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Conard-Pyle Company records supplement

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Call Number:
MSS 0634s
Repository:
University of Delaware Library Special Collections
Extent:
13.3 linear foot (14 boxes)
Language:
English
Preferred Citation:
MSS 634s, Conard-Pyle Company records supplement, Special Collections, University of Delaware Library, Newark, Delaware.
Date:
1868-2000 (inclusive) and 1910-2000 (bulk)
Creator:
Conard-Pyle Co.
Form:
Business records, Catalogs (documents), Financial records, Motion pictures (visual work), Photographs, Slides (photographs), correspondence, Negatives (photographic), Histories (literature genre), Stock certificates, Lectures, Press kits, Contracts, Licenses, Diaries, Transparencies, Clippings (information artifacts), Periodicals, and Patents
Abstract:
The Conard-Pyle Company records supplement includes substantial additions to the series in the original collection, as well as records which constitute three new series related to the Atlantic Coast Nurseries, Inc., printed material, and Robert Pyle's professional papers.

The Conard-Pyle Company of West Grove, Pennsylvania, is a large horticultural enterprise that specialized in the cultivation and hybridization of roses. It was founded in 1897, and established a large magazine-based advertizing campaign and mail-order business.

According to a company history, Conard-Pyle can take credit for several "firsts" in commercial horticulture in the United States, particularly in the development of new varieties of roses. The Company is best known for its famed Star Roses, most notably the world-famous Peace Rose. The Peace Rose was "provided to delegates from around the world as they met in San Francisco on April 25, 1945, to form the United Nations" (Thomas p.1). The Conard-Pyle Company was founded in 1897, but can trace its roots back to 1874 when Charles Dingee (1825-1911) and Alfred Conard (1835-1906) started Harmony Grove Nursery. Charles Dingee was a former dairy farmer; and Alfred Conard was descended from a German Quaker farming family. Dingee and Conard originally specialized in fruit trees, but soon began producing roses at the request of Mrs. Dingee (Conard-Pyle Company, History, p.1). Despite their success, or perhaps, because of it, Dingee and Conard had a falling out in 1892 that ultimately ended their partnership. Dingee continued his operation of the Dingee & Conard Company until his death in 1911.

In 1897, Conard joined with Antoine Wintzer and S. Morris Jones to form the Conard and Jones Company. Wintzer, a hybridizer who hailed from Alsace Lorraine, had left the Dingee and Conard Company around the same time as Conard. Both men established small nurseries across the street from the Dingee and Conard Company nursery. S. Morris Jones, a dairy farmer whose land bridged the gap between Conard and Wintzer's land, was persuaded to invest his land in the new company (Conard-Pyle Company, History, p.2). The Conard and Jones Company was incorporated on June 3, 1897, with Wintzer serving as head nurseryman. The company operated as a mail-order nursery and seed business that sold its own root-roses while still small.

Successful merchant Robert L. Pyle invested in the company in 1898. Two years later his son, Robert Pyle (March 7, 1877-September 28, 1951) joined the company as a helper, and soon worked his way up to Director of Marketing. The business bloomed under his direction (Quillman, p.49). Conard died in 1906 and in 1907 Robert Pyle and his father purchased Conard's share of the company. Robert Pyle became President, and that same year made history by marketing the slogan, "Guaranteed to Bloom." It was the first time in the horticulture industry that a product was sold to consumers with a guarantee (Conard-Pyle Company, p.5). Pyle soon came to believe that specialization was the key to success, and choose roses as the company's new focus (Conard-Pyle Company, The History of Conard-Pyle, p. 3). In 1908 he trademarked the term "Star Roses" as a way to distinguish the company's roses from the competition.

S. Morris Jones retired in 1923, and the name of the company was changed to Conard-Pyle (Conard-Pyle, Company, p.1). The company purchased additional land in Jennersville, Pennsylvania, and established the Red Rose Inn, which held an annual "Red Rose Rent Day" event. In 1930, Antoine Wintzer died and Sidney Hutton was hired as the new business manager. Soon after, his sons Sidney Jr. and Richard joined the company.

