Finding Aid for Jack R. & Harry V. Harlan Papers, 1905-85 | University of Illinois Archives

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Series 2: Papers of Harry V. Harlan

Papers of Harry V. Harlan, USDA Agronomist (1909-44), includes correspondence, manuscripts, photographs, and publications relating to barley, crop exploration, production and travel in the Philippines (1906-09), Peru (1913-14), Eastern Europe (1919), Algeria, India, and Ethiopia (1923), Necholai I. Vavilov, and research stations in Arizona and Idaho.

Box 8

Folder 1: Biographical, ca. 1942

Folder 2: Publications Lists, 1941-43

Folder 3: Publications, 1906-22

Folder 4: Publications, 1929-43

Sub-Series 1: Correspondence

Box 8

Folder 5: Correspondence, 1905-10

Kansas State transcript, Philippine teaching position, photographs and accounts, USDA plant breeding assistant appointment (1909)

Folder 6: Correspondence, 1912-20

W. Spillman, letters from Macedonia (1913) and Mexico/South America (1915)

Folder 7: Correspondence, Peru, Oct. 11, 1913 - Apr. 12, 1914

Folder 8: Cereal Investigation report, "Juliaca 1914 & 1419", 1914, 1919

Folder 9: Correspondence, Europe, May-Sep., 1919

Service in Europe as an agronomist to study wheat production problems, supplies and demands in cooperation with the United States Food Administration and the American Relief Administration, England, France, battlefield tours, Mt. Cenis Pass, Turin, Venice, Trieste, Croatia, Slavonia, Belgrade, Hungary, Temisvar, Bucharest (Rumania), Transylvania, Bukovina, Galicia, Moravia, Austria, Bohemia, Germany, Belgium, letters & official documents

Folder 10: European Agriculture Manuscript for Publication, 1919

"The Wheat and Rye Crops of Europe, 1919", 20 pp. manuscript and four page memo on method of computing probable yields in Eastern Europe

Folder 11: Correspondence, 1921-22

Folder 12: Correspondence, Algeria, Feb.-Apr., 1923

Barley studies, letters and diary

Folder 13: Correspondence, Egypt and India, May-Aug., 1923

Cairo, Poona, Ganderfal (Kashmir), Srinagar, Indian Ocean travel

Folder 14: Correspondence, Ethiopia and France, Aug.-Jan., 1923

Letters and reports on barley

Folder 15: Correspondence, 1924-25

Amharic documents, letters fro Haile Selassie

Folder 16: Correspondence, 1926

Amharic letter, manuscripts "An Agricultural Adventure in Punjab and Kashmir"

Box 9

Folder 1: Correspondence, 1927-29

Family news and travel

Folder 2: Correspondence, 1930-39

N.I. Vavilov (Leningrad)

Folder 3: Correspondence, 1941-44

Folder 4: Correspondence, Undated

Sub-Series 2: Journals

Box 9

Folder 5: Peruvian Trip Journals, 1913-14

Service as agricultural expert for the Peruvian Corporation, rail travel, exploration, crops, Arequipa (October 29-November 6), Juliaca (November 7-March 8), Cuzco, notes on vegetation and topography, November 4-8, 1913, barley plantings, Indians, Christmas customs and travel (December 2-January 6), Juliaca & Lake Titicaca, Andes & Peru, railroads, Cuzco, Sicuani, barley plantings, plants, houses, travel, Incan buildings & legends (February 7-March 16, 1914)

Folder 6: Journals, Peru, 1913

Four volumes

Folder 7: Journals, Europe, 1919

2 volumes with transcriptions - Acquitania to Southampton. London & Paris, Verdun battlefield. Rheims & Soissons. Lyon. Turin (May 26) & Venice. May 31-June 3--travel from Trieste to Belgrade. Transylvania. Bucharest (June 11). Auto trouble. Lemberg (June 19). Refugees. Anti-Semitism. Warsaw (June 22-25). Germany. Netherlands. July 8--return to Paris after 5000 mile auto trip in 46 days. France, Italy, Croatia, Slavonia, Serbia, Banat, Transylvania, Rumania, Bukovina, Galicia, Poland, Germany, Holland, Belgium

