Finding Aid for the Alfred Carl Hottes papers Biomed.0057

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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
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.

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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.

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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.

box 1, folder 1-17

Flower drawings and paintings:A - Baikina

box 2, folder 18-31

Cal - Com

box 3, folder 32-44

Cono - Cocl

box 4, folder 45-59

Crassula - Crassula schmiditii

box 5, folder 60-77

Crassula spatulata - Darlington californica

box 6, folder 78-95

Datura - Echeveria gibbiflora metallica

box 7, folder 96-109

Echeveria glauca - Epicattyleya orpeti

box 8, folder 108-131

Epipliyllur - Fuchsia

box 9, folder 132-155

Fuchsia carbynbulosa - Hawortha viscosia

box 10, folder 156-183

Hechtia texensis - Kalanchoe tubiflora

box 11, folder 184-215

Kalanchoe uniflora - Nasturtium

box 12, folder 216-245

Notocactus leninghausi - Pailownia empresstree

box 13, folder 246-276

Pedilanthus - Rhoe discolor

box 14, folder 277-296

Rhombophyllum rhomboideum - Senecio mikanoides

box 15, folder 297-313

Senecio pendula - Stapelia pulvinata

box 16, folder 314-332

Stapelia variegata - Trichosporum pulchrum

box 17, folder 333-342

Tropaeolum peregrinum - various scratchboards of flowers

box 18

Scrapbooks: (1) Publicity in Better Homes and Gardens; (2) Newspaper columns by Hottes () 1926-1928

box 19

Flower picture and prints (M.E. Evans et al), mounted on boards

box 20

M.E. Eaton prints; photographs of Hottes et al; biographical material

box 21

Pencil & ink drawings; figure captions/legends; clippings; MSS. notes and correspondence; illustrated pamphlet dummy; Hottes personal history; Cabbages and Things (newsletter by Plantsmaith; ) 1949- 1955

box 22

Scratchboards:original box listings and boards A - D, #1-85

General note

(except #3, removed to oversize box)
box 23

Scratchboards E - L, #86-174

General note

(except #104, 154, removed to oversize box)
box 24

Scratchboards M - Z, #175-275

General note

(except #178, removed to oversize box)
box 25

Scratchboards:non-botanical subjects

box 26

Watercolors:miscellaneous

box 27

Watercolors:A - C

box 28

Scratchboards; watercolors; clippings; photographs; collected engravings

box 29

Book advertisements; Burpee seed catalog (); TS., color- illustrated lecture notes; TS. collected poems () and letter by Carroll Dewilton Scott 1944 1948, 1952