Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Operation Crossroads: a report of non-participating scientific observer
- Dates:
- 1946-1947
- Creators:
- Galtsoff, Paul S.
- Abstract:
- This collection includes annotated typescript and photographs of Galtsoff's report as an observer of the Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests and the destructive results of the tests on the sea life in the area.
- Extent:
- 74 pages 1 portfolio
- Language:
- Languages represented in the collection: English
- Preferred citation:
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Operation Crossroads: a report of non-participating scientific observer. MS 294. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Paul S. Galtsoff was an observer of the 1946 Bikini Atoll atomic bomb tests and reported on the destructive results of the tests on sea life in the area. This collection includes photographs and seventy four annotated typescript carbon pages of Galtsoff's report.
- Biographical / historical:
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For a complete biography of Paul Galtsoff, one of shellfisheries pioneering biologists please see the PDF of National Shellfisheries Association Quarterly Newsletter, August 2004 article by Maille Lyons on Dr. Galtsoff under the Additional Guides section of this finding aid.
- Acquisition information:
- Donor unknown
- Physical location:
- Stored offsite at NRLF: Advance notice is required for access to the papers.
- Rules or conventions:
- Finding aid prepared using Describing Archives: a Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 2008
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid created by Maureen Carey. Machine-readable finding aid derived from MS Word. Date of source: May 14, 2008.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Collection open for research.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights reside with the University of California. Literary rights are retained by the creators of the records and their heirs. For permission to publish or to reproduce the material, please contact the Head of Special Collections and Archives.
- Preferred citation:
-
Operation Crossroads: a report of non-participating scientific observer. MS 294. Special Collections and Archives, University Library, University of California, Santa Cruz.
- Location of this collection:
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Special Collections and Archives, University Library1156 High StreetSanta Cruz, CA 95064, US
- Contact:
- (831) 459-2547