George A. Llano collection, ca. 1948.

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George A. Llano collection, ca. 1948.

The George A. Llano collection consists of 111 photographs relating to Llano's lichen research and the Anaktuvuk Pass and Wainwright, Alaska, areas, circa 1948. Subjects include plant collecting and identification, people and village activities in Anaktuvuk Pass, airplane flights, scenes from Wainwright, and Llano's research associates including Robert Rausch, Lloyd Spetzman, Simon Paneak and others.

.25 cubic feet

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Paneak, Simon, 1900-1975

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Llano, George Albert, 1911-2003

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George Albert Llano was born Jorge Alberto Cecilio Perez y Llano in Havana, Cuba on November 22, 1911. He attended Cornell University, where he received a B.S. in 1935. Llano received an M.A. from Columbia Teachers College in New York in 1939. He began his Ph.D. work at Harvard University, but was interrupted by World War II. After the war, Llano continued his Ph.D. work at Vaxbiologiska Institut in Uppsala, Sweden and finished his Ph.D. in botany at Washington University in St. Louis in 1949, w...