Finding Aid for the Collection of Yosemite Wildflower Drawings by Mary V. Hood Biomed.0049

Finding aid prepared by Kelly Besser, 2020.
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Online finding aid last updated 2020 November 9.
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Contributing Institution: UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Collection of Yosemite wildflower drawings by Mary V. Hood
Creator: Hood, Mary V. (Illustrator)
Identifier/Call Number: Biomed.0049
Physical Description: 0.8 Linear Feet (2 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1938, 1969
Language of Material: English .

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UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 6092545 

Scope and Contents

The collection contains 123 numbered and 1 unnumbered black and white drawings (on illustration board 23 x 17 to 25 x 20 cm.) by Mary V. Hood of wildflowers in Yosemite National Park, California. Illustrations were published at least twice: (1) Beatty, M.E. et al. "101 wildflowers of Yosemite," in: Yosemite nature notes. Yosemite: Yosemite Natural History Association Press, v. 17, no. 6, pp. 75-112, June, 1938 (101 illustrations); and (2) Hood, Mary and A. William Hood. Yosemite wildflowers and their stories: histories, illustrations, locations. Yosemite: Flying Spur Press, 1969 (125 illustrations).