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Established in 1904 as the Department of Geology, and later known as the Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences, the Department of Geosciences has grown to become the center for the study of Earth, atmospheric, oceanographic, and environmental sciences at Princeton. Geoscientific studies at Princeton University date from 1854, when Arnold Guyot was appointed Professor of Geography and Physical Geology. Guyot was the sole instructor in geological sciences for 19 years and he was primarily responsible for the creation of the Geological Museum (located first in Nassau Hall and later in Guyot Hall), which grew from the fossils and geological specimens he collected for instructional purposes. Even in its early years, the department was a leader in geological and paleontological fieldwork. In 1877, three of Guyot's students - William Berryman Scott, Henry F. Osborn and Francis Speer - participated in Princeton's first field expedition to Colorado and Wyoming in order to collect vertebrate fossils. It was the first in a series of expeditions to the American west made by Princeton students and faculty, eight of which Scott himself led between 1882-1893. Scott was awarded the Blair Professorship of Geology and Paleontology in 1884 and was the department chair from 1904-1930. In 1909, five years after its founding, the Department of Geology moved into its home in Guyot Hall, a facility that also housed the department's growing Geological (or Natural History) Museum. Guyot Hall was designed by members of the department and funded by the mother of Cleveland H. Dodge (Class of 1879) who was a University trustee. In 1926, Richard M. Field initiated Princeton's Summer School of Geology and Natural Resources, a still-extant annual field course designed to teach students in techniques of geological and geophysical research. Under the tenure of chairman Harry H. Hess (1950-1966), the Department of Geology expanded its course offerings to touch on many subjects under the umbrella of geological science. In 1968, the name of the department was changed to the Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences to reflect the new curriculum. The department became known as the Department of Geosciences in 1996.
Princeton University. Department of GeosciencesEstablished in 1904 as the Department of Geology, and later known as the Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences, the Department of Geosciences has grown to become the center for the study of Earth, atmospheric, oceanographic, and environmental sciences at Princeton. Geoscientific studies at Princeton University date from 1854, when Arnold Guyot was appointed Professor of Geography and Physical Geology. Guyot was the sole instructor in geological sciences for 19 years and he was primarily responsible for the creation of the Geological Museum (located first in Nassau Hall and later in Guyot Hall), which grew from the fossils and geological specimens he collected for instructional purposes. Even in its early years, the department was a leader in geological and paleontological fieldwork. In 1877, three of Guyot's students - William Berryman Scott, Henry F. Osborn and Francis Speer - participated in Princeton's first field expedition to Colorado and Wyoming in order to collect vertebrate fossils. It was the first in a series of expeditions to the American west made by Princeton students and faculty, eight of which Scott himself led between 1882-1893. Scott was awarded the Blair Professorship of Geology and Paleontology in 1884 and was the department chair from 1904-1930. In 1909, five years after its founding, the Department of Geology moved into its home in Guyot Hall, a facility that also housed the department's growing Geological (or Natural History) Museum. Guyot Hall was designed by members of the department and funded by the mother of Cleveland H. Dodge (Class of 1879) who was a University trustee. In 1926, Richard M. Field initiated Princeton's Summer School of Geology and Natural Resources, a still-extant annual field course designed to teach students in techniques of geological and geophysical research. Under the tenure of chairman Harry H. Hess (1950-1966), the Department of Geology expanded its course offerings to touch on many subjects under the umbrella of geological science. In 1968, the name of the department was changed to the Department of Geological and Geophysical Sciences to reflect the new curriculum. The department became known as the Department of Geosciences in 1996.
The records document the department from its 19th-century origins to the recent past with departmental files, faculty files, faculty meeting minutes and visual materials. In Series 4, a variety of materials document significant figures in the department such as Arnold Guyot, Richard Field, and William B. Scott. A consistent run of faculty meeting minutes in Series 4 provides a detailed picture of the department's development over the course of the 20th century.
The records are rich in photographs, slides and film that document many of the department's expeditions and excavations in North America—primarily in the American West. Photographs and negatives appear throughout the records, and not only in Series 7: Photographs. Both Series 5: Field Trips and Expeditions and Series 6: Natural History Museum contain a subseries of photographs.
The collection also includes the records of the defunct organization the American Institute of Geonomy and Natural Resources.
