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Flora Murray Scott Collection of Photographs of Southern California Trees,1935-1957
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  • Descriptive Summary
  • Access
  • Publication Rights
  • Preferred Citation
  • UCLA Catalog Record ID
  • Acquisition Information
  • Biography
  • Scope and Content
  • Related Material
  • Indexing Terms

  • Descriptive Summary

    Title: Flora Murray Scott Collection of Photographs of Southern California Trees,
    Date (inclusive): 1935-1957
    Collection number: 51
    Creator: Scott, Flora Murray 1891-1984
    Extent: 1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
    Repository: University of California, Los Angeles. Library.Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences
    Los Angeles, California 90095-1490
    Abstract: The collection consists of 56 black and white photographs of southern California trees, identified by popular and scientific name. The collection was assembled for teaching purposes for the Herbarium and Botanical Gardens of the University of California, Los Angeles.
    Physical location: SRLF
    Language of Material: Collection materials inEnglish

    Access

    No restrictions on access.

    Publication Rights

    Property rights in the physical objects belong to the UCLA Biomedical Library. Literary rights, including copyright, are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish if the Biomedical Library does not hold the copyright.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Flora Murray Scott collection of photographs of southern California trees (Manuscript collection 51). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.

    UCLA Catalog Record ID

    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 6093829 

    Acquisition Information

    Gift of Flora Murray Scott (ca. 1959)

    Biography

    Flora Murray Scott (1891-1984) was a faculty member at the American College for Women at Constantinople (1921) and Stanford (1922-25) before coming a professor at UCLA in 1925. She served as Chair of the Department of Botany and as the first president of the UCLA Association of Academic Women. Her research focused on physiological plant anatomy. She became professor emeritus in 1959.

    Scope and Content

    Collection consists of 56 black and white photographs of southern California trees, identified by popular and scientific name. The collection was assembled for teaching purposes for the Herbarium and Botanical Gardens of the University of California, Los Angeles.

    Related Material

    UCLA CHARLES E. YOUNG RESEARCH LIBRARY DEPARTMENT OF SPECIAL COLLECTIONS. Collection #395: "Flora Murray Scott Papers, 1919-1984"

    Indexing Terms

    The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

    Subjects

    Trees -- California -- Photographs

    Genres and Forms

    Photographs