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Finding Aid to the Charles Lewis Camp papers
BANC MSS C-B 862
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Charles Lewis Camp papers
Creator:
Camp, Charles Lewis
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS C-B 862
Physical Description:
24 linear feet
(18 cartons, 2 boxes, 2 oversize folders)
Date (bulk): approximately 1904-1980
Abstract: Papers of paleontologist and zoologist Charles Lewis Camp.
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language of Material: Collection materials are in English.
Collection is open for research.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
The Charles Lewis Camp papers were gifted to the Bancroft Library by Mr. Charles Lewis Camp between 1961 and 1973.
[Identification of item], Charles Lewis Camp papers, BANC MSS C-B 862, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Initial processing by Mary Ellen Jones. Additional processing and finding aid created by Lara Michels in 2014.
Photographs transferred to the Pictorial Collections of the Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1961.012--PIC and BANC PIC 1973.068).
Charles Camp was born in Jamestown, North Dakota on March 12, 1893 to Theodosia Baird Camp and Edgar Whittlesey Camp, a prominent
attorney. Several years later, the Camp family moved to Southern California and Charles Camp attended Throop Polytechnic Institute
in Pasadena, California. He earned his A.B. in 1915 at the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. in 1923 from Columbia
University. His doctoral work was interrupted from 1917 to 1919 by active service with the United States Army in France. Camp
joined the University of California, Berkeley faculty as a zoologist in 1922. He transferred to the Paleontology Department
in 1930, and he directed the museum of Paleontology from 1930 until 1949. Camp retired from teaching in 1960.
Camp was also a dedicated historian of the American West. He edited and published the journals of frontiersmen James Clyman
and George C. Yount and three times revised Henry R. Wagner's bibliography
The Plains and the Rockies. Camp was an important figure in the California Historical Society and a founding member of the Friends of the Bancroft Library.
Charles Camp died on Aug. 14, 1975.
Collection consists of personal and professional correspondence, writings and notes, teaching materials, other professional
files, subject files, personal materials, clippings. Some of the materials relate to Camp's paleontology work and others to
his work in Western American history.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Camp, Charles Lewis -- Archives
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Paleontology. Marine Sciences Group
Carson, Kit
Clyman, James
California Historical Society
E Clampus Vitus (Fraternal order)
The Bancroft Library
Paleontology
Paleontologists
Study and teaching -- Paleontology
California -- History -- Sources
West (U.S.) -- History
Faculty papers