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1967, 1982
426
58-59
Photographs Featured in Panorama: A Magazine of Bucks County Article
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1970
417
5
1888 Burpee's Seeds Catalog (cover)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1975-1980
426
60
1896 Burpee's Farm Annual (cover)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1975-1980
426
61
Miscellaneous Flowers and Vegetables
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1975-1985
417
6
Unidentified Vegetable Garden
Archival Resource Key
1 Glass plate negative
circa 1900-1930
420
Unidentified Vegetable Garden
Prizewinning Exhibit at Stafford Fair (Connecticut)
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1920
417
7
Message of Gratitude for Vitamins from Vegetables, from Wilfred [Erenfill?], Labrador, Canada
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1920
425
David Burpee Photograph used in Clinton Herald Article
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1958
427
1
White Marigold Contest, Judging
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955-1975
417
8
White Marigold Contest, Judging Trials
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1964
426
62-63
White Marigold Contest, Judging
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1966
426
64-65
White Marigold Contest, David Burpee with Contest Winner Alice Vonk
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1975
426
66
Burpee Co. Properties
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Images of Burpee buildings in Philadelphia and Iowa.
York Avenue Building, Philadelphia
Archival Resource Key
1 Cyanotypes (photographic prints)
circa 1890-1905
417
9
476-478 North 5th Street Property, Philadelphia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1880-1900
417
10
Burpee Building, Philadelphia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1898-1926
417
11
Burpee's Nasturtium Storefront
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1934
417
12
Clinton, Iowa Branch Office Building
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1940-1946
427
2
Clinton, Iowa Headquarters
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1950-1970
425
Burpee Co. Subsidiaries
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Luther Burbank and Home Garden
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1932
417
13
David Burpee with Luther Burbank "Treasure Chest" of Flower Seeds
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1928-1935
417
14
Maule Building
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1910-1930
417
15
Professional Outreach and Awards
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Images that document Burpee staff at flower and horticultural shows and on business trips; events held by the firm either at Fordhook Farms or elsewhere (including flower previews); and awards received by the company.
Foreign Delegation at American Seed Trade Association Convention
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946
417
16
"Welcome David Burpee" Sign at American Seed Trade Association Convention
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1977
427
3
Chicago Flower Show Featuring Burpee Marigold Garden
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1968
423
David Burpee with Presidents of Pennsylvania Horticultural Society and American Horticultural Society
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1978
427
4
Burpee Award in Horticulture Recipients
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1946-1947
417
17
427
5
W. Atlee Burpee During Trip to Europe
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1914
427
6
David Burpee in Southport, England
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929
427
7
David Burpee and Carter Holton in Japan
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960
427
8
Marigolds for National Floral Emblem
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
circa 1957-1965
417
18-19
Burpee Lawn Grass Exhibit in front of Coming Through the Rye Sculpture at Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis, Missouri
Archival Resource Key
Remington, Frederic, 1861-1909
1 Photographic print
Mounted
1904
417
20
Sweet Pea Exhibit
Archival Resource Key
5 Files
1911
423
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1914-1926
417
21
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1927-1929
417
22
W. Atlee Burpee Jr. at Flower Shows
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1 File
1929, 1948
417
23
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1930
417
24
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1931
417
25
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1932-1933
417
26
Flower Shows and Exhibits
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1 File
1934
417
27
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1935
417
28
Flower Shows and Exhibits
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1936
417
29
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937
417
30
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938
417
31
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939
417
32
David Burpee at Zinnia Preview
Archival Resource Key
1 Negatives (photographic)
1 Photographic print
September 1939
426
24-25
David Burpee at Zinnia Preview
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1940
417
33
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1941
417
34
Idabelle Firestone Marigold Preview, New York
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1 File
1941
417
35
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1942
417
36
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1943
417
37
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946
417
38
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1947
417
39
Luther Burbank Zinnia Preview at Waldorf-Astoria, New York, New York
Archival Resource Key
1 File
September 2, 1947
417
40
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1948
417
41
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1949
417
42
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1950
417
43
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1951
417
44
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1952
417
45
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953
417
46
