Manuscripts

Maps

Description: These furnish a valuable addenda to the Huntington Library's Manuscript map holdings. This is particularly true of the earlier ones which record the various ranchos, their boundaries, early land owners, urban communities and counties.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1890-1954
Call number: mssArnold
Creator: Arnold, Ralph (1875-1961)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Gift of Ralph Arnold, 1955-1961.
Restrictions: Open for use by qualified researchers and by appointment. Please contact Reader Services at the Huntington Library for more information.

Field books

Manuscripts

The field books cover a period of about a half a century. The earliest were kept while Arnold was getting his doctorate at Stanford, and the succeeding one, 1900-1904, written while Arnold was a member of the U.S. Geological Survey, furnish the basis for the work upon which Arnold established his professional reputation as a paleontologist and petroleum engineer. The later books, 1944-1957, represent valuable surveys in petroleum fields in Arizona, California, Oklahoma, Oregon, Montana, Texas and Washington, as well as Alaska, Canada and Mexico.

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2. East Central New Mexico

Manuscripts

San Miguel, De Baca, Guadalupe and adjacent counties.

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Second Series Mining Reports not included in Arnold Exploration Company Reports

Manuscripts

Those numbered were included in an Arnold list of Petroleum Reports. Others were unnumbered. All reports are alphabetically arranged by States and Counties.

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Map of America

Visual Materials

Kashnor notes, "This issue shows the same Oregon and Russian-American boundaries, but it also shows the new boundaries which include Texas, New Mexico and Upper California as within the territory of the United States." Kashnor dates as ca. 1847. See also 093:556 for an earlier version of this map. Prime meridian: GM. Relief: hachures. Projection: Azimuthal. Printing Process: Engraving. Verso Text: MS note: 557.

093:557 M

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Maps

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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Maps

Manuscripts

mssArnold

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