Collection: Mexican vegetation: 24 photographs by Cyrus Guernsey Pringle

Mesquite Forest, 1884 Digital

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Arnold Arboretum Library (Cambridge), Harvard University / Collection: Mexican vegetation: 24 photographs by Cyrus Guernsey Pringle

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Pencil inscription on front. Possibly taken around September 1884 in the bottomland of the Santa Cruz River near Tuscon, Arizona, view from inside a mesquite bosque.

Mount Wrightson, Arizona, probably 1884 Digital

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Arnold Arboretum Library (Cambridge), Harvard University / Collection: Mexican vegetation: 24 photographs by Cyrus Guernsey Pringle

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Pencil inscription on front. The person pictured is most likely Pringle's assistant, taken from above the Florida Saddle, looking south toward Mexico.

Mount Wrightson, Arizona, probably 1884

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Sonora Hill with Pringle's team, 1884 Digital

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Arnold Arboretum Library (Cambridge), Harvard University / Collection: Mexican vegetation: 24 photographs by Cyrus Guernsey Pringle

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Pencil inscription on front. Photograph of Pringle's team following a dry wash on a hill in Sonora, Mexico. The photo includes a senita cactus (Pachycereus schottii) on the left, as well as an organpipe cactus (Stenocereus thurberi) and saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) on the hill.

Sonora Hill with Pringle's team, 1884

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San Felix Hills, Sonora, 1884 Digital

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Arnold Arboretum Library (Cambridge), Harvard University / Collection: Mexican vegetation: 24 photographs by Cyrus Guernsey Pringle

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Pencil inscription on front. Photo was likely taken near the San Felix Mine in Sierra del Alamon, Sonora, Mexico. There are cadon cactus (Pachycereus pringlei) in the background.

San Felix Hills, Sonora, 1884

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Cereus giganteus, 1884 Digital

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Arnold Arboretum Library (Cambridge), Harvard University / Collection: Mexican vegetation: 24 photographs by Cyrus Guernsey Pringle

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Pencil inscription on front. Views of a saguaro cactus (Carnegiea gigantea) grove with a large large cholla cactus in the center. The photo was likely taken around late May, based on the presence of both open and withered flowers, when Pringle was working near Tuscon, Arizona.

Cereus giganteus, 1884

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Echinocactus Emoryi with Stevens [Stephens] of California, probably 1884 Digital

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Arnold Arboretum Library (Cambridge), Harvard University / Collection: Mexican vegetation: 24 photographs by Cyrus Guernsey Pringle

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Pencil inscription on front. Frank Stephens standing with an Emory's barrel cactus (Ferocactus emoryi).

Echinocactus Emoryi with Stevens [Stephens] of California, probably 1884

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Echinocactus wislizinia, probably 1884 Digital

FOUND IN: Botany Libraries, Arnold Arboretum Library (Cambridge), Harvard University / Collection: Mexican vegetation: 24 photographs by Cyrus Guernsey Pringle

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Pencil inscription on front. Photograph of a fishhook barrel cactus that was likely taken between late April to early May based on the presence of flower buds.