Folder 8: Journal, 1923-24

Paris to Marseilles and Algiers.  Camel riding.  Cairo (May 2-10).  Egyptian horticultural station.  Bombay & Poona, India (May 25-June 3).  Simla & Kashmir.  Addis Ababa (November 3) and Modjo (November 15).  Travel in Ethiopia (December 16, 1923-February 10, 1924).  Teff fields, churches.

Sub-Series 3: Subject File

Box 10

Folder 1: Philippines, Glass Plates, ca. 1906

Folder 2: Igorot Agricultural System, ca. 1909

Folder 3: Passports - H.V. Harlan, 1919, 1923, 1927

Folder 4: Field Notes, 1923-24

Folder 5: Abyssinia Lecture, ca. 1925

Folder 6: "My Life with Barley" Illustrations, ca. 1942

Folder 7: Barley Photograph Prints, Sacaton, Ariz., 1944

Folder 8: Cereal Crops, USDA, Barley Negatives, Sacaton, Ariz., 1944

Box 11

Folder 1: Barley, 1944

Folder 2: Books, Undated

Sandwich Islands Mission (1816):  Arabic phrasebook

Folder 3: Cards and Book Outline, Undated

Folder 4: Children's Literature and Doggerel, Undated

Folder 5: Currency, European, 1910-19

Folder 6: Family Photographs, Undated

Folder 7: Fiction Manuscripts, Undated

Folder 8: Idaho, Undated

Folder 9: Pope Cereals, 1941

Box 12

Folder 1: Manuscripts, 1906-40

Folder 2: Manuscripts, Philippines and Far East, ca. 1907-12

Folder 3: Manuscripts, Barley Book, Undated

Folder 4: Manuscripts, Undated

Folder 5: Manuscript Data Sheets and Photographs, 1941-43

Folder 6: Maps, ca. 1923

New York and North Africa

Folder 7: Physics Research Laboratory Addition, 1977

VHS videotape dub of movie of construction

Box 13

Folder 1: One Man's Life With Barley, 1957

Folder 2: "Wonders of the Past" re: Ancient Agriculture, Undated

Folder 3: Correspondence, 1904-05

Missouri politics, Indians, farmers letters of J.C. Spees

Folder 4: Manuscript on Food Conditions in Eastern Europe, 1919

Folder 5: Manuscript, Europe, 1919

Folder 6: North American Reviews, "War Weekly", 1918-19

Folder 7: Maps, Peru, 1913

Folder 8: Maps, Balkans, Czechoslovakia, Italy, Europe, 1919

Folder 9: Maps, France, Germany, Italy, 1919

Folder 10: Maps, Rumania, 1919

Folder 11: Maps, Poland, Russia, Yugoslavia, 1919

Folder 12: Newspaper, Peru, 1913-15

Folder 13: Publication, "Education in the Philippines", July, 1907

Folder 14: Map, Philippines, Geography, 1902

Sub-Series 4: Photographs

Box 14

Folder 1: Photographs, Algeria, 1923

Folder 2: Photographs, Austria, 1919

Folder 3: Photographs, Belgium, 1919

Folder 4: Photographs, Czechoslovakia, 1919

Folder 5: Photographs, Eastern Europe, 1919

Folder 6: Photographs, Egypt and Aden, 1923-24

Folder 7: Photographs, England, Holland, Japan, and Switzerland Travel Literature, Undated

