Robert R. Humphrey Photograph Collection, 1949-1963
MS 431
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Robert R. Humphrey Photograph Collection, 1949-1963
MS 431
Collection number: MS 431
Creator:
Humphrey, Robert R.
Title:
Robert R. Humphrey Photograph Collection
Inclusive Dates:
1949-1963
Quantity:
3 linear feet
Abstract:
This collection is comprised of negatives and prints of vegetation types and landscape scenes taken by Robert R. Humphrey between 1949 and 1963. The collection also contains some reproduction photographs from “Views of the Monuments and Characteristic Scenes along the Boundary between the United States and Mexico. West of the Rio Grande. 1892-95”, published by the International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico.
Identification:
Collection number: MS 431
Language:
English
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
Robert Register Humphrey was born in 1904 in Palo Alto, Calif. He earned his bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in botany and geology from the University of Minnesota, graduating in 1933.
He worked as a range ecologist with the U.S. Forest Service for 15 years, then as a range conservationist with the U.S. Soil Conservation Service before working for the University.
Humphrey joined the UA faculty as an associate professor in botany in 1948. He was involved in ecology, range management and was published extensively. His most notable book was "The Boojum and Its Home."
He retired from the UA in 1966. After he retired, he and his wife traveled extensively in Mexico, Baja and California studying the boojum tree and ecology along the United States-Mexico border.
A professor emeritus of range ecology at the University of Arizona, Humphrey died March 13, 2002, at 97.
Scope and Content
The collection is comprised of negatives and prints of vegetation types and landscape scenes taken by Robert R. Humphrey between 1949 and 1963. The collection also includes some reproduction photographs from “Views of the Monuments and Characteristic Scenes along the Boundary between the United States and Mexico. West of the Rio Grande. 1892-95”, published by the International Boundary Commission, United States and Mexico.
The collection contains primarily photographs of grasses and other vegetation native to Arizona, New Mexico and Northern Mexico. It also includes photographs of boundary markers along the border between the United States and Mexico and some photographs of groups and individuals involved with Robert Humphrey in grasslands research. The negatives and photographs are housed in envelopes that are numbered, dated and include detailed descriptions of the contents. Several of the numbered envelopes are missing from the collection: numbers 9-28, 50, 254-255, 257, 387, 391, 629, 802, 928, 933-934, 961, 1081, 1022, 1046A, 1217 and 1283.
Each series is arranged alphabetically by county and then by locale within each county.
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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
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Controlled Access Terms
Personal Name(s)
Everson, A. C.
Corporate Name(s)
United States. Bureau of Land Management
University of Arizona. Agricultural Experiment Station
University of Arizona. College of Agriculture
University of Arizona. Cooperative Extension Service
Geographic Name(s)
Mexican-American Border Region
Subject(s)
Botany—Southwest, New
Forage plants—Arizona
Grasses—Arizona
Grasslands
Phytogeography—Arizona
Phytogeography—Mexican-American Border Region
Plant ecology
Plant ecology—Mexican-American Border Region
Prairies
Range management—Arizona
Rangelands—Arizona
Vegetation boundaries—Arizona
Vegetation dynamics—Mexican-American Border Region
Title(s)
Bulletin (University of Arizona. Agricultural Experiment Station)