The Joseph
Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera
Creator: Charles van Ravenswaay
Title: Papers
Dates: 1848-1990, bulk 1983-1990
Call No.:
Acc. No. 90x75, 96x141
Quantity: 33 boxes
Location: 30 F 1 and G 1-6
BIOGRAPHICAL
STATEMENT:
Charles
van Ravenswaay was born in
Van
Ravenswaay's first job after graduation was with his father's medical and
surgical clinic, where he served as business manager, 1934-1949. From 1938 to 1941, he was also the state
supervisor of the U.S. Work Projects Administration's Federal Writers' Project,
co-writing
From
early adolescence Van Ravenswaay was interested in history, art, and
architecture. Just after graduate
school, he and Auguste Piaget, a
After
his discharge from the service, van Ravenswaay served as director of three
historical institutions: Missouri Historical Society (1946-1962),
In
retirement, van Ravenswaay published several books: The Arts and Architecture of German Settlements in Missouri: A Survey
of a Vanishing Culture (University of Missouri Press, 1977), A Nineteenth Century Garden (Main Street
Press/ Universe Books, 1977), and "Drawn from Nature": The Botanical Art of Joseph Prestle and His
Sons (Smithsonian Institution Press, 1984).
After his death, two other books were published:
Charles
van Ravenswaay died of cancer on
SCOPE
AND CONTENT
The
33 boxes of papers in this collection reflect van Ravenswaay's interest in
horticulture and pertain almost exclusively to the study of the American
apple. Included are research notes,
correspondence, catalogs, clippings, and articles. As well, there are several different drafts
of his book-length study of the American apple, "Those Wonderful Old-Time
Apples" and a draft of "Andre Parmentier:
ORGANIZATION:
The
papers came to the Joseph Downs Collection in two lots; the first group is in
PROVENANCE:
ACCESS
POINTS:
Topics:
Apples - Social
aspects -
Apple industry
-
Apples -
Mythology.
Authors and
publishers.
Book proposals.
Publishers and
publishing.
Catalogs.
Clippings.
Correspondence.
Notes.
Recipes.
Manuscripts
(for publication).
Authors.
Consultants.
DETAILED
DESCRIPTION OF THE COLLECTION:
Location: 30 F 1 and G 1-6
Folder
1: Ivins, van Ravenswaay letters
to, lists of manuscripts sent
Folder
2: Ivins, Ann
Folder
3: Ivins: notes, information, etc.
Folder
4: Ivins: information about song
Folder
5: Ivins, Ann
Folder
6: Apple book; Regina Ryan's
editorial comments
Folder
7: Copyright information
Folder
8: Research file:
Folder
9: Research file: Connecticut Historical Society
Folder
10: Research file:
Folder
11: Research file: Crawford, Pleasance
Folder
12: Research file: Historic Hudson Valley,
Folder
13: Research file: Jansen, H.F.
Folder
14: Research file: H. Frederic, articles and clippings
Folder
15: Research file: Apples-the Alar Scare, consumer reports
Folder
16: Research file: Apples-sprays
Folder
17: Research file: Clippings re: apple scare, 1989
Folder
18: Research file: Faber, Harold, "Apple Growers Hurt by
loss of Alar"
Folder
19: Research file: Apples-Andersen Horticultural Library list
Folder
20: Research file: "Antique" apples, sources of packs
of fruit
Folder
21: Research file: Apple-antique varieties
Folder
22: Research file: Articles-"Antique Apples"
Folder
23: Research file: Apple manuscript-copies of pages from horticulture
books
Folder
24: Research file: Articles-Arkansas
Folder
25: Research file: Apples-correspondence;
Folder
26: Research file: Briggs, Jack, "Apple People" in Garden
Folder
27: Research file: Castanea
Folder
28: Research file: Cider, apple jack; Laird & Co.
Folder
29: Research file: article-cider
Folder
30: Research file: Apples-clippings
Folder
31: Research file: Apples-clippings
Folder
1: Research file: Clippings-Dawes Arboretum
Folder
2: Research file: Clippings-biographical folder
Folder
3: Research file: Red Delicious Apples
Folder
4: Research file: Chen, Gerald, "The Big Apple..."
Folder
5: Research file: Apples-Draper-McClung Orchard
Folder
6: Research file: Hess, John L. and Karen, "The Taste of
America"
Folder
7: Research file: Fritschner, Sarah, "The Apple of his
eye..."
