Finding Aid for the Ralph D. Cornell Papers LSC.1411

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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 .

Restrictions on Access

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Restrictions on Use and Reproduction

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Provenance/Source of Acquisition

Vera Barnes Cornell, bequest, 1992.

UCLA Catalog Record ID

UCLA Catalog Record ID: 999645373606533 

Preferred Citation

[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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Biography

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.

Scope and Content

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.

Related Material

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.

box 1

Projects--photographs.

box  2-4, 7

Ralph D. Cornell library--General interest.

box 5, box 6

Ralph D. Cornell library--General interest and professional interest.

box 8, box 9

Ralph D. Cornell library--Professional interest.

box 10

Ralph D. Cornell library--Horticultural journals and general interest.

box 11

Ralph D. Cornell library--Horticultural journals.

box 12, box 13, box 14, box 15, box 16, box 17

Ralph D. Cornell library--Professional interest.

box 18

Slides--sleeves 1-72.

box 19

Slides--sleeves 73-144.

box 20

Slides--sleeves 145-216.

box 21

Slides--sleeves 217-288.

box 22

Slides--sleeves 289-360.

box 23

Slides--sleeves 361-432.

box 24

Slides--sleeves 433-452.

box  25-31, 35, 53

Personal & family.

box 32, box 33, box 34

Personal financial records.

box 36, box 37

Speeches, lectures, classes by Ralph D. Cornell.

box 38

Writings by Ralph D. Cornell.

box  39-48, 57

Published articles & photos by Ralph D. Cornell.

box  49-50, 52

Publishers' correspondence.

box 51

Issues of Lasca Leaves.

box 54

Plaques, printing plate (oak tree).

box 55

Conspicuous California Plants.

box 56

Personal financial records.

box 58, box 59, box 60, box 61, box 62

Design files.

box 63

Design files--landscape architecture subject index & plant material index.

box 64

Office files--early & Cook, Hall & Cornell.

box 65

Office receipts & miscellaneous business correspondence.

box 66

Business correspondence & job records.

box 67, box 68, box 69

Job records.

box 70

Job records & office files.

box 71, box 72, box 73, box 74

Office files.

box 75

Partnership records & job records.

box 76, box 77, box 78

Pomona.

box 79, box 80

UCLA.

box 81

Professional associations.

box 82

Business address files.

box 83

Theodore Payne.

box 84

Plans & sketches.

box 85

Photographs.

box 86

Sketches, drawings & material collected by Ralph D. Cornell.

box 87

Sketches, drawings, certificates.

box 88

Plans.

box 89

Job records.

box 90

Office files--cash & checking records . 1957-1967

box 91

Plaques & printing plates.

box  92-98, 104

Miscellaneous files.

box 99

Personal--postcards from World War I.

box 100

Issues of Mastekey.

box 101

Photographs--scenic views, figure studies.

box 102

Photographs--Hawaii.

box 103

Photographs--Europe & Central America.

box 105

Photographs--including flowerscapes by Ralph D. Cornell.

box 106

Color negatives (4 × 5) identified by types of plants.

box 107

Photos of plants by Ralph D. Cornell (A-C).

box 108

Photos of plants by Ralph D. Cornell (D-N).

box 109

Photos of plants by Ralph D. Cornell (O-Z).

box 110

Daniel Webster box.

box 111

Photos by Ralph D. Cornell & photos by J.W. Garrison.

box 112

Jobs--photos & negatives. World War II.

box 113

Jobs--individual photos.

box 114

Prints & negatives--Monument Valley, Utah, New Mexico, Arizona, California.

box 115

Prints & negatives--Hawaii, plants, Jamaica, UCLA.

box 116

Color negatives--mostly trees.

box 117

Ralph D. Cornell photo index of architecture & plant materials. 1912-1920

box 118, box 119, box 120

Glass slides.

box 121

Black & white prints and negatives--exotic trees, eucalyptus and pines.

box 122

Black & white prints and negatives--exotic trees A-ES.

box 123

Black & white prints and negatives--Exotic trees--Pinus-street trees.

box 124

Black & white prints and negatives--Birds, animals, plants, trees, arboretum, miscellaneous and color transparencies.

box 125

Black & white prints and negatives--trees--California & Western natives.

box 126

Black & white prints and negatives--California native shrubs.

box 127

Black & white prints and negatives--desert plants & California wildflowers.

