Forrest Shreve photographs, 1902-1940 (bulk 1914-1936)

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Forrest Shreve photographs, 1902-1940 (bulk 1914-1936)

AZ 518


Collection Summary
Creator:	Shreve, Forrest, 1878-1950
Collection Name:	Forrest Shreve photographs,
Inclusive Dates:	1902-1940 (bulk 1914-1936)
Physical Description:	1.7 linear feet
Abstract:	This collection consists of 1102 photographs, chiefly of vegetation taken throughout Arizona, New Mexico, California, and Mexico (Sonora and Baja California).
Collection Number:	AZ 518
Repository:	University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections University of Arizona PO Box 210055 Tucson, AZ 85721-0055 Phone: 520-621-6423 Fax: 520-621-9733 URL: http://speccoll.library.arizona.edu/

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.

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.

Organization

This collection is organized into two series:

Series I: Photographs, 1902-1940
Series II: Album, 1930-1934

Restrictions

None.

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.

Related Material

Other photographs by Forrest Shreve may be located in various folders in the University of Arizona Libraries Special Collections Photograph File.

For related material see AZ 566, AZ 356, and AZ 425

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

Access Terms

Corporate Name(s)

Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution -- Photographs

Geographic Name(s)

Arizona -- Description and travel -- Photographs

Mojave Desert (Calif.) -- Photographs

Salton Sea (Calif.) -- Photographs

Sonora (Mexico : State) -- Description and travel -- Photographs

Sonoran Desert -- Photographs

Subject(s)

Botany -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula) -- Photographs

Botany -- Mexico -- Sonora (State) -- Photographs

Botany -- Sonoran Desert -- Photographs

Desert plants -- Arizona -- Photographs

Desert plants -- Mexico -- Baja California (Peninsula) -- Photographs

Desert plants -- Sonoran Desert -- Photographs

Genre Form(s)

Photographs

Administrative Information

Credit Line

Forrest Shreve Photographs(AZ 518). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.

Container List


Series I: Photographs, 1902-1940

	Personal and Arizona Photographs, 1904-1933
box	folder
1	1	Forrest Shreve (14 photographs).
1	2	Family and homes (20 photographs).
1	3	River crossings at flood time (9 photographs). , 1915-1916
1	4	Carnegie Desert Botanical Laboratory buildings, staff, surroundings (36 photographs). , 1914-1915, 1924, 1930s
1	5	Catalina Mountains (26 photographs). , 1904-1914
1		Notebook: Arizona. , 1913
			Havalina Canon and Tortolita Mountains (5 photographs) Chaparral near Prescott Grand Canyon San Francisco Peaks and forests (17 photographs)

1		Notebook: Arizona I. , 1914
			Silver Bell Pass, Tucson Mountains (3 photographs) Havalina Canon, Tortolita Mountains (3 photographs) Rosemont and Empire Ranch (11 photographs) Pima Canon, Catalina Mountains (7 photographs) Black Mountain, Tortolita Mountains and Suffering Camp (18 photographs) Mount Fagan, Santa Rita Mountains (28 photographs) Catalina Mountains (12 photographs) Ventana Canon, Catalina Mountains (8 photographs) Trip: San Pedro River, Dragoon and Mountains, Willcox, Dos Cabesas, Artesia, Safford (40 photographs) Trip: Pearce, Tombstone, Empire Ranch, Davidson's Canon (48 photographs) Vegetation west of Gleeson; also near Tombstone (2 photographs)

1		Notebook: Arizona II. , 1914
			Graham Mountains, Frye Canon (38 photographs) Desert scenes (2 photographs) Catalina Mountains from Speedway, December 1914 (2 photographs) Catalina Mountains (7 photographs)

box
2		Notebook: Arizona I. , 1915
			Tumamoc Hill; Catalina Mountains; Tucson Mountains (12 photographs) Davidson's Canon; Empire Mountains (10 photographs) Giant cactus and desert scenes (10 photographs) Catalina Mountains (4 photographs) San Pedro River (7 photographs) Colorado River at Parker Vegetation near Midway, Yuma County Unidentified (8 photographs)