Histories of the department written by members of the department appear in Series 3: Department Administration under "Department Histories."
In the composition of this finding aid's organizational history, the history section of the Department of Geosciences' website (http://www.princeton.edu/geosciences/about/history/) and Alexander Leitch's A Princeton Companion were consulted.
Transferred from the Department of Geosciences in 1985, 1995 [AR.1995.096], 1997 [AR.1997.007], 2004 [AR.2004.079], 2009 [AR.2009.026], 2016 [AR.2016.117], 2017 [AR.2017.001, AR.2017.015, AR.2017.067, and AR.2017.081], and 2018 [AR.2018.026].
Full text searching of this collection's archived website is available through the Archive-It interface.
For preservation reasons, original analog and digital media may not be read or played back in the reading room. Users may visually inspect physical media but may not remove it from its enclosure. All analog audiovisual media must be digitized to preservation-quality standards prior to use. Audiovisual digitization requests are processed by an approved third-party vendor. Please note, the transfer time required can be as little as several weeks to as long as several months and there may be financial costs associated with the process. Requests should be directed through the Ask Us Form.
This collection was processed by Lynn Durgin in October 2010. Finding aid written by Lynn Durgin in October 2010. After significant accessions, the finding aid was revised by Phoebe Nobles in 2018. Materials were added from Accession AR.2019.043 by Kimberly McCauley in July 2019.
Duplicates and published volumes available elsewhere have been separated from the records. Grades from summer field courses during the years 1955-1990 have been separated from the records.
People
- Field, R. M. (Richard Montgomery) (1834-1902)
- Guyot, A. (Arnold) (1807-1884)
- Hess, Harry Hammond (1906-1969)
- Jepsen, Glenn L. (Glenn Lowell) (1904-1974)
- Scott, William Berryman (1858-1947)
- Smyth, Charles Henry (1866-1937)
- Thom, W. T. (William Taylor) (1891-1979)
Organization
- Princeton University. Dept. of Geological and Geophysical Sciences.
- Princeton University. Dept. of Geology
- Princeton University. Dept. of Geology.
- Princeton University. Faculty.
- Princeton University. Natural History Museum
Subject
- Publisher
- University Archives
- Finding Aid Author
- Lynn Durgin
- Finding Aid Date
- 2007
- Access Restrictions
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The Department of Geosciences Records are open for research with some exceptions. Due to the presence of student educational records and personnel records, access to certain folders is restricted for 75 years from the date of creation. See individual folder descriptions for more information.
Access to glass-plate negatives is restricted due to their fragility. Where prints of the negatives are present, the prints are open for research use. Though digitization may not be possible for every negative, researchers may make requests to digitize material according to Mudd Library's policy on digitization of photographs.
For a general guide to access restrictions, please see the Access Policy for Princeton University Archives Collections
- Use Restrictions
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Single copies may be made for research purposes. To cite or publish quotations that fall within Fair Use, as defined under U. S. Copyright Law, no permission is required. The Trustees of Princeton University hold copyright to all materials generated by Princeton University employees in the course of their work. For instances beyond Fair Use, if copyright is held by Princeton University, researchers do not need to obtain permission, complete any forms, or receive a letter to move forward with use of materials from the Princeton University Archives.
For instances beyond Fair Use where the copyright is not held by the University, while permission from the Library is not required, it is the responsibility of the researcher to determine whether any permissions related to copyright, privacy, publicity, or any other rights are necessary for their intended use of the Library's materials, and to obtain all required permissions from any existing rights holders, if they have not already done so. Princeton University Library's Special Collections does not charge any permission or use fees for the publication of images of materials from our collections, nor does it require researchers to obtain its permission for said use. The department does request that its collections be properly cited and images credited. More detailed information can be found on the Copyright, Credit and Citations Guidelines page on our website. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us through the Ask Us! form.
Collection Inventory
Files are arranged physically in the order in which they were received from the department.
Series 1: Alumni and Students includes files the geology department maintained on undergraduate and graduate students and alumni. The files include lists of students and their theses. Individual files may include correspondence with or about an alumnus; clippings; photographs; a curriculum vitae, and so on. Material created by undergraduates includes a 1979 guide to the department and a geology notebook from 1938.
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Bonini correspondence with Barbara Stevko
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1983 printout of catalog cards for theses having to do with geology in South and Latin America
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Photo and cvs
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Lists cover the years 1879-2000.
