Lowell Fitz Randolph papers, 1955-1979.
Collection Number: 21-17-1876
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Lowell Fitz Randolph papers, 1955-1979.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
21-17-1876
Abstract:
Manuscripts, correspondence, reports, publications, notes, and other papers concerning
corn and iris breeding.
Creator:
Randolph, L. F. (Lowell Fitz), 1894-1980.
Quanitities:
4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Lowell Fritz Randolph (Cornell University Ph.D. 1921) was professor of botany at Cornell
University.
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.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Lowell Fitz Randolph papers, #21-17-1876. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections,
Cornell University Library.
Names:
Cornell University -- : Faculty.
Subjects:
College teachers.
Botanists.
Botany.
Irises (Plants)
Corn -- Breeding.
Form and Genre Terms:
Field notes
Photographs.
Slides (Photography).
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Series I. Iris records
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| Box 4 | Folder 1-10 |
Envelopes containing photos of Iris
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| Box 4 | Folder 11 |
Society for Louisiana Irises - Newsletters
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1960s |
| Box 4 | Folder 12 |
Fa Iris - Correspondence
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1950s-1960s |
| Box 4 | Folder 13 |
Fa Iris - Cytology - Original Photos/drawings
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| Box 4 | Folder 14 |
Fa Iris - Basic Data Analysis
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1963 |
| Box 4 | Folder 15 |
Correspondence - P.C. M.
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1970s |
| Box 4 | Folder 16 |
Correspondence - Osler and Wilkes
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1970s |
| Box 4 | Folder 17 |
Correspondence - Ernest Sprague
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1970s |
| Box 4 | Folder 18 |
Maps
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| Box 4 | Folder 19 |
Mexico - Data Sheets
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1970s |
| Box 4 | Folder 20 |
Correspondence - Tripsacum Manuscript
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1960s |
| Box 4 | Folder 21 |
Mexico - Data Sheets
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| Box 4 | Folder 22 |
Mexico - Maps
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| Box 4 | Folder 23 |
Awards
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1960s |
| Box 4 | Folder 24 |
Field Notes
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| Box 4 | Folder 25 |
Glossary Excerpts - Definitions
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| Box 4 | Folder 26 |
Field Trip - Listing of Collections, Memos on Tripsacum
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1970s |
| Box 4 | Folder 27 |
Field Trips - Mexico, Honduras and Diaries
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1965-1966 |
| Box 4 | Folder 28 |
West Indies Tripsacum - Travel plans, maps, herb. records
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| Box 4 | Folder 29 |
Diagnostic Features of Herb. Specs.
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1964 |
| Box 4 | Folder 30 |
Tripsacum Records
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| Box 4 | Folder 31 |
West Indies - Travel, Herb. Specs.
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1971 |
| Box 4 | Folder 32 |
West Indies - Correspondence
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| Box 4 | Folder 33 |
West Indies - Tripsacum - M.S.
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1973 |
| Box 4 | Folder 34 |
N.Y. Botanical Garden
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| Box 4 | Folder 35 |
Publications by Randolph
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| Box 4 | Folder 36 |
Iris Species and Herbarium Species Notes: India and the USSR
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1958-1959 |
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Scope and Contents
handwritten notes and Correspondence
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| Box 4 | Folder 37 |
Iris Species Correspondence and Sketch
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1962-1966 |
| Box 4 | Folder 38 |
Iris Species Letter and Photographs
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1963 |
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Scope and Contents
British Museum
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| Box 4 | Folder 39 |
Iris Species Photographs
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1963 |
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Scope and Contents
Photographs and negatives
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| Box 4 | Folder 40 |
Field Notes, Iris Trips and Iris Crossing Notes - Bundled
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1947-1969 |
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Scope and Contents
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
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Field Trip Notebooks
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| Box 6 | Volume 1 |
Iris Trip Notebook - Europe(England) and Philadelphia
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1936-1939 |
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Scope and Contents
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes
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| Box 6 | Volume 2 |
Iris Trip Notebook - Auto Trips
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1937-1953 |
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Scope and Contents
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes. Includes trips to Florida, Washington,
Adirondacks, Boston, and Nashville,
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| Box 6 | Volume 3 |
Field Notes - Southwest and Mexico Trip
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1941-1942 |
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Scope and Contents
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes
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| Box 6 | Volume 4 |
Field Notes - Guatemala
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1946 |
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Scope and Contents
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes
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| Box 6 | Volume 5 |
Iris Trip Notebook
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1949 |
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Scope and Contents
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes
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| Box 6 | Volume 6 |
Field Notes - Europe
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1950 |
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Scope and Contents
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes. Includes England, France, Denmark, and
Sweden
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| Box 6 | Volume 7-8 |
Iris Trip Notebook - Europe and Middle East
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1954 |
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Scope and Contents
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes. Includes Switzerland, France. Italy, Yugoslavia,
Germany, Austria, Cypress, Turkey, Lebanon, and Egypt
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| Box 6 | Volume 9 |
Field Notes - California, Louisiana, Southwest, and Texas
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1956 |
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Scope and Contents
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes
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| Box 6 | Volume 10 |
Field Notes - Memphis, Tennessee
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1957 |
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Scope and Contents
6x9" notebook of handwritten notes
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| Box 6 | Volume 11-12 |
Iris Trip Notebook - India and Soviet Union(USSR)
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1958-1959 |
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Scope and Contents
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes
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| Box 6 | Volume 13 |
Iris Trip Notebook - "Iron Curtain Countries"
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1961 |
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Scope and Contents
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes. Includes N. Italy, Yugoslavia, Bulgaria,
Romania, Czechoslovakia, Poland and West Germany, Canary Islands and Sinica(China)
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| Box 6 | Volume 14 |
Field Notes - Mexico, Honduras and Guatamala
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1966 |
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Scope and Contents
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes.
