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Acacia - large flat topped, with grass cover - desert grass type. Plume [?] like type quite abundant. Wide angle. [Shantz travel journal, June 3, 1920]

Acacia - large flat topped, with grass cover - desert grass type. Plume [?] like type quite abundant. [Shantz travel journal, June 3, 1920]

Stewart Udall speaking at the dedication of the restored Ford's Theater, Washington, D.C., January 21, 1968.

Out across open low land - trees in back - mostly acacia. This veg[etation] is acacia grassland, rather luxuriant soil 4 or more feet deep - along river a more tropical growth. [Shantz travel journal, Apr. 19, 1920]

Open grassy plain. Grasses not tall - recently burned and just nearly starting spring growth. An occasional small acacia - small red ant hills. Shows this type - a small tree at the right, Kilimandjaro and the other peak in dist[ance]. [Shantz…

A photograph of rather open grassland with low veld and trees. The grasses are eragrostis, cymbopogon, and turpentine grass.

A photograph showing an andropogon-like sod on a deep sandy loam soil with occasional thickets of acacia horrida, many bulb plants, asparagus, smilax, aloe, and lycium-like plants.

A photograph of an open space with the odina, cantheum, protea abyssinica, ochna, and combretum. The hills in the background are north of the Kafue river.

A more open forest and larger trees, looking straight - acacia like in the back. Soil uniform to 12 or 10 feet, where sandy roots penetrate. [Shantz travel journal, Mar. 30, 1920]

A photograph taken out over open country, showing a very distant view of grassland and vegetation.

A photograph taken out over open country with shrubs, grassland, and a group of trees on the far right.