Folder 8: Photographs, Ethiopia, 1923

Folder 9: Photographs, France, 1919, 1923

Folder 10: Photographs, Travel Literature, France and Paris, 1919-23

Folder 11: Photographs, Argonne and Somme, 1919

Folder 12: Photographs, Paris Victory Parade, 1919

Folder 13: Photographs, Verdun, 1919

Folder 14: Photographs, Cote D'Azur Travel Literature, 1919-23

Box 15

Folder 1: Photographs, Germany, 1919

Folder 2: Photographs, Hungary, 1919

Folder 3: Photographs, India, 1923-24

Folder 4: Photographs, Kashmir, 1923

Folder 5: Photographs, Bombay, Delhi, and Poona, 1923

Folder 6: Photographs, Italy, Cenis, Venice, and Triests, 1919

Box 16

Folder 1: Photographs, Netherlands, 1919

Folder 2: Photographs, Peru, 1913

Folder 3: Photographs, Philippines, ca. 1906

Folder 4: Photographs, Poland, 1919

Folder 5: Photographs, Rumania, Transylvania, 1919

Folder 6: Photographs, Rumania, Bukovina, and Moldavia, 1919

Folder 7: Photographs, Spain, Undated

Folder 8: Photographs, United States, Staff and Research Station, ca. 1930-40

Aberdeen, Idaho, Shaw's Ranch

Folder 9: Photographs, United States, Crater Lake, and West, Undated

Folder 10: Photographs, Yugoslavia, Croatia, Belgrade, and Slavonia, 1919

Folder 11: Photographs, Alaska-Tibet and Unidentified, Undated

Sub-Series 5: Photograph Negatives and Slides

Box 17

Folder 1: Photograph Negatives - Igorots-Luzon, Philippines (5 X 7 glass)

Item 1: Native with Four Human Skulls

# 1

Item 2: Village - Straw Huts with Rice Fields in the Background

# 2

Item 3: Village and Fields in Mountains

# 3

Item 4: Two Native Men

# 4

Item 5: Group of Natives

# 5

Item 6: Mountains and Valley

# 6

Item 7: Waterfall in Mountains

# 7

Folder 2: Philippine Islands (5 X 7 glass)

Item 1: Rocky Landscape with Mountain in Background

# 8

Item 2: Natives in Thatched Hut

# 9

Item 3: Man, Woman, and Natives

# 10

Item 4: Natives in Village - Spears in Foreground

# 11

Item 5: Native with Spear

# 12

Item 6: Two Native Women

# 13

Item 7: Natives in Front of Shelter

# 14

Item 8: View from Above - Fields and Village

# 15

Item 9: Two Natives at Work

# 16

Item 10: Beach and Ship Offshore

# 17

Item 11: Large Gathering of Natives

# 18

Item 12: Nine Native Men with Packs and Spears

# 19

Item 13: Hilly Landscape

# 20

Item 14: Field of Grain - Mountains and Village in Background

# 21

Item 15: Fields on Mountainside

# 22

Item 16: Village Street - Two-Story Buildings and Palm Trees

# 23

Item 17: Native Men

# 24

Item 18: Man on Beach, People in Boat Offshore

# 25

Item 19: Four Natives Working

# 26

Item 20: Oxen in Water - Water Buffalo?

# 27

Item 21: Field in Foreground, Mountain in Background

# 28

Item 22: Man with Water Buffalo? In Background

# 29

Item 23: Cloudy Landscape?

# 30

Item 24: Native Woman Weaving in Village

# 31

Item 25: Water Buffalo? In Water, One Native

# 32

Item 26: Piles of Straw in Field

# 33

Item 27: Baskets? Hanging in Hut

# 34

Item 28: Panoromic View, Mountains, Valley, Fields, Village

# 35

Item 29: "299 Rice Fields Banquet"

# 36

Item 30: Native Man, Turban and Staff

# 37

Folder 3: Philippines

Item 1: 2 X 3 Glass Slide - "Plate XXIV," 3 Natives

# 38

Item 2: 2 X 3 Glass Slide - "Plate XXIV," 3 Natives

# 39

Item 3: 2 x 3 Glass Slide - Hillside with Rice Fields

# 40

Folder 4: Minnesota (5 X 7 glass negatives)

Item 1: Pink Ladyslipper

# 1

Item 2: Wild Rice

# 2

Item 3: Dairy (?) Woods - St. Paul A.I.