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954
417
47
International Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954-1965
417
48
Flower Shows
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1958
417
49
Flower Show
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961
427
9
Pennsylvania State Student Horticultural Show
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979
417
50
American Seed Trade Association Gathering at Fordhook
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
June 24, 1910
427
10-11
Events at Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1910-1914
417
51
Events at Fordhook Farms
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1 File
circa 1920-1930
417
52
Gatherings at Fordhook Farms
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1 File
1920-1930
427
12
Burpee Christmas Celebrations
Archival Resource Key
6 Photographs
circa 1916-1930
423
Burpee Christmas Celebrations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1920-1935
417
53
Floradale Farms Luncheon
Archival Resource Key
2 Negatives (photographic)
2 Photographic prints
circa 1939
426
24-25
Floradale Farms Luncheon
Unidentified Burpee Event (possibly at Floradale Farms)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1920-1930
427
13
David Burpee at Santa Barbara Fiesta
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959
417
54
Garden Writers Luncheons at Fordhook Farms
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1 File
1974, 1977
417
55
Garden Writers of America at Flora 76 Meeting
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1 File
1976
417
56
Porcelain Marigolds by Boehm
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Boehm Porcelains
1 File
circa 1953-1970
417
57
Computer Lab
Archival Resource Key
1 Photographic print
Mounted
circa 1968-1974
417
58
Burpee Medals
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1900-1950
417
59
International Flower Show Awards
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961, 1965
417
61
David Burpee and Frank Cuthbertson with Sweet Pea Award
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
427
14
Burpee Family
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Images of Burpee family members; and photographs of family events and gatherings unrelated to the Burpee firm. This subseries also includes photographs of persons whose connection to the Burpee family or business is currently unknown. For images of the Burpee family's home at Fordhook Farms, see the 'Farm Operations' subseries in Photographic and A/V Material.
Dr. and Mrs. David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1880-1892
427
15
Friends and Family
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1888-1915
427
16
Home and Family
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1890-1915
418
1
423
Sterling Morton Portrait and Inscription
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1896
418
2
Horse and Carriage
Archival Resource Key
1 Negatives (photographic)
circa 1900
427
17
W. Atlee Burpee (and David Burpee?) at Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900
427
18
W. Atlee and David Burpee at Niagara Falls
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1906
423
Family Dog (Don?)
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1900
418
3
Poor Richard Club at Fordhook Farms
Archival Resource Key
1 File
September 14, 1914
427
19
Simons Family
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1860-1900
427
20
Aunt Mary Schenck (Simons Family)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1860-1900
418
4
Blanche Simons Burpee Portraits
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1863-1890
427
21
Blanche Simons Burpee Portraits and Candid Shots
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1891-1921
427
22
Blanche Simons Burpee Portraits
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1892-1940
418
5
Blanche Simons Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1941-1948
427
23
David Burpee Portraits and Candid Shots
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1893-1915
427
24
David Burpee Portraits
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1893-1950
418
6
Fordhook Farms, Private Entrance with Unidentified Woman and Child
Archival Resource Key
1 Glass plate negative
circa 1903
419
Fordhook Farms, Private Entrance with Unidentified Woman and Child
David Burpee Portrait by Evans
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1911
425
David Burpee in Camden, Maine
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915
427
25
Trip (David and Blanche Simons Burpee ?)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1920
418
7
David Burpee with Others
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946, 1952
418
8
David Burpee on S.S. Rotterdam
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
427
26
David Burpee, Candid Shots
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1973-1977
427
27
Bust of David Burpee with its sculptor, Mustafa Naguib
Archival Resource Key
Naguib, Mustafa
1 File
1976-1977
427
28
"A Day at Fordhook" for The Canadian Society of Philadelphia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1925
418
9
"A Day at Fordhook" for The Canadian Society of Philadelphia
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1 File
1927-1928
418
10
Fourth Street Club
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1937
423
The Union League of Philadelphia's Annual Kindergarten Party
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1942
418
11
Welcome House Meeting
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1980
418
12
Watercolor of Marigold Arrangement
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1940-1970
425
W. Atlee Burpee Jr.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1895-1910
418
13
William Pitt Atlee (1772-1815) Portrait
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1890
427
29
Alexander Scott
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1890
427
30
Alexander Scott's Horse, Shamrock
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1900-1920
425
Atlee Mausoleum and Sheffield Monument
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1925
423
Ruby L. Hollingsworth
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
circa 1900-1920
418
14
Portrait of (Frederick?) Riley of England (seedsman?)
