Finding Aid for the Ethel Bailey Higgins Papers, ca. 1940-1960
Processed by Manuscripts Division staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Caroline Cubé.
UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
© 1999
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Finding Aid for the Ethel Bailey Higgins Papers, ca. 1940-1960
Collection number: 913
UCLA Library, Department of Special CollectionsManuscripts Division
Los Angeles, CA
- Manuscripts Division
- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
- Telephone: 310/825-4988 (10:00 a.m. - 4:45 p.m., Pacific Time)
- Email: spec-coll@library.ucla.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/special/scweb/
- Processed by:
- Manuscripts Division staff, 10 October 1966
- Encoded by:
- Caroline Cubé
- Online finding aid edited by:
- Josh Fiala, July 2002
© 1999 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Title: Ethel Bailey Higgins Papers,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1940-1960
Collection number: 913
Creator:
Higgins, Ethel Bailey
Extent:
1 box (0.5 linear ft.)
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Abstract: Ethel Bailey Higgins was the curator of botany at the San Diego Natural History Museum, and the author of
Our Native Cacti (1931) and
Annotated Distributional List of the Ferns and Flowering Plants of San Diego County, California (1949). The collection consists of manuscripts, photocopies, and printed booklets about the flora and fauna of San Diego
County, California gathered by Higgins.
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Language:
English.
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Advance notice required for access.
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- UCLA Library, Department of Special Collections
- Room A1713, Charles E. Young Research Library
- Box 951575
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575
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Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of Jean B. Grover, 1967.
[Identification of item], Ethel Bailey Higgins Papers (Collection 913). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young
Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
1720448
Higgins is the author of
Our Native Cacti (1931) and
Annotated Distributional List of the Ferns and Flowering Plants of San Diego County, California (1949).
Collection consists of manuscripts, photocopies, and printed booklets about the flora and fauna of San Diego County, California
gathered by Ethel Bailey Higgins in her capacity as curator of botany at the San Diego Natural History Museum.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Higgins, Ethel Bailey--Archives.
Women botanists--San Diego County (Calif.)--Archival resources.
Natural history--California--San Diego County.
Manuscripts for publication.
Note
Description derived from in-house card file.
Papers, ca. 1940-1960
Creator/Collector: Higgins, Ethel Bailey
Physical Description: (1 box)
Scope and Content Note
Manuscripts and printed material of Ethel Bailey Higgins, Curator of Botany at the San Diego Natural History Museum. Papers
concern ferna and fauna of San Diego County, California.