The United States Plant Patent Act passed in 1930, and Conard-Pyle began to develop and patent new varieties of roses. "Conard-Pyle was among the first to patent new roses and license other leading nurseries to grow and sell them" (Thomas, p.2). In 1932 Conard-Pyle entered a partnership with French hybridizer Francis Meilland's company, The House of Meilland. When war descended upon Europe in 1939, Meilland made an effort to save a new rose variety he had developed. He sent parcels of the new rose to associates in Germany and Italy, as well as to Conard-Pyle. After several successful trials across the United States, the famous "Peace" Rose was patented in 1943 and officially unveiled on the day Berlin fell to Allied forces (Conard-Pyle Company, The History of Conard-Pyle, p. 4). The Peace Rose was distributed to delegates as they arrived at the first meeting of the United Nations in 1945. Almost every new rose today is a descendant of the Peace Rose.

Throughout the 1940s and 1950s, the Conard-Pyle Company continued to successfully develop and patent numerous award-winning roses. Upon Pyle's death in 1951, the Huttons purchased the company and Sidney B. Hutton, Sr. became president. He was succeeded as president by his sons Sidney B. (Beany) Hutton, Jr. in 1964 and Richard J. (Dick) Hutton in 1974. In 1978, Conard-Pyle dissolved its retail garden center and mail-order business to become a strictly wholesale nursery business. In 1986, Steven B. Hutton became president of Conard-Pyle (Conard-Pyle Company, The History of Conard-Pyle, p. 4). As of 2013, Conard-Pyle continues to develop and market quality and award-winning plants.

Conard-Pyle Company. "Conard-Pyle: A Company on the Move." Undated. University of Delaware Special Collections, Conard-Pyle collection folders. Conard-Pyle Company. "CP History by decades." 1996. University of Delaware Special Collections, Conard-Pyle collection folders. Conard-Pyle Company. "The History of Conard-Pyle." 1989. University of Delaware Special Collections, Conard-Pyle collection, Box 15 Folder 278. Conard-Pyle Company. "Planting Roots for the Future." 2010. http://www.conard-pyle.com/attachments/pages/new_cp_capabilities.pdf Quillman, Catherine. (Summer 1994). "The Subject is Roses" inChester County Town & Living. Thomas, Neil. Unpublished letter. November 4, 2003.

The Conard-Pyle Company records supplement includes substantial additions to some of the series in the original collection, as well as records which constitute three new series related to the Atlantic Coast Nurseries, Inc., printed material and Robert Pyle's professional papers.

The series in this supplement parallel the series and subseries in the original collection. However, there are no additions for several series in the original collection, including Series III. Legal records, VIII. Professional organizations, IX. Trade shows, and XI. Plaques, awards, and ephemera. Three new series have been added to the Conard Pyle Company records in this supplement: Series XII. Atlantic Coast Nurseries; Inc., Series XIII. Books, magazines, catalogs, pamphlets and articles; and Series XIV. Robert Pyle professional papers.

This supplement has additional material for several of the subseries found in Series I. Company Administration and Operation. Substantial files, dating from 1929 to 1946, were added to subseries I.B. Foreign correspondence, namely, correspondence with the firms of Charles Mallerin in France and Pedro Dot in Spain, as well as a group of miscellaneous foreign correspondence arranged alphabetically.

The additions to subseries I.E. Speeches, Trips and Events, focus on the files for Red Rose Rent Day events from 1957 through 1984, when the annual celebration was discontinued. The files, arranged by year, include press kits, photographs, negatives, slides, and other material used to publicize the event. Begun in 1937, Red Rose Rent Day honored a proviso found in the original 1731 deed to the property (part of which eventually was sold to Conard-Pyle Company in 1928). When the property was deeded to William Penn's grandson in 1731, the proviso called for the payment of a red rose yearly if demanded. Later deeds in 1742 and 1748 continued to carry this proviso. At the Red Rose Rent days the Conard-Pyle Company would give one red rose to a descendent of the William Penn family in fulfillment of the proviso.

Additions to subseries I.G. Company Operation files include a variety of material, such as drafts of histories of the Conard-Pyle Company, an early deed to the West Grove property (1868), a file of "famous autographs," and minutes for the stockholders annual meetings during the 1980s.

The additions in series II. Financial records span the dates 1910 to 1999 and range from records of orders for bulbs (1922-1927) to trial balance sheets from 1932 to 1938, as well as inventories and prices in 1999, stock books from 1910-to 1923, records of equipment and insurance costs in the 1920s and 1930 and payrolls for 1932 to 1936.