# 3

Item 4: Logan / Good St. Paul

# 4

Item 5: Logan Cattle, St. Paul

# 5

Item 6: Wild Rice

# 6

Item 7: Wild Rice

# 7

Item 8: House Interior

# 8

Item 9: House Interior - Mr. Bill

# 9

Folder 5: Bill and Jack When Small (5 X 7 glass plates)

Item 1: Boy (Bill) in Sailor Suit in Front of Door

# 1

Item 2: Bill in Sailor Suit

# 2

Item 3: Bill with Little Boy in Wicker Seat (Jack)

# 3

Item 4: Jack

# 4

Item 5: Two Boys (Bill and Jack)

# 5

Item 6: Jack

# 6

Folder 6: Minnesota (4 X 5 glass negatives)

Item 1: Wild Rice

# 10

Item 2: Woods

# 11

Item 3: Boulevard - Minnesota

# 12

Item 4: Ilwaco Bridge

# 13

Item 5: Rice - Augusta

# 14

Item 6: Lilacs

# 15

Item 7: Ilwaco Bridge

# 16

Item 8: Birches

# 17

Item 9: Field and Tree

# 18

Item 10: Rice

# 19

Folder 7: Peru (4 X 5 glass plate negatives)

Item 1: Man in Field with Barley?

# 1

Item 2: Three Men in Ponchos

# 2

Item 3: Negative Film - Man in Field with Barley?

# 3

Item 4: Fields

# 4

Item 5: Group of Natives

# 5

Item 6: Man in Scrubby Field

# 6

Item 7: Village, Field and Animals

# 7

Item 8: Mountains and Valleys

# 8

Item 9: Natives Outside Stone Building

# 9

Item 10: Two Native

# 10

Item 11: Field with Sheep, Mountain in Background

# 11

Item 12: Animal, Buildings in Background

# 12

Item 13: Group of Llamas Outside Buildings

# 13

Item 14: Man in Field with Crop - Bude?

