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Scene from the Colombian Expedition, c.1923. Copy negative available. Burros packed with their boxed orchids ready to set out from a native Colombian village for a river port, from which the flowers were shipped to St. Louis.
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Scene from the Colombian Expedition, c.1923. Cropssing the Rio Vieja. Volume 11, 1923, pl. 26, pg. 100.
1920 |
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Scene from the Colombian Expedition, c.1923. Rafting down the Magdalene en route to uppermost navigatable port Giradot, Colombia.
1920 |
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Scene of Colombian Expedition. Copy negative available. Collecting orchids on Andes of Bogota. George Pring, left, voluntary guide, Cyril Allen, right (later died of jungle fever.)
1920 |
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Sepia slide of Pring and others smoking a pipe and playing cards ca 1910
Bulletin 51(2):5
Water Lily History by George Rogers in 1986. (22)
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Lily Pools and Main Gate in 1931. Nymphaea, Mrs. G.H. Pring in foreground.
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George Pring, George T. Moore, Charles W. Powell.
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Awarded to George Pring for Nymphaea Mrs. G. H. Pring. July 1922. Shows front and verso. MBG Vol. 10, pl. 28, 1922.
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Garden horticulture staff members planting water lilies in the main lily pools using string lines.
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Garden horticulture staff members tilling the original dirt bottom of the main lily pools.
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