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Canyon - South Dakota Badlands, 1920 August 17
Collection Overview
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Scope and Contents
Typed remarks on photocopied envelope include: "Canyon of a branch of Indian Creek in Pierre Shale capped by titanotherium beds. Grade A." along with other technical notes about exposure and type of lens. Negative number 466. Princeton student geological and paleontological expedition led by Professor William J. Sinclair in the summer of 1920. Title constructed by cataloger.
- Arrangement
No arrangement action taken or arrangement information not recorded at the time of processing.
Collection History
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Alfred Bush in September 1992. Finding aid written by Alfred Bush in September 1992. Box 27 added by Christie Peterson in May 2012. Description of the contents of Box 1, 3, and 10-15 updated in January 2022 by Phoebe Nobles and Lynn Durgin for a digitization project.
Boxes 21 and 23 do not exist.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research use.
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- Physical Characteristics and Technical Requirements
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- Credit this material:
Canyon - South Dakota Badlands; Princeton Scientific Expeditions Collection, AC012, Princeton University Archives, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Location:
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Seeley G. Mudd Manuscript LibrarySeeley G. Mudd Manuscript Library65 Olden StreetPrinceton, NJ 08540, USA
- Storage Note:
- Mudd Manuscript Library (mudd): Box 34
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- Existence and Location of Copies
A complete run of Reports of the Princeton University expeditions to Patagonia is available in the Mudd Manuscript Library stacks, call number: Oversize P55.739.2q.
- Names:
- Princeton University
Alexander, Stephen (1806-1883)
Libbey, William (1855-1927)
Osborn, Henry Fairfield (1857-1935)
Scott, William Berryman (1858-1947)