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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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  • Album page - Seven photographs: 1) Mullin's Farmhouse, Partridge, Kentucky; 2) Mist Rising from Pine Mountain after a Storm - View from the Side Yard; 3) Seven People Sitting on Front Porch of Mullin's Farmhouse; 4) Big Black Mountain from the Front Porch; 5) Flood of Poor Fork, July 5, 1935; 6) "On the Farm" showing Seven People; 7) Parson's Branch Cuts a Trench in Cloud Burst of July 5, 1935. [Image no. SIA2007-0023]

  • In the Tulip Tree Grove, Near Tree is 15 ft. in Circumference, Understory is Sugar Maple (Forest of Lynn Fork, Leatherwood, Perry County, Kentucky), June 14, 1933 (Braun image no. 4-4) [Image no. SIA2007-0060]

  • A Luxuriant Herbaceous Growth with Many Ferns, Figure Beside Tree gives Scale (Forest of Lynn Fork, Leatherwood, Perry County, Kentucky), June 14, 1993. (Braun image no. 4-5) [Image no. SIA2007-0061]

  • "The Big Poplar" with one person standing in front of tree, Perry County, Kentucky, June 14, 1933. Caption reads, "23 ft. in circumference, 4 feet above base." (Braun image no. 3-12) [Image no. SIA2007-0033]

  • Album page - Two photographs: 1) High Rock, elevation 3200 feet - a part of the rugged crest of Pine Mountain in Letcher County, Kentucky; 2) Whitesburg, elevation 1200 feet - view over the Cumberland Plateau from High Rock near the Virginia border, Whitesburg, on the north fork of the Kentucky River lies 2000 feet below, July 4, 1933. [Image no. SIA2007-0049]

  • "The Big Poplar" with three people standing in front of tree, Perry County, Kentucky, June 14, 1933. (Braun image no. 3-11) [Image no. SIA2007-0032]

  • Album page - Five photographs: 1) "The Big Poplar," Perry County, Kentucky, June 14, 1933; 2) "The Big Poplar," Perry County, Kentucky (23 ft. in circumference, 4 feet above base); 3-5) "The Largest Tulip Tree in Eastern Kentucky," c. 1933. [Image no. SIA2007-0031]

  • Mullin's Farmhouse, Partridge, Kentucky, c. 1935. [Image no. SIA2007-0029]

  • Flood of Poor Fork, Kentucky, July 5, 1935. (Braun image no. K44-7) [Image no. SIA2007-0025]

  • High Rock, elevation 3200 feet - a part of the rugged crest of Pine Mountain in Letcher County, Kentucky, July 4, 1933. [Image no. SIA2007-0050]

  • "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. 4-1) [Image no. SIA2007-0036]

  • Bad Branch - A Clear Cold Stream with Mossy Boulder-Strewn Bed and Banks of Hemlock and Rhododendron (Kentucky), c. 1935. (Braun image no. 7-12) [Image no. SIA2007-0046]

  • Whitesburg, elevation 1200 feet - View over the Cumberland Plateau from High Rock near the Virginia border, Whitesburg, on the north fork of the Kentucky River lies 2000 feet below, July 4, 1993. [Image no. SIA2007-0051]

  • Bad Branch - A Clear Cold Stream with Mossy Boulder-Strewn Bed and Banks of Hemlock and Rhododendron (Kentucky), c. 1935. (Braun image no. 7-10) [Image no. SIA2007-0047]

  • Trautvetteria and Ferns Wet by Spray of the Falls (Falls of Bad Branch, Letcher County, Kentucky), c. 1933. (Braun image no. 10-3) [Image no. SIA2007-0057]

  • The Valley of Bad Branch from the Falls (Falls of Bad Branch, Letcher County, Kentucky), c. 1933. (Braun image no. 8-5) [Image no. SIA2007-0058]

  • Album page - Five photographs: 1) Poor Fork of the Cumberland River Near Bad Branch, Pine Mountain to the Left; 2) Rhododendron and Hemlock Fringe the Stream - Upper Poor Fork; 3-4) Bad Branch - A Clear Cold Stream with Mossy Boulder-Strewn Bed and Banks of Hemlock and Rhododendron; 5) Each Family Has Its "Coal Bank" - Here the Mine Opening is Shaded by Rhododendron and Mt. Laurel, c. 1935. [Image no SIA2007-042]

  • "On the Farm" showing Seven People (Mullin's Farm, Partridge, Kentucky). [Image no. SIA2007-0026]

  • Rhododendron and Hemlock Fringe the Stream - Upper Poor Fork (Kentucky), c. 1935. (Braun image no. 8-12) [Image no. SIA2007-0044]

  • Three Large Tulip Tress on Ravine Slope, Nearest, 14 ft. Circumference, Figure Gives Scale (Forest of Lynn Fork, Leatherwood, Perry County, Kentucky), June 14, 1993. (Braun image no. 4-7) [Image no. SIA2007-0064]

  • The Forest Comes to the Foot of the Cliffs (Falls of Bad Branch, Letcher County, Kentucky), c. 1933. (Braun image no. 8-2) [Image no. SIA2007-0054]

  • Big Black Mountain from the Front Porch (Mullin's Farmhouse, Partridge, Kentucky), c. 1935. [Image no. SIA2007-0030]

  • Sphagnum Mats on the Cliffs (Falls of Bad Branch, Letcher County, Kentucky), c. 1933. (Braun image no. 10-2) [Image no. SIA2007-0056]

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