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Title: Ira J. Condit papers
Date (inclusive): 1888-1981, undated
Collection Number: UA 084
Creator:
Condit, Ira J. (Ira Judson), 1883-
Extent:
5.0 linear feet
(4 boxes)
Repository:
Rivera Library. Special Collections Department.
Riverside, CA 92517-5900
Abstract: The Ira J. Condit papers contain scrapbooks, notes, correspondence, photographs and articles written by Ira J. Condit, an
American horticulturist who studied subtropical fruits including the fig, olive, and avocado. Includes meeting minutes from
the Citrus Experiment Station (1915-1929) as well as information on the avocado and ficus genus, particularly figs. Of note
is an album of photographs documenting a trip Condit took to China in 1934. The album contains photos of Condit and others
as well as various plant specimens.
Languages: The collection is in English.
This collection is open for research, with the exception of the unprocessed accrual. For access to unprocessed materials please
contact Special Collections & University Archives.
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[identification of item], [date if possible]. Ira J. Condit papers (UA 084). Special Collections & University Archives, University
of California, Riverside.
Provenance is unknown for the original acquisition of materials. An additional accrual was transferred from the Department
of Botany and Plant Sciences in 2020.
Processed by Andrea Hoff, University Archives, in 2019.
Ira J. Condit was a noted horticulturalist at the University of California Citrus Experiment Station (later UC, Riverside).
He is rememebered for his pioneering research on the Ficus genus.
Condit was born in Ohio on November 18, 1883. He earned his B.S. from Ohio State University in 1905 and an M.S. from the University
of California in 1928.
After receiving his Ph.D. from Stanford University in 1932, he worked as a visiting professor at Lignan University in Canton,
China. Condit joined the faculty at the University of California Citrus Experiment Station in Riverside in 1935. During his
sixteen year tenure at Riverside, he published many articles on various subtropical fruits, including the fig, the olive and
the avocado. He eventually wrote a book,
The Fig, published in 1947.
Condit retired from UC, Riverside in 1951. He passed away in 1981.
The Ira J. Condit papers contain scrapbooks, notes, correspondence, photographs and articles written by Ira J. Condit, an
American horticulturist who studied subtropical fruits including the fig, olive, and avocado. Includes meeting minutes from
the Citrus Experiment Station (1915-1929) as well as information on the avocado and ficus genus, particularly figs. Of note
is an album of photographs documenting a trip Condit took to China in 1934. The album contains photos of Condit and others
as well as various plant specimens.
The collection also contains an unprocessed accrual, which includes records of plant breeding research activities, publications
and correspondence.
The Ira J. Condit papers are arranged into four series as follows:
- Series 1. Information on ficus, 1915-1967, undated
- Series 2. Publications, 1905-1967
- Series 3. Miscellaneous materials, 1888-1934, undated
- Series 4. Unprocessed accrual, circa 1929-1981, undated
See also the
Ira J. Condit Collection, Riverside Public Library.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
University of California, Riverside. Citrus Research Center and Agricultural Experiment Station
Ficus (Plants)
Horticulture
Photographs
Publications
Research notes