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Emma Lucy Braun Photograph Album

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Object Details

sova.sia.faru7140
Place
Kentucky
Tennessee
Topic
Botany
Ecology
Forests and forestry
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Emma Lucy Braun Photograph Album
Historical Note
Emma Lucy Braun (1889-1971), a specialist in forest ecology, spent her entire professional career at the University of Cincinnati. Her primary field of interest was deciduous forests of eastern North America, a subject on which she produced several publications.
Extent
0.43 cu. ft. (1 12x17 box)
Date
circa 1932-1940
Archival Repository
Smithsonian Institution Archives
Identifier
Record Unit 7140
Type
Collection descriptions
Archival materials
Black-and-white photographs
Citation
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 7140, Emma Lucy Braun Photograph Album
Genre/Form
Black-and-white photographs
Introduction
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.
Descriptive Entry
This album contains photographs of Kentucky and Tennessee forests, many of which appeared in her published work. Also included are some photographs of individuals and groups, and a series of photographs of forests taken by Ralph W. Chaney in 1940. Most of the photographs are of virgin forests that have since been destroyed by lumbering and mining.
SIA.FARU7140
https://sova.si.edu/record/SIA.FARU7140
Record Unit 7140
SIA
Record ID
ebl-1503511070791-1503511070796-0

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  • Tulip and Beech Prevail in this Part of the Forest, Figure Gives Scale (Forest of Lynn Fork, Leatherwood, Perry County, Kentucky), June 14, 1993. (Braun image no. 4-6) [Image no. SIA2007-0062]

  • Sandstone Cliffs at the Falls of Bad Branch (Letcher County, Kentucky), c. 1933. (Braun image no. 8-3) [Image no. SIA2007-0053]

  • The Falls Drop 50 Feet Over the Cliff (Falls of Bad Branch, Letcher County, Kentucky), c. 1933. (Braun image no. 8-7) [Image no. SIA2007-0055]

  • Mist Rising from Pine Mountain after a Storm - View from the Side Yard (Mullin's Farmhouse, Partridge, Kentucky), c. 1935. [Image no. SIA2007-0024]

  • Parson's Branch (Kentucky) Cuts a Trench in Cloud Burst, July 5, 1935. (Braun image no. K44-8) [Image no. SIA2007-0027]

  • "The Largest Tulip Tree in Eastern Kentucky" (one person standing in front of tree), c. 1933. In the right fork of the left or unnamed fork of Lynn Fork of Leatherwood, tributary to the North Fork of the Kentucky River, Perry County, Kentucky. (Braun image no. 4-3) [Image no. SIA2007-0034]

  • Album page - Five photographs: 1) In the Tulip Tree Grove, Near Tree is 15 ft. in Circumference, Understory is Sugar Maple; 2) A Luxuriant Herbaceous Growth with Many Ferns, Figure Beside Tree gives Scale; 3) Tulip and Beech Prevail in this Part of the Forest, Figure Gives Scale; 4) Three Large Tulip Tress on Ravine Slope, Nearest, 14 ft. Circumference, Figure Gives Scale; 5) Lower in the Ravine, Hemlock and Birch Mix with Tulip, White Oak, Beech and Maple, June 14, 1993. [Image no. SIA2007-0059]

  • Poor Fork of the Cumberland River Near Bad Branch, Pine Mountain to the Left (Kentucky), c. 1935. (Braun image no. 7-8) [Image no. SIA2007-0043]

  • Bad Branch - A Clear Cold Stream with Mossy Boulder-Strewn Bed and Banks of Hemlock and Rhododendron (Kentucky), c. 1935. (Braun image nos. 7-10 and 7-12) [Image no. SIA2007-0048]

  • Album page - Six photographs taken at the Falls of Bad Branch, Letcher County, Kentucky, c. 1933. [Image no. SIA2007-0052]

  • Lower in the Ravine, Hemlock and Birch Mix with Tulip, White Oak, Beech and Maple (Forest of Lynn Fork, Leatherwood, Perry County, Kentucky), June 14, 1933. (Braun image no. 4-8) [Image no. SIA2007-0063]

  • "The Largest Tulip Tree in Eastern Kentucky" (one person standing in front of tree), c. 1933. In the right fork of the left or unnamed fork of Lynn Fork of Leatherwood, tributary to the North Fork of the Kentucky River, Perry County, Kentucky. (Braun image no. 4-2) [Image no. SIA2007-0035]

  • Coal Bank - Mine Opening is Shaded by Rhododendron and Mt. Laurel (Kentucky), c. 1935. Caption reads, "Each Family Has Its "Coal Bank" - Here the Mine Opening is Shaded by Rhododendron and Mt. Laurel." (Braun image no. 7-9) [Image no. SIA2007-0045]

  • Seven People Sitting on Front Porch of Mullin's Farmhouse, Partridge, Kentucky, c. 1935 [Image no. SIA2007-0028]

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