Guide to the Lowell Fitz Randolph Papers,
1936-1979

Collection Number: 21-17-1876

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library

Contact Information:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY 14853
(607) 255-3530
Fax: (607) 255-9524
rareref@cornell.edu
http://rmc.library.cornell.edu
Compiled by:
E. Keating
Date completed:
July 2003
EAD encoding:
Martin Heggestad, July 2003
Last modified:
RMC Staff, March 2013

© 2002 Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Lowell Fitz Randolph papers, 1936-1979.
Collection Number:
21-17-1876
Creator:
Lowell Fitz Randolph, 1894-1980.
Quantity:
4 cubic ft.
Forms of Material:
Manuscripts, correspondence, reports, publications, notes, and other papers.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library
Abstract:
Manuscripts, correspondence, reports, publications, notes, and other papers concerning corn and iris breeding.
Language:
Collection material in English


BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

Lowell Fritz Randolph (Cornell University Ph.D. 1921) was professor of botany at Cornell University.

COLLECTION DESCRIPTION

Manuscripts, correspondence, reports, publications, notes, photographs, slides, field notes, and other papers concerning corn, iris breeding and his trips to Mexico, Honduras, Guatemala, the West Indies, Europe, India, Soviet Union (USSR) and the Middle East.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Randolph, Lowell Fitz, 1894-1980.
Cornell University--Faculty.

Subjects:
Corn--Breeding.
Iris (Plant)
Botany.
Botanists.
College teachers.

Form and Genre Terms:
Photographs.
Slides (Photography)
Field notes


INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:
Lowell Fitz Randolph papers, #21-17-1876. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

