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| 101 | 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 | | | Matches: 1 hit(s)
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104 | Author: | Perazzo family | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Perazzo family
correspondence,
1893-1919 ead | | | Date(s): | 1893-1919 | | | Abstract: | The Perazzo family correspondence consists of 38 handwritten
letters, in Italian, sent to Paola and Carmelita Perazzo of Phoenix, Arizona,
during the years of 1893-1894 and 1912-1919. The letters appear to be from
family members, including a brother. The majority were written by the same
person, and discuss matters of common concern, including health and
money. | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | Subjects: | Italian Americans -- Arizona | Immigrants -- United States -- Arizona --
Correspondence | | | Matches: 1 hit(s)
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109 | Author: | Couldock, C. W. (Charles Walter), 1815-1898. | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Charles Walter Couldock scrapbook
1815-1898 ead | | | Date(s): | 1815-1898 | | | Abstract: | Scrapbook containing chiefly photoengraved portraits; some original engravings are also present. Also included are press reviews which
describe plays in New Orleans and San Francisco in which Couldock, and his daughter Eliza Couldock, performed. Two letters are present.
One from 1862 refers to the London appearance of E.A. Sothern as Lord Dundreary; the other, from 1871, was written to Couldock from the
actress Charlotte Cushman. The portraits cover a broad spectrum of famous people, particularly rulers, statesmen, military leaders, the
nobility, and authors. Others included are actors and actresses, musicians, scientists, artists, and explorers. | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | Subjects: | Authors -- Portraits. | Kings and rulers -- Portraits. | Nobility -- Portraits. | Statesmen -- Portraits. | Theater -- United States -- History -- 19th century. | | | Matches: 1 hit(s)
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119 | Author: | Vallarta, Martin, 1711-1783. | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Inventorio de Ónavas, Sonora
1726 ead | | | Date(s): | 1726 | | | Abstract: | Holograph inventory of San Ignacio de Ónavas, one of the missions in the Pimería Baja, and its visitas, Tónichi, Pópule, and Soyopa. | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | Subjects: | Indians of Mexico -- Missions. | Missions -- Mexico -- Inventories. | Missions -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) | | | Matches: 1 hit(s)
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