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1911
418
15
Betsy Trainer on "Little John" (horse)
Archival Resource Key
1 Photograph
1946
427
31
Unidentified People
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1890-1915
427
32
Unidentified Garden with Lawn and Greenhouses
Archival Resource Key
1 Glass plate negative
circa 1890-1915
420
Unidentified Garden with Lawn and Greenhouses
Unidentified Sites and People
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1950
418
16
Unidentified Couple
Archival Resource Key
2 Photographs
b/w
circa 1940-1950
426
67
General
Appears that the location may be somewhere in the western part of the United States.
Audio/Visual Materials
5.2
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
This series includes film and reel-to-reel and phonographic sound recordings related to talks and interviews given by David Burpee and other Burpee personnel, flower premieres, and farm operations.
Conditions Governing Access
The Archives of American Gardens does not currently have the A/V equipment needed to play any of the films and sound recordings in this series.
Clinton, Iowa Branch Opening
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound recording
circa 1942-1943
LP was found broken in half and cannot be played. It has been saved in case a way can be found in the future to capture the recording.
424
Firestone / Zinnias
Archival Resource Key
Owen Murphy Productions
1 Film reel
circa 1950-1963
430
W. Atlee Burpee (II or III?) Interview from Richard 'Cactus' Pryor Show, Austin, Texas
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound recording
circa 1950-1971
429
David and Lois Burpee's Person to Person Interview with Edward R. Murrow on CBS-TV
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound recordings
1957
429
David and Lois Burpee's Person to Person Interview with Edward R. Murrow on CBS-TV
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound recording
1957
429
Ted Torrey Interview with Ruth Alampi on WNBC's Around Your Home and Garden Program; Burpee Seeds Radio Commercial by Martha Deane of WOR
Archival Resource Key
3 Sound recordings
January 1958
424
Flower Premiere in Santa Barbara
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
circa 1958-1959
429
Talk by David Burpee on World Premiere at Santa Barbara Biltmore
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound recordings
1959
424
Unknown Content
Archival Resource Key
2 Sound recordings
circa 1959-1970
429
Unknown Content
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound recording
circa 1959-1970
429
Whirligig Zinnias and Hand Pollinating Snapdragons
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
1963
429
Farm Operations
Archival Resource Key
1 Film reel
circa 1964
429
Recordings of Talks (possibly by David Burpee)
Archival Resource Key
3 Sound recordings
circa 1964-1975
429
American Security Council: The Washington Report Audition Recording
Archival Resource Key
1 Sound recording
1963
424
Burpee Family Papers
Series 6
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Personal papers generated and compiled by Burpee family members including Dr. Washington L. Atlee (maternal grandfather of W. Atlee), Dr. David Burpee (W. Atlee's father), W. Atlee Burpee, Blanche Simons Burpee (W. Atlee's wife), David Burpee, W. Atlee Burpee, Jr., Lois Burpee (David Burpee's wife), and others. W. Atlee and David Burpee's files are the most extensive, though they are by no means comprehensive. Papers include correspondence, financial records, travel ephemera, reference material and clipping files, notes, files related to membership in various organizations and charitable contributions, will and estate files, and photographs.
Personal papers relating to W. Atlee and his immediate family are also found scattered throughout the collection's business records, especially in early correspondence files.
