Forrest Shreve photographs
Photograph of a caravan of horses Traveling through a forest, 1908. The caption on the verso of the item reads "Our Jack Train as it Plodded Slowly Along the Trial Where the Trees are Plentiful."
Collection area: History of Science
Collection dates: 1902-1940 bulk (bulk 1914-1936)
This collection consists of 1102 photographs, chiefly of vegetation taken throughout Arizona, New Mexico, California, and Mexico (Sonora and Baja California). It also includes photographs of Shreve and his family, the Desert Botanical Laboratory, early automobile trips, and a number of towns in Sonora, Mexico. Some photographs were taken by Laboratory director, D.T. MacDougal, staff members Godfrey Sykes and H.S. Gentry, and others.
Forrest Shreve was a botanist and desert plant ecologist. He served on the staff of the Desert Botanical Laboratory of the Carnegie Institution, Tucson, Arizona, from 1908 to 1929, and as director from 1929 to 1938.
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