H. A. Allard Papers, 1880-1953.

Collection Number: 02977

Collection Title: H. A. Allard Papers, 1880-1953.

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Size	11.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 5,000 items)
Abstract	H. A. (Harry Ardell) Allard (1880-1963) was a native of Massachusetts, graduate of the University of North Carolina, 1905, naturalist, specialist in the United States Department of Agriculture, 1906-1946, and author of several hundred articles on biological subjects. The collection includes Allard's correspondence with other scientists, government departments, researchers, and his son, Howard F. Allard; an autobiography; extensive diary entries, 1899-1948; reading and field notes; illustrations and graphs; photographs; a bibliography of published works; and writings of Allard on natural history, plant behavior, photoperiodism, the tobacco mosaic virus, and various other subjects.
Creator	Allard, H. A. (Harry Ardell), 1880-1963.
Curatorial Unit	University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection.
Language	English

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Copyright Notice: Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Preferred Citation: [Identification of item], in the H. A. Allard Papers, #2977, Southern Historical Collection, The Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Acquisitions Information: Received from H. A. Allard of Arlington, Va., November 1953.

Additional Descriptive Resources: A copy of the original finding aid for this collection is filed in folder 1a.

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Encoded by: Noah Huffman, December 2007

Updated by: Adam Fielding, Kate Stratton, and Jodi Berkowitz, March 2011; Dawne Howard Lucas, May 2021

This collection was rehoused and a summary created with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This finding aid was created with support from NC ECHO.

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H. A. (Harry Ardell) Allard (1880-1963) was a native of Massachusetts, graduate of the University of North Carolina, 1905, naturalist, specialist in the United States Department of Agriculture, 1906-1946, and author of several hundred articles on biological subjects.

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The collection includes H. A. Allard's correspondence with other scientists, government departments, researchers, and his son, Howard F. Allard; an autobiography; extensive diary entries, 1899-1948; reading and field notes; illustrations and graphs; photographs; a bibliography of published works; and writings of Allard on natural history, plant behavior, photoperiodism, the tobacco mosaic virus, and various other subjects.

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Expand/collapse Series 1. Papers, 1880-1949 and undated.

Arrangement: chronological

Papers are chiefly correspondence of H. A. Allard with other scientists, government departments, and researchers on the subjects of natural history and plant behavior. Letters, 1945-1949, to Allard from his son, Howard F. Allard, in the Dominican Republic and Peru are also included as well as some personal records, honorary degrees and memberships, and photographs.

Folder 1a	Original finding aid
Folder 1	1880; 1898-1901
Folder 2	1902-1937
Folder 3	1938-1942
Folder 4	1943-1944
Folder 5	1945
Folder 6	1946-1947
Folder 7	1948
Folder 8	1949 and undated
Folder 9-11 Folder 9 Folder 10 Folder 11	"A Naturalist's Paradise"
Folder 12	List of Allard's published papers, 1898-1948
Folder 13, 14	"Cosmic Values"
Image Folder PF-2977/1-4 PF-2977/1 PF-2977/2 PF-2977/3 PF-2977/4	Pictures Includes photographic portraits of H. A. Allen, his home, and a few biological subjects. Also included is a group of sketches of a residence and reproductions thereof.

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Arrangement: chronological

The series includes H. A. Allard's intermittent diary with some notes on botanical subjects. Also included are some typed transcriptions of the same.

Folder 15-16 Folder 15 Folder 16	Diary, 1899-1900
Folder 17-19 Folder 17 Folder 18 Folder 19	Diary, 1901-1905
Folder 20	Diary, 1907
Folder 21	Diary, 1908-1911
Folder 22-23 Folder 22 Folder 23	Diary, 1916
Folder 24-29 Folder 24 Folder 25 Folder 26 Folder 27 Folder 28 Folder 29	Diary, 1917
Folder 30-32 Folder 30 Folder 31 Folder 32	Diary, 1918
Folder 33-35 Folder 33 Folder 34 Folder 35	Diary, 1919
Folder 36	Diary, 1920
Folder 37-38 Folder 37 Folder 38	Diary, 1921
Folder 39	Diary, 1922
Folder 40-43 Folder 40 Folder 41 Folder 42 Folder 43	Diary, 1923
Folder 44-46 Folder 44 Folder 45 Folder 46	Diary, 1924-1925
Folder 47	Diary, 1926
Folder 48	Diary, 1946-1947
Folder 49-55 Folder 49 Folder 50 Folder 51 Folder 52 Folder 53 Folder 54 Folder 55	Diary, 1927-1929
Folder 56	Diary, 1930-1932
Folder 57-60 Folder 57 Folder 58 Folder 59 Folder 60	Diary, 1933
Folder 61-63 Folder 61 Folder 62 Folder 63	Diary, 1934
Folder 64	Diary, 1935
Folder 65-66 Folder 65 Folder 66	Diary, 1936
Folder 67-69 Folder 67 Folder 68 Folder 69	Diary, 1937
Folder 70-72 Folder 70 Folder 71 Folder 72	Diary, 1938
Folder 73-74 Folder 73 Folder 74	Diary, 1939
Folder 75-76 Folder 75 Folder 76	Diary, 1940
Folder 77	Diary, 1941-1943
Folder 78	Diary, 1944
Folder 79	Diary, 1945
Folder 80	Diary, 1946
Folder 81	Diary, 1947
Folder 82	Diary, 1948
Folder 83-84 Folder 83 Folder 84	Diary, 1949
Folder 85-86 Folder 85 Folder 86	Diary, 1950
Folder 87-88 Folder 87 Folder 88	Diary, 1951
Folder 89	Diary, 1952
Folder 90	Diary, 1953
Folder 91	Volume 1: Transcription and notes, 1895-1897
Folder 92	Volume 2: Transcription and notes, 1899
Folder 93	Volume 3: Transcription and notes, 1899-1900
Folder 94	Volume 4: Transcription and notes, 1900-1901
Folder 95	Volume 5: Transcription and notes, 1902-1903
Folder 96	Volume 6: Transcription and notes, 1093
Folder 97	Volume 7: Transcription and notes, 1903-1904
Folder 98	Volume 8: Transcription and notes, 1904-1905
Folder 99	Volume 9: Transcription and notes, 1906
Folder 100	Volume 10: Transcription and notes, 1909
Folder 101	Volume 11: Transcription and notes, 1941-1943
Folder 102	Volume 12: Transcription and notes, 1945
Folder 103	Volume 13: Transcription and notes, 1945
Folder 104	Volume 14: Transcription and notes, 1947-1948
Folder 105	Volume 15: Notes on trees and shrubs, undated

