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Box 1

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Contains 50 Results:

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

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
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Howard Scott Gentry / Series III. Photographs

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
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Howard Scott Gentry / Series III. Photographs

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
Found in: National Agricultural Library Special Collections / Isabel Shipley Cunningham Collection on Howard Scott Gentry / Series III. Photographs