Dr. Washington L. Atlee (1808-1878)
6.1
Archival Resource Key
Papers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1866-1900
358
36
American Medicine, Vol. viii, No. 18
Archival Resource Key
1 Scholarly periodical
1904
358
37
Dr. David Burpee (1827-1882)
6.2
Archival Resource Key
Papers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1845-1895
358
38
Expenses
Archival Resource Key
1 Ledger
1852-1854
377
10
Religious Intelligencer, Vol. III, No. 12
Archival Resource Key
1 Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
1856
358
39
Expenses
Archival Resource Key
1 Ledger
1860-1863
377
11
Checkbooks
Archival Resource Key
8 Files
1862-1879
377
12-19
Expenses
Archival Resource Key
1 Ledger
1864-1870
377
20
National Bank of the Republic Account Book
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1867-1873
389
Deeds
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1870-1896
378
1
Stockholder's Receipt Book
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1873-1878
389
Medical Accounts Ledger
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1873-1882
377
21
Medical Handbook of Philadelphia
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1876
389
Lumbermen's Building and Loan Association Passbook
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1876-1878
389
The State Mutual Saving Fund, Loan & Building Association Handbook/Account Book
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1879-1883
389
W. Atlee Burpee (1858-1915)
6.3
Archival Resource Key
Personal Papers
Archival Resource Key
Papers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1875-1903
358
40
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1882-1911
358
41
Papers
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1883-1907
358
42-43
Quotations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1910
358
44
Papers
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1902-1915
358
45-46
Correspondence from David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1906-1915
358
47
359
1
Papers
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1907
359
2-3
Predicting World War I
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1909
359
4
First Airplane Delivery
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911
359
5
Papers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911-1912
359
6
Cornell University
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1913
359
7
Correspondence (outgoing)
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1913
359
8-11
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1913-1915
359
12
Condolence Letters
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1915
359
13-14
Financial Records
Archival Resource Key
Expenses Ledger
Archival Resource Key
1 Ledger
1880-1883
378
2
Checkbook
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1887-1888
359
15
Accounts
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1904
359
16
E. B. Young Cigar Receipts
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911-1912
359
17
Bills and Receipts
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1912-1913
359
18-21
Bills and Receipts
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
July 1913 - June 1914
359
22-24
360
1
Bills and Receipts
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
July 1914- April 1915
360
2-5
Bills and Receipts
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
1915-1916
360
6-9
Organization Affiliations
Archival Resource Key
Clubs and Societies
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1910-1915
360
10
The Canadian Society of Philadelphia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1910-1911
360
11
Doylestown Club, 'All Fools Day'
Archival Resource Key
1 File
April 1, 1915
360
12
Howard Hospital, Annual Report
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915
384
4
Midland Pennsylvania Railroad
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911
360
13
The Pennsylvania Society
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1912-1915
360
14
Poor Richard Club
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1910-1914
360
15
Real Estate Trust Company
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1906
360
16
Notes on Religious Committees
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1893-1900
360
17
Pennsylvania Republican State Committee, Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1914
360
18-19
The Union League of Philadelphia, Dinner for Postmaster General
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1907
360
20-21
The Union League of Philadelphia, Dinner for Postmaster General, Invitations Declined
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907
360
22
The Union League of Philadelphia Dinner
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1912
360
23
The Union League of Philadelphia, Reports and Publications
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1913-1916
384
5
Travels
Archival Resource Key
Travel Directions from Nevada to California
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
circa 1889
392
11
Postcards and Travel Ephemera
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
circa 1900-1915
384
6-7
Europe
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1906, 1908
360
24
Trip to Europe
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1914
360
25
Ephemera
Archival Resource Key
Diary and Address Book
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1881
392
12
Citizenship Papers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1884, 1895
361
1
Business and Calling Cards
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1885-1915
361
2
Illustrated Cards
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1890-1900
361
3
Business and Calling Cards (non-Burpee)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1890-1920
361
4
Testimonial Dinners and Events
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1906-1912
361
5
35th Celebration of University of Pennsylvania's Class of 1878 and Old Penn Magazine
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1908, 1912
361
6
Contacts
Archival Resource Key
1 Notebook
1911
392
13
Testimonial Dinner for John Gribbel
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1912, 1915
361
7
Reference Material
Archival Resource Key
Printed Material
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1896-1899
378
3
Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1899-1900
361
8
Printed Material
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1900-1910
361
9
378
4
Printed Material
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1911-1913
361
10
378
5
Printed Material
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1914
361
11
378
6
Printed Material
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1915
361
12