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Hadidi, Taher *38, envelope of photos from a trip to Egypt, old cars, construction, the Sphinx, etc.
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Clippings
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CV and photo
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Chair of Department; Faculty 1946-1970
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Article from Princeton Athletic News
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Boyd Memorial Fund, also Jackson Boyd
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"45th" Aero Squadron
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Wartime Correspondence
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Correspondence
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List of Undergraduate Geology Alumni 1902-1991
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Correspondence, photo included.
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Killed in war, 1947
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Geotimes article, flyer
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Photographs
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Santa Fe newspaper
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The files are arranged in the order in which they were received from the department.
Series 2: Associations contains records of various geology-related associations or organizations, including some records of the Geology Club at Princeton; the Princeton Geological Association; and the Geological Society of America; as well as the records of the American Institute of Geonomy and Natural Resources (an organization led by Princeton faculty members, though it was not headquartered at Princeton).
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The American Institute of Geonomy and Natural Resources, Inc. was established in 1952 by Richard M. Field, Arthur Murphy, Fanny Field and others to gather and disseminate scientific information and to conduct research "in respect of the art of living," as stated their By-Laws. The organization was led by two Princeton faculty members, Richard Field, and W. Taylor Thom, Jr. before it was disbanded in 1969. Documentation in the files indicates that the Geology Department was designated as the repository for the records.
The Institute of Geonomy and Natural Resources records include the organization's by-laws, articles of incorporation, correspondence, bulletins, annual reports and financial information.
The files in this group have been maintained in the order that they were received.
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Bound volume, handwritten notes
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Additional tentative plans for the Geology Association and class membership list
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Includes one note from 1977
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Report, bicentennial 1946 member photograph
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Reports; correspondence: Howell, etc.
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Itemized journal of accounts; meeting notes, etc.
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The files are arranged physically in the order in which they were received from the department (often in alphabetical runs). The archivist grouped files loosely by subject for the purposes of this finding aid only.
Series 3: Department Administration contains various files maintained by the geology department, including information on course planning and course offerings; department histories often written by members of the department; departmental reports to the university president; plans for and assessment of the department's structure and academic foci; budgets and allocated funds; and records of the Geological Engineering Program. The files include correspondence, clippings, newsletters (especially The Smilodon), pamphlets, and maps.
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Printed booklets
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Correspondence re: Geophysics position plus PhD exam material
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To E. DeGolyer and A.F. Buddington
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Correspondence H.H. Hess, Arthur A. Schmon, etc.
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Letter to Mr. Childs Frick from President Dodds
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Harry Hess Fellowship
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H.H. Hess, Judson correspondence
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Printed newsletter of Princeton Engineering Association, certificates
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Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences, beginnings
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"Department of Geology" (1929) and "Geology at Princeton: A Brief Historical Background" (1941) written by A.F. Buddington
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History by Joseph Smagorinsky
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An excerpt from the "Follies of 1933":
Oh Taylor Thom he looks for faults, looks for faults,
And up Hart Mountain he does waltz, he does waltz.
And he supports himself somehow
On graham crackers and canned cow.
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Humorous drawings; Buddington and Sampson featured
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Especially programs from various geology club meetings, for example, the Pick and Hammer Club.
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Photos of the library at Frist
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Booklet and letters
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Library Report
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Floor plans - master plans
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Forms, letters, architectural drawings
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Photographs
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Booklets that list faculty, staff, students, and research
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McPherrin Diary, Dept. of Obs.
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Handwritten journal
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Clippings
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Typed pamphlets, printed brochures, letters
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Report - Jay Myers and W.H. Patmore
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Guides to state geology and localities
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Guides to state geology and localities
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Alexander Hamilton Phillips' and other memorial pamphlets collected by Buddington
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Written by J.S. Vhay '29
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Compilation of Facts booklet by Dept. of Public Information
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Time Space and Matter was a secondary school science teaching project in the 1960s.
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List of faculty and staff and courses
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Legend to the archive from cabinet and prior requisitions lists
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Includes Bonner, John correspondence
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Faculty advisory booklets and student photo albums
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Correspondence re: the Council of the Department of Geology
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Printed booklet
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Includes departmental memoranda and faculty salaries
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From "Historical Interest" folder
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List of faculty and staff and courses
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Correspondence with Van Ingen, Jepsen, and Sinclair
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Includes invitation to a Dinosaur Tea with Professor Henry Fairfield Osborn, letter by B.F. Howell, and copies of letters of William Scott.
