Finding aid of the Alfred Carl Hottes Papers
Processed by Russell Johnson
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
History & Special Collections Division
UCLA
12-077 Center for Health Sciences
Box 951798
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1798
Phone: 310/825-6940
Fax: 310/825-0465
Email: biomed-ref@library.ucla.edu
URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed/his/hisdiv.htm
© 2000
The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Finding aid of the Alfred Carl Hottes Papers
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
History & Special Collections Division
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA
Contact Information
- Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library
- History & Special Collections Division
- UCLA
- 12-077 Center for Health Sciences
- Box 951798
- Los Angeles, CA 90095-1798
- Phone: 310/825-6940
- Fax: 310/825-0465
- Email: biomed-ref@library.ucla.edu
- URL: http://www.library.ucla.edu/libraries/biomed/his/hisdiv.htm
- Processed by:
- Russell Johnson, 6 April 1999
- Encoded by:
- Caroline Cubé
© 2000 The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Alfred Carl Hottes Papers,
Date (inclusive): ca. 1915-1955
Collection number: 57
Creator:
Hottes, Alfred Carl, 1891-1955.
Extent:
12 boxes (6.0 linear ft.)
18 oversize boxes (19.5 linear ft.)
Repository:
Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library.
History and Special Collections Division
University of California, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1798
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact UCLA Louise M. Darling Biomedical
Library for paging information.
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Copyright has not been assigned to the Louise M. Darling Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division, UCLA.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Biomedical Library History
and Special Collections Division Manuscripts Librarian. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Louise M. Darling
Biomedical Library History and Special Collections Division as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include
or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained.
Restrictions on Access
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE: Advance notice required for access.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Alfred Carl Hottes Papers. 57. Louise M. Darling Biomedical
Library, History & Special Collections Division,
University of California, Los Angeles.
Biography / Administrative History
Horticulturalist. Born in Ithaca, N.Y., March 16, 1891. Instructor at Cornell University (floriculture, 1914-1916) and Ohio
State University (floriculture and ornamental horticulture, 1916-1929). Garden editor of
Better Homes and Gardens magazine, 1929-1942. Moved to La Jolla, Calif., where he continued to edit garden pages for several national magazines, write
and revise books, give lectures on horticultural topics, collect succulents, and sketch and paint ornamental trees and shrubs.
Died in La Jolla on February 28, 1955.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of photographic portraits; correspondence; newspaper and magazine tear-sheets and clippings, some in scrapbooks;
newletters; publication contracts and agreements; collected chromolithographs and colored engravings (many by Mary E. Eaton);
and watercolor, oil color, and scratchboard illustrations by Hottes, which form the bulk of the collection. Many of the illustrations
by Hottes were for a book on California plants which he never published, because of the prohibitive cost of color printing
at the time.
Organization and Arrangement
Plant and flower illustrations by Hottes are arranged in alphabetical order by scientific (genus-species) name.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in
the library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
Hottes, Alfred Carl, 1891-1955.
Horticulturalists--United States--Archives.
Botanical illustration.
Botany.
Horticulture.
Floriculture.
Gardening.
Other Index Terms Related to this Collection
Eaton, Mary E.
Better homes and gardens.
Container List
Box 1 , Folder 1-17
Flower drawings and paintings: A - Baikina
Box 4 , Folder 45-59
Crassula - Crassula schmiditii
Box 5 , Folder 60-77
Crassula spatulata - Darlington californica
Box 6 , Folder 78-95
Datura - Echeveria gibbiflora metallica
Box 7 , Folder 96-109
Echeveria glauca - Epicattyleya orpeti
Box 9 , Folder 132-155
Fuchsia carbynbulosa - Hawortha viscosia
Box 10 , Folder 156-183
Hechtia texensis - Kalanchoe tubiflora
Box 11 , Folder 184-215
Kalanchoe uniflora - Nasturtium
Box 12 , Folder 216-245
Notocactus leninghausi - Pailownia empresstree
Box 13 , Folder 246-276
Pedilanthus - Rhoe discolor
Box 14 , Folder 277-296
Rhombophyllum rhomboideum - Senecio mikanoides
Box 15 , Folder 297-313
Senecio pendula - Stapelia pulvinata
Box 16 , Folder 314-332
Stapelia variegata - Trichosporum pulchrum
Box 17 , Folder 333-342
Tropaeolum peregrinum - various scratchboards of flowers
Box 18
Scrapbooks: (1) Publicity in Better Homes and Gardens;
(2) Newspaper columns by Hottes (1926-1928)
Box 19
Flower picture and prints (M.E. Evans et al), mounted on boards
Box 20
M.E. Eaton prints; photographs of Hottes et al; biographical material
Box 21
Pencil & ink drawings; figure captions/legends; clippings; MSS. notes
and correspondence; illustrated pamphlet dummy; Hottes personal history; Cabbages and Things (newsletter by Plantsmaith; 1949- 1955)
Box 22
Scratchboards: original box listings and boards A - D, #1-85
Note
(except
#3, removed to oversize box)
Box 23
Scratchboards E - L, #86-174
Note
(except #104, 154, removed to oversize box)
Box 24
Scratchboards M - Z, #175-275
Note
(except #178, removed to oversize box)
Box 25
Scratchboards: non-botanical subjects
Box 26
Watercolors: miscellaneous
Box 28
Scratchboards; watercolors; clippings; photographs; collected engravings
Box 29
Book advertisements; Burpee seed catalog (1944); TS., color-
illustrated lecture notes; TS. collected poems (1948, 1952) and letter by Carroll Dewilton Scott