378
7
Clipping from Saturday Evening Post
Archival Resource Key
1 Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
1915
405
Will and Estate
Archival Resource Key
Legal Precedent of Attorney Acting as Executor
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1890-1915
378
8
Dr. David Burpee Legacy
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1904, 1943
378
9
Will and Codicil
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1907-1908
378
10
Unexecuted Deed with Doylestown Township
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1913
361
13
Last Will and Testament
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1913-1915
378
11
Last Will and Testament
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915
378
12
Power of Attorney
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915
361
14
Graves Manufacturing Company, Meeting
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915
361
15
Graves Manufacturing Company
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915-1916
361
16
Agreements Between Executors
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915-1917
361
17
By-Laws of W. Atlee Burpee & Co.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1916
378
13
Power of Attorney, W. Atlee Burpee, Jr.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1916
361
18
Inventory and Appraisal
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1916
378
14
Leases
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1916
361
19
Creditors
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1916
361
20
Inventries and Records
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1916-1917
378
15
Personal Property Taxes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1916-1917
361
21
Minutes of Meetings of Executors
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1916-1918
378
16
Herman Yerkes, Executor
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1916-1918
361
22
Estate of W. Atlee Burpee
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1916-1918
361
23-25
Castle Valley Farm
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1916-1918
378
17
William F. Fell vs. Securities Company of North America
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1917
361
26
Howard M. Earl
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1917-1918
378
18
First and Final Account
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918
361
27
Alaska Packers Association
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918
361
28
Blanche (Simons) Burpee (1863-1948)
6.4
Archival Resource Key
Papers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1891-1899
361
29
Papers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1900-1923
361
30
Blanche Burpee Public Playground
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1913
361
31
Genealogy
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918, 1926
361
32
Personal Property Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1936-1948
361
33
David Burpee (1893-1980)
6.5
Archival Resource Key
Personal Papers
Archival Resource Key
Correspondence to and from W. Atlee Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1896-1913
361
34
Early Essays
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900
361
35
Papers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1915
361
36
Culver Military Academy
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911-1913
361
37
Culver Military Academy Handbook
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1911
392
14
Culver Military Academy Handbook
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1912
392
15
Culver Military Academy Thesis, "Natural and Human Selection"
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1913-1974
361
38
378
19
Culver Military Academy Publications
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915, 1932
361
39
Cornell University
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1913-1914
361
40
Cornell University Publications
Archival Resource Key
1 Scholarly periodical
1913-1915
361
41
Papers
Archival Resource Key
8 Files
1911-1915
362
1-8
Papers
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1911-1924
362
9-11
Personal History
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1918-1973
362
12
Biographical Information
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1920-1961
362
13
Papers
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1921-1940
362
14-15
Social Security
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1936, 1962-1970
362
16
Wedding Gifts
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938, 1940
362
17
Horses
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939, 1957
362
18
Marshall, General George C.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1942
362
19
Letters Mentioning W.A. Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946-1968
362
20
Bridges, Gregory F. G.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1946-1966
362
21
Papers
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1950-1959
362
22-23
New Brunswick, Canada; Correspondence with Canadian Relatives; Burpee-Bridges House, Sheffield
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955-1976
362
24
Papers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1965
362
25
Stationery
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1960-1979
362
26
A Time to Roar
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1960-1970
362
27
Burpee, George W.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962-1966
362
28
Scranton, Governor William, Jr.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963, 1965
362
29
Lewis, Fulton, Jr.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
362
30
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1969
362
31
Addresses
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1970
362
32
Eastland, Thomas B., Jr.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1969
363
1
Morse, Charles B.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
363
2
Luce, Henry
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1965
363
3
Potts, Frederic A.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1970
363
4
Papers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1969
363
5
Kiplinger Letters
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
363
6
Papers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
363
7
Insurance
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1968
363
8
Medical Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1969
363
9
Medical Files
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971-1972
363
10
Proposed Book on the Bible
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1968-1971
363
11
Baker, Senator Howard
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
363
12