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The files are arranged physically in the order in which they were received from the department. For the purposes of this finding aid, the archivist grouped multiple files on individual faculty members.
Series 4: Faculty and Staff includes faculty meeting minutes; basic files the department maintained on faculty members (which may include clippings, correspondence, curriculum vitae, and photographs); as well as the more extensive files of longtime faculty members such as A.F. Buddington, B.F. Howell and William Taylor Thom. Files on Arnold Guyot primarily contain research about Guyot; other faculty files may have been maintained by the faculty themselves and include material such as correspondence (some personal); publications; course and lecture materials including examinations; diaries and field notes; biographies and bibliographies; faculty contracts and recommendations; photographs; and an autograph book as well as letters kept primarily for autographs. William Bonini's files include a box of his gravity journals, notebooks of field observations.
Researchers seeking information on faculty-led field trips should also consult Series 5: Field Trips and Expeditions. Photographs of faculty and staff are present in Series 4 in Series 5, and in Series 7: Photographs.
Researchers seeking information on faculty member Glenn Jepsen may also wish to consult Series 7: Photographs, which contains a subgroup of Jepsen's photographs.
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The faculty meeting minutes consist primarily of bound volumes, with the exception of the earliest minutes (1905-1920), which are a mixture of hand-written and typed documents. The minutes document the department's courses, initiatives, governance, grading parameters, and related matters throughout the 20th century.
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Includes letters from Teilhard de Chardin and Louis Leakey
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Collected by Jepsen, Thom, Howell
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Most addressed to Peggy Cross
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William Bonini's gravity journals consist of handwritten field notes and drawn notes from Professor Bonini's expeditions to the western part of the U.S. and other areas. These notes were used to document the scientific observations he made during the course of his research.
The materials retain their original order.
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Graduate school record, Dept. of Interior citation, memorials
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Includes letters from N.L. Bowen
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Buddington's correspondence and Dept. of Interior performance reviews
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Handwritten journal--N.J. and U.S.S.R.
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Clippings, letter
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One article with Joseph Fahey and Angelina Vlisdis
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Includes PhD thesis, photos and negatives
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Buddington's speech at the dedication of his portrait; bound book of commemorative letters
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Bound volume--inscribed by Buddington
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Letters, H.H. Hess letter
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Letter, roster
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Photos, letters
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Draft, memorial leaflet, negatives, etc.
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National Park Handbook
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Includes photos and negatives
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Photographs of field trip, family, awards, etc. Glass lantern slides moved to Box 51.
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Moved from Dorf Pictures folder in Box 18. Images of Paricutin volcano.
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Memorial, bibliography
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Two glass negatives moved to Box 51
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1910 Harvard Summer School, Yellowstone, Albany Trip 1915
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Newsletters, clippings, photos, etc.
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Pensee Student Academic Freedom Forum
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Handwritten journals and diaries
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Correspondence
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Itemized list of fossils
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Library excavation; insects and fish locations in Kemmerer; Howellisaura Princetonensis and Isaua ovata
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9 glass lantern slides
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Booklet, some land deeds
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Email to Bill Bonini
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Photos 1932-1974, clippings, negative, drawings
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Fossil forms named in his honor
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Glenn Jepsen letters and Geology examinations
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Letters to Jepsen
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Letters to Jepsen; one research request from 1986
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Clippings, letters
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Letters and trip logs (1933-1963)
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Negatives and photographs
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Audograms, correspondence with Jepsen
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Memorial brochures
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Includes photographs; two glass plate negatives moved to Box 52
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Letters about a gift from Della C. Sinclair
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Glass plate negative removed to Box 11.
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Correspondence with W.T. Thom
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Luis Alvarez obituary
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Professional file and memorials
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Includes a 1923 article. Clippings, letters, printed images
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Photos, letters, clippings, etc.
