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Box 1
Container
Contains 50 Results:
Howard Scott Gentry holding a plant used in the Yearbook of Agriculture, 1962
File — Box: 1, Folder: 21
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:
1962
Howard Scott Gentry and Agave atrovirens in Oaxaca, Mexico, 1963
File — Box: 1, Folder: 22
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:
1963
Howard Scott Gentry on a horse looking for Agave taxa in Baja, California, 1973
File — Box: 1, Folder: 23
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:
1973
Participants in the 1985 Symposium on the Genus Agave, 1985
File — Box: 1, Folder: 24
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:
1985
Howard Scott Gentry photograph used at the H.S. Gentry Center for Desert Botanical Resources dedication, circa 1990
File — Box: 1, Folder: 25
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:
circa 1990
Harvested seed of jojoba, Simmondsia chinensis
File — Box: 1, Folder: 26
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:
1950-1990
Industrial products from jojoba seeds: yellow oil or liquid was obtained from cold hydraulic press and white hydrogenated was
File — Box: 1, Folder: 27
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:
1950-1990
Jojoba plant and seeds
File — Box: 1, Folder: 28
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:
1950-1990
Jojoba plant
File — Box: 1, Folder: 29
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:
1950-1990
“Notes on the desert laboratory, 1935-1940", 1940
File — Box: 1, Folder: 30
Identifier: Subseries IV.A.
Scope and Content Note
From the Sub-Series:
This subseries contains articles that were written by Gentry. They cover his work including the Desert Research Laboratory, Gum Tragacanth in Iran, desert plants, red squill (Urginea maritima, Liliaceae), and various Mexican cultures. One folder includes photocopies of journal covers that include Gentry's articles. The Journal of the Southwest includes several articles written by Gentry and by other authors that...
Dates:
1940