Papers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
363
13
Old Chinese Proverb
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1970
363
14
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
6 Files
1970-1973
363
15-20
The White House
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971-1976
363
21
People
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971-1980
363
22
Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
8 Files
1973
363
23-30
Dohan, Michael R.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
363
31
Fox, Robert
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
363
32
80th Birthday Greetings
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
363
33
Papers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1975-1980
363
34
Barber, Angus C.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1980
363
35
Financial Records
Archival Resource Key
Stock Certificates of No Value
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1903-1954
364
1
Banks and Bankers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915, 1964-1969
364
2
Financial Statements
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1916-1919
364
3
Investments
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1916-1954
364
4
Northern Trust Company Lock Box Inventory
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918-1947
364
5
Stocks
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929-1971
364
6
Collateral
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1931-1932
364
7
Indebtedness
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1934-1948
364
8
Stock Statements
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1952-1970
364
9
Financial Solicitations
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954
364
10
Financial Contributions and Bills Paid
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1955-1965
364
11
Financial Contributions and Bills Paid
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1968
364
12
Financial Contributions and Bills Paid
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
364
13
Financial Contributions and Bills Paid
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1971
364
14
Bills (Except Contributions and Medical Expenses)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971
364
15
Bills Paid
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1972
364
16-17
Bills Paid
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1973
364
18-19
Bills Paid
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1974
364
20-21
Philadelphia National Bank Custodian Account
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1970
364
22
Contributions
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971-1972
364
23
Schmidt, Roberts & Parke, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1974
364
24
Financial Records
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1971
364
25
W. H. Newbold's Son & Co., Brokers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
364
26
Municipal Bonds
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1979-1980
364
27
Income Tax, 1917
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1917-1923
364
28
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918-1923
364
29
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1924-1928
364
30
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929-1933
364
31
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1934-1938
364
32
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1939-1943
364
33
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1944-1947
364
34
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1948
365
1
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1949-1950
365
2
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1951-1953
365
3
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1954-1955
365
4
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1956-1957
365
5
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1958-1959
365
6
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1960
365
7
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961-1962
365
8
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
365
9
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
365
10
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
365
11
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
365
12
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
365
13
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971
365
14
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972
365
15
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
365
16
Income Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
365
17
Personal Property Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1936-1970
365
18
Johnston, Robert W.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
365
19
Contributions to Churches
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
365
20
Organization Affiliations
Archival Resource Key
Clubs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1925-1967
365
21
Director and Board Appointments
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1926-1939
365
22
Pennsylvania Societies and Memberships
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967-1968
365
23
Clubs, Societies, etc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971
365
24
Membership Cards
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1974
365
25
Abington Memorial Hospital, Abington, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1969
365
26
Abington Memorial Hospital, Abington, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
365
27
Bachelors Barge Club
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972, 1974
365
28
Bucknell University
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938-1963
365
29
Bucknell University
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1965
365
30
Bucknell University
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
366
1
Bucknell University, Long Range Campus Plan
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1967
378
20
Bucknell University
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968
366
2
Bucknell University
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1968-1969
366
3
Bucknell University
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970
366
4
Bucknell University
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971
366
5
Bucknell University
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971-1972
366
6
Bucknell University
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
366
7
Bucknell University Conference
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
366
8
Bucknell University
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
366
9
Bucknell University, David Burpee Plant Genetics Fund
