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| | 4 | Author: | Hughes, Louis C., 1844-1915. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Address Before the Farmers, Fruit and Stock Growers of Arizona,
October 18, 1895 ead | | | | Date(s): | October 18, 1895 | | | | Abstract: | Louis C. Hughes, 1844-1915 was an Arizona pioneer, lawyer, newspaper publisher, and politician.
This collection includes a typescript of an address by Hughes, before the meeting of the Farmers,
Fruit and Stock Growers of Arizona, Oct. 18, 1895, on the occasion of its organization. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Agriculture -- Arizona -- History. | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 11 | Author: | Barrett, Thomas W. | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Thomas W. Barrett papers,
1910-1988
1955-1985 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1910-1988 | | | | Abstract: | Thomas W. Barrett was born September 6, 1917 in Orem, Utah, on
a fruit farm. While growing up on the family farm, Barrett became interested in crops,
soils, and would later find a passion for agronomy (the science of soil management and
crop production). The Thomas W. Barrett papers include personal correspondence,
photographs, and a few family papers. A majority of the collection consists of research
correspondence, photographs, negatives, transparency slides, research files, field
notes, and publications by both Barrett and other agronomists and
agriculturalists. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Agriculture -- Arizona | Agriculture -- Arizona -- Sulphur Springs Valley | Agronomy | Soils -- Arizona | Soil Conservation -- Arizona | Science -- Study and teaching -- Arizona | Plants -- Effect of sulfur dioxide
on | Plant ecology | Air -- Pollution -- Arizona | Air pollution control
industry | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 16 | Author: | Shantz, H.L. (Homer LeRoy), 1876-1958 | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Homer Leroy Shantz
papers,
1903-1958 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1903-1958 | | | | Abstract: | Field notebooks, reprint articles, speeches,
survey abstracts, photographs, diaries, and correspondence pertaining to
Shantz's interests in worldwide agriculture and botany. Shantz's various trips
to Africa resulted in extensive field notes, including those for the
Smithsonian African Expedition, 1919 to 1920, and the African Education
Commission, 1923 to 1924. Background material he collected about Africa
encompasses maps; postcards; dictionaries and primers on languages, including
Swahili; also, articles on the people, the areas they inhabited, and specific
problems, such as the tsetse fly, sleeping sickness, forced labor, and race
relations. Photographs of his travels from the Cape to Cairo depict the Nile,
Egyptian ruins, wild and domestic animals, vegetation and the landscape,
villages and cities, and people in tribal dress. Communal activities documented
include cultivation, thatching roofs, building a road, and weaving a large
bamboo mat to cover a bridge walkway. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Plant ecology -- Africa | Plant ecology -- United States | Vegetation surveys -- South America | Vegetation surveys -- Colorado | Vegetation surveys -- Africa | Swahili language -- Dictionaries -- English | English language -- Dictionaries -- Swahili | Agriculture -- Africa | Soils -- Africa | Agriculture -- United States | Soils -- United States | Africa -- Description and travel | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
| 20 | Author: | Gentry, Howard Scott | Requires cookie* | | | Title: | Howard Scott Gentry papers,
1816-2005 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1816-2005 | | | | Abstract: | Howard Scott Gentry was an American botanist who is especially
known for his expertise on the agave plant. Over the course of his work, Gentry
introduced 15,000 plants into the United States for study, with his most notable
contributions consisting of the development of a cortisone precursor compound, the
introduction of disease-resistant wild beans, and the development of jojoba oil. This
collection is comprised of professional correspondence, proposals, and manuscripts
related to his research of plant species. Also included are some photographs and related
material to individual plants in the forms of published articles, pamphlets, booklets,
and notes. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Agriculture | Botany -- United States | Botany -- Research -- Mexico | Chia | Gum Tragacanth | Jojoba | Drimia maritima | | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
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