Series IV. Patents and Licensing has additions of contracts and licenses arranged alphabetically by grower from 1933-1949, as well as a ledger on hybridization from 1929 to 1959 and a record of "Woody Plant Acquisitions" dating from 1928 to 1981.

The supplement also includes additions to subseries V.A. Advertising, consisting of the files for retail advertising campaigns from 1925 through 1943. Correspondence for 1967 from the Meilland firm have been added to series VI. Meilland Family Partnership.

Two photograph albums, dating from 1911 and 1925, were added to Series VII. Images, Audio, and Film. One of the albums is labeled "Rose Trip Abroad" and includes images and information related to Robert Pyle's service as a judge for the 1911 National Rose Show of France in Paris. Photographs taken in France, Holland and Germany depict Pyle's trip and the gardens he visited.

The additions to Series X. Individual flowers are undated plastic transparencies of images of certain named roses, such as Floradora and Gypsys Fantastique. There is also one glass plate negative of the rose named Happiness.

The first new series to the Conard-Pyle Company records is Series XII. Atlantic Coast Nurseries, Incorporated, spanning the dates 1921 to 1928. Robert Pyle was the president and one of the founders of this corporation which included partners from Virginia and Massachusetts. Incorporated in 1922, in Virginia, the purpose of the company was to produce, buy, sell and distribute plant life. The records in this series comprise financial records, correspondence, stock books, the constitution and papers of incorporation.

Series XIII. Books, magazines, catalogs, pamphlets and articles consists of printed material related to gardening, marketing, advertising, trade shows, and the publications from horticultural organizations. Issues of

The National Rose Society of Great Britain Annual (1910-1951) and the American Association of Nurserymen Report and Proceedings (1908-1945) have been removed for cataloging.

The final new series of material added to the Conard-Pyle Company Records is Series XIV. Robert Pyle professional papers, which included two subseries. The first subseries, XIV.A. Diaries comprises the daily diaries kept by Robert Pyle from 1912 to 1951. The second subseries XIV.B. Lectures consists of the notebooks of lectures and talks given by Robert Pyle between 1935 and 1948.

Robert Pyle's daily diaries are extensive and detailed. The diaries serve as a record of his daily activities; in some cases, Pyle charted his day in increments of 10 or 15 minutes, documenting not only his work schedule, but the time spent at meals, reading, and meditating. The diaries include photographs, clippings, itineraries, and notes from meetings he attended.

The diaries provide a record of Pyle's participation in the business at Conard-Pyle Company. The diaries document his business trips, staff meetings, and new ideas for the business. The diaries also reveal Pyle's personal life, recording his daily routines, involvement in the local Quaker meeting, and the forms of entertainment he enjoyed. Covering a forty-year span, these diaries richly depict Robert Pyle's life and work. The diaries are available in a digital version connected to this finding aid.

The lectures and talks in subseries XIV.B. include occasional handwritten text but more often are typed lectures or in some cases, lists of descriptive information for slide shows. Robert Pyle spoke to a variety of groups, such as the American Institute of Park Executives, groups visiting the Red Rose Inn, the Oxford Rotary Club, the West Chester Bankers Association, Ohio State University, and the West Grove Garden Club, to name only a few of his many audiences.

  1. Boxes 136-148: Shelved in SPEC MSS record center cartons
  2. Box 149: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (17 inches)
  3. Box 150: Shelved in SPEC MSS oversize boxes (18 inches)

Digitized versions of the materials in Series XIV. Robert Pyle professional papers, 1912-1951, are available at the University of Delaware Digital Institutional Repository. This includes Subseries XIV.A. Diaries, 1912-1952, and Subseries XIV.B. Lectures, 1935-1948.

Gifts of the Conard-Pyle Company (Steve Hutton), May 2011.

Processed and encoded by Anita Wellner, March 2013.

