Homer Leroy Shantzpapers, 1903-1958

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Homer Leroy Shantzpapers, 1903-1958

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Field notebooks, reprint articles, speeches,survey abstracts, photographs, diaries, and correspondence pertaining toShantz's interests in worldwide agriculture and botany. Shantz's various tripsto Africa resulted in extensive field notes, including those for theSmithsonian African Expedition, 1919 to 1920, and the African EducationCommission, 1923 to 1924. Background material he collected about Africaencompasses maps; postcards; dictionaries and primers on languages, includingSwahili; also, articles on the people, the areas they inhabited, and specificproblems, such as the tsetse fly, sleeping sickness, forced labor, and racerelations. Photographs of his travels from the Cape to Cairo depict the Nile,Egyptian ruins, wild and domestic animals, vegetation and the landscape,villages and cities, and people in tribal dress. Communal activities documentedinclude cultivation, thatching roofs, building a road, and weaving a largebamboo mat to cover a bridge walkway.

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Shantz, H.L. (Homer LeRoy), 1876-1958

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Plant physiologist for the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture; Botany professor at several universities; later, Chief of Wildlife Management Division, U.S. Forest Service. From the description of Homer Leroy Shantz papers, 1900-1958 (bulk 1905-1950). (University of Arizona). WorldCat record id: 29452283 From the guide to the Homer Leroy Shantz papers, 1903-1958, (University of Arizona Libraries, Special Collections) Homer LeRoy Shantz was born on January 24 1876...