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| Box 6 | Volume 15 |
Field Notes - Mexico
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1971 |
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Scope and Contents
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes.
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| Box 6 | Volume 16 |
Field Notes - West Indies
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1971 |
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Scope and Contents
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes.
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| Box 6 | Volume 17 |
Field Notes - Mexico
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1971-1978 |
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Scope and Contents
Pocket sized notebook of handwritten notes. Mainly from 1971-1972, also includes loose
notes with later dates
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Series II. Manuscripts material
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| Box 3 | Folder 1 |
Draft paper by Randolph - Contributions of Wild Relatives of Maize to the Evolbutionary
History of Domisticated Maize
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| Box 3 | Folder 2 |
Correspondence
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1969 |
| Box 3 | Folder 3 |
Correspondence
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1974-1975 |
| Box 3 | Folder 4 |
Correspondence
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1974-1975 |
| Box 3 | Folder 5 |
Correspondence
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1974-1980 |
| Box 3 | Folder 6 |
Annual Report - Fairchild Tropical Garden
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1976 |
| Box 3 | Folder 7 |
Zea diploperennis notes
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| Box 3 |
Diagrams and photos used in book
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Series III. Subject files
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| Box 1 | Folder 1 |
Agricultural Origins
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| Box 1 | Folder 2 |
Archeological digs
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| Box 1 | Folder 3-4 |
Banerjee Thesis
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1973 |
| Box 1 | Folder 5 |
Bibliographies
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| Box 1 | Folder 6 |
Chromosones
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| Box 1 | Folder 7 |
Climatic Changes, Condensation and Adaption
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| Box 1 | Folder 8 |
Coix spatlic
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| Box 1 | Folder 9 |
Cytogenetics
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| Box 1 | Folder 10 |
Cytology
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| Box 1 | Folder 11 |
Early Subsistence
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| Box 1 | Folder 12 |
Euclaena
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| Box 1 | Folder 13 |
Fairchild Tropical Garden
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| Box 1 | Folder 14 |
Hybidization and Genetics
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| Box 1 | Folder 15 |
Introgression of Corn
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| Box 1 | Folder 16 |
Kato Manuscript - Text parts I and II
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| Box 1 | Folder 17 |
Kato Manuscript - Text Parts II
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| Box 1 | Folder 18 |
Kato Appendix 1A Tables 1-9
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| Box 1 | Folder 19 |
Kato Appendix 1A Figures 1-79
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| Box 1 | Folder 20 |
Kato Appendix 1B Tables 1-6
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| Box 1 | Folder 21 |
Kato Appendix II Figures 1-39, Tables 1-14
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| Box 1 | Folder 22 |
Kernal Row Numbers
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| Box 1 | Folder 23 |
Kyoto University - Scientific expedition to Latin American report
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| Box 1 | Folder 24 |
Maize Genetics Cooperation Newsletter
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| Box 1 | Folder 25 |
Maydac
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| Box 1 | Folder 26 |
Morphology
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| Box 1 | Folder 27 |
Oaxaca Valley
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| Box 1 | Folder 28-20 |
Origins of Corn
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| Box 2 | Folder 1-4 |
Origins of Corn
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| Box 2 | Folder 5 |
Personal correspondence
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| Box 2 | Folder 6 |
Peruvian Archeology
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| Box 2 | Folder 7 |
Photographs
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| Box 2 | Folder 8 |
Plant Genera
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| Box 2 | Folder 9 |
Pollen
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| Box 2 | Folder 10 |
Quotes
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| Box 2 | Folder 11 |
Races of Corn
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| Box 2 | Folder 12 |
Rado Carbon Dating
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| Box 2 | Folder 13-14 |
Techuacan Archeological Botanical Project
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| Box 2 | Folder 15-16 |
Teosinthe and Maize
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| Box 2 | Folder 17 |
Tobacco and Nicotiana
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| Box 2 | Folder 18 |
Tropacum and Maize
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| Box 2 | Folder 19 |
Wheat and Barley
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| Box 2 | Folder 20 |
Zea Mays-Phylogeny
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| Box 2 | Folder 21 |
Miscellaneous Publications
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| Box 2 | Folder 22 |
Miscellaneous Notes
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Series IV. Slides
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| Box 5 |
Concerning Tripsacum and various trips to Guatemala, Mexico, Adirondacks, etc.
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Series V. Items
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| Box 7 | MU-385, MU 462-477 |
Shells, with classification
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