MSS 0634 Conard-Pyle Company records

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Finding Aid Date
2013 March 21
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Collection Inventory

International Plant Corporation, 1951-1960.
Box 136 Folder F1
Charles Mallerin (France), 1929.
Box 136 Folder F2
Charles Mallerin (France), 1930.
Box 136 Folder F3
Charles Mallerin (France), 1931.
Box 136 Folder F4
Charles Mallerin (France), 1932.
Box 136 Folder F5
Charles Mallerin (France), 1933.
Box 136 Folder F6
Charles Mallerin (France), 1934 January-July.
Box 136 Folder F7
Charles Mallerin (France), 1934 August-December.
Box 136 Folder F8
Charles Mallerin (France), 1935.
Box 136 Folder F9
Pedro Dot (Spain), 1927-1932.
Box 136 Folder F10
Pedro Dot (Spain), 1933-1934.
Box 136 Folder F11
Pedro Dot (Spain), 1935-1936.
Box 136 Folder F12
General A-D, 1939-1946.
Box 136 Folder F13
Scope and Contents

General correspondence to foreign companies arranged in alphabetical order.

General E-K, 1939-1947.
Box 136 Folder F14
General L-M, 1939-1948.
Box 136 Folder F15
General N, 1939-1949.
Box 136 Folder F16
General P-R, 1939-1950.
Box 136 Folder F17
General S-W, 1939-1951.
Box 136 Folder F18
Red Rose Rent Day, 1957.
Box 137 Folder F19
Scope and Contents

Includes files for the event, such as photographs, negatives, slides, press kits, and publicity.

Red Rose Rent Day, 1958.
Box 137 Folder F20
Red Rose Rent Day, 1959.
Box 137 Folder F21
Red Rose Rent Day, 1960.
Box 137 Folder F22
Red Rose Rent Day, 1961.
Box 137 Folder F23
Red Rose Rent Day, 1962.
Box 137 Folder F24
Red Rose Rent Day, 1963.
Box 137 Folder F25
Red Rose Rent Day, 1964.
Box 137 Folder F26
Red Rose Rent Day, 1965.
Box 137 Folder F27
Red Rose Rent Day, 1966.
Box 137 Folder F28
Red Rose Rent Day, 1967.
Box 137 Folder F29
Red Rose Rent Day, 1968.
Box 137 Folder F30
Red Rose Rent Day, 1969.
Box 137 Folder F31
Red Rose Rent Day, 1970.
Box 137 Folder F32
Red Rose Rent Day, 1971.
Box 137 Folder F33
Red Rose Rent Day, 1972.
Box 137 Folder F34
Red Rose Rent Day, 1973.
Box 137 Folder F35
Red Rose Rent Day, 1974.
Box 137 Folder F36
Red Rose Rent Day, 1975.
Box 137 Folder F37
Red Rose Rent Day, 1976.
Box 137 Folder F38
Red Rose Rent Day, 1977.
Box 137 Folder F39
Red Rose Rent Day, 1978.
Box 137 Folder F40
Red Rose Rent Day, 1979.
Box 137 Folder F41
Red Rose Rent Day, 1980.
Box 137 Folder F42
Red Rose Rent Day, 1980.
Box 137 Folder F43
Red Rose Rent Day, 1981.
Box 137 Folder F44
Red Rose Rent Day, 1982.
Box 137 Folder F45
Red Rose Rent Day, 1983.
Box 137 Folder F46
Red Rose Rent Day, 1984.
Box 137 Folder F47
Red Rose Rent Day, 1980-1989.
Box 137 Folder F48
Board of Directors meetings, 1978-1981.
Box 138 Folder F49
American Nurseryman article, 1985.
Box 138 Folder F50
Deed to West Grove property, 1868.
Box 138 Folder F51
Diary of Roland Satterthwaite, 1933-1937.
Box 138 Folder F52
Dingee Conard Company history, 1975.
Box 138 Folder F53
Famous autographs, 1928-1988.
Box 138 Folder F54
Scope and Contents

Includes letters from Franklin Roosevelt, Mrs. Herbert Hoover (Lou Henry Hoover), Mamie Eisenhower, and others.

History of Conard-Pyle Company, 1975.
Box 138 Folder F55
History of Conard-Pyle Company draft, 1961.
Box 138 Folder F56
History of Conard-Pyle by decades, 1996.
Box 138 Folder F57
Holiday letters, 1962-1998.
Box 138 Folder F58
Industry happenings, 1980-1998.
Box 138 Folder F59
History - Public relations file, 1961-1990.
Box 138 Folder F60
History - Public relations file (fire damaged), 1899-1929.
Box 138 Folder F61
History - The Story of Innovation, 1989.
Box 138 Folder F62
Maps of Jennersville land, 1971.
Box 138 Folder F63
Robert Pyle - Rosewise Through Europe, 1934.
Box 138 Folder F64
Rose production land rental, 1973.
Box 138 Folder F65
Stockholders annual meeting, 1980.
Box 138 Folder F66
Stockholders annual meeting, 1981.
Box 138 Folder F67
Stockholders annual meeting, 1983.
Box 138 Folder F68
Stockholders annual meeting, 1984.
Box 138 Folder F69

Bulb book and orders Spring, 1922-1926.
Box 138 Folder F1
Scope and Contents

Removed to oversize Box 149 (17").

