George F. Becker papers, (Record no. 39736)
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| LC control number | mm 78012229 |
| NUCMC control number | ms 60000024 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE | |
| Original cataloging agency | DLC |
| Description conventions | dacs |
| Transcribing agency | DLC |
| Modifying agency | DLC |
| 041 ## - LANGUAGE CODE | |
| Language code of text/sound track or separate title | eng |
| -- | ger |
| -- | spa |
| 072 #7 - SUBJECT CATEGORY CODE | |
| Subject category code | S |
| Source | lcmd |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Becker, George F. |
| Fuller form of name | (George Ferdinand), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1847-1919. |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | George F. Becker papers, |
| Inclusive dates | 1814-1928. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 9,900 |
| Type of unit | items. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 36 |
| Type of unit | containers plus |
| Extent | 1 |
| Type of unit | oversize. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Extent | 14.5 |
| Type of unit | linear feet. |
| 351 ## - ORGANIZATION AND ARRANGEMENT OF MATERIALS | |
| Organization | Arranged in 8 series. Series 1: Family Correspondence, 1814-1919; Series 2: General Correspondence, 1857-1928; Series 3: Letterbooks, 1872-1887; Series 4: Subject File, circa 1852-circa 1905; Series 5: Biographical File, 1824-1919; Series 6: Blueprints, Maps, and Sketches, 1839-1912; Series 7: Addition, 1902; and Series 8: Oversize, 1841-1914. |
| 506 0# - RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS NOTE | |
| Terms governing access | Open to research. |
| 520 8# - SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc. | Correspondence, memoranda, letterbooks, diaries, notes, notebooks, reports, articles, charts, tables, blueprints, maps, landscape sketches, memorabilia, printed matter, and other papers relating primarily to Becker's service as geologist-in-charge, U.S. Geological Survey. Documents his geological investigations in Nevada, southern Alaska, South Africa, the Pacific slope, and the Philippines. Also documents his service as geophysicist of the Carnegie Institution of Washington, 1898; U.S. representative at the Radioactivity Congress in Brussels, Belgium, in 1910; and president of the Geological Society of America, 1914. Correspondents include Andreas Arzruni, James Franklin Bell, Theodore E. Burton, William Crozier, Edward Salisbury Dana, James Dwight Dana, Samuel Franklin Emmons, Archibald Geikie, A. Hague, Eugene W. Hilgard, Edmund Otis Hovey, Henry Marion Howe, Louis Janin, Waldemar Lindgren, Charles Washington Merrill, Simon Newcomb, Charles S. Peirce, Chester W. Purington, Theodore Roosevelt, H.W. Turner, Charles D. Walcott, and Robert Simpson Woodward. |
| 544 ## - LOCATION OF OTHER ARCHIVAL MATERIALS NOTE | |
| Materials specified | Photographs and photograph albums |
| Provenance | transferred to |
| Custodian | Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. |
| 545 0# - BIOGRAPHICAL OR HISTORICAL DATA | |
| Biographical or historical data | Geologist, mathematician, engineer, and physicist. |
| 546 ## - LANGUAGE NOTE | |
| Language note | Collection material in English, with Spanish and German. |
| 555 8# - CUMULATIVE INDEX/FINDING AIDS NOTE | |
| Cumulative index/finding aids note | Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009321">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009321</a> |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Arzruni, Andreas, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1847-1898 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Bell, James Franklin, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1856-1919 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Burton, Theodore E. |
| Fuller form of name | (Theodore Elijah), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1851-1929 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Crozier, William, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1855-1942 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Dana, Edward Salisbury, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1849-1935 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Dana, James Dwight, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1813-1895 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Emmons, Samuel Franklin, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1841-1911 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Geikie, Archibald, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1835-1924 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hague, A. |
| Fuller form of name | (Arnold), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1840-1917 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hilgard, Eugene W. |
| Fuller form of name | (Eugene Woldemar), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1833-1916 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Hovey, Edmund Otis, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1862-1924 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Howe, Henry Marion, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1848-1922 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Janin, Louis, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1837-1914 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Lindgren, Waldemar, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1860-1939 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Merrill, Charles Washington, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1869-1956 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Newcomb, Simon, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1835-1909 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Peirce, Charles S. |
| Fuller form of name | (Charles Sanders), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1839-1914 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Purington, Chester Wells, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1871- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Roosevelt, Theodore, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1858-1919 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Turner, H. W. |
| Fuller form of name | (Henry Ward), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1857- |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Walcott, Charles D. |
| Fuller form of name | (Charles Doolittle), |
| Dates associated with a name | 1850-1927 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 10 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Woodward, Robert Simpson, |
| Dates associated with a name | 1849-1924 |
| Form subdivision | Correspondence. |
| 600 30 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME | |
| Personal name | Becker family. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Carnegie Institution of Washington. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Geological Society of America. |
| 610 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--CORPORATE NAME | |
| Corporate name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Geological Survey (U.S.) |
| 611 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--MEETING NAME | |
| Meeting name or jurisdiction name as entry element | Radioactivity Congress |
| Date of meeting or treaty signing | (1910 : |
| Location of meeting | Brussels, Belgium) |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Geology |
| Geographic subdivision | Alaska. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Geology |
| Geographic subdivision | Nevada. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Geology |
| Geographic subdivision | North America. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Geology |
| Geographic subdivision | Pacific Coast (America) |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Geology |
| Geographic subdivision | Philippines. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Geology |
| Geographic subdivision | South Africa. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Geology |
| Geographic subdivision | United States. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Geology |
| Geographic subdivision | United States |
| General subdivision | Societies, etc. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Geophysics. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical term or geographic name entry element | Radioactivity |
| General subdivision | Congresses. |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Geologists. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Mathematicians. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Physicists. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 656 #7 - INDEX TERM--OCCUPATION | |
| Occupation | Scientists. |
| Source of term | itoamc |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009321">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009321</a> |
| 856 4# - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Materials specified | Finding aid (PDF) |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009321.3">http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009321.3</a> |
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