Finding Aid for the Alfred Carl Hottes papers Biomed.0057
Finding aid prepared by Russell Johnson; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé, 2000.
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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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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
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 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 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 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