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Hottes (Alfred Carl) papers
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  • Conditions Governing Reproduction and Use
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  • Biography / Administrative History
  • Scope and Content
  • Organization and Arrangement

  • Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
    Title: Alfred Carl Hottes papers
    Creator: Hottes, Alfred Carl
    Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0057
    Physical Description: 25.5 Linear Feet (12 boxes and 18 oversize boxes)
    Date (inclusive): circa 1915-1955
    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: Materials are in English.

    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.

    Restrictions on Access

    Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.

    Preferred Citation

    [Identification of item], Alfred Carl Hottes papers (Collection 57). Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections for the Sciences, University of California, Los Angeles.

    Processing Information

    Processed by Russell Johnson, 2000.
    Collections are processed to a variety of levels depending on the work necessary to make them usable, their perceived user interest and research value, availability of staff and resources, and competing priorities. Library Special Collections provides a standard level of preservation and access for all collections and, when time and resources permit, conducts more intensive processing. These materials have been arranged and described according to national and local standards and best practices.
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    UCLA Catalog Record ID

    UCLA Catalog Record ID: 9942331723606533 

    Biography / Administrative History

    Horticulturalist. Born in Ithaca, N.Y., March 16, 1891. Instructor at Cornell University (floriculture, 1914-1916) and Ohio State University (floriculture and ornamental horticulture, 1916-1929). Garden editor of Better Homes and Gardens magazine, 1929-1942. Moved to La Jolla, Calif., where he continued to edit garden pages for several national magazines, write and revise books, give lectures on horticultural topics, collect succulents, and sketch and paint ornamental trees and shrubs. Died in La Jolla on February 28, 1955.

    Scope and Content

    Collection consists of photographic portraits; correspondence; newspaper and magazine tear-sheets and clippings, some in scrapbooks; newletters; publication contracts and agreements; collected chromolithographs and colored engravings (many by Mary E. Eaton); and watercolor, oil color, and scratchboard illustrations by Hottes, which form the bulk of the collection. Many of the illustrations by Hottes were for a book on California plants which he never published, because of the prohibitive cost of color printing at the time.

    Organization and Arrangement

    Plant and flower illustrations by Hottes are arranged in alphabetical order by scientific (genus-species) name.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Gardening.
    Floriculture.
    Horticulture.
    Botany.
    Botanical illustration.
    Horticulturalists -- United States -- Archives.
    Hottes, Alfred Carl
    Eaton, Mary E.