Manuscripts

Legal papers

Description: As with General Correspondence, legal papers pertaining to specific Mining and Petroleum companies and projects have been retained within those series.
Type: Manuscripts(Opens in new tab)
Date: 1911-1947
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.

Correspondence, general

Manuscripts

For thirty years Arnold was considered one of the leading petroleum engineers and consultants in the United States. His prolific correspondence includes letters from practically all the leading scientists throughout the United States in his and related fields. Many of the writers were close personal friends. Arnold filed various business papers, brief reports, legal papers, etc. with his correspondence for his own convenience and that of his office help. Whenever feasible, this order has been retained for the convenience of readers. Some correspondence pertaining to Mining and Petroleum companies and projects is filed with related papers in those series.

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Ralph Arnold papers

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 geologist and petroleum engineer 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. Arnold's petroleum reports, numbering about 1,000 reports, extending all over the United States, Alaska, Canada, and Mexico, are a valuable resource for studying the Petroleum industry during this period.

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Mining papers

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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Mining papers

Manuscripts

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Political Papers

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Mining papers

Manuscripts

mssArnold

Legal papers

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