Forrest Shreve photographs
Scope and Content Note
This collection consists of 1102 photographs, chiefly of vegetation taken throughout Arizona, New Mexico, California, and Mexico (Sonora and Baja California). It also includes photographs of Shreve and his family, the Desert Botanical Laboratory, early automobile trips, and a number of towns in Sonora, Mexico. Some photographs were taken by Laboratory director, D.T. MacDougal, staff members Godfrey Sykes and H.S. Gentry, and others.
Dates
- 1902-1940
- Majority of material found within ( 1914-1936)
Restrictions
There are no restrictions on this collection.
Copyright
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Arizona Board of Regents for the University of Arizona, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.
Biographical Note
Forrest Shreve was a botanist and desert plant ecologist. He served on the staff of the Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution, Tucson, Arizona, from 1908 to 1929, and as director from 1929 to 1938.
Extent
1.7 Linear Feet
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
This collection consists of 1102 photographs, chiefly of vegetation taken throughout Arizona, New Mexico, California, and Mexico (Sonora and Baja California).
Organization
This collection is organized into two series:
- Series I: Photographs, 1902-1940
- Series II: Album, 1930-1934
Separated Material
The following photographs received with this collection were removed at cataloged separately:
- View of Tucson from the Blake house near the University of Arizona campus, 1907
- Tucson street scene, 1908
- Picture Rocks, near Tucson, photos by Edith Clements (6 photographs), 1913
- Ostrich Farm, possibly on the University of Arizona campus (2 photographs), 1914
- Tucson street scene, 1915
- Congress Street Bridge, Tucson, across the Santa Cruz River, 1915
- University of Arizona cactus garden (2 photographs), 1915
- Views of Tucson from Tumamoc Hill (2 photographs), 1916
- Tucson street scenes (2 photographs), 1916
- Train wreck near Maricopa, Arizona, 1924
- Ajo, Arizona, 1929
- Columbus, New Mexico and Pershing's troops (6 photographs), April 1916
- San Atonio de Padua Mission, Jolan, California (3 photographs), no date
- Arizona -- Description and travel -- Photographs Subject Source: Local sources
- Botany -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula) -- Photographs Subject Source: Local sources
- Botany -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) -- Photographs Subject Source: Local sources
- Botany -- Sonoran Desert -- Photographs Subject Source: Local sources
- Desert plants -- Arizona -- Photographs Subject Source: Local sources
- Desert plants -- Arizona -- Sonoran Desert -- Photographs Subject Source: Local sources
- Desert plants -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula) -- Photographs Subject Source: Local sources
- Mojave Desert (Calif.) -- Photographs Subject Source: Local sources
- Photographs Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Salton Sea (Calif.) -- Photographs Subject Source: Local sources
- Sonora (Mexico : State) -- Description and travel -- Photographs Subject Source: Local sources
- Sonoran Desert -- Photographs Subject Source: Local sources
- Title
- Forrest Shreve photographs
- Status
- Complete
- Author
- Inventory prepared by Phyllis Ball
- Date
- 2001
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the University of Arizona Special Collections Repository