Bulb book and orders Fall, 1922-1927.
Box 138 Folder F2
Scope and Contents

Removed to oversize Box 149 (17").

Cash accounts, 1931-1936.
Box 138 Folder F3
Common stock, 1928.
Box 138 Folder F4
Comparison of records, 1935-1942.
Box 138 Folder F5
Employee accounts, undated.
Box 138 Folder F6
Inventory and prices, 1999.
Box 138 Folder F7
Insurance and equipment costs, 1923-1929.
Box 138 Folder F8
Insurance costs, 1927-1938.
Box 138 Folder F9
Payroll, 1932-1936.
Box 138 Folder F10
Sales reports and representatives, 1990-1999.
Box 138 Folder F11
Stock book, 1910-1922.
Box 139 Folder F12
Stock book, 1910-1923.
Box 139 Folder F13
Trial balance sheets, 1932-1938.
Box 139 Folder F14

Contract growers, 1948.
Box 139 Folder F1
Contract growers, 1947-1949.
Box 139 Folder F2
Contract and licences A-B, 1933-1941.
Box 139 Folder F3
Contract and licences C, 1933-1942.
Box 139 Folder F4
Contract and licences D-G, 1933-1943.
Box 139 Folder F5
Contract and licences H, 1933-1944.
Box 139 Folder F6
Contract and licences J, 1933-1945.
Box 139 Folder F7
Contract and licences K-M, 1933-1946.
Box 139 Folder F8
Contract and licences P, 1933-1947.
Box 139 Folder F9
Contract and licences R-S, 1933-1948.
Box 139 Folder F10
Contract and licences V-Z, 1933-1949.
Box 139 Folder F11
Hybridization, 1929-1959.
Box 139 Folder F12
Woody plant acquisitions book, 1928-1981.
Box 139 Folder F13
Scope and Contents

Removed to oversize box 149 (17").

Budding inventory ledgers by variety, 1978-1979.
Box 150
Scope and Contents

Removed to oversize box 150 (18").

Retail advertising campaign, 1925-1926.
Box 140 Folder F1
Retail advertising campaign, 1926-1927.
Box 140 Folder F2
Retail advertising campaign, 1927-1928.
Box 140 Folder F3
Retail advertising campaign, 1928-1929.
Box 140 Folder F4
Retail advertising campaign, 1929-1930.
Box 140 Folder F5
Retail advertising campaign, 1930-1931.
Box 140 Folder F6
Retail advertising campaign, 1931-1932.
Box 140 Folder F7
Retail advertising campaign, 1933-1934.
Box 140 Folder F8
Retail advertising campaign, 1934-1935.
Box 140 Folder F9
Retail advertising campaign, 1938-1939.
Box 140 Folder F10
Retail advertising campaign, 1939-1940.
Box 140 Folder F11
Retail advertising, 1939-1940.
Box 140 Folder F12
Retail advertising, 1939-1940.
Box 141 Folder F13
Retail advertisements, 1941.
Box 141 Folder F14
Retail advertisements, 1942.
Box 141 Folder F15
Retail advertisements, 1943.
Box 141 Folder F16

Correspondence, 1967 January-July.
Box 141 Folder F1
Correspondence, 1967 August-December.
Box 141 Folder F2

Photograph album, 1911.
Box 141 Folder F1
Scope and Contents

Labeled "Rose Trip Abroad" and includes images and information related to Robert Pyle's service as a judge for the 1911 National Rose Show of France in Paris. Includes France, Holland and Germany.

Photograph album - European trip, 1925.
Box 141 Folder F2

Scope and Contents

Includes plastic transparencies and one glass-plate negative.