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Article reprinted from Acta Archaeologica
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Correspondence and clippings
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cv
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Letters, clippings
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Directory, photos
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And retirement dates
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Includes list of Paleontology Faculty 1771-1925
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Letter regarding plaque in honor of geology faculty of 1947-48 from Bonini
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Curator/faculty: papers regarding 1901 expedition to Montana
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Retirement announcement
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Photos, postcards, memorial, correspondence
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CV
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Photo, cv
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Photos, cv, contract
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Clippings and photographs
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Faculty file - photos, reports, clippings
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Faculty file - photos, reports, clippings
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Small photo
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Class of 1951, Faculty 1956-66
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Clippings, photos
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Instructor, 1925
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CV, photo
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Faculty 1964-1976
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Reprints of papers
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Correspondence
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Technical staff
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CV, photo
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CV
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CV
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Notes for Advanced Econ Geol
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Letters about a gift from Della C. Sinclair
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Faculty research
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Photo, CV
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Photos, letters, memorial
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Photo
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Photos, clipping, CV
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CV, contract
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Photo, CV, contract
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Prof. of Engineering cv
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Full faculty file
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Photo, cv
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Clippings, cv
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Includes photographs
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Photograph
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Photographs and cv
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Photo, publications, maps and clippings
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CV, contracts, clippings
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Clippings only
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Clippings, Dave Parris, Curator of the New Jersey Science Museum
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Memorial and letter
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Printed articles and contract
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Faculty file includes photographs and contracts
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The files are arranged physically in the order in which they were received from the department. For the purposes of this finding aid, the archivist has arranged the series into time periods and photographic material as noted below.
Series 5: Field Trips and Expeditions documents geology department travels, to the American west in particular. The series is grouped into early expeditions (19th century), expeditions between 1900 and 1924, and expeditions after 1924. Photographs are present throughout the records, but folders and albums that contain almost entirely photographs have been placed in the subgroup "Photographs." Another subgroup, Summer Field Courses, contains records of summer trips beginning with the Pullman car excursions of 1926 through the field courses of the 1990s.
There is overlap between this series and Series 7: Photographs, particularly the latter series' subgroup "Events and Trips." The division of the two series reflects to some extent the geology department's record-keeping practices. The department kept extensive files grouped under "Field Trips" as well as files grouped under "Photographs."
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Leather-bound journal that documents a trip to the Wissahickon, Germantown, PA
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Cyanotypes of fossils in a display
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Images and handwritten index cards
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Buffalo hunters image, letters to Harry Hess
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Glenn Jepsen letters; photographs
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Booklet, photos, papers
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Bound volume
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List of members, letter to Gifford Agnew from Sheldon Judson
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Clipping, Princeton College Bulletin (photocopy)
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Clipping, Princeton College Bulletin (photocopy)
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Photocopies
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Jepsen correspondence with Silberling, Scudder, etc.
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Report of McIntyre, Davis, Losey
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Photo and index cards
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Photos and map
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Includes Buddington bibliography
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Includes maps
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Index cards
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Murray Stevens journal
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Very brittle acidic paper
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With notes for Princetonian article
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Clippings, negatives, correspondence
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Bound volume of handwritten and typed field notes
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Trips to Lambertville, etc.
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"Hunting of the Dinosaur Egg with Jepson" letter, clippings, Jepsen essay "Laid in America"
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Die Mikrobiologische Kalkfallung in der Tropischen See, by Werner Bavendamm
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Papers on the research on the gravity + calcium--Hess map, papers on the Bahamas
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Las Vegas, Silver Peak, Goodsprings, etc. Quads. in Nevada and Bishop Quad. in California
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Photographs, cost estimates
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Slides
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Various letters from Fred Roots 1950-1954; photographs of Operation Deep Freeze with John Schullinger
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Guidebook, itinerary
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Published by U.S. Hydrographic Office
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Photograph and letter
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Mostly newspaper clippings and correspondence
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Clippings and printed lists
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Photo, clippings, and handwritten summary
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Princeton Weekly Bulletin Dec. 10, 2001
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Photographs
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Negatives and photographs
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Photographs pasted on paper
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16 glass lantern slides moved to Boxes 25 and 50
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Mounted photographs
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Mounted photographs
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Buddington, mounted photographs
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Photographs
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Mounted photographs
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1 box
2 glass lantern slides; see Box 19
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10 glass lantern slides
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16 glass lantern slides; see Box 22
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11 glass lantern slides
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Bound volume with photographs pasted in
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8 glass lantern slides
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8 glass lantern slides
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2 glass lantern slides
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Photographs
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Negatives
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With negatives
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Photographs
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Canadian Trip, 1927, and U.S. Trip, 1928
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Photograph album
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The scrapbook documents a field trip taken by professors and students across Canada by rail for the 1927 Summer School of Geology. Included are photographs of R. M. Field and student participants, a type-written chronicle of the trip, articles, maps and items of ephemera.
