Becker, George F.  1847-1919. <br/><br/>
George F. Becker papers, 1814-1928. 

 - 9,900  items. 36  1  containers plus  oversize. 14.5  linear feet. 
 -  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. 
<br/><br/> Open to research. 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Photographs and photograph albums <br/>Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. <br/>transferred to 
<br/><br/><br/>Geologist, mathematician, engineer, and physicist. 
<br/><br/><br/>Collection material in English, with Spanish and German. 
<br/><br/> Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at  http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009321 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>mm 78012229  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Arzruni, Andreas, 1847-1898 --Correspondence.<br/>Bell, James Franklin, 1856-1919 --Correspondence.<br/>Burton, Theodore E. 1851-1929 --Correspondence.<br/>Crozier, William, 1855-1942 --Correspondence.<br/>Dana, Edward Salisbury, 1849-1935 --Correspondence.<br/>Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895 --Correspondence.<br/>Emmons, Samuel Franklin, 1841-1911 --Correspondence.<br/>Geikie, Archibald, 1835-1924 --Correspondence.<br/>Hague, A. 1840-1917 --Correspondence.<br/>Hilgard, Eugene W. 1833-1916 --Correspondence.<br/>Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924 --Correspondence.<br/>Howe, Henry Marion, 1848-1922 --Correspondence.<br/>Janin, Louis, 1837-1914 --Correspondence.<br/>Lindgren, Waldemar, 1860-1939 --Correspondence.<br/>Merrill, Charles Washington, 1869-1956 --Correspondence.<br/>Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909 --Correspondence.<br/>Peirce, Charles S. 1839-1914 --Correspondence.<br/>Purington, Chester Wells, 1871- --Correspondence.<br/>Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 --Correspondence.<br/>Turner, H. W. 1857- --Correspondence.<br/>Walcott, Charles D. 1850-1927 --Correspondence.<br/>Woodward, Robert Simpson, 1849-1924 --Correspondence.<br/>Becker family.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Corporate Names: </label><br/>Carnegie Institution of Washington.<br/>Geological Society of America.<br/>Geological Survey (U.S.)
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Meeting Names: </label><br/>Radioactivity Congress Brussels, Belgium)  (1910 : 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Geology--Alaska.<br/>Geology--Nevada.<br/>Geology--North America.<br/>Geology--Pacific Coast (America)<br/>Geology--Philippines.<br/>Geology--South Africa.<br/>Geology--United States.<br/>Geology--Societies, etc.--United States<br/>Geophysics.<br/>Radioactivity--Congresses.
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Occupation: </label><br/>Geologists.<br/>Mathematicians.<br/>Physicists.<br/>Scientists.