Administrative Information

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Preferred Citation

August E. Kehr Papers, 1949-2000, Accession #10553-am, Special Collections Dept., University of Virginia Library, Charlottesville, Va. 22903.

Acquisition Information

This collection was given to the University of Virginia Library by August E. Kehr, Hendersonville, North Carolina, on July 31, 2000.

Biographical/Historical Information

August Ernest Kehr (1914- ), geneticist, professor, and horticulturist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture, is a member of the American Rhododendron Society and The Magnolia Society.

Scope and Content Information

The papers of August E. Kehr consist of correspondence with nurserymen and other rhododendron growers in the United States and around the world. Correspondents include Os Blumhardt, Brett and Dorothy Callaway, John D. Carlson, Karl E. Flinck, Maurice and Rosemary Foster, Frank B. Galyon, Mark Haimes, Harry Heinemann, Joseph Hickman, Harold Hopkins, Olav Kalleberg, Mark Krautmann, Wade Mahlke, Frederick G. Meyer, William Moyles, Jay W. Murray, Sonja Nelson, Terry Pennington, the Rhodendron Species Foundation, George Ring, Sir Peter Smithers, and Bob Tomayer. There are also letters from Kehr's wife, Mary Lou Kehr, while he was in Cairo, Egypt, on a project with the United States Department of Agriculture.

Also present are certificates and awards; printed material; articles by other authors, including Stephen L. Krebs and Dan E. Mayers; a small notebook; photographs; programs; information regarding ARS Research Grants; early employment records for Kehr; and his Presidential Address at the Annual Meeting of the ARS in 1977.There is also a cassette tape recording of "Nick Fortescue on the Red Maximum" (March 17, 1991).

Arrangement

Most of the correspondence is arranged alphabetically by the last name of the correspondent. Correspondence pertaining to the American Rhododendron Society and its members has been filed under that name.