THE EXHIBITION


Introduction
Biography
   Liberty Hyde Bailey, Sr.
   Sarah Harrison Bailey
   Letter from L.H.B., Sr.
   The Bailey Homestead
   L.H.B. as a Boy
   L. H. B., “Birds”
   L.H.B. and Friends
   L.H.B. as a Young Man
   Bailey Family
   Ethel Zoe Bailey and L.H.B.
Botany
Horticulture
NY State College of Agriculture
Cornell University
Nature Study
Education of Women
Commission on Country Life
Hortorium
Photography
Writings
Travel


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BIOGRAPHY

Bailey entered the Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University) in 1878 at age twenty. He flourished under the tutelage of Dr. William James Beal, who used a new experimental approach to teach botany, using living plants and laboratory work rather than only lectures and textbooks. He helped organize and edit The College Speculum, a quarterly paper providing both scientific and general reading. Graduating in August 1882, Bailey secured a post as a reporter on the Springfield, Illinois Morning Monitor.


Liberty Hyde Bailey [back left] and friends at the Michigan Agricultural College
Tintype, 1879

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