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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Francis M. Fultz papers
Creator:
Fultz, Francis M. (Francis Marion), 1857-
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0138
Physical Description:
105.8 Linear Feet
(67 boxes, 38 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folder)
Date (inclusive): 1845-1945
Abstract: Francis M. Fultz (1857-1948) was a
school superintendent before becoming the director of conservation and reforestation in Los
Angeles City Schools (1925-1932). He also lectured on subjects ranging from California,
Hawaii and Yellowstone to camping, wildflowers and weeds. The collection consists of the
manuscripts of 37 books and articles by Fultz, as well as carbons, early drafts,
illustrations and research notes, books and periodicals containing articles by Fultz. The
collection also contains runs of the Sierra Club bulletin,
Trails and other
periodicals, pamphlets and bound volumes, and lantern slides.
Language of Material: Materials are in
English.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access
special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Open for research. All requests to access special collections
materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All
other 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 where The UC Regents do not
hold the copyright.
[Identification of item], Francis M. Fultz papers (Collection 138). UCLA Library Special
Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Dessa Fultz, 1950.
Processed by Manuscripts Division staff, 1990s. Enhanced description of non-photographic
material by Kuheika Ghosh, 2019.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4233051
Francis M. Fultz was born on August 21, 1857 in Wilton Junction, Iowa; Ph.D (1886) and MA
(1889), Iowa State University; taught at Burlington (Iowa) High School, 1886-95;
superintendent of Burlington Public Schools in Burlington (1899-1909) and Santa Barbara,
California (1909-13); moved to Los Angeles in 1913; became director of conservation and
reforestation in Los Angeles city schools, 1925-32; was a member of the Sierra Club, and
also a lecturer, giving illustrated lectures on subjects ranging from California, Hawaii and
Yellowstone to camping, wildflowers and weeds; publications include
The Upper
Mississippi Region
(1908),
A Study of the Sierra Nevada (1908),
The Fly-Aways and Other Seed Travelers (1909),
The Elfin Forest of
California
(1923), and
Lily, Iris and Orchid of Southern California
(1928); he died in 1948.
Collection consists of the manuscripts of 37 books and articles by Fultz, as well as
carbons, early drafts, illustrations and research notes, books and periodicals containing
articles by Fultz, runs of the Sierra Club bulletin,
Trails and other
periodicals, pamphlets and bound volumes, and glass lantern slides, most of them taken by
Fultz and colored by his wife.
This collection has been arranged in the following series:
- Series 1: Personal materials, 1845-1940
- Series 2: Publications, 1854-1945
- Series 3: Lantern slides, 1887-1931
3000 cellulose nitrate film negatives, 150 black-and-white prints of plants of southern
California and 1 book about California wildflowers were transferred to the Natural History
Museum of Los Angeles County on November 28, 1980.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Lantern slides.
Naturalists -- California -- Archives.
Conservationists -- California -- Archives.
Fultz, Francis M. (Francis Marion), 1857- --
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