box 128

Black & white prints and negatives--succulents, agaves, aloes, & bromeliads.

box 129

Black & white prints and negatives--palms.

box 130

Black & white prints and negatives--California wildflowers, aloes & succulents.

box 131

Black & white prints and negatives--Shrubs, exotics, vines & protaceae.

box 132

Black & white prints and negatives--Fungi, flowering plants & exotic miscellaneous plants.

box 133

Black & white prints and negatives--Vines--ground covers.

box 134

Color transparencies--Rosa bansksiae, protaceae, miscellaneous.

box 135

Color transparencies--Trees & echiums.

box 136

Color transparencies--miscellaneous plants.

box 137

Color transparencies--Palms, bromeliads, cactus, California missions, Santa Fe gardens, miscellaneous.

box 138

Color transparencies--desert plants, wildflower book, Theodore Payne, cactus.

box 139

Color transparencies and black & white prints and negatives--Huntington Gardens, Baja & Mexico, miscellaneous plants.

box 140

Color transparencies--miscellaneous plants, UCLA, Rose Hills.

box 141

Color transparencies--vines, xerophytes, yuccas.

box 142

Color transparencies--Shrubs (exotics), shrubs (native), agaves.

box 143

Color transparencies--Wildflowers, exotics & street trees.

box 144

Color transparencies--Hawaii, succulents, palms, ground cover, exotic plants, protaceae, vines.

box 145

Color transparencies--Scenery, miscellaneous and Southwest scenes.

box 146

Color transparencies--Aloes, bromeliads, cactus, ferns, LASCA, portraits.

box 147, box 148, box 149

Personal effects and camera equipment.

box 150

Lloyd S. Whaley Garden--Plans, . (5). 1949

box 151

Palomares Park, Pomona, California--Plans, . (2). 1957

box 152

Centinela Park, Los Angeles, California--Plans. (5).

box 153

Redondo Beach Park, California--Plans, . (3). 1947

box 154

Culver City Recreation Park, California--Plans, (3). 1940

box 155

Palm Springs Field Club--Plans.

General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 156

Oak Park Cemetary, Claremont, California--Plans.

General Physical Description note: 9 items.
box 157

North American Aid Recreation Park, Inglewood, California--Plans.

General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 158

City of Upland Park--Plans, . 1936

General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 159

China Garden Tract--Plans, . 1927

General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 159

Chula Vista Tract--Plans, . 1927

General Physical Description note: 1 item [In same folder with China Garden Tract].
box 160

Oak Park Cemetary, Claremont Colleges--Plans.

General Physical Description note: 9 items.
box 161

American Potash and Chemical Corporation. Trona, California--Plans, . 1942

General Physical Description note: 16 items.
box 162

National Orange Show--Plans, . 1938

General Physical Description note: 9 items.
box 163

National Orange Show--Plans, . 1939-1941

General Physical Description note: 10 items.
box 164

National Orange Show--Plans, . 1948

General Physical Description note: 9 items.
box 165

National Orange Show--Plans, . 1949

General Physical Description note: 4 items.
box 166

National Orange Show--Plans, . 1950

General Physical Description note: 5 items.
box 167

National Orange Show--Plans, . 1951-1955

General Physical Description note: 7 items.
box 168

National Orange Show--Plans, . 1956

General Physical Description note: 8 items.
box 169

National Orange Show--Plans, n.d.

General Physical Description note: 7 items.
box 170

Renderings.

General Physical Description note: 3 items.
box 171

Art work.

box 172

Triptych screen [damaged].

box 173

Renderings.

box 174

Miscellaneous plans and proof sheets.

box 175

Miscellaneous plans.

box 176

Southgate Recreation Park, . 1946

General Physical Description note: 2 items.
box 176

China Garden Tract. Claremont, California, . 1928

General Physical Description note: 1 item.
box 176

Hillside Memorial Park, . 1945

General Physical Description note: 9 items.
box 176

Hollywood Boulevard survey.

General Physical Description note: 2 items [damaged].
box 177

Chula Vista Tract, . August 1927

box 177

Sketch plan of Rancho Joaquina. Phoenix, Arizona, . January 1925

box 177

General plan for a recreation park. Upland California, . July 1936

box 177

Glen Haven Memorial Park. Los Angeles, California, n.d.

box 177

Preliminary site development plan for University Elementary School, . June 1947