Floradora, undated.
Box 141 Folder F1
Fred Edmunds, undated.
Box 141 Folder F2
Grand Duchesse Charlotte, undated.
Box 141 Folder F3
Gypsy Fantastique, undated.
Box 141 Folder F4
Happiness, undated.
Box 141 Folder F5
Horace McFarland, undated.
Box 141 Folder F6
Lowell Thomas, undated.
Box 141 Folder F7

Scope and Contents

Atlantic Coast Nurseries, Incorporated, spanning the dates 1921 to 1928. Robert Pyle was the president and one of the founders of this corporation with partners from Virginia and Massachusetts. Incorporated in 1922, in Virginia, the purpose was to produce, buy, sell and distribute plant life. The records in this series comprise financial records, correspondence, stock books, the constitution and papers of incorporation.

Accounts, 1921-1923.
Box 141 Folder F1
Accounts, 1922-1923.
Box 141 Folder F2
Bank books, 1922-1924.
Box 141 Folder F3
Constitution and incorporation, 1922-1923.
Box 141 Folder F4
Correspondence, 1921-1924.
Box 141 Folder F5
Correspondence, 1924-1926.
Box 142 Folder F6
Correspondence, reports and documents, 1921-1928.
Box 142 Folder F7
Norfolk roses and cannas, 1921.
Box 142 Folder F8
Scope and Contents

Norfolk was a precursor to Atlantic Coast Nurseries

Norfolk planting, 1921.
Box 142 Folder F9
Notes and diary, 1922-1928.
Box 142 Folder F10
Stock books, 1923.
Box 142 Folder F11

Scope and Contents

Books, magazines, catalogs, pamphlets and articles, includes printed material related to gardening, marketing, advertising, trade shows, and publications from horticultural organizations. Issues of

The National Rose Society of Great Britain Annual (1910-1951) and the American Association of Nurserymen Report and Proceedings (1908-1945) have been removed for cataloging. Much of the material in this series is not in folders. However items are in groups of related materials as listed by files.
Pamphlets, newsletters and articles, 1975-2000.
Box 142
Programs for trade shows and conventions, 1990-1999.
Box 142
Booklets on rose disease, planting, xeriscape and landscaping, 1983-1994.
Box 142
American Peony Society Bulletin, 1929-1931.
Box 142
American Rose Society Members' Handbook, 1940-1941.
Box 142
Royal Horticultural Society Report, 1931-1932.
Box 142
Membership directories, 1993-1998.
Box 143
Publications related to marketing, mail-order and advertising, 1980-1992.
Box 143
Publications of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, 1980-1990.
Box 143
Publications of the Horticultural Research Institute, Inc., 1975-1987.
Box 143
Issues of theAmerican Nurseryman, 1985-1989.
Box 143
Publications of the American Association of Nurserymen, 1963-1993.
Box 143
Nursery catalogs, 1985-2000.
Box 143

Scope and Contents

Robert Pyle professional papers, which include two subseries. The first subseries, XIV.A. Diaries, includes the daily diaries kept by Robert Pyle from 1912 to 1951. The second subseries XIV.B. Lectures, consists of the notebooks of lectures and talks given by Robert Pyle between 1935 and 1948.

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Scope and Contents

Robert Pyle's daily diaries are extensive and detailed. The diaries serve as a record of his daily activities, in some cases, Pyle charted his day in increments of 10 or 15 minutes, including not only his work but the time spent at meals, reading, and meditating. The diaries include photographs, clippings, itineraries for trips and details of those trips and the meetings he attended.

1912-1917 January-March.
Box 144 Folder F1
1912-1917 April-June.
Box 144 Folder F1
1912-1917 July-September.
Box 144 Folder F1
1912-1917 October-December.
Box 144 Folder F1
Removals, 1912-1917.
Box 144 Folder F2
Scope and Contents

There is additional information for a "Pacific Trip" from June 6-24, 1923, at the end of F26.

