| | 26 | Author: | Gentry, Howard Scott | Add to Favorites | | | 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 | | | | Matches:
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| ...University of Arizona and Tucson photographs,...
...Program Sixth Section---Tucson to New York (2 copies)...
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| 27 | Author: | University of Arizona Agricultural
Experiment Station | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | University of
Arizona Agricultural Experiment Station papers
1891-1922 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1891-1922 | | | | Abstract: | This collection includes financial and agricultural records, workbooks detailing research and experiments, incoming and outgoing correspondence of Director R.H. Forbes, and miscellaneous related items. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Agriculture -- Arizona | Horticulture -- Arizona | Irrigation -- Arizona | Canaigre | Mesquite -- Arizona | Date palm -- Arizona | Sugar beet -- Arizona | Soils -- Arizona | Groundwater -- Arizona -- Cochise County | Agricultural experiment stations -- Arizona | | | | Matches:
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| ...Forage Plants, 1895 Sugar Beets, Tucson, 1897 Sugar Beet...
...Distribution Tobacco, Tucson? , 1897 Crown Knot greenhouse...
...in Experiment Station Library, Tucson. Property belonging to...
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| 29 | Author: | Barrett, Thomas W. | Add to Favorites | | | 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 | | | | Matches:
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| ...of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-...
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| 31 | Author: | Goldwater, Barry M. (Barry Morris), 1909-1998 | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Barry M. Goldwater Historic Photograph Collection
1850s-1960s ead | | | | Date(s): | 1850s-1960s | | | | Abstract: | This collection houses photographs showing variety of subjects pertaining to Arizona, including views of desert flora and fauna, landscapes, military, mining, Native Americans, agriculture, buildings, street scenes, transportation, and people and places. | | | | Repository: | Arizona State University Library. Greater Arizona Collection | | | | Subjects: | Agriculture -- Arizona -- Phoenix -- Photographs. | Buildings -- Arizona -- Phoenix -- Photographs. | Cowboys -- Arizona -- Phoenix -- Photographs. | Deserts -- Arizona -- Photographs. | Deserts -- Southwest, New -- Photographs. | Indians of North America -- Arizona -- Photographs. | Mines and mineral resources -- Arizona -- Photographs. | Rodeos -- Arizona -- Phoenix -- Photographs. | Transportation -- Arizona -- Photographs. | | | | Matches:
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| ...Places: Tucson, circa 1900...
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| 32 | Author: | Shantz, H.L. (Homer LeRoy), 1876-1958 | Add to Favorites | | | 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:
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| ...of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-...
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| 36 | Author: | Reeder, John Raymond, PhD
Reeder, Charlotte Olive
Goodding | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | John R. Reeder and Charlotte
Goodding Reeder papers, 1907-2009
1970-2005 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1907-2009 | | | | Abstract: | John Raymond Reeder and Charlotte Goodding Reeder were American
agrostologists known for their expertise regarding grasses found in the western and
southwestern United States and northern and central Mexico. They discovered and named
several new species of grasses and concluded their research work at the University of
Arizona Herbarium. This collection consists of biographical materials, professional and
personal correspondence, and research files related to their work on grasses. Also
included are publications, photographic materials, and scrapbooks focused on botanical
subject matters. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Grasses -- Arizona | Grasses -- Mexico | Agriculture | Botany -- United States | Botany -- Research -- Mexico | Botany -- Research -- United States | | | | Matches:
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| ...of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-...
...In 1983, they moved to Tucson, Arizona continuing and...
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| 37 | Author: | Garfias, Ignacio | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Costa de
Sotavento, Estado de Veracruz, Mexico,
September 5,
1880 ead | | | | Date(s): | September 5,
1880 | | | | Abstract: | Single signed, 22-page holographic manuscript contains a detailed
description of the southern coastal region of Veracruz, with a view to the full
utilization and development of its natural resources; probably commissioned by
a government agency. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Natural resources -- Mexico -- Veracruz (State) -- History --
Sources | Agriculture -- Economic aspects -- Mexico -- Veracruz (State)
-- History -- Sources | Hydrography -- Mexico -- Veracruz (State) -- History --
Sources | Hydrographic surveying -- Mexico -- Veracruz (State) --
History -- Sources | Inland navigation -- Mexico -- Veracruz (State) -- History --
Sources | | | | Matches:
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| ...Collections PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-...
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| 39 | Author: | Compañia Constructora Richardson, S.A. | Add to Favorites | | | Title: | Records of the Compañia Constructora Richardson, S.A.,
1904-1968
1904-1927 ead | | | | Date(s): | 1904-1968 | | | | Abstract: | Records, 1904-1968 (bulk 1904-1927). Collection consists primarily of photographs, legal papers, and other materials concerning the development of a railroad and irrigation system in the Yaqui River Valley, Sonora, Mexico. | | | | Repository: | University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections | | | | Subjects: | Water rights -- Mexico -- Yaqui River | Irrigation engineering -- Mexico -- Yaqui River | Agriculture and state -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) | Agricultural colonies -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) | Yaqui Indians -- Photographs | Indians of Mexico -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) -- Photographs | | | | Matches:
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| ...of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-...
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