2		Notebook: Arizona II. , 1915
			Trip: Coyote Mountains, Comabai, Poso Blanco, Tonoka, Ajo, desert scenes, Casa Grande, Papago groups, Tucson Mountains (63 photographs)

2		Notebook: Arizona. , 1916
			Greaterville (5 photographs) Trip: Desert Well, Wickenburg, Camp Verde, Montezuma's Well, northern Arizona, Grand Canyon (36 photographs) San Pedro Valley, Huachuca Mountains, desert scenes (15 photographs)

2	1	Arizona Photographs. , 1926-1933
			Catalina Mountains, 1923, (4 photographs) Baboquivari Mountains, 1923, (5 photographs) Automobiles, near Flagstaff, 1923 Roosevelt Lake and area, 1925, (10 photographs) Boyce Thompson Arboretum and Picket Post, 1925, (3 photographs) Craig Ranch, Pinal Mountains, 1925 Giant cactus, 1925, (6 photographs) Near Yucca, Arizona, 1929 Near Sabino Canon, 1930 "The Office," 1930 Huachuca Mountains, 1932, (2 photographs) Tule Tank; Cabeza Prieta, etc., 1932, (3 photographs) Chiricahua Mountains, 1933, (2 photographs) Cabeza Prieta Mountains, 1933, (2 photographs)


	New Mexico, California and Mexico Photographs, 1902-1936
box
3		Notebook: New Mexico. , 1911, 1929
			Ortero Basin, 1911, (9 photographs) Sacramento Mountains, 1911, (11 photographs) Cloudcroft, 1911, (2 photographs) Tularosa Creed and Canon, 1911 (3 photographs) Mescalero Indian Reservation and Agency, 1911, (3 photographs) Elephant Butte Dam, 1929 Vegetation along Rio Grande River below Socorro, 1929 (2 photographs) La Lunas home, 1929 Jemez Canon, 1929, (2 photographs) Unidentified (2 photographs)

3		Notebook: California. , 1902, 1914-1916, 1924, 1936
			Eucalyptus tree, 1902 Mohave Desert, 1914-1915, (38 photographs) Pine Valley, Cuyauaca Mountains, 1916, (4 photographs) Carrizo Gorge, 1924, (2 photographs) Salton Sea and Basin, 1924, (8 photographs) Trip from Tucson to San Diego, sand dunes, 1936, (8 photographs)

3	1	Sonora, Mexico Photographs. , 1923, 1925-1926
			Sasabe, Altar, Pitiquito, 1923 (26 photographs) Altar, Poza Verrugo, 1925, (33 photographs) Libertad, 1926, (5 photographs)

3	2	Sonora, Mexico Photographs. , 1930-1933, 1936
			Pozo Serna, Libertad, Los Molinos, Santo Domingo, 1930, (22 photographs) Mission San Pedro de Tubutama and Mission San Antonio de Aquitoa, 1931 (4 photographs) Imuris, Magdela, Santa Ana, Horcasitas, Mission San Ignacio de Caborica, the tanks in the Sierra Picu, 1932, (31 photographs) La Misa, Punta Piedras, Cedros, Port Lobos, 1933, (14 photographs) Culiacan, 1936, (13 photographs) Yaqui River, no dates (2 photographs)

3	3	Sinaloa, Mexico Photographs by H. S. Gentry (12 photographs). , 1939-1940
3	4	Baja California, Mexico (23 photographs). , 1915, 1922, 1924

	Non-Southwestern and Unidentified Photographs,
box	folder
3	5	Non-Southwestern Photographs by various artists.
			Florida New South Wales (9 photographs) New York New Zealand Oregon (2 photographs) Pennsylvania Washington Unidentified (14 photographs)

3	6	Unidentified Photographs (7 photographs).


Series II: Album, 1930-1934
	Arizona Photographs (26 photographs).
		Tucson Mountains Tortolita Mountains Santa Cruz floodplain Papago Bell, Tule Tank Camino del Diablo San Rafael Valley Mohave County

	Sonora, Mexico Photographs (107 photographs).
		Batuc Ures Moctezuma

	Baja California, Mexico Photographs (97 photographs).
		Calmalli San Marcos Island Mission of San Ignacio de Kadakahamang

	Mohave Desert, California Photographs (3 photographs).