Folder
8: Research file: Green, Charles A., "The Garden and
Orchard"
Folder
9: Research file: Hedrick, U.P. and G.H. Howe, "Apples
Old and New"
Folder
10: Research file: Hofferfer, Michael, "The Duchess of
Oldenburg and other Edible Antiques"
Folder
11: Research file:
Folder
12: Research file: Indiana Hort. Soc. proceedings for 1872
Folder
13: Research file: Kolbert, Elizabeth, "A Haven for Rambo,
Lady and Friends"
Folder
14: Research file:
Folder
15: Research file: McAlphin, Helen, "Making the family
orchard pay"
Folder
16: Research file: Mendelson, Anne, "Horticultural
Hope"
Folder
17: Research file: Apples-Michigan production
Folder
18: Research file: Apples-misc. newsletters, articles, etc.
Folder
19: Research file:
Folder
20: Research file:
Folder
21: Research file: Articles,
Folder
22: Research file: Nomenclature
Folder
23: Research file: Articles, nutritional value of apples
Folder
24: Research file:
Folder
25: Research file: Ohio St. Uni. Extension Service
Folder
26: Research file: Olcott-Reid, Brenda, "In Search of
Excellence"
Folder
27: Research file: Proulx, Annie, "Making the best apple
cider"
Folder
28: Research file: Apples-recipes
Folder
29: Research file: Recipes, notes;
Folder
30: Research file: Riddle, Lyn, "The Last Harvest"
Folder
31: Research file: Rouche, Berton, "One hundred thousand
varieties..."
Folder
32: Research file: Article, scab resistant apple trees
Folder
33: Research file: Schroeder, Harold, "Old home orchard
apples"
Folder
34: Research file:
Folder
35: Research file: Specialty apple sources by mail
Folder
36: Research file: Surette, Ralph, "Where are the apples
of yesteryear?"
Folder
37: Research file: Stipp, David, "Apple of our
eye..."
Folder
38: Research file: Tukey, H.B., "Dwarfed apple trees"
Folder
39: Research file: U.S.D.A. publications
Folder
40: Research file: Articles,
Folder
41: Research file: Utah Agri. Statistics Services,1980-81
Folder
42: Research file: Woodier, Olwen, "Apples after
Alar"
Folder
43: Affleck, Thomas
Folder
44: Bealby, John Thomas
Folder
45: Ellwanger, George
Folder
46: Ewan, Joseph W.
Folder
47: Frederick, John W.
Folder
48: Gunn, Arthur
Folder
49: Husmann, George
Folder
50: Hoopes, Thomas
Folder
51: Kennicott, Dr. John A.
Folder
1: Mease, James
Folder
2: National Fruit Product Co.
Folder
3:
Folder
4: Gasconade Farm, Maries Co., MO
Folder
5: Rogier, June; Peter Gideon
Folder
6: Smithsonian;
Folder
7: Stageman, Peter, "Honour
to the Apple"
Folder
8: Tottenmeier, Carl, "A
Diversity of Cultivars of Apples"
Folder
9: Way, Dr. Roger D.
Folder
10: Western Historical Manuscript
Collection
Folder
11: Catalog-Stark Bros., 1903
Folder
12: Catalog-George Leslie &
Co., 1848
Folder
13: Broadside-N.H. Benjamin &
Co., 1894
Folder
14: Catalog-Bayles & Bro.
Folder
15: Catalog-Brookfield Nursery
Folder
16: Catalog-Gardening
Folder
17: Catalog-James Vick, 1872
Folder
18: Catalog-James Vick, 1878
Folder
19: Catalog-Peter Henderson &
Co., 1880
Folder
20: Catalog-Ellwanger & Barry,
1888
Folder
21: Nurserymen's plates, Stecher Lith.
Co., 1890s
Folder
22:
Folder
23: Catalog-Husmann &
Manwaring, 1859-60, 1864
Folder
24:
Folder
25: Catalog-Heine Mette, 1932-33
Folder
26: Color plates
Folder
1: Platebook of fruit, trees,
flowers, Vredenburg & Co.
Folder
2: Parmentier manuscript
Folder
3: Wulfing-Berens manuscript,
A.E. Schroeder corrections
Folder
4: Wulfing-Berens article,
illustrations, originals
Folder
5: Wulfing-Berens article, Bill
MacIntire sketches
Folder
6: Berens, Clara Rieger,
manuscript (Eliz. Powell corresp.)