# 14

Item 15: View of Rocky Landscape

# 15

Item 16: Building with Water in Foreground

# 16

Item 17: Sheep in Field

# 17

Item 18: Man at Edge of Rocks Overlooking Plain Below

# 18

Item 19: Man on Mountaintop - Mountain in Background

# 19

Item 20: Two Men - Plowing with Oxen and Planting

# 20

Item 21: Gran Hotel Ratti

# 21

Sub-Series 6: Ethiopia And Kashmir Photographs

Box 18

Folder 1: "A Caravan Journey through Abyssinia", Jun., 1925

Article from National Geographic Magazine

Folder 2: Ethiopia and Kashmir Photograph Lists

Folder 3: Glass Slides - Box A

Item 1: Map of Northern Africa - Algeria

Item 2: Railroad Siding and Dock

Item 3: Roamn Ruins Timgad

Item 4: Roman Ruins Amphitheater

Item 5: Building - Landscaped Door

Item 6: Ravine - Bridge in Background

Item 7: Cave

Item 8: Village in Mountiains

Item 9: Native Group in Mountain Pass

Item 10: Crop and Goats

Item 11: Crop in Palm Trees

Item 12: Natives Carrying Forage Crop - NGS

Item 13: Palm Tree in Desert

Item 14: 3 Palm Trees in Desert

Item 15: Oasis in Dunes

Item 16: Horse and Water Pump

Item 17: Native Harvesting Ground Nuts

Item 18: Natives at Oasis

Item 19: Dwellings in Palm Trees

Item 20: Beggar

Item 21: Street Scene in City

Item 22: Algerian Boy

Item 23: Native Pouring Grain into Cans

Item 24: 3 Algerian Boys

Item 25: 3 Algerian Girls

Item 26: 3 Algerian Women

Item 27: Algerian Woman in Elaborate Dress

Item 28: Algerian Woman Eating Date

Item 29: Woman with Flowers

Item 30: Camels in Street

Item 31: Camel Skeleton in Desert

Item 32: Road in Countryside

Item 33: Panoramic View of Countryside

Item 34: Burros Pulling Drag

Item 35: Oxen Pulling Cultivator

Item 36: Town Buildings along Stream

Item 37: Building with Flowers over Door

Item 38: Village House

Item 39: Small Ship in Port

Item 40: Sailing Vessel along Shore at Night

Item 41: Harlan Children in Provence by Pool

Item 42: Outline Map of Africa

Item 43: View of Field

Item 44: Camel Pulling Drag

Item 45: Family Washing Baby at Desert Camp

Item 46: Oxen Turning Water Wheel

Item 47: Natives Putting Fertilizer on Field

Item 48: Irrigation Ditch

Item 49: Ditch outside Village Wall

Item 50: Village on Waterway

Folder 4: Glass Slides - Box B

Item 1: 2 Camels, Railraod Cars with Cane Crop

Item 2: Camel with Load of Straw

Item 3: Camel and Plowing Field

Item 4: Sheep

Item 5: Two men and Burro with Load of Forage Crop

Item 6: Oxen Milling Grain

Item 7: Oxen Pulling Implement on Grain

Item 8: Lake in Front of Mountains

Item 9: Camel Caravan in Front of Hill

Item 10: 1918 Map of Ethiopia

Item 11: Railroad Train in Ethiopia

Item 12: Addis Ababa - Railroad Station

Item 13: Addis Ababa - Street Scene

Item 14: Village Huts in Plain

Item 15: Building with Corrugated Roof

Item 16: Ethiopian with Six Burros on Road

Item 17: Boy with Staff

Item 18: Pony with Saddle

Item 19: Oxen Plowing Field

Item 20: Valley with Flowering Trees and Huts

Item 21: Tree with Nests

Item 22: Trees

Item 23: Hat in Tree

Item 24: Path Through Wooded Area

Item 25: Cattle in Field

Item 26: Ethiopian with Rifle by Tree

Item 27: View of Fertile Valley

Item 28: Twelve Ethiopians

Item 29: Ethiopian Warrior

Item 30: Group of Ethiopians and Retinue of 17

Item 31: Haile Selassie on Throne

Item 32: Haile Selassie Mounted with Retinue

Item 33: Ethiopian Group Laying Foundation

Item 34: Camp with Buildings Hill

Item 35: Dozen Ethiopians with Rifles in Front of Wall

Item 36: Ethiopian Chief on Throne Behind Carpet

Item 37: Cattle and Threshing

Item 38: Cattle Grazing

Item 39: Ethiopian Standing in Field

Item 40: Field, Crop and Platfrom

Item 41: Tree with Bale

Item 42: Thatch Hut or Stack

Item 43: Two Thatched Huts and Pile of Crop

Item 44: Agricultural Countryside

Item 45: Party of Ethiopians with Goats, Rife and Skull - Cow

Item 46: Meat Picnic

Item 47: Flowering Tree