CONTAINER LIST

Date
Description
Container
Series I. Iris records
Envelopes containing photos of Iris
Box 4 Folder 1-10
1960s
Society for Louisiana Irises - Newsletters
Box 4 Folder 11
1950s-1960s
Fa Iris - Correspondence
Box 4 Folder 12
Fa Iris - Cytology - Original Photos/drawings
Box 4 Folder 13
1963
Fa Iris - Basic Data Analysis
Box 4 Folder 14
1970s
Correspondence - P.C. M.
Box 4 Folder 15
1970s
Correspondence - Osler and Wilkes
Box 4 Folder 16
1970s
Correspondence - Ernest Sprague
Box 4 Folder 17
Maps
Box 4 Folder 18
1970s
Mexico - Data Sheets
Box 4 Folder 19
1960s
Correspondence - Tripsacum Manuscript
Box 4 Folder 20
Mexico - Data Sheets
Box 4 Folder 21
Mexico - Maps
Box 4 Folder 22
1960s
Awards
Box 4 Folder 23
Field Notes
Box 4 Folder 24
Glossary Excerpts - Definitions
Box 4 Folder 25
1970s
Field Trip - Listing of Collections, Memos on Tripsacum
Box 4 Folder 26
1965-1966
Field Trips - Mexico, Honduras and Diaries
Box 4 Folder 27
West Indies Tripsacum - Travel plans, maps, herb. records
Box 4 Folder 28
1964
Diagnostic Features of Herb. Specs.
Box 4 Folder 29
Tripsacum Records
Box 4 Folder 30
1971
West Indies - Travel, Herb. Specs.
Box 4 Folder 31
West Indies - Correspondence
Box 4 Folder 32
1973
West Indies - Tripsacum - M.S.
Box 4 Folder 33
N.Y. Botanical Garden
Box 4 Folder 34
Publications by Randolph
Box 4 Folder 35
1958-1959
Iris Species and Herbarium Species Notes: India and the USSR
Box 4 Folder 36
handwritten notes and Correspondence
1962-1966
Iris Species Correspondence and Sketch
Box 4 Folder 37
1963
Iris Species Letter and Photographs
Box 4 Folder 38
British Museum
1963
Iris Species Photographs
Box 4 Folder 39
Photographs and negatives
1947-1969
Field Notes, Iris Trips and Iris Crossing Notes - Bundled
Box 4 Folder 40
Bundles of loose handwritten notes. Includes notes from Boston(1949), England(1950 and 1959), St. Louis(1952), Indiana(1953), Lousiana(1964), Mexico, Honduras, and Guatemala(1965-1969) and Iris Crossing notes from 1947, 1948, 1949 and 1950
1936-1939
Iris Trip Notebook - Europe(England) and Philadelphia
Box 6 Volume 1
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes
1937-1953
Iris Trip Notebook - Auto Trips
Box 6 Volume 2
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes. Includes trips to Florida, Washington, Adirondacks, Boston, and Nashville,
1941-1942
Field Notes - Southwest and Mexico Trip
Box 6 Volume 3
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes
1946
Field Notes - Guatemala
Box 6 Volume 4
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes
1949
Iris Trip Notebook
Box 6 Volume 5
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes
1950
Field Notes - Europe
Box 6 Volume 6
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes. Includes England, France, Denmark, and Sweden
1954
Iris Trip Notebook - Europe and Middle East
Box 6 Volume 7-8
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes. Includes Switzerland, France. Italy, Yugoslavia, Germany, Austria, Cypress, Turkey, Lebanon, and Egypt
1956
Field Notes - California, Louisiana, Southwest, and Texas
Box 6 Volume 9
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes
1957
Field Notes - Memphis, Tennessee
Box 6 Volume 10
6x9" notebook of handwritten notes
1958-1959
Iris Trip Notebook - India and Soviet Union(USSR)
Box 6 Volume 11-12
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes
1961
Iris Trip Notebook - "Iron Curtain Countries"
Box 6 Volume 13
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes. Includes N. Italy, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, Romania, Czechoslovakia, Poland and West Germany, Canary Islands and Sinica(China)
1966
Field Notes - Mexico, Honduras and Guatamala
Box 6 Volume 14
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes.
1971
Field Notes - Mexico
Box 6 Volume 15
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes.
1971
Field Notes - West Indies
Box 6 Volume 16
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes.
1971-1978
Field Notes - Mexico
Box 6 Volume 17
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes. Mainly from 1971-1972, also includes loose notes with later dates
Series II. Manuscripts material
Draft paper by Randolph - Contributions of Wild Relatives of Maize to the Evolbutionary History of Domisticated Maize
Box 3 Folder 1
1969
Correspondence
Box 3 Folder 2
1974-1975
Correspondence
Box 3 Folder 3
1974-1975
Correspondence
Box 3 Folder 4
1974-1980
Correspondence
Box 3 Folder 5
1976
Annual Report - Fairchild Tropical Garden
Box 3 Folder 6
Zea diploperennis notes
Box 3 Folder 7
Diagrams and photos used in book
Box 3
Series III. Subject files
Agricultural Origins
Box 1 Folder 1
Archeological digs
Box 1 Folder 2
1973
Banerjee Thesis
Box 1 Folder 3-4
Bibliographies
Box 1 Folder 5
Chromosones
Box 1 Folder 6
Climatic Changes, Condensation and Adaption
Box 1 Folder 7
Coix spatlic
Box 1 Folder 8
Cytogenetics
Box 1 Folder 9
Cytology
Box 1 Folder 10
Early Subsistence
Box 1 Folder 11
Euclaena
Box 1 Folder 12
Fairchild Tropical Garden
Box 1 Folder 13
Hybidization and Genetics
Box 1 Folder 14
Introgression of Corn
Box 1 Folder 15
Kato Manuscript - Text parts I and II
Box 1 Folder 16
Kato Manuscript - Text Parts II
Box 1 Folder 17
Kato Appendix 1A Tables 1-9
Box 1 Folder 18
Kato Appendix 1A Figures 1-79
Box 1 Folder 19
Kato Appendix 1B Tables 1-6
Box 1 Folder 20
Kato Appendix II Figures 1-39, Tables 1-14
Box 1 Folder 21
Kernal Row Numbers
Box 1 Folder 22
Kyoto University - Scientific expedition to Latin American report
Box 1 Folder 23
Maize Genetics Cooperation Newsletter
Box 1 Folder 24
Maydac
Box 1 Folder 25
Morphology
Box 1 Folder 26
Oaxaca Valley
Box 1 Folder 27
Origins of Corn
Box 1 Folder 28-20
Origins of Corn
Box 2 Folder 1-4
Personal correspondence
Box 2 Folder 5
Peruvian Archeology
Box 2 Folder 6
Photographs
Box 2 Folder 7
Plant Genera
Box 2 Folder 8
Pollen
Box 2 Folder 9
Quotes
Box 2 Folder 10
Races of Corn
Box 2 Folder 11
Rado Carbon Dating
Box 2 Folder 12
Techuacan Archeological Botanical Project
Box 2 Folder 13-14
Teosinthe and Maize
Box 2 Folder 15-16
Tobacco and Nicotiana
Box 2 Folder 17
Tropacum and Maize
Box 2 Folder 18
Wheat and Barley
Box 2 Folder 19
Zea Mays-Phylogeny
Box 2 Folder 20
Miscellaneous Publications
Box 2 Folder 21
Miscellaneous Notes
Box 2 Folder 22
Series IV. Slides
Concerning Tripsacum and various trips to Guatemala, Mexico, Adirondacks, etc.
Box 5