George F. Becker papers

LC control no.	mm 78012229
Type of material	Archival Manuscript/Mixed Formats (Collection)
Personal name	Becker, George F. (George Ferdinand), 1847-1919. » More like this
Main title	George F. Becker papers, 1814-1928.
Description	9,900 items. 36 containers plus 1 oversize. 14.5 linear feet.
Organized/Arranged	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.
Access advisory	Open to research.
Biography/History note	Geologist, mathematician, engineer, and physicist.
Summary	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.
Notes	Photographs and photograph albums: transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. Collection material in English, with Spanish and German. MSS12229
Finding aids	Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Reading Room and at <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009321>
Acquisition source	Transfer, U.S. Geological Survey, 1952. Gift, Florence Deakins Becker, 1953-1954. Gift, C.A. Elliot, Harvard University Archives, 1992.
Subjects	Arzruni, Andreas, 1847-1898--Correspondence. » More like this Bell, James Franklin, 1856-1919--Correspondence. » More like this Burton, Theodore E. (Theodore Elijah), 1851-1929--Correspondence. » More like this Crozier, William, 1855-1942--Correspondence. » More like this Dana, Edward Salisbury, 1849-1935--Correspondence. » More like this Dana, James Dwight, 1813-1895--Correspondence. » More like this Emmons, Samuel Franklin, 1841-1911--Correspondence. » More like this Geikie, Archibald, 1835-1924--Correspondence. » More like this Hague, A. (Arnold), 1840-1917--Correspondence. » More like this Hilgard, Eugene W. (Eugene Woldemar), 1833-1916--Correspondence. » More like this Hovey, Edmund Otis, 1862-1924--Correspondence. » More like this Howe, Henry Marion, 1848-1922--Correspondence. » More like this Janin, Louis, 1837-1914--Correspondence. » More like this Lindgren, Waldemar, 1860-1939--Correspondence. » More like this Merrill, Charles Washington, 1869-1956--Correspondence. » More like this Newcomb, Simon, 1835-1909--Correspondence. » More like this Peirce, Charles S. (Charles Sanders), 1839-1914--Correspondence. » More like this Purington, Chester Wells, b. 1871--Correspondence. » More like this Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919--Correspondence. » More like this Turner, H. W. (Henry Ward), b. 1857--Correspondence. » More like this Walcott, Charles D. (Charles Doolittle), 1850-1927--Correspondence. » More like this Woodward, Robert Simpson, 1849-1924--Correspondence. » More like this Becker family. » More like this Carnegie Institution of Washington. » More like this Geological Society of America. » More like this Geological Survey (U.S.) » More like this Radioactivity Congress (1910 : Brussels, Belgium) » More like this Geology--Alaska. » More like this Geology--Nevada. » More like this Geology--North America. » More like this Geology--Pacific Coast (America) » More like this Geology--Philippines. » More like this Geology--South Africa. » More like this Geology--United States. » More like this Geology--United States--Societies, etc. » More like this Geophysics. » More like this Radioactivity--Congresses. » More like this Geologists. Mathematicians. Physicists. Scientists.
Local shelving no.	0540O Oversize 1:2
Language code	eng ger spa
Repository	Library of Congress Manuscript Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA dcu <http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/mss.home>
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