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Includes digests of papers and articles by H. A. Allard on many subjects in natural history.

Note that original file folder titles have, for the most part, been retained.

Folder 106	General biology: Alleghany cave rat, insects, birds, reptiles, mammals
Folder 107	"The Literature of Plant Breeding", thesis by Norman H. Grubb, Cornell University, 1908
Folder 108	Digests of articles: various subjects
Folder 109	Ragweed data
Folder 110	Genealogical data: Allard
Folder 111	Poetry
Folder 112-113 Folder 112 Folder 113	Insects
Folder 114	Ice wells, springs, etc.
Folder 115	Digests of articles: various subjects
Folder 116	Bull Run
Folder 117	"Some of Our Evergreens," circa 1895
	Narrative of experiences on a carrier boat, 1899
	"More per Acre," script, 1944
Folder 118	Digests of articles: various subjects
Folder 119	Lists of plants collected by Allard and others
Folder 120	Vegetation: General
Folder 121	Ecology: Behavior: Human, insect, animal, bird
Folder 122	"Musical Insects of New England"
Folder 123	"Chapter XII: Family Gryllidae, Crickets"
Folder 124	Key: Shrubs, vines, ferns, trees
Folder 125	Forest climates: vegetational studies--regional
Folder 126	Ecology--Concepts, terms, etc.
Folder 127	Light in tropical rain forests
Folder 128	Key: Various plants
Folder 129	Fungi, lichens, mosses
Folder 130	Key: Various plants, trees, reptiles
Folder 131	Climate and soil: Geology of mountains (notes on articles)
Folder 132	Box turtle data
Folder 133	Key: Various plants
Folder 134	Key: Birds
Folder 136	Conifers, pines, ecology
Folder 137	Lists of plants collected and identified by Allard in Virginia and New England
Folder 138	Field notes: botanical
	Bull Run: occurence of plants
Folder 139	Ancient floras
Folder 140-141 Folder 140 Folder 141	Tobacco
Folder 142	Various North American plants
Folder 143	Flora
Folder 144	Localization tests
Folder 145	Turtle data
Folder 146	Botany, pollination, flora
Folder 147-148 Folder 147 Folder 148	Various trees and plants
Folder 149-152 Folder 149 Folder 150 Folder 151 Folder 152	Writings: various subjects
Folder 153-156 Folder 153 Folder 154 Folder 155 Folder 156	Papers and articles
Folder 157	Light intensity: climate
Folder 158	Soils
Folder 159	Bogs and muskegs
Folder 160	Various trees and plants
Folder 161-162 Folder 161 Folder 162	Forest climates
Folder 163	Botany, morphology, ecology
Folder 164	Origins, ancient flora
Folder 165	Sand plains, liltoral and desert vegetation
Folder 166	Flora studies, Alaska plant behavior
Folder 167	Grasslands and prairies
Folder 168	Marshlands and prairies
Folder 169	Vegetation: general
Folder 170-173 Folder 170 Folder 171 Folder 172 Folder 173	Writings: various subjects
Folder 174	Conifers
Folder 175	Writings: various subjects
Folder 176	Phyllotaxy
Folder 177	Trees in the District of Columbia
Folder 178	Carbons of insects
Folder 179	Carbons and original manuscript of Katydida
Folder 180	Sex: plants
Folder 181	Dioscorea
Folder 182	Ecology: Terms: Concepts relative to Bull Run, etc.
Folder 183	General plant physcology: autumn coloration, light, radiation, moon
Folder 189-190 Folder 189 Folder 190	Volumes 16-17: Reading notebooks

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Note that original file folder titles have, for the most part, been retained.

Folder 184	Tettigoniidae (Katydid)
Folder 185	Acrididae (Grasshopper)
Folder 186	Cycloptilum, Gyrllotalpa, Scapteriscus, Atlanticus, Odonttoxiphidium
Folder 187	Oecanthus, Neoxabea, Orocharis, Anaxipha, Gryllus, Nemobius
Folder 188	Miscellaneous illustrations
Folder 191	Grasshoppers
Folder 192-193 Folder 192 Folder 193	Katydids
Folder 194	Cricket genera
Folder 195	Grasshopper
Folder 196	Insect photos
Folder 197	Cicadas
Folder 198	Crickets
Folder 199	Grasshoppers
Folder 200	Miscellaneous drawings
Folder 201	Carbons of insect drawings
Folder 202	Musical Insects, plates
Special Format Image SF-P-2977/1-8 SF-P-2977/1 SF-P-2977/2 SF-P-2977/3 SF-P-2977/4 SF-P-2977/5 SF-P-2977/6 SF-P-2977/7 SF-P-2977/8	Glass negatives of graphs and biological subjects

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Collection Number: 02977

Collection Title: H. A. Allard Papers, 1880-1953.