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1883 Dreer's Garden Calendar Catalog. Cover

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1883 Dreer's Garden Calendar Catalog. Cover. no date. 1883.
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(1883). 1883 Dreer's Garden Calendar Catalog. Cover. Retrieved from https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A60784
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“1883 Dreer's Garden Calendar Catalog. Cover”, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society - Philadelphia Flower Show, 1883. https://digitalarchives.powerlibrary.org/papd/islandora/object/papd%3A60784.
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Title

1883 Dreer's Garden Calendar Catalog. Cover

Subject

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Henry A. Dreer (Firm) -- Catalogs
Dreer, Henry Augustus, 1818-1873
Dreer, William F., 1849-1918
Philadelphia Flower Show
Flower shows -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia

Description

Henry Augustus Dreer started a seed business in 1838, offering bulbs, flower seeds, and vegetable seeds to an eager public. He served as treasurer of PHS from 1862 to 1873. His son William continued the business and was known for the premiums offered to competitors in flower shows of the 1900s. The H. A. Dreer Company exhibited at Philadelphia shows through the 1930s.

Date

1883

Location Covered

Philadelphia (Pa.)

Type

Image

Original Format

Photographs

Digital Format

image/tiff

Identifier

1883DreerHenryAExhibitorWI_FS04_JELegacy

Language

eng

Relation

Philadelphia Flower Show Collection

Rights

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/CNE/1.0/

Contact

For more information, contact McLean Library and Archives, Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, 100 North 20th Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 19103, 215-988-8782, mcleanlibrary@pennhort.org

Contributing Institution

Pennsylvania Horticultural Society

Sponsorship

This Digital Object is provided in a collection that is included in POWER Library: Pennsylvania Photos and Documents, which is funded by the Office of Commonwealth Libraries of Pennsylvania/Pennsylvania Department of Education. In addition, this project is supported in part through a National Endowment for the Humanities Cares Grant.