Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Louise Henry Papers
- Dates:
- 1930-1990 (bulk 1970-1983)
- Creators:
- Henry, Louise, 1930-1989
- Abstract:
- Papers of Louise Henry (1930-1989), who served as a yeoman and marine technician aboard D/V Glomar Challenger during the Deep Sea Drilling Project. This small collection includes photographs, reports, correspondence, personal narratives, and ephemera regarding the expedition.
- Extent:
- 1.2 Linear feet (3 archives boxes, 1 oversize folder, and 1 map case folder)
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
-
Louise Henry Papers. SMC 72. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Papers of Louise Henry (1930-1989), who served as a yeoman and marine technician aboard D/V Glomar Challenger during the Deep Sea Drilling Project. This small collection includes photographs, reports, correspondence, personal narratives, and ephemera regarding the expedition. Henry was the first female yeoman working on Glomar Challenger; her photographs and papers document the presence of other women scientists and technicians on the expedition as well as her own.
Arranged in two series: 1) DOCUMENTS, and 2) PHOTOGRAPHS.
- Biographical / historical:
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Marjorie Louise Henry was born October 2, 1930 in Columbus, Ohio. She received a B.S. in business administration from Ohio State University in 1952 and then worked in sales and as a crewmember on luxury liners, including S.S. Mariposa. From 1965 to 1968 she worked in the student activities department at UC Irvine. In 1968 she moved to San Diego to take a position with Scripps Institution of Oceanography as an office manager for the Deep Sea Drilling Project. Her first sea-going expedition was on DSDP Leg 10 in 1970 aboard D/V Glomar Challenger, where she was the first female yeoman. Henry worked as a yeoman and marine technician on many DSDP legs until the end of the project in 1983. She compiled and typed scientific reports and procedure manuals, encoded data, cataloged the shipboard science library, and stood watches in the core lab. Louise Henry retired in 1986 and died on December 18, 1989.
- Acquisition information:
- Acquired 1994, 2009
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-11-12 14:07:15 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW TWO TO THREE (2-3) WEEKS FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.
- Terms of access:
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Publication rights are held by the Regents of the University of California.
- Preferred citation:
-
Louise Henry Papers. SMC 72. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
- Location of this collection:
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9500 Gilman Drive, Dept. 0175La Jolla, CA 92093-0175, US
- Contact:
- (858) 534-2533