Item 48: Two Men - Operation on Head

Item 49: Cutting Back of Goat

Item 50: Street Scene - Addis Ababa

Folder 5: Glass Slides - Box C

Item 1: Kashmir - India? - Waterfall and Waterway

Item 2: Pool and Arches

Item 3: Fountains in Garden

Item 4: Pavillion over Waterway

Item 5: Terraced Garden and Waterway

Item 6: Waterfall into Pool

Item 7: Shalimar House with Balconies and Waterfall

Item 8: Fountain Stream

Item 9: Houses on Hillside Flowers

Item 10: Daisies and Other Flowers

Item 11: Mountain and Village

Item 12: Mountain Trail

Item 13: Sunset over Temple

Item 14: Building and Garden

Item 15: Warrior on Horse Slaying Dragon - Painting

Item 16: Tapestry or Wall Painting

Item 17: Drums in front of Tapestry

Item 18: Clothed and Unclothed Figures in Painting

Item 19: Evil Figure - Painting

Item 20: Crowd under Umbrellas - Ethiopia

Item 21: Thatched Roof Village - Ethiopia

Item 22: Crowd of People - Ethiopia

Item 23: Amharic People - Crowd in Market

Item 24: Building in the Ground

Item 25: People by Building in Ground

Item 26: Religious Arches

Item 27: Religious Building in Hillside

Item 28: Arches outlined on Ground

Item 29: Temple

Item 30: Stone Design

Item 31: People at Religious Building in Ground

Item 32: View of Fields in Countryside

Item 33: Huts in Rocks with Valley

Item 34: Tents under Tree

Item 35: Four Ethiopians with Cow Carcass

Item 36: Ras Aieri - Ethiopian Chieftain and Wife Dessie

Item 37: Ethiopian Chieftain

Item 38: Reeds Sticking out of Well

Item 39: Sunset in Hills

Item 40: Pack Burros and Men on Path

Item 41: Huts in Mountainous Area

Item 42: Fields Viewed From Height

Item 43: Chieftain with Retinue

Item 44: Haile Selassie - Mounted with Retinue

Item 45: Two Men Spears Fishing at Seaside

Item 46: Bridge - Abandoned

Item 47: Stone Path

Item 48: Fortified Buidling or Palace

Item 49: Palace

Item 50: Temple

Item 51: Abandoned Building

Item 52: Burros Drinking From Rocky Pool

Item 53: Tent Underneath Tree

Item 54: Horses Underneath Tree

Item 55: Man Standing in Interior Aisle Looking at Panels

Item 56: Building with Roof Ornament

Item 57: Group of Women and Porters

Item 58: Porters

Item 59: Crowd on Hillside

Folder 6: Box C - India

Item 1: Pool

Item 2: Cattle

Item 3: Man at Tree

Item 4: Women at Water

Item 5: Palace Grounds

Item 6: Lake and Buildings

Item 7: Tent near Tree

Item 8: Bullocks Pulling Cart

Item 9: Rice or Water Crop

Item 10: Fields in Mountain Valley

Item 11: Valley Scene

Item 12: Lakeside

Item 13: Bridge or Mill

Item 14: Watering Plants

Item 15: Waterfall and Pool in front of Building

Item 16: 4 Indian Men

Item 17: Lake

Item 18: Daisies and Flowers

Item 19: Residence in Mountains

Item 20: Woman at Water

Item 21: Valley with Trees in Background

Item 22: Animal at Market?

Item 23: Boats at Dock

Item 24: Hillside - Rocky Foreground

Item 25: Field and Buildings

Item 26: Rice Crop

Item 27: Field and Mountains

Item 28: Crop and Mountains

Item 29: Palace Grounds and Buildings

Item 30: Mountainside with Cattle

Item 31: Man with Oxen

Item 32: Tree

Item 33: Oxen Pulling Cart with Sacks

Item 34: Man in front of Thatched Hut

Item 35: River or Stream in Mountains

Item 36: Men Driving Oxen - Building in Background

Item 37: Man in Suit with Flowering Plants - Minister for Kashmir - Ram Gapal Gofral?

Item 38: Man in Turban next to Bushy Plant

Item 39: Field with Crop

Item 40: Hilly Stacks in Field

Item 41: Field and Tree

Folder 7: Box D

Item 1: Field, Pool, and Trees

Item 2: Tree with Huge Nest

Item 3: Palace

Item 4: Field with Trees in Background

Item 5: Rice Field

Item 6: River and River Bank

Item 7: Stone Wall and Building

Item 8: Men Doing Construction Work

Sub-Series 7: Oversize Materials

Box 19

Folder 1: Photographs - Europe

Folder 2: Photographs - Ethiopia

Folder 3: Photographs - Kashmir

Folder 4: Photographs - Peru

Folder 5: Certificates