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Call Number: SC0414
Creator:
Page, Benjamin M. (Benjamin Markham),
1911-
Title: Benjamin M. Page papers
Dates: 1929-1996
Physical Description:
51 Linear feet
Summary: Papers include correspondence, minutes, budgets, class notes,
course files, student papers, reports, maps, and research files and pertain to his
activities as professor, department administrator, and scientist. Some papers relate to
his work with the Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (AEC/NRC). There are also
papers relating to the geological investigation of the site for the Stanford Linear
Accelerator Center; photographs from geology trips, 1930-1953, including the
department's summer geology field classes, 1941 and 1946-49; and an album of photo
negatives from Page's student days, 1929-32, on hiking/camping trips, geology trips,
other students, and his dorm room.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford University Libraries
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
Gift of Benjamin M. Page, 1991; and transfer from Dept. of Geology, 1997-2000.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials
must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is
given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not
intended to include or imply permission from the copyright owner. Such permission
must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
Benjamin M. Page Papers (SC0414). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
Geologist. Page, a member of the Stanford class of 1933, also earned his master's degree
in 1934 and his Ph.D in 1940 at Stanford. He joined the Stanford faculty in 1943,
becoming full professor in 1952; he was head of the Geology Department from 1957-62 and
again from 1965-68. He retired in 1976. Page's special fields are structural geology and
the relationship between geological structures and plate tectonics.
Papers include correspondence, minutes, budgets, class notes, course files, student
papers, reports, maps, and research files and pertain to his activities as professor,
department administrator, and scientist. Some papers relate to his work with the
Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (AEC/NRC). There are also papers relating to
the geological investigation of the site for the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center;
photographs from geology trips, 1930-1953, including the department's summer geology
field classes, 1941 and 1946-49; and an album of photo negatives from Page's student
days, 1929-32, on hiking/camping trips, geology trips, other students, and his dorm
room.
Page, Benjamin M. (Benjamin Markham),
1911-
Stanford Linear Accelerator Center
Stanford University. Dept. of
Geology--Faculty.
Stanford University. Dept. of Geology
U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Advisory Committee on
Reactor Safequards.
Geology--Study and teaching (higher).
Photoprints
Plate tectonics
Topographical surveying.