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Papers relate to the Red Lodge Research Camp and the Yellowstone-Bighorn Research Association.
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Informational posters and trip booklets.
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Grade sheets were removed from all field course folders
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Correspondence re: lodging.
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Photocopies
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Geology 307 summer field trips in Pullman car
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Correspondence
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Expedition accounts
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Summer School pamphlet, clippings, negatives
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Clippings, itineraries
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With humorous \"Spotlight of 1931 Summer\"
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Clippings, menus, legal release, letters
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Letters, booklets, itinerary
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Across northern U.S. + Southern Canada
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Photographs
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Includes photograph of women in the field; also of bear-feeding and porters eating ice cream
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3 folders; includes photos of Betty the chauffeur
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Photographs
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Student letters to his father during the 1927 trip
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Includes photograph of chef
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Notes, small maps
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Maps, handwritten notes, photos
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The files are arranged physically in the order in which they were received from the department.
Series 6: Natural History Museum contains files that relate directly to the Natural History Museum in Guyot Hall. The series contains records of collections, exhibits and loans, as well as records of the major museum deaccession of fossils in the 1980s.
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Photographs, clippings, invoices of cases
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Invoices, assembly instructions
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Negatives and architectural drawings
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Circa 1930s
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8 boxes
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Franklin C. Hill and Royal H. Rose
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Journal of Specimens of Fossils and Rock of Ohio collected by Franklin C. Hill
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Clippings, museum labels, etc.
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Typed and handwritten itemized lists, letters (3 folders)
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2 folders
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Handwritten itemized lists
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Labels typed and handwritten reports
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One lantern slide moved to Box 52
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Photos, negatives, clippings; four lantern slides moved to Box 51
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Old labels printed and handwritten from museum drawers or displays (3 folders)
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Display labels--Jepsen/Judson
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About buying and cleaning fossils
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Correspondence re: skulls--William Sinclair
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Jepsen correspondence
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Mastodon skeleton
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Clipping, negatives, Jepsen report; see also Cleveland-Lloyd Quarry
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Clippings, photographs
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Clippings, notes, photographs, negatives, correspondence
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Mostly photographs
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Mostly photographs
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Correspondence with Jepsen
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Bat fossil clippings and negatives (1965) and permissions correspondence (1988-1994)
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Photographs and clippings; glass plate negative Hoplophoneus moved to Box 28
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Handwritten list, 1903 postcard
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Handwritten and typed letters
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Jepsen correspondence esp. re: mastodon teeth
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Photographs
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Handwritten notes and photographs
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Blank labels
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Correspondence
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Handwritten lists and memoranda
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Memoranda
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Clippings, letters, photos
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Curator at American Museum of Natural History
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Jepsen correspondence
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Geology Library Storage
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Re: fossil deaccessioning
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Letters, index cards, fossil collections lists
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Lists of fossils, including those studied by Samuel H. Scudder in Cambridge, MA
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Exhibit lists
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Glenn Jepsen
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Map and description of Yellowstone-Beartooth region; specimens collected 1932-1934
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Department correspondence with Director of Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences, later of Providence Park Museum
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Glenn Jepsen correspondence
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Fossil synonymies and bibliographies
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Jepsen letters, maps, drawings, photos and clippings
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Glenn Jepsen and David Haddenham correspondence
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Jepsen correspondence
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Architectural drawing by Don Baird
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Clippings, typed and handwritten letters/lists
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Handwritten list, including fossil images
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Correspondence with Glenn Jepsen
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Correspondence with Scott
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Drawings, hand-written letters, clippings and index cards
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Jepsen correspondence
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List of specimens
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Correspondence, floor plans
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Photographs, floor plans, typed letters, charts, drawings
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Negatives
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Drawings, lists, photographs, and charts
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Photographs and clippings
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Drawings, lists
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Typed report
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Schumacher gift
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6 lantern slides moved to Box 53
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Correspondence
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Correspondence with Sinclair
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Correspondence and layout sketches
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Images of Guyot Hall being built
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Regarding the globe in Guyot Hall; includes photographs and architectural drawings
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Construction of Geology Library
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Architectural maps and itemized data regarding the plans
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Architectural maps and itemized data regarding the plans
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Correspondence
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Two photos of Jepsen's room and negatives
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Clippings, letters, photos
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Includes Specification for Equipment, 1909
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Jepsen reports
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Circa 1920s
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Correspondence
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Forms for objects loaned and returned
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Loan agreements, letters, typed lists (Baird)
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Loan ledger, typed with notes
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Correspondence esp. re: Antrodemus skull casts
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Itemized lists
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Itemized lists
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Invoices and memos
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Includes photographs
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Clippings and report
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Curator of the Museum 1879-90; drawer labels, handwritten note
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Mostly newspaper clippings; hand-drawn map to Dinosaur Camp
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1868-1948, natural science illustrator
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Photographs of museum circa 1910-2000
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6 glass lantern slides
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8 x 10 glass plate negatives with flaking edges. Original paintings date 1876-1878.
