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Box 1

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Contains 50 Results:

Letter from Monroe E. Wall to Isabel Shipley Cunningham with Wall’s “Thoughts and reminiscences concerning Howard Scott Gentry”, 1994

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 11
Identifier: Subseries I.B.
Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series: Gentry's family, friends, and co-workers wrote to Cunningham in response to her articles and requests for information. The letters include biographical information and information about Gentry's work. The copies of letters from Gentry were included with correspondence to Cunningham from his family and friends. These items refer to analyzing Simmondsia chinensis, locations of jojoba near San Diego with a map, and a letter to his daughter during his expedition in...
Dates: 1994
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Howard Scott Gentry / Series I. Correspondence / Subseries I.B. Correspondence with Isabel Shipley Cunningham

Notes on a telephone conversation between Isabel Shipley Cunningham and Linnea Gentry

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 12
Identifier: Subseries I.C.
Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series:

Cunningham's notes refer to telephone conversations she had with Gentry's daughter, Linnea, and his wife, Marie. The notes contain biographical information on Gentry. The subseries is arranged alphabetically.

Dates: undated
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Howard Scott Gentry / Series I. Correspondence / Subseries I.C. Isabel Shipley Cunningham's Telephone Notes

Notes on a telephone conversation between Isabel Shipley Cunningham and Marie Gentry

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 13
Identifier: Subseries I.C.
Scope and Content Note From the Sub-Series:

Cunningham's notes refer to telephone conversations she had with Gentry's daughter, Linnea, and his wife, Marie. The notes contain biographical information on Gentry. The subseries is arranged alphabetically.

Dates: undated
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Howard Scott Gentry / Series I. Correspondence / Subseries I.C. Isabel Shipley Cunningham's Telephone Notes

List of Howard Scott Gentry’s foreign plant expeditions, 1950-1970

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 14
Identifier: Series II.
Scope and Content Note From the Series: Included in this series are professional papers pertaining to Gentry. This includes a recommendation for an honorary degree from the University of Arizona, which Gentry received in 1990. Other documents consists of a retirement summary, an United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) evaluation, a list of his plant collecting expeditions, his material vitae, and an announcement with a program from the dedication of the H.S. Gentry Center for Desert Botanical Resources. Cunningham...
Dates: 1950-1970
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Howard Scott Gentry / Series II. Professional Documents

Howard Scott Gentry’s 1967 United States Department of Agricultural (USDA) evaluation with additions by Howard Scott Gentry through 1990, 1967

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 15
Identifier: Series II.
Scope and Content Note From the Series: Included in this series are professional papers pertaining to Gentry. This includes a recommendation for an honorary degree from the University of Arizona, which Gentry received in 1990. Other documents consists of a retirement summary, an United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) evaluation, a list of his plant collecting expeditions, his material vitae, and an announcement with a program from the dedication of the H.S. Gentry Center for Desert Botanical Resources. Cunningham...
Dates: 1967
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Howard Scott Gentry / Series II. Professional Documents

Howard Scott Gentry’s retirement statement from the USDA, 1971

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 16
Identifier: Series II.
Scope and Content Note From the Series: Included in this series are professional papers pertaining to Gentry. This includes a recommendation for an honorary degree from the University of Arizona, which Gentry received in 1990. Other documents consists of a retirement summary, an United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) evaluation, a list of his plant collecting expeditions, his material vitae, and an announcement with a program from the dedication of the H.S. Gentry Center for Desert Botanical Resources. Cunningham...
Dates: 1971
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Howard Scott Gentry / Series II. Professional Documents

Recommendation for a honorary degree from the University of Arizona, 1988

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 17
Identifier: Series II.
Scope and Content Note From the Series: Included in this series are professional papers pertaining to Gentry. This includes a recommendation for an honorary degree from the University of Arizona, which Gentry received in 1990. Other documents consists of a retirement summary, an United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) evaluation, a list of his plant collecting expeditions, his material vitae, and an announcement with a program from the dedication of the H.S. Gentry Center for Desert Botanical Resources. Cunningham...
Dates: 1988
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Howard Scott Gentry / Series II. Professional Documents

Howard Scott Gentry’s material vitae, 1990

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 18
Identifier: Series II.
Scope and Content Note From the Series: Included in this series are professional papers pertaining to Gentry. This includes a recommendation for an honorary degree from the University of Arizona, which Gentry received in 1990. Other documents consists of a retirement summary, an United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) evaluation, a list of his plant collecting expeditions, his material vitae, and an announcement with a program from the dedication of the H.S. Gentry Center for Desert Botanical Resources. Cunningham...
Dates: 1990
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Howard Scott Gentry / Series II. Professional Documents

Dedication announcement and program for the H.S. Gentry Center for Desert Botanical Resources, 1990-1991

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 19
Identifier: Series II.
Scope and Content Note From the Series: Included in this series are professional papers pertaining to Gentry. This includes a recommendation for an honorary degree from the University of Arizona, which Gentry received in 1990. Other documents consists of a retirement summary, an United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) evaluation, a list of his plant collecting expeditions, his material vitae, and an announcement with a program from the dedication of the H.S. Gentry Center for Desert Botanical Resources. Cunningham...
Dates: 1990-1991
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Howard Scott Gentry / Series II. Professional Documents

Howard Scott Gentry’s 1950 passport photograph, 1950

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 20
Identifier: Series III.
Scope and Content Note From the Series: This series includes photographs of Gentry. The photographs show Gentry in an early passport photograph, in Mexico with an Agave atrovirens, and in California on a horse. Other photographs include one used for the dedication of the H.S. Gentry Center for Desert Botanical Resources and one of a group at the 1985 Symposium on the Genus Agave. Most of the photographs are reproductions from publications. Photographs of Jojoba seeds and plants are also included. The...
Dates: 1950
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Howard Scott Gentry / Series III. Photographs