INTRODUCTION
This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.Box 1
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Revised: July 15, 2003 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.
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.
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