Inventory to the papers of Frank Marion Anderson at the California Academy of Sciences MSS.009

Anderson (Frank Marion) Papers
California Academy of Sciences Archives
55 Music Concourse Drive
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA, 94118
415-379-5484
library@calacademy.org
July 5, 2012


Descriptive Summary

Title: Anderson (Frank Marion) papers
Identifier/Call Number: MSS.009
Repository: California Academy of Sciences Archives
55 Music Concourse Drive
Golden Gate Park
San Francisco, CA 94118
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 8.8 Cubic feet 36 archives boxes, 6 glass boxes, 5 oversize folders.
Date: undated
Creator: Anderson, Frank Marion, 1863-1945

Biographical note

Frank Marion Anderson was a geologist. He was born in 1863. He was elected resident member of California Academy of Sciences in 1889, and a life member in 1901. He held a curatorial position with the Academy's Geology Department. He died in 1945.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Anderson, Frank Marion, 1863-1945
California Academy of Sciences. -- Archives
Geologists--California--Archives.

Box 1

Personal data, bibliography not recorded

Box 2

Income taxes not recorded

Box 3

Early papers – minerals not recorded

Box 4

Gen. Geology, irrigation, personal data, etc. not recorded

Box 5

Mexico (photos & negs in Box #34), maps not recorded

Box 7

Mines & mineral deposits (photos with text) not recorded

Box 6

Mineral deposit records not recorded

Box 8

Articles and reprints on oil fields not recorded

Box 9

Oil co. – civil suit not recorded

Box 10

California oil districts not recorded

Box 11

Oil wells not recorded

Box 12

Oil lands not recorded

Box 13

California oil fields not recorded

Box 14

California oil fields not recorded

Box 15

California oil fields (photos & negs in Box #34) not recorded

Box 16

Oil well logs not recorded

Box 17

California maps not recorded

Box 18

California maps not recorded

Box 19

Maps not recorded

Box 20

Reports and maps not recorded

Box 21

Columbia fossils, oil fields, maps, correspondence, etc. not recorded

Box 23

Columbia – photos & negs (removed to Box #34) – empty? not recorded

Box 22

Columbia geology, list of photos in lantern slide box, negatives not recorded

Physical Description: Box 22
Box 24

Columbia fossil photos (negatives removed to Box #35), petroleum prospects in North Columbia not recorded

Box 25

Columbia – 1930, prints 1930

Box 26

Manuscripts, prints not recorded

Box 27

Papers of field studies not recorded

Box 28

Manuscript – Knoxville, prints not recorded

Box 29

Lower Cretaceous (some negs removed to box #35) not recorded

Box 30

Upper Cretaceous not recorded

Box 31

Upper and Lower Cretaceous (some negs removed to Box #39) not recorded

Box 32

The Knoxville series in the California Mesozoic, Cretaceous strata, etc. not recorded

Box 33

Reprints on California Mesozoic, Neozine deposits, etc. not recorded

Box 34

Photos and negatives from former boxes 5, 25, and 23 not recorded

Box 35

Photos and negatives from former boxes 23, 24, and 35 not recorded

Box 36

Fossil illustrations for publications. Prints and negatives of California and Texas (glass slides from former Box #28) not recorded

Box 40

Card file on economic minerals not recorded

Box 41

Packet of maps of report on oil companies in Kern County not recorded

Oversize 1

Holodiscus, photographs and negatives circa 1937

Physical Description: 0.0010 Cubic feet 1 legal folder
Oversize 2

West American Chitons, mounted prints, proofs and sketches of undated

Physical Description: 0.0010 Cubic feet 1 legal folder
Oversize 3

Mounted sketches and prints undated

Physical Description: 0.0010 Cubic feet 1 legal folder
Oversize 4

Maps, predominantly hand-drawn topographic maps of areas of Northern California undated

Physical Description: 0.0010 Cubic feet 1 half-oversize folder
Oversize 5

Report on Lands Owned or Leased by Associated Oil Companies in Kern County. not recorded

Physical Description: 1 legal folder
 

Glass negatives

Box 37

Glass negatives – Oregon and California (glass and film) undated

Box 38

Glass negatives, long black box undated

Box 39

Glass negatives, 5x7 from Box #37 undated

Box 42

Glass negatives, box 1 of 2 undated

Box 43

Glass negatives, box 2 of 2 undated

Box 44

Glass negatives, protraits of people undated