Hunt Institute specializes in the history of botany and all aspects of plant science and serves the international scientific community through research and documentation. To this end, the Institute acquires and maintains authoritative collections of books, plant images, manuscripts, portraits and data files, and provides publications and other modes of information service. The Institute meets the reference needs of botanists, biologists, historians, conservationists, librarians, bibliographers and the public at large, especially those concerned with any aspect of the North American flora. Learn more
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Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt
"My life has been spent among books, and my specialty has been in the great wide field of botanical literature.... The whole world is open to the botanical collector, whether it be history, art, biography, bibliography or travels, everything is there to be studied and enjoyed."
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The Bookbinding Career of Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt
In this book Marianne Fletcher Titcombe, a librarian and bookbinder at Hunt Botanical Library (1970–1973), described and enumerated the bookbindings executed by Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt (1882–1963). The book illustrated eight bindings and included a biographical note.
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Bookbindings by Rachel McMasters Miller Hunt
This finding aid to Rachel's bookbindings in the Hunt Institute collection includes photographs.
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