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| 1 | Author: | Shreve, Forrest, 1878-1950. | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Forrest Shreve speeches
1920-1933 ead | | | Date(s): | 1920-1933 | | | Abstract: | Forrest Shreve, 1878-1950, was a botanist, desert plant ecologist; on the staff of the Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carnegie
Institution, Tucson, Arizona, from 1908 to 1929, director from 1929 to 1938. Collection includes transcripts of five speeches,
including author's corrections, relating to Shreve's work at the laboratory. | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | Subjects: | Botany -- Arizona -- Tucson. | Desert ecology -- Arizona. | Desert plants -- Arizona. | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
7 | Author: | Ransier, Anna | Requires cookie* | | Title: | Anna Ransier Glass Plate Collection,
circa 1920-1940 ead | | | Date(s): | circa 1920-1940 | | | Abstract: | Photographs, circa 1920-1940. This collection is comprised of photographs taken during the extensive travels of Anna Ransier, a Baptist missionary, and her husband Hubert during the 1920’s and 1930’s. The hand-colored glass plate lantern slides were then shown to various school, club and church groups during travel lectures that Anna gave. Of special interest are photographs of various National Parks in both the United States and Canada, the Hopi Indian Reservation in Northern Arizona, Mexico and Mexico City, and “mountaineer” life in the Appalachians of Tennessee. Also included in this collection are handwritten travel notes. A glass plate projector and miscellaneous projection equipment in a black leather accordion briefcase are located in Special Collections. | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | Subjects: | African Americans - South - Pictorial works | Hopi Indians – Arizona – Pictorial works | Missionaries | National parks and reserves – Pictorial works | | | Similar Items: | Find Similar Guides |
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