1919-1925 January-March.
Box 144 Folder F3
1919-1925 April-June.
Box 144 Folder F3
1919-1925 July-September.
Box 144 Folder F3
1919-1925 October-December.
Box 144 Folder F3
Removals, 1919-1925.
Box 144 Folder F4
Part 1, 1925 July.
Box 144 Folder F5
Part 2, 1925 August.
Box 144 Folder F5
Part 3, 1925 July-August.
Box 144 Folder F5
Part 4, 1925 July-August.
Box 144 Folder F5
Part 5: Removals, 1925 June-November.
Box 144 Folder F5
1925-1928 January-March.
Box 144 Folder F6
1925-1928 April-June.
Box 144 Folder F6
1925-1928 July-September.
Box 144 Folder F6
1925-1928 October-December.
Box 144 Folder F6
Removals, 1925-1928.
Box 144 Folder F6
1926-1928 January-March.
Box 144 Folder F7
1926-1928 April-June.
Box 144 Folder F7
1926-1928 July-September.
Box 144 Folder F7
1926-1928 October-December.
Box 144 Folder F7
1929 January 3-March 31.
Box 144 Folder F8
Scope and Contents

20 pages of material at beginning from various dates.

1929 April 1-June 30.
Box 144 Folder F8
1929 July 1-September 30.
Box 144 Folder F9
1929 October 1-December 31.
Box 144 Folder F9
1930 January 1-March 31.
Box 144 Folder F10
1930 April 3-September 30.
Box 144 Folder F11
Scope and Contents

Time gap exists for May 29-August 26 for a trip to Europe. This is chronicled in a separate diary, housed in F61.

1930 October 1-December 31.
Box 144 Folder F11
1931 January 1-March 31.
Box 144 Folder F12
1931 April 1-June 30.
Box 144 Folder F12
1931 July 1-September 30.
Box 144 Folder F13
1931 October 1-December 31.
Box 144 Folder F13
1932 January 1-March 31.
Box 144 Folder F14
1932 April 1-June 30.
Box 144 Folder F14
1932 July 1-September 30.
Box 144 Folder F15
1932 October 1-December 31.
Box 144 Folder F15
1933 January 1-March 31.
Box 144 Folder F16
1933 April 1-June 8.
Box 144 Folder F16
Rosewise Through Europe, 1934.
Box 144 Folder F16
1933 June 9.
Box 144 Folder F17-A
Scope and Contents

Includes itinerary information at beginning.

1933 June 10-30.
Box 144 Folder F17-A
1933 July 1-20.
Box 144 Folder F17-A
End of Europe trip notes, 1933.
Box 144 Folder F17-A
Removals, 1933.
Box 144 Folder F17-B
1933 July 21-September 30.
Box 144 Folder F17-C
1933 October 1-December 31.
Box 144 Folder F17-C
1934 January 1-March 31.
Box 144 Folder F18
1934 April 1-June 30.
Box 144 Folder F18
1934 July 1-September 30.
Box 144 Folder F18
1934 October 1-December 31.
Box 144 Folder F18
1935 January-March.
Box 145 Folder F19
1935 April-June.
Box 145 Folder F19
1935 July-September.
Box 145 Folder F20
1935 October-December.
Box 145 Folder F20
Removals, 1935.
Box 145 Folder F20
1936 January-March.
Box 145 Folder F21
1936 April-June.
Box 145 Folder F21
1936 July-September.
Box 145 Folder F22
1936 October-December.
Box 145 Folder F22
Removals, 1936.
Box 145 Folder F22
Scope and Contents

Note: January - June 1937 is lacking from this collection.

1937 July-December.
Box 145 Folder F23
Scope and Contents

Therea are several time gaps in the 1938 diary. Please see "Material related to trip to Europe" (F63) for additional material from this time.

1938 January-March.
Box 145 Folder F24
1938 April-June.
Box 145 Folder F24
1938 July-September.
Box 145 Folder F25
1938 October-December.
Box 145 Folder F25
Pacific Coast: Part 1, 1939.
Box 145 Folder F26
Scope and Contents

Includes "Western Trip as Planned," "Day by Day," and an article.

Pacific Coast: Part 2, 1939.
Box 145 Folder F26
Scope and Contents

Includes "Lecture Notes."

Pacific Coast: Part 3, 1939.
Box 145 Folder F26
Scope and Contents

Includes "Cities" and business cards.

Pacific Coast: Part 4: Removals, 1939.
Box 145 Folder F26
Pacific Coast: Part 5: Earlier Pacific Coast Trip, 1923 June.
Box 145 Folder F26
1939 June-August.
Box 145 Folder F27
1939 January-March.
Box 145 Folder F28
1939 April-June.
Box 145 Folder F28
1939 July-September.
Box 145 Folder F29
1939 October-December.
Box 145 Folder F29
Scope and Contents

Some time gaps in the later half of the diary.

