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Pacific coast Shay : strong man of the woods
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Red-wood Lake, on Pacific coast, between Trinidad and Klamath
Manuscripts
The collection contains J. Goldsborough Bruff's oversize revised version of his journal (c. 1853) which documents his journey across the American plains in 1849 by way of Lassen's Trail. Also included in the collection are 264 drawings of scenes from his overland journey, of various places he visited in California, and of his sea voyage to the Eastern United States via Mexico and Panama. Many of Bruff's drawings are in pencil, but thirty-eight of them were drawn with pastels and are in color.
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1. Pacific Coast and Southern California, Mexico and Trinidad
Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, including 190,000 reports, 1200 maps, 500 photographs, and 8200 pieces of printed material related to the life and career of Ralph Arnold. Subjects represented in the collection include: mining, petroleum, and seismology in the Western United States as well as Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and South America; political papers from 1914 to 1956, mostly concerning the campaign of Herbert Hoover for president; family and personal papers from 1836 to 1961 of Arnold and his father, Delos Arnold, containing source material on Pasadena and Southern California local history. The collection also contains Arnold's field books, including those made at Stanford University with the U.S. Geological Survey from 1900 to 1909.
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7. Arnold and Hannibal: Marine Tertiary Stratigraphy of the North Pacific Coast of America
Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, including 190,000 reports, 1200 maps, 500 photographs, and 8200 pieces of printed material related to the life and career of Ralph Arnold. Subjects represented in the collection include: mining, petroleum, and seismology in the Western United States as well as Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and South America; political papers from 1914 to 1956, mostly concerning the campaign of Herbert Hoover for president; family and personal papers from 1836 to 1961 of Arnold and his father, Delos Arnold, containing source material on Pasadena and Southern California local history. The collection also contains Arnold's field books, including those made at Stanford University with the U.S. Geological Survey from 1900 to 1909.
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Ser. 6/ Volume 1. Harold Hannibal photographs, Pacific Coast and New Mexico
Visual Materials
Photographs are by Harold Hannibal, a geologist and paleontologist who co-wrote a paper with Arnold called "The Marine Tertiary Stratigraphy of the North Pacific Coast of America," Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society, 1913. California Predominately views and descriptions of topography and geological features, with only two views of oil wells in Tapo Canyon, Simi Valley. At site are "Messrs. Wheat, DeFreest, Koeberle and Moore" examining rock (No. 188). Locations: Calaveras Valley; Carmel; Catalina Island; Contra Costa County; Corral Hollow; Crescent City; Dixieland; Eel River; Garbeville; Imperial Valley; Kettleman Hills; Marysville Buttes; Merced Falls; Monterey Bay; Mt. Diablo; Oroville; San Benito-Monterey County; San Bruno; San Diego; San Pedro Hills; Simi Valley. Others of note: No. 120: Oil wharf with pipeline, Monterey. No. 178-179: Chinese laborers at Calexico, Ca., waiting for train to take them to work in cotton fields at Mexicali, Baja. No. 209: Howard Hannibal standing next to "best fossil locality in the Monterey - 27-mile drive between Pebble Beach Lodge and Carmel." New Mexico/Texas border Topography and vegetation views, showing mountains and springs, sandstone, dry river beds. One view of oil well in Rocky Arroyo, Carlsbad, New Mexico. Oregon, Washington, Vancouver Island and Sooke Harbor, British Columbia Many views and descriptions of coastal topography, beaches and cliffs, particularly in the Olympic Peninsula. Others of note: No. 4-5: J. M. McDonald and Harold Hannibal at Oak Bay. No. 143-146: Native Americans (described as "Siwashes," most likely Coast Salish or Quinault) catching fish on beach at Taholah.
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9. Arnold and Hannibal: New Mollusca from the Marine Tertiary Deposits of the North Pacific Coast of America
Manuscripts
The collection contains letters, documents, including 190,000 reports, 1200 maps, 500 photographs, and 8200 pieces of printed material related to the life and career of Ralph Arnold. Subjects represented in the collection include: mining, petroleum, and seismology in the Western United States as well as Canada, Mexico, Cuba, and South America; political papers from 1914 to 1956, mostly concerning the campaign of Herbert Hoover for president; family and personal papers from 1836 to 1961 of Arnold and his father, Delos Arnold, containing source material on Pasadena and Southern California local history. The collection also contains Arnold's field books, including those made at Stanford University with the U.S. Geological Survey from 1900 to 1909.
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Series 6. Photograph Album. Vol. 1. Harold Hannibal photographs, Pacific Coast and New Mexico
Visual Materials
A collection of photographs and maps compiled by American geologist and petroleum engineer Ralph Arnold (1875-1961), documenting his pioneering work in oil and mineral exploration, chiefly in the Western United States, Mexico and Venezuela, from 1900 to 1954. The collection centers on 64 photograph albums that span 50 years of Arnold's life and work. Photographs are accompanied by Arnold's typed captions identifying geological features; oil and mining activities; technical data; and dates and locations, i.e. often an oil or mining "district" or "field," such as "Sunset Field" (California). Subject matter includes geological and topographical features such as rock formations, faults and schisms, mountain structure, geothermal activity, and open land with potential drilling or mining spots. Earthquake faults are seen and described in many of Arnold's California investigations. There are also views of small and large-scale oil operations (by individuals and by organized companies); details of oil flow and reservoirs; asphalt; drilling equipment; workers and fields of oil wells. Arnold's work took him all over the Western United States, particularly California oil fields, but also Texas, Wyoming, Arizona, Alaska and other states. From 1911-1916 he was primarily in South America, and in the 1920s-1940s, mostly in the U.S., Canada and Mexico. Mining operations are the focus of some albums, showing investigations for tin, gold and other minerals; mines and ore processing, all with detailed descriptions. Arnold also often photographed people: colleagues and business associates, oil lease owners on their properties; workers (particularly Black and Asian workers in Venezuela); and friends and family. Personal photographs are throughout the album, such as of his wife, Winninette, and their two daughters; Stokes family members (Winninette's family) in South Pasadena; and alumni of Pasadena High School and Stanford University. Arnold was an avid gardener and the albums contain detail views of cactus and tropical plants, and scenes of Arnold collecting wild orchids in Trinidad, Venezuela and Mexico. The maps date from 1880-1948 and include U.S.G.S. and geological maps, California oil fields and well locations; layouts of mines, and various tract maps showing oil company-owned land.
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