“Cypripedium pubenscens W. (Greater yellow lady’s slipper),” Herbarium parvum, pictum by Orra White Hitchcock (1796–1863); vicinity of Deerfield, Amherst and Conway, Mass., 1817–21, watercolor, pencil and pen and ink on paper, from unbound album, approximately 12-7/8 by 7-7/8 inches each. Deerfield Academy Archives.

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