1940 January-March.
Box 145 Folder F30
1940 April-June.
Box 145 Folder F30
1940 July-September.
Box 145 Folder F31
1940 October-December.
Box 145 Folder F31
1941 January-March.
Box 145 Folder F32
1941 April-June.
Box 145 Folder F32
1941 July-September.
Box 145 Folder F33
1941 October-December.
Box 145 Folder F33
1942 January-March.
Box 145 Folder F34-A
1942 April-June.
Box 145 Folder F34-A
1942 July-September.
Box 145 Folder F34-B
1942 October.
Box 145 Folder F34-B
1943 January-March.
Box 146 Folder F35
1943 April-June.
Box 146 Folder F35
1943 July-September.
Box 146 Folder F36
1943 October-December.
Box 146 Folder F36
1944 January-March.
Box 146 Folder F37
1944 April-June.
Box 146 Folder F37
1944 July-September.
Box 146 Folder F38
1944 October-December.
Box 146 Folder F38
1945 January-March.
Box 146 Folder F39
1945 April-June.
Box 146 Folder F39
1945 July-September.
Box 146 Folder F40
1945 October-December.
Box 146 Folder F40
1946 January-March.
Box 146 Folder F41
1946 April-June.
Box 146 Folder F41
1946 July-September.
Box 146 Folder F42
1946 October-December.
Box 146 Folder F42
1947 January-March.
Box 146 Folder F43
1947 April-June.
Box 146 Folder F43
Removals, 1947.
Box 146 Folder F43
1947 July-September.
Box 146 Folder F44
1947 October-December.
Box 146 Folder F44
Europe Trip: Part 1, 1947 May-July.
Box 146 Folder F45
Europe Trip: Part 2, 1947.
Box 146 Folder F45
Europe Trip: Part 3, 1947.
Box 146 Folder F46
1948 January-March.
Box 146 Folder F47
1948 April-May.
Box 146 Folder F47
Removals, 1948.
Box 146 Folder F47
Europe Trip, 1948 June-July.
Box 146 Folder F48
Removals, 1948.
Box 146 Folder F48
1948 July-September.
Box 146 Folder F49
1948 October-December.
Box 146 Folder F49
1949 January-March.
Box 147 Folder F50
1949 April-June.
Box 147 Folder F50
1949 July-September.
Box 147 Folder F51
1949 October-December.
Box 147 Folder F51
Extra Copy of R.P. Diary, 1949 April-December.
Box 147 Folder F52
1950 January-March.
Box 147 Folder F53
1950 April-June.
Box 147 Folder F54
1950 July-August.
Box 147 Folder F54
1950 September-October.
Box 147 Folder F55
1950 November-December.
Box 147 Folder F55
Extra Copy of R.P. Diary, 1950 January-May.
Box 147 Folder F56
Extra Copy of R.P. Diary, 1950 May-December.
Box 147 Folder F57
1951 January-April.
Box 147 Folder F58
1951 May-July.
Box 147 Folder F58
1951 July-September.
Box 148 Folder F59
Removals, 1951 September.
Box 148 Folder F59
Scope and Contents

"Profits at Wayside Garden" from

Fortune magazine.
1951 August.
Box 148 Folder F60
1951 September.
Box 148 Folder F60
1930 May-August.
Box 148 Folder F61
Removals, 1930 May-August.
Box 148 Folder F61
1938 May-July.
Box 148 Folder F62
1938.
Box 148 Folder F63
1950 May-June 21.
Box 148 Folder F64
1950 June 22-July.
Box 148 Folder F64
[1 of 2], 1937-1941.
Box 148 Folder F65
Scope and Contents

Includes removals.

[2 of 2], 1937-1941.
Box 148 Folder F65
1941-1944.
Box 148 Folder F66
Scope and Contents

Includes removals.

1948.
Box 148 Folder F67
Scope and Contents

The lecture and talks include occasional handwritten text but more often are typed lectures or, in some cases, lists of descriptive information for slide shows. Robert Pyle spoke to a variety of groups, such as the American Institute of Park Executives, groups visiting the Red Rose Inn, the Oxford Rotary Club, the West Chester Bankers Association, Ohio State University, and the West Grove Garden Club, to name only a few of his many audiences.

Removals (17"), 1935-1948.
Box 149

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