All Items 2 Collection 1 Archives & Special Collections 2 Contributor 3 Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864 2 B.W. Thayer & Co. 1 Hitchcock, Orra White, 1796-1863 1 Location 1 Massachusetts 2 Topic 4 Fossils 2 Illustrations 2 Pictorial works 2 Archives 1 Part Of 1 Edward and Orra White Hitchcock Papers 2 Genre 4 Drawings (visual works) 1 Ink washes 1 Plates (illustrations) 1 Scientific illustrations 1 Subject 3 Fossils – Massachusetts – Pictorial works 2 Hitchcock, Edward, 1793-1864. Final report on the geology of Massachusetts – Illustrations 2 Hitchcock, Orra White, 1796-1863 – Archives 1 Fossil vegetables from Mansfield Hitchcock, Orra White, 1796-1863 Five pen and inkwash drawings of plant fossil specimens on one sheet by Orra White Hitchcock. The specimens come from Mansfield, Massachusetts, are labeled 221 through 225, and appeared in Edward Hitchcock's Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts as plate 27. The title is written in Edward Hitchcock's hand. The artwork is housed in a mat for conservation. Fossil vegetables from Mansfield Plates, "Fossil vegetables from Mansfield," 1841 B.W. Thayer & Co. Four plates printed from illustrations depicting different slabs of rock with vegetation fossils found in Mansfield, Massachusetts. These are plates 21, 23, 24, and 25 in Edward Hitchcock's "Final Report on the Geology of Massachusetts." Plate 21 shows two rock slabs, plate 23 shows one, plate 24 shows three, and plate 25 shows three. It is unclear who the artist is. Plates, "Fossil vegetables from Mansfield," 1841
