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Ferns of Huntington, Long Island, collected and printed by Ella J. C. Hurd
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Title

Ferns of Huntington, Long Island, collected and printed by Ella J. C. Hurd

Title Variants

Alternative: Ferns of Huntington, Long Island, collected and printed by Mrs. Hurd

Related Titles

Series: Nature Prints from the Botany Libraries

External Resources

Collection guide: Ferns of Huntington, Long Island, by Ella J. C. Hurd. Harvard University Botany Libraries

By

Hurd, Ella J. C., 1843-1917 , printer

Type

Book

Material

Archival material

Publication info

[Huntingon, N.Y.] [between 1890 and 1900?]

Notes

46 cyanotypes of ferns printed by Ella Hurd, circa 1890-1900. Most of the ferns were collected by Ella Hurd from Huntington, Long Island. Some of the ferns were collected in West Palm Beach, Florida. Also includes cyanotypes of European ferns that were printed but not collected by Mrs. Hurd. Specimens identified on back of prints.

Ella J. C. Hurd was born Ella Jayne Conklin in Huntington, New York in 1843 to the Conklin family of colonial New England. She married Arthur T. Hurd in 1890. Ella was interested in natural history and studied ferns. In 1911, Ella donated the David Conklin Farmhouse to the Huntington Historical Society in Long Island, New York. She lived in Florida before her death in April 1917 and was buried in Huntington Rural Cemetary.

Subjects

Blueprints , Cyanotypes , Europe , Ferns , Florida , Long Island , Nature prints , New York (State) , Pictorial works , West Palm Beach

BHL Collections

Nature Prints

Identifiers

OCLC: 1029933135

 

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