Folder
7: Schroeder, Dolf
Folder
8: Berens
Folder
9: Berens letter and translation
Folder
10: Wulfing
Folder
11: "New Homes in the
West"
Folder
1: "New Homes in the
West", illustrations
Folder
2: "New Homes in the
West", old copies
Folder
3:
Folder
4: Apples: corrected pp. to
insert into manuscript
Folder
5: Apples: edited blurb for
publisher
Folder
6: Apples: edited front matter,
"By the author"
Folder
7: Apples: front matter
Folder
8: Apples: edited front matter
Folder
9: Apples: front matter, title,
dedication, contents
Folder
10: Apples: title, dedication,
contents
Folder
11: Apples: contents, copy b
Folder
12: Apples: preface, copy for A.I.
Folder
13: Apples: introduction-text
Folder
14: Apples: edited introduction, a
and b
Folder
15: Apples: introduction-Q and A
Folder
16: Apples: introduction-text
Folder
17: Apples: Chapter 1-corrections and
additions
Folder
18: Apples: Chapter 1-text,
"In Praise of Apples"
Folder
19: Apples: Chapter 2-corrections and
additions
Folder
20: Apples: Chapter 2-text,
"Apples and People"
Folder
21: Apples: Chapter 3-corrections,
etc.
Folder
22: Apples: Chapter 4-corrections
Folder
23: Apples: Chapter 4-corrections,
"...various and capricious"
Folder
24: Apples: Chapter 4-Notes and
queries (notes and queries)
Folder
25: Apples: Chapter 4-corrections,
etc.
Folder
26: Apples: Chapter 4-corrections,
"Names Derived..."
Folder
27: Apples: Chapter 5-text,
"St. Lawrence Valley"
Folder
28: Apples: Chapter 5-text, new
section on
Folder
29: Apples: Chapter 5-text, section
on
Folder
30: Apples: Chapter 5-notes,
"St Lawrence Valley"
Folder
31: Apples: Chapter 5-notes, new
notes on
Folder
32: Apples: Chapter 5-notes, new to
be added
Folder
33: Apples: Chapter 5-notes,
origins of North American apples
Folder
34: Apples: Chapter 5-edited copy,
(also chaps. 6-8)
Folder
1: Apples: Chapter 6-corrections
Folder
2: Apples: Chapter
6-corrections, "Apple's Golden Age..."
Folder
3: Apples: Chapter 6-text,
"Atlantic Coast Corridor"
Folder
4: Apples: Chapter 6-notes (a)
Folder
5: Apples: Chapter 6-notes
Folder
6: Apples: Chapter 7-"The
20th Century"
Folder
7: Apples: Chapter 7-text,
"Central States"
Folder
8: Apples: Chapter 7-notes,
"Central States", copy b
Folder
9: Apples: Chapter 7-notes (a)
Folder
10: Apples: Chapter 8-text,
"Three Mountain States"
Folder
11: Apples: Chapter 9-text,
"Pacific Coast Corridor"
Folder
12: Apples: Chapter 9-notes,
"Pacific Corridor"
Folder
13: Apples: Chapter 10-text, "
Folder
14: Apples: Chapter 10-notes,
"
Folder
15: Apples: Chapter 11-notes,
"The Apple's Golden Age"
Folder
16: Apples: Chapter 11-text,
"The Apple's Golden Age" (b)
Folder
17: Apples: Chapter 12-text,
"Apple Culture in the 20th century"
Folder
18: Apples: Chapter 12-notes,
"Apple Culture...," copy b
Folder
19: Apples: Bibliography, Q and A
Folder
20: Apples: Bibliography, A.I.
