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Soil technology at the 1918 New York State Fair.

Plant pathologist H. H. Whetzel diagnoses diseased plant material sent to him by grow­ers 1910.

Liberty Hyde Bailey (center) with plant breeders including Henry Munger, Royse Murphy, and H. H. Love. in 1949.

In 1876, botany student was the first Japanese student to receive a BS at Cornell. He goes on to become the curator of the botanic garden at the University of Tokyo.

One of the first Extension field days, LeRoy, N.Y. circa 1895

  In 1890 Jane Eleanor Datcher was the first African-American woman in the U.S. to earn a BS degree in botany.

Two future Nobel Laureates, George Beadle (kneeling) and Barbara McClintock (right) in 1929.

Botany class field trip to Junius Ponds in Phelps, N.Y.  c.1907:

Sage College and Conservatory was home to the Botany Department from 1875 until 1921.

N.Y. State Agricultural Experiment Station exhibit at the N.Y. State Fair c.1910.