The front porch of the Thomas Jefferson Fitzpatrick house

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Title: The front porch of the Thomas Jefferson Fitzpatrick house
Date: 1953
Description: Thomas Jefferson Fitzpatrick, professor of botany at the University of Nebraska in Lincoln, left his wife a thirteen-room house and small bungalow filled to the rafters with books upon his death. When Robert Vosper heard of the sale, he and several assistants literally mined the house and transported three five-ton truck loads of books on the history of science, especially American botany.
Subject: University of Kansas Libraries
Fitzpatrick Collection
Botany
Nebraska (Lincoln)
Vosper, Robert Gordon
Subject - Coverage: 1950s
URI: https://digital.lib.ku.edu/ku-uaphotos/31727
Archival collection title: University Archives
Record group: 032/000/000/000 : University of Kansas Libraries : University of Kansas Libraries
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