Portraits

Life Dates: 7 April 1869–6 August 1954

Additional Subjects: Marion Fairchild #1

Date Created/Published: 1945

Type: black and white print

Notes: Orig. neg (2 x3) and transparency housed in vault on 5th floor. Ref: HBL Biog. card file. Taken at the age of 76.

Life Dates: 7 April 1869–6 August 1954

Additional Subjects: Frank N. Meyer #2

Date Created/Published: 1908

Location: Farmer's office (14th & B), Washington D. C., USA

Type: black and white print

Notes: U.S.D.A. Neg. #10456 (2 copies). A 11.5 × 17 enlargement of just Fairchild is also in portrait folder. Taken at the age of 39.

Life Dates: 7 April 1869–6 August 1954

Date Created/Published: 1908

Location: In his garden holding fruits of the Mangosteen.

Type: black and white print

Notes: Original transparency housed in vault on 5th floor. Two 20 × 25 prints, one mounted, are in folder.

Life Dates: 7 April 1869–6 August 1954

Date Created/Published: November 1930

Type: black and white print

Notes: Taken at the age of 61.

Life Dates: 7 April 1869–6 August 1954

Date Created/Published: February 1926

Location: Sampling coconut milk (Cocos nucifers - "King Coconut") on A. V. Armour expedition, Ceylon

Type: black and white print

Notes: Sampling coconut milk (Cocos nucifers - "King Coconut") on A. V. Armour expedition. USDA Neg. #41254 in NewCrops USDA Archives. 12 × 17 and 19 × 24 duplicates are also available in the folder. Taken at the age of 55.

Life Dates: 7 April 1869–6 August 1954

Date Created/Published: April 1915

Location: In office, Washington D.C., USA

Type: black and white print

Notes: USDA Neg. #15849. On HI web site, as of Jan. 2006. Taken at the age of 46.

Life Dates: 7 April 1869–6 August 1954

Type: black and white print

Notes: From Lawrence's papers. On HI web site, as of Jan. 2006.

Life Dates: 7 April 1869–6 August 1954

Additional Subjects: Barbour Lathrop #1

Date Created/Published: 1920

Location: Under the Saigon Mango tree; Miami Station, Florida, USA

Type: black and white print

Notes: USDA Neg. #26090. Taken at the age of 51.

Life Dates: 7 April 1869–6 August 1954

Date Created/Published: 1926

Location: Examining mangosteen (Garcinis Mangostarra) at market in Sumatra, Indonesia

Type: black and white print

Notes: USDA Neg. #41391. Taken at the age of 57.

Life Dates: 7 April 1869–6 August 1954

Additional Subjects: Lathrop, Barbour #2

Date Created/Published: 1920

Location: Under the Saigon Mango tree, Miami Station, Florida.

Type: black and white print

Notes: Location and date according to similar photo, Fairchild #8 & #15. Print was lost and then found, 4 April 2005. Lathrop was given portrait #2 at this time.

Life Dates: 7 April 1869–6 August 1954

Date Created/Published: November 1941

Location: Observing fruit buds of the Haden Mango at The Kampong, National Tropical Botanical Garden, Miami, Florida, USA

Type: black and white print

Life Dates: 7 April 1869–6 August 1954

Date Created/Published: 1896

Location: Treub's "Mt. Laboratory", Tjibodas, Java

Type: black and white print

Notes: Nat'l Geog. Mag. Neg. #131270-A. Photocopy made by Nat'l. Geog. Mag., September 1947. Taken at the age of 47.

Life Dates: 7 April 1869–6 August 1954

Additional Subjects: Robert Heister Montgomery #2

Date Created/Published: 7 April 1954?

Type: color print

Notes: There is a question regarding date of photo.

Life Dates: 7 April 1869–6 August 1954

Date Created/Published: March 1952

Location: The Kampong, National Tropical Botanical Garden, Miami, Florida, USA

Type: color slide

Notes: A high-res color scan is saved on CD in vault and Archives hard drive.

Life Dates: 7 April 1869–6 August 1954

Additional Subjects: Lathrop, Barbour #3

Date Created/Published: March 1920

Location: Under the Saigon Mango tree, Miami Plant Introduction Garden, Florida.

Type: black and white print

Notes: Photo from Hodge's collection of historical photos from USDA files showing early important USDA plant explorers -#65, Box 7, ff 30. See also Hodge coll. #65, Box 9, ff 57 for more photos (add'l copy has typed notes with date of 1919).

Life Dates: 7 April 1869–6 August 1954

Location: Fairchild's garden, Maryland, USA (?)

Type: black and white print

Notes: USDA Neg. #50242 (38242?). "David Fairchild in his Md. Garden". Print trans. from Hodge coll. #65, Box 9a, ff 57.