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_2lcmd
100 1 _aBecker, George F.
_q(George Ferdinand),
_d1847-1919.
245 0 0 _aGeorge F. Becker papers,
_f1814-1928.
300 _a9,900
_fitems.
300 _a36
_fcontainers plus
_a1
_foversize.
300 _a14.5
_flinear feet.
351 _aArranged 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 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aCorrespondence, 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 _3Photographs and photograph albums
_etransferred to
_aLibrary of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.
545 0 _aGeologist, mathematician, engineer, and physicist.
546 _aCollection material in English, with Spanish and German.
555 8 _aFinding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009321
600 1 0 _aArzruni, Andreas,
_d1847-1898
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBell, James Franklin,
_d1856-1919
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aBurton, Theodore E.
_q(Theodore Elijah),
_d1851-1929
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aCrozier, William,
_d1855-1942
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDana, Edward Salisbury,
_d1849-1935
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aDana, James Dwight,
_d1813-1895
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aEmmons, Samuel Franklin,
_d1841-1911
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aGeikie, Archibald,
_d1835-1924
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHague, A.
_q(Arnold),
_d1840-1917
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHilgard, Eugene W.
_q(Eugene Woldemar),
_d1833-1916
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHovey, Edmund Otis,
_d1862-1924
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aHowe, Henry Marion,
_d1848-1922
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aJanin, Louis,
_d1837-1914
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aLindgren, Waldemar,
_d1860-1939
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aMerrill, Charles Washington,
_d1869-1956
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aNewcomb, Simon,
_d1835-1909
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aPeirce, Charles S.
_q(Charles Sanders),
_d1839-1914
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aPurington, Chester Wells,
_d1871-
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aRoosevelt, Theodore,
_d1858-1919
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aTurner, H. W.
_q(Henry Ward),
_d1857-
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWalcott, Charles D.
_q(Charles Doolittle),
_d1850-1927
_vCorrespondence.
600 1 0 _aWoodward, Robert Simpson,
_d1849-1924
_vCorrespondence.
600 3 0 _aBecker family.
610 2 0 _aCarnegie Institution of Washington.
610 2 0 _aGeological Society of America.
610 2 0 _aGeological Survey (U.S.)
611 2 0 _aRadioactivity Congress
_d(1910 :
_cBrussels, Belgium)
650 0 _aGeology
_zAlaska.
650 0 _aGeology
_zNevada.
650 0 _aGeology
_zNorth America.
650 0 _aGeology
_zPacific Coast (America)
650 0 _aGeology
_zPhilippines.
650 0 _aGeology
_zSouth Africa.
650 0 _aGeology
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aGeology
_zUnited States
_xSocieties, etc.
650 0 _aGeophysics.
650 0 _aRadioactivity
_xCongresses.
656 7 _aGeologists.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aMathematicians.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aPhysicists.
_2itoamc
656 7 _aScientists.
_2itoamc
856 4 _3Finding aid
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009321
856 4 _3Finding aid (PDF)
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009321.3
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_d39736