Art Collections

Harry Ardell Allard Collection
Fannie Elisabeth Waugh Davis Collection
Anne Ophelia Todd Dowden Collection
Georg Dionys Ehret Collection
Andreas Friedrich Happe Collection
Hitchcock-Chase Collection of Grass Drawings
Margaret Mee Collection
Gilbert M. Smith Collection
Isaac Sprague Collection
Torner Collection of Sessé and Mociño Biological Illustrations
U.S.D.A. Forest Service Collection
Wall Chart Collection
Frederick Andrews Walpole Collection

The Harry Ardell Allard Collection contains 364 ink drawings, which seem to be associated with the flora of Virginia and West Virginia about which Allard wrote some 55 of his 254 papers.

Allard (1880–1963) was born in Oxford, Massachusetts. He graduated with a B.S. in botany and geology from the University of North Carolina in 1905. In 1906, he began his 40-year career at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, retiring in 1946. He is also known for his co-discovery with Dr. W. W. Garner (1875–1956) of photoperiodism, his fundamental work on tobacco mosaic and plant breeding, his collections of lichens and flowering plants, and his pioneer observations on the stridulation of insects.

A bibliography of Allard’s papers is included in Ashley B. Gurney’s "Harry A. Allard, Naturalist" in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club (1964, vol. 91, no. 2, pp. 151–164). According to Gurney, Allard also sent 21 boxes of biographical material to the University of North Carolina Library in 1953.