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Collection Summary | |
Creator: | Curtin, L.S.M. |
Collection Name: | L.S.M. Curtin papers, |
Inclusive Dates: | 1930-1953 |
Physical Description: | .75 linear feet |
Abstract: | Papers (ca. 1930-1953) The papers of L.S.M Curtin document her professional and personal activities as an ethnobotanist in the southwest region. The collection contains material relating to the ethnobotanical fieldwork she pursued in Arizona, New Mexico, and Mexico as well as the subsequent publication of her book By Prophet of the Earth (1949). The collection also includes materials pertaining to her various travels and personal and professional relationships with friends, colleagues, patrons, and publishers. |
Collection Number: | MS 395 |
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/ |
L. S. M. Curtin was an avid naturalist, ethnobotanist, and a published author. Her ethnobotanical research was primarily concerned with the use of herbs and plants being used as diet staples and medicine among southwestern ethnic and indigenous groups. She is the author of four published monographs and various journal articles. Her extensive ethnobotanical fieldwork led to the publication of her two most noted works, Healing Herbs of the Upper Rio Grande (1947) and By Prophet of the Earth (1949), which highlights her fieldwork on the Salt River Indian Reservation and the Pueblo Grande Laboratory.
Papers, 1930-1953 (bulk 1940-1953), of ethnobotanist, naturalist, and author L.S.M. Curtin. Includes business and personal correspondence, fieldwork, photographs and negatives, maps, printed material, and a manuscript of her published monograph By Prophet of the Earth (1949). The bulk of the collection consists of correspondence pertaining to her professional activities as a published author and her ethnobotanical fieldwork in Arizona, New Mexico, and Michoacan, Mexico.
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L.S.M. Curtin papers (MS 395). Special Collections, University of Arizona Libraries.
Series I: Correspondence, 1940-1953 | |||||||||||
Series 1.1 Business, 1940-1953 | |||||||||||
box | folder | ||||||||||
1 | 1 | De la Borbolla, Daniel R. , 1948-1951 | |||||||||
1 | 2 | Brown, Howell C. , 1950-1953 | |||||||||
1 | 3 | Harrington, J.P. , 1952 | |||||||||
1 | 4 | Hodge, F.W. , 1942-1950 | |||||||||
1 | 5 | Wessels, Myrtilla A. , 1942 | |||||||||
1 | 6 | General , 1940-1952 | |||||||||
Series 1.2 Personal, 1942-1953 | |||||||||||
box | folder | ||||||||||
1 | 7 | Brown, Howell C. , 1942-1953 | |||||||||
1 | 8 | Brown, Sibley , 1950-1952 | |||||||||
1 | 9 | Coze Paul , 1950-1952 | |||||||||
1 | 10 | General , n.d. |
Series II: Fieldwork, 1930s-1940s | |||||||||||
box | folder | ||||||||||
1 | 11 | Pueblo Grande Laboratory , ca.1940s | |||||||||
1 | 12 | Salt River Indian Reservation , ca. 1930s-1940s | |||||||||
box | folder | ||||||||||
2 | 1-2 | Tarascan , ca. 1940s | |||||||||
2 | 3 | Miscellaneous , n.d. |
Series III: Manuscript, 1949 | |||||||||||
box | folder | ||||||||||
2 | 4-5 | By Prophet of the Earth , 1949 |
Series IV: Photographs/Negatives, 1940-1942 | |||||||||||
box | folder | ||||||||||
2 | 6 | Photographs-Salt River Indian Reservation , 1940-1942 | |||||||||
2 | 7 | Negatives-Salt River Indian Reservation , 1940-1942 | |||||||||
2 | 8 | Negatives- L.S.M. Curtin Home, Santa Fe, N.M , n.d. |
Series V: Printed Materials, ca. 1930s-1940s | |||||||||||
box | folder | ||||||||||
2 | 9 | Printed Materials , ca. 1930s-1940s |