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Contributing Institution:
UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Ralph D. Cornell papers
Creator:
Cornell, Ralph D, 1890-1972
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.1411
Physical Description:
56.0 Linear Feet
(80 boxes, 16 cartons, 56 oversize boxes, and 23 oversize folders)
Date (inclusive): 1925-1972
Abstract: Ralph D. Cornell was the supervising landscape architect at UCLA from 1937-72. Some of Cornell's other landscape architecture
projects included Pomona College, Torrey Pines Park, Los Angeles Music Center, and La Brea Tar Pits. The collection consists
of office files, business records, correspondence, photographs, slides, glass negatives, and books related to Ralph D. Cornell's
career as a landscape architect and designer.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
on this page.
Language of Material:
English
.
Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located
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Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Copyright to portions of this collection has been assigned to the UCLA Library Special Collections. The library can grant
permission to publish for materials to which it holds the copyright. All requests for permission to publish must be submitted
in writing to Library Special Collections. Credit shall be given as follows: The Regents of the University of California on
behalf of the UCLA Library Special Collections.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Vera Barnes Cornell, bequest, 1992.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
999645373606533
[Identification of item], Ralph D. Cornell Papers (Collection 1411). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
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Ralph D. Cornell was born in Holdrege, New England; his family moved to Long Beach, California, in 1908; attended Pomona College,
California and Harvard Graduate School of Landscape Architecture; enlisted in U.S. Armed Forces during World War I; supervising
landscape architect, UCLA, 1937-72; some of Cornell's other landscape architecture projects included Pomona College, Torrey
Pines Park, Los Angeles Music Center, and La Brea Tar Pits; died on April 6, 1972.
Collection consists of office files, business records, correspondence, photographs, slides, glass negatives, and books related
to the career of landscape architect and designer Ralph D. Cornell.
Half a Century as a Southern California Landscape Architect [oral history transcript] / Ralph D. Cornell, interviewee.
UCLA Oral History Department interview, 1970. Available at UCLA Library Special Collections.
Existence and Location of Copies
Digital reproductions of materials from the Ralph D. Cornell papers are available electronically at
https://digital2.library.ucla.edu/viewItem.do?ark=21198/zz0008c7sv
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Photographs.
Gardens -- California, Southern -- Design.
Landscape architects -- California, Southern -- Archives.
University of California, Los Angeles -- History
Cornell, Ralph D.--Archives.