Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- Adrian F. Richards Collection
- Dates:
- ca. 1946-1988
- Creators:
- Richards, Adrian F.
- Abstract:
- The Adrian F. Richards Collection consists largely of photographic prints, negatives, and slides collected by the marine geologist, and includes one graduate-level paper by Richards.
- Extent:
- 1.5 Linear feet (2 archives boxes and 1 shoebox) and 4.35 GB of digital files
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
-
Adrian F. Richards Collection. SMC 103. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego Library.
Background
- Scope and content:
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The Adrian F. Richards Collection consists largely of photographic prints, negatives, and slides collected by the marine geologist, and includes one graduate-level paper by Richards. The images include the Volcán Bárcena (also known as Boqueron) eruption in the early 1950s on Isla San Benedicto, the subject of his doctoral dissertation, as well as pictures of ships and oceanographic instruments and equipment. It also includes a few photographs of Richards at work.
- Biographical / historical:
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Adrian F. Richards was born in Worcester, Massachusetts in 1929. He got a B.S. from the University of New Mexico in 1951 and a Ph.D. in oceanography from Scripps Institution of Oceanography in 1957. Since that time, he held positions with the U. S. Navy Hydrographic Office, the Department of Agriculture, the National Academy of Sciences, the U. S. Navy Electronics Laboratory, the Office of Naval Research, and the Norwegian Geotechnical Institute, Oslo, Norway. In 1964 he was appointed Associate Professor of Geology (nine-tenths time) and Associate Professor of Civil Engineering (one-tenth time) on the faculty of the University of Illinois. He worked in academia, industry and the U.S. Navy as an oceanographer, submarine geologist and management consultant until his retirement in 1988. He published over 170 articles and participated in research expeditions to most of the oceans of the world.
- Acquisition information:
- Acquired 1983, 2007
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Encoded:
- This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2024-02-27 12:41:55 -0800 .
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.
- Terms of access:
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Richards transferred copyright for all items for which he is the creator to the UC Regents.
- Preferred citation:
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Adrian F. Richards Collection. SMC 103. 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