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1976
366
10
Bucks County Conservancy
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
366
11
The Candian Society of Philadelphia, General History
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1901-1962
366
12
The Candian Society of Philadelphia, By-Laws
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1922, 1929
366
13
The Candian Society of Philadelphia, "A Day at Fordhook"
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1925
366
14
The Candian Society of Philadelphia, Year Books
Archival Resource Key
8 Booklets
1926-1930
389
Candian Society of Philadelphia, Thoughts and Reflections
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1926-1931
366
15
The Candian Society of Philadelphia, Minutes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1927-1931
366
16
The Candian Society of Philadelphia, Dinners
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1927-1931
366
17-18
Cornell University
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963-1974
366
19
Hillsboro Association, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1962-1982
366
20
Huntingdon Valley Country Club
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1931-1958
366
21
Neshaminy Valley Watershed Association
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964
366
22
Pearl S. Buck Foundation
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1939-1963
366
23
Pearl S. Buck Foundation, Welcome House
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1952-1962
366
24
International House of Philadelphia, Inc.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1956-1957
366
25
Pearl S. Buck Foundation
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1964-1968
366
26
Pearl S. Buck Foundation
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969-1973
366
27
The Penn Club
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
366
28
The Pennsylvania Society, Dinners and Meetings
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1922-1969
366
29
367
1
The Pennsylvania Society
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1938-1967
367
2
The Pennsylvania Society
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1970-1971
367
3
The Pennsylvania Society
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1972
367
4
The Pennsylvania Society
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
367
5
The Quaker City Farmers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
367
6
Republican Party
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
367
7
Republican Dinner for Senator Hugh Scott
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973
367
8
Pennsylvania Society of Sons of the Revolution Application
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1937
367
9
The Union League of Philadelphia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1923-1960
367
10
The Union League of Philadelphia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961-1965
367
11
The Union League of Philadelphia, Membership List
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1969
384
8
The Union League of Philadelphia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971
367
12
The Wanderers Club
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1926
367
13
Central Bucks Family YMCA
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
367
14
Travels
Archival Resource Key
Birmingham, Alabama
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915
367
15
Camden, Maine
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915
367
16
Amherst, Massachusetts
Archival Resource Key
1 File
May - June, 1915
367
17
Boston, Massachusetts
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915
367
18
Washington, D.C.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915
367
19
Atlanta, Georgia
Archival Resource Key
1 File
May, 1915
367
20
New York
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915
367
21
Vassar, Poughkeepsie, New York
Archival Resource Key
1 File
May, 1915
367
22
Oregon
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1965
367
23
Florida
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971-1974
367
24
New York
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1973-1974
367
25
New Jersey Shore
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
367
26
Germany
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1911-1914
367
27
France
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1914
367
28
Holland
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1914
367
29
Italy
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1914
367
30
Scotland
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1911
367
31
Bahamas
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971
367
32
Bermuda
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971
367
33
New Brunswick, Canada (Maugerville Bicentenary)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1963
367
34
Passports for Lois and David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1934-1971
367
35
Trips, Reservations, and Itineraries
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971
367
36
Ephemera
Archival Resource Key
Calling Cards
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1900-1930
367
37
Air Mail and Cancelled Stamps
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1910-1942
367
38
Invitations and Programs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1915-1956
367
39
Invitations and Programs, Political Events
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1961-1969
367
40
Christmas Cards (Masters)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1918-1940
367
41
Burpee Christmas Cards
Archival Resource Key
4 Files
circa 1920-1960
384
9-12
Christmas Cards Received
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1940-1977
Unknown
Selective Service Card
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1942
367
42
Market Street National Bank
Archival Resource Key
1 Print
1955
406
Map of Southern Railway System
Archival Resource Key
1 Map
1956
369
30
Governor's Luncheon, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965
367
43
Birthday Cards
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974
367
44
"Fordhook Specials" from Melbourne Cigar Factory
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1920-1970
385
Reference Material
Archival Resource Key
Printed Material
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1912-1918
367
45
Waterways
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1914-1928
367
46
Suggested Reading Lists
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1915
367
47
Printed Material
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1920-1928
367
48
Articles on People and Ideas of Interest