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5 x 7 glass plate negative
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5 x 7 glass plate negative
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Including Princetonian trilobite
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Photographs include Donald Baird
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Photographs and negatives undated; correspondence 1940; one glass plate negative moved to Box 28
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Including Robert Bruce Horsfall photo
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Attendance records
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Handwritten lists of numbers representing specimens
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Jepsen and Baird documents
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From Jepsen's files
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Report by Keller, Bonini and Hollister circa 2004
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Clippings
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Jepsen's files
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Manuscripts, photos, negatives--Jepsen, Horsfall, and Scott
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The files are arranged physically in the order in which they were received from the department. For the purposes of this finding aid, the archivist has grouped the photographs loosely into three categories.
Series 7: Photographs contains files which for the most part were grouped under the heading "Photographs" by the department. The files include photographs of faculty, staff, undergraduate and graduate students; of field trips and scenery; of events on campus; and of campus buildings. The files in Series 7 tend to contain photographs almost exclusively, while many folders throughout the rest of the Department of Geosciences Records contain photographs stored together with other materials. Note that both Series 5: Field Trips and Expeditions and Series 6: Natural History Museum also contain subgroups called "Photographs." Photographs of individual faculty and staff are often found in their files in Series 2.
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Includes site of Engines and Airplanes Building
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8 boxes
A variety of photographic and film formats of expeditions, excavation sites and specimens.
The materials have been grouped according to format.
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Negatives and contact sheet
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See mounted versions in Box 47
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See mounted versions in Box 47
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Early 20th century
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Possibly Sampson's trip to Europe
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Correspondence
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Photographs of Jason Morgan retirement dinner
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Were housed with Van Ingen's photographs, Box 43
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These slides were found in two groups. Box 54 contains lantern slide photographs of a hotel in Medveshya Gora, Karelia; lunch stop at Novo Ackerman near Orsk; Henry Hess at Asbestus, Urals; Henry Hess on Mount Magnitnaya; and Sokoloff and Ulrich at Korkino, Siberia.
Boxes 55 and 56 lantern slides, before preservation rehousing, were contained in boxes labeled "Buddington Russia." People identified in the slides in these Boxes 55 and 56 include Dave Williams, Sir Ed Teale, Ben Miller, C.W. Wright, Federovsky, C.E. Tilley, E.L. Bruce, Phil Krieger, C.H. Behre, Henderson, and Arthur Buddington. Places identified in these slides include Asbestus, Kirovsk, Bakal, the Ural Mountains, the line of the Murmansk Railroad, the Kremlin, the cathedral at the end of Red Square, and the shore of the White Sea.
See also the related collection "Arthur Buddington Lantern Slides of Russia, 1937", C1448, at Special Collections Firestone Library.
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Portraits and department shots
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Glass plate of Jewell moved to Box 52
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Includes Lake Louise photo
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Department secretaries
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Photographs of students
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Photographs - Morgan, Judson
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Photographs - Baird, Deffeyes, Phinney, Morgan, Onstott, Hargraves
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Photographs--Keller, Hargraves and Hollister
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Photographs of students, staff
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Including Judson retirement
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Geological Society of America Convention
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One lantern slide moved to Box 52.
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Compiled by Peggy Cross.
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