COLLECTION DESCRIPTION
Papers include irrigation surveys of western states, 1883-1889; pictures of the Peary Arctic Expedition of 1896; diary of the expedition by B. Hoppin; scrapbook kept by Tarr as a Cornell professor; geology field books; notebooks of his son, Russel S. Tarr; diary kept on the Cornell Alaska Expedition, 1906; lectures on the geography of North America; notes on lab work in an experimental physiography course, 1907-1908; glass slides and negatives; and correspondence on Tarr's early years. Also, Geology Department records and reports kept by Tarr and his successors and a ledger of information on graduate students in the Geology Department.
Dates
- 1883-1961,-1883-1912 (bulk)
Creator
Language of Materials
Collection material in English
BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
Professor of geology.
Extent
6.2 cubic feet. (6.2 cubic feet.)
Abstract
Tarr's papers mainly pertaining to geography.
Physical Description
Correspondence, field notebooks, research material, publications
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Compiled by RMC Staff
- Date
- August 2011
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
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