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1929-1976
367
49
368
1
Printed Material
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1930-1939
368
2
378
21
Printed Material
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1940-1949
368
3
378
22
Printed Material
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1950-1959
368
4-6
Printed Material
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1960-1969
368
7-8
378
23
Printed Material
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1964, 1969
405
408
Printed Material
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1970-1980
368
9-10
378
24
Will and Estate
Archival Resource Key
Wills, Lois and David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1904-1968
378
25
Fair Grounds Property
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1925-1949
378
26-27
Loans
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1929-1932
368
11
Philadelphia Electric Company
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1930-1970
379
1-2
Plan of Electric and Telephone Cables on Fordhook Farms (Philadelphia Electric Company)
Archival Resource Key
1 Drawings (visual works)
circa 1930-1960
433
Burpee Cemetery Plot
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1943, 1957
368
12
Doylestown World War Memorial Deed
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1945
368
13
Life Insurance Policies
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1957-1968
368
14
Estate Planning
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1959-1960
368
15
Appraisal of Properties
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1965-1966
379
3
Estate Planning and Proposed Will
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1966-1967
368
16
Burpee Trust Fund, Beatrice Kennedy Downing
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1971
368
17
Formation of Charitable Foundation
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1976-1977
368
18
Obituaries
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1980
368
19
Funeral Programs
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1980
368
20
Washington Atlee Burpee, Jr. (1894-1966)
6.6
Archival Resource Key
Culver Military Academy
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1913
368
21
Printed Material
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1913-1955
368
22
379
4
Will
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1920-1930
368
23
Italy Trip
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1947-1958
368
24
Papers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1950-1966
368
25
Lois (Torrance) Burpee (1912-1984)
6.7
Archival Resource Key
Burpee, Lois
Flower Show Program
Archival Resource Key
1 Booklet
1936
384
13
Marriage Announcement and Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1938
368
26
Press Clippings
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1941-1983
368
27
379
5
Letters to David Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1953
368
28
Personal Property Tax
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1956-1970
368
29
Papers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1974-1983
368
30
Recipes
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1977
368
31
Condolence Letters on David Burpee's Passing
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1980
368
32
Burpee's Garden Calendar (annotated)
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1980-1981
368
33
Burpee Co.
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1980-1981
368
34
Solicitations for Burpee Co. Records
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1980-1981
368
35
Papers
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1981
368
36
Book Contract with Times Books
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1980
368
37
Cookbook Draft
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1980
368
38
Cookbook Revised Draft
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
circa 1980-1981
368
39-40
Correspondence with Publisher and Editor of Cookbook
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1980-1984
369
1
Cookbook Edits
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1982
369
2
Lois Burpee's Gardener's Companion and Cookbook Press Clippings
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1983
369
3
Lois Burpee's Gardener's Companion and Cookbook Press Clippings from Clipping Service
Archival Resource Key
3 Files
1983
369
4-6
Lois Burpee's Gardener's Companion and Cookbook Press Clippings from Publisher
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1983
369
7
Lois Burpee's Gardener's Companion and Cookbook Press Correspondence
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1983
369
8
"A Year in the Garden" Draft
Archival Resource Key
1 Manuscripts (document genre)
1984
369
9
Burpee Family History and Other Family Members
6.9
Archival Resource Key
Scope and Contents
Records related to various Burpee family members including Ann Catherine Burpee (W. Atlee Burpee's mother); Sarah Scott (W. Atlee Burpee's sister); and Mrs. Washington L. Atlee (W. Atlee Burpee's maternal grandmother). Genealogical information regarding both Burpee and Atlee ancestry is typically accompanied by correspondence, photographs, historical narratives, charts, and clippings.
This subseries includes papers relating to individuals whose connection to the Atlee or Burpee family is currently unknown.
Burpee and Atlee Families, Printed Material
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1878-1912, 1964
379
6
Account Fragment
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1880-1890
369
15
The Franklin Square Song Collection Devoted to School and Home
Archival Resource Key
1 Book
1889
369
16
Family Accounts Ledger
Archival Resource Key
1 Ledger
1916-1917
379
7
Burpee Genealogy
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1912
369
17
Burpee Genealogy
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1945-1971
369
18
Burpee Genealogy
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1977
369
19
Burpee Family
Archival Resource Key
2 Files
1910-1913
369
20-21
Rachel Kaighn, Sale of Timber
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1862
369
22
Mrs. Washington L. Atlee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1862-1863
369
23
Ann Catherine Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1883-1891
369
24
Account of William H. Robinson's Estate
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1891
369
25
Constance Weston
Archival Resource Key
1 File
circa 1893-1898
369
26
Sarah C. (Burpee) Scott
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1898-1936
369
27
Colonel Thomas F. Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 Clippings (Books, newspapers, etc.)
1908
369
28
Lawrence Burpee
Archival Resource Key
1 File
1930
369
29