memos
Folder
21: Apples: Bibliography, additions
Folder
22: Apples: Bibliography
Folder
23: Apples: Bibliography, additions
Folder
24: Apples: Bibliography,
preliminary draft
Folder
25: Apples: Glossary
Folder
26: Apples: Appendix
A-introduction, glossary
Folder
27: Apples: Appendix B-checklist
Folder
28: Apples: Appendix B-sources of
old varieties of apple trees
Folder
29: Apples: edited preface
Folder
30: Apples: Preface
Folder
31: Apples: edited introduction
Folder
32: Apples: Introduction
Folder
33: Apples: Introduction-notes
Folder
34: Apples: edited
introduction-notes
Folder
35: Apples: Introduction-notes
Folder
36: Apples: edited Chapter 1,
"In Praise of Apples"
Folder
37: Apples: Chapter 1, "In
Praise of Apples"
Folder
38: Apples: Chapter 1-notes
Folder
39: Apples: edited Chapter 1-notes
Folder
40: Apples: Chapter 1-notes (a)
Folder
1: Apples: edited Chapter 2,
"Apples and People"
Folder
2: Apples: Chapter 2,
"Apples and People"
Folder
3: Apples: Chapter 2-notes
Folder
4: Apples: edited Chapter 2-notes
Folder
5: Apples: Chapter 2-notes (a)
Folder
6: Apples: edited Chapter 3-text,
"The Versatile Apple"
Folder
7: Apples: Chapter 3, "The
Versatile Apple"
Folder
8: Apples: Chapter 3-notes
Folder
9: Apples: edited Chapter 3-notes
Folder
10: Apples: Chapter 3-notes (a)
Folder
11: Lighty, editorial comments
Folder
12: Apples: front matter, Lighty
Folder
13: Apples: Chapter 1-Lighty
Folder
14: Apples: Chapter 2-Lighty
Folder
15: Apples: Chapter 3-Lighty
Folder
16: Apples: Chapter 3-notes, Lighty
Folder
17: Apples: Chapter 4-notes, Lighty
Folder
18: Apples: Chapter 4-Lighty
Folder
19: Apples: Chapter 5-Lighty
Folder
20: Apples: Chapter 6-Lighty
Folder
21: Apples: Chapter 6-notes, Lighty
Folder
22: Apples: Chapter 3-text (old
chap.2), European background
Folder
23: Apples:
Chapter 3-text, (old), European background
Folder
24: Apples: Chapter 4-text, (old),
"Apples come to
Folder
25: Apples: Chapter 6-notes
Folder
26: Apples: Appendix-old draft
Folder
27: Apples: Chapter 4-original
draft
Folder
28: Apples: Chapter 5-early draft
Folder
29: Apples: Chapter 5-notes
Folder
30: Apples: Chapter 3-old draft
Folder
31: Apples: Chapter 3-notes
Folder
32: Apples: Introduction-old
version
Folder
33: Apples: Chapter 1-notes
Folder
34: Apples: Chapter 2-old draft
Folder
35: Apples: Chapter 2-notes
Folder
1: Apples: Contents-old version
Folder
2: Apples: Preface
Folder
3: Apples: Introduction
Folder
4: Apples: Chapter 1
Folder
5: Apples: edited Chapter 1-text,
"In Praise of Apples"
Folder
6: Apples: Chapter 2-text,
"Apples and Man"
Folder
7: Apples: edited Chapter 3-text
Folder
8: Apples: Chapter 3-text,
"Versatile Apple"
Folder
9: Apples: Chapter 4-text,
"Apple names revived..."
Folder
10: Apples: edited Chapter 4-text
Folder
11: Apples: Chapter 4
Folder
12: Apples: Chapter 4, "Names
derived from various and capricious causes"
Folder
13: Apples: Appendix A-recipes
Folder
14: Apples: Chapter 7-text
Folder
15: Apples: Chapter 7-text,
"Central States"
Folder
16: Apples: Chapter 7-Lighty
Folder
17: Apples: Chapter 7-text,
"Future Trends"
Folder
18: Apples: Chapter 8-text,
"Three Mountain States"
Folder
19: Apples: Chapter 9-text,
"Golden Age..."
Folder
20: Apples: Chapter 9-correction
pages
Folder
21: Apples: Chapter 9-text,
"Pacific Coast Corridor"
Folder
22: Apples: Chapter 10-text,
corrections
Folder
23: Apples: Chapter 10-text,
corrections, "Apple Culture in the 20th century"
Folder
1: Apples: Chapter 5-text, "
Folder
2: Apples: Chapter 6-text
Folder
3: Apples: Chapter 6-text,
"Atlantic Coast Corridor"
Folder
4: Apples: Chapter 6-text,
"Old South and Points West"
Folder
5: Apples: Chapter 6-notes,
"Atlantic Coast Corridor"
Folder
6: Apples: Chapter 7-text
Folder
7: Apples: Chapter 5-text
Folder
8: Apples: Chapter 5-text, "
Folder
9: Apples: Chapter 5-queries,
notes, A.I.
Folder
10: Apples: Chapter 5-corrections,
A.I.
