- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Hess, Harry Hammond
- Title:
- Collection of Harry H. Hess Materials
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcwd376657t
- Dates:
- 1932-1968
- Size:
- 0.21 linear feet and (1 container)
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box B-001831
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists primarily of a few writings and field notes of American geologist Harry Hammond Hess (1906-1969).
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection includes a few materials related to American geologist Harry Hammond Hess (1906-1969), including a brief autobiographical sketch; field notes from an expedition to the Caribbean in early 1932 relating to the U.S. Navy-Princeton Gravity Experiment, 1932) and other miscellaneous notes; a typescript on sea-floor spreading and one on ocean basins; and a manuscript copy of Hess's Brooks Fellowship report, "A Geological Excursion in the USSR" (1937). A few letters are scattered throughout.
A couple of items in the collection were not created by or may not relate to Hess.
Collection History
- Acquisition:
Gift of The Bancroft Library in 2017 (AM 2018-16).
- Appraisal
No materials were removed from the collection during 2022 processing beyond routine appraisal practices.
- Processing Information
This collection was processed by Faith Charlton in 2022. Finding aid written by Faith Charlton in 2022.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single copies may be made for research purposes. No further duplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to Special Collections Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Collection of Harry H. Hess Materials; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/dcwd376657t
- Location:
-
Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- Firestone Library (mss): Box B-001831