Folder
11: Apples: Introduction-edited
notes
Folder
12: Apples: Chapter 1-notes
Folder
13: Apples: edited Chapter 1-notes,
"In Praise of Apples"
Folder
14: Apples: Chapter 1-notes (b)
Folder
15: Apples: Introduction-notes
Folder
16: Apples: Introduction-notes (b)
Folder
17: Apples: Chapter 2-notes,
"Apples and Man"
Folder
18: Apples: Chapter 2-notes (b)
Folder
19: Apples: Chapter 3-notes,
"Versatile Apple"
Folder
20: Apples: Chapter 4-notes,
"Names derived..."
Folder
21: Apples: Chapter 4-notes (old)
Folder
22: Apples: Chapter 4-notes
Folder
23: Apples: Chapter 5-notes
Folder
24: Apples: Chapter 5-notes, 5-1 to
5-23
Folder
25: Apples: Chapter 4-edited notes,
"Names derived..."
Folder
26: Apples: Chapter 5-notes, "
Folder
27: Apples: Chapter 6-notes
Folder
28: Apples: Chapter 7-notes,
"Central States"
Folder
29: Apples: Chapter 7-notes,
"Three Mountain States"
Folder
1: Apples: Chapter 9-notes,
"Golden Age..."
Folder
2: Apples: Chapter 9-notes, 1-34
Folder
3: Apples: Chapter 8-notes, 1-12
Folder
4: Apples: Chapter 10-notes
Folder
5: Apples: Chapter 10-notes,
"Apple Culture in the 20th century", (b)
Folder
6: Apples: Chapter 10-text,
"
Folder
7: Apples: Appendix A-recipes
Folder
8: Apples: edited "Old Time
Apples Recipes"
Folder
9: Apples: Recipes
Folder
10: Apples: Recipe bookshelf
Folder
11: Apples: Glossary
Folder 12: Apples: Appendix B, "American and
Canadian sources of old varieties of apple trees"
Folder
13: Apples: Nurseries-checklist
Folder
14: Apples: Bibliography
Folder
15: Apples:
Bibliography-corrections
Folder
16: Apples: edited Bibliography
Folder
17: Apples: Appendix
A-introduction, glossary
Folder
18: Apples: extra copied pages
Folder
19: Recipes-additions to appendix
Folder
20: Recipes-version 1
Folder
21: Select bibliography, version 2
Folder
22: Notes and queries, select bibliography
and recipe source key
Folder
23: Recipe source key
(A,B,C,)-version 2
Folder
24: Notes and queries-recipes
Folder
1: Recipes-version 2
Folder
2: Apple manuscript-statement of
purpose
Folder
3: Blurb about author
Folder
4: Apples: front matter-by the
author
Folder
5: Apples: front matter-title,
copyright, dedication
Folder
6: Apples: edited front
matter-"By the author"
Folder
7: Apples: Preface
Folder
8: Apples: edited Preface
Folder
9: Apples: Preface-text
Folder
10: Apples: edited Contents
Folder
11: Apples: Introduction
Folder
12: Apples: Chapter 1-text,
"In Praise of..."
Folder
13: Apples: Chapter 2-text,
"Apples and People"
Folder
14: Apples: edited Chapter 2-text
Folder
15: Apples: edited Chapter
3-"Versatile apple"
Folder
16: Apples: Glossary
Folder
17: Apples: Appendix B-checklist
Folder
18: Apples: Appendix-nurseries list
Folder
19: Apples: Index of apple names
Folder
20: Apples: Introduction-notes
Folder
21: Apples: Chapter 1, "In
Praise of..."
Folder
22: Apples: edited Chapter 2-notes,
"Apples and People"
Folder
23: Apples: edited Chapter 3-notes
Folder
24: Apples: Chapter 6-notes,
"Old South and Point West"
Folder
25: Apples: notes, bibliography,
version 3
Folder
26: Apples: manuscript
Folder
1: Apples: Bibliography-notes,
version 1
Folder
2: Apples: notes and queries
Folder
3: Apples: notes and queries,
name index
Folder
4: Apples: corrections and
insertions
Folder
5: Apples: Notes and queries
Folder
6: Apples: version 3, Notes and
queries
Folder
7: Apples: Chapter 4-Notes and
queries, version 3
Folder
8: Apples: Notes and queries,
corrections, insertions
Folder
9: Apples: Notes and queries (9
folders)
Folder
10: Apples: corrections, Notes and
queries
Folder
11: Apples: Notes and queries (2
folders)
Folder
12: Apples: C and I
Folder
13: Apples: Notes and queries (3
folders)