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BANC MSS 98/77 c
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Clyde Wahrhaftig papers
creator:
Wahrhaftig, Clyde
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 98/77 c
Physical Description:
12 linear feet
(9 cartons, 1 box, 3 oversize folders, and 1 tube)
Date (inclusive): approximately 1944-1981 (bulk 1965-1979)
Physical Location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Abstract: Correspondence, manuscripts, project files, and teaching materials of geologist Clyde Wahrhaftig.
Language: Collection materials are in English.
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[Identification of item], Clyde Wahrhaftig papers, BANC MSS 98/77 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
The Clyde Wahrhaftig papers were gifted to the Bancroft Library by Dorothy Lindheim on May 12, 1998.
Processed by Lara Michels in November, 2014.
Two photographic prints, an aerial photograph of Twin Peaks neighborhood (San Francisco) and a reproduction of an architectural
rendering of the San Francisco Municipal Railway N-Judah trolley line and San Francisco Mint at Duboce and Church Streets,
transferred to the Pictorial Division of the Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1998.091--Roll).
Clyde Wahrhaftig (1919-1994) was a geologist with the United States Department of the Interior and a professor of geology
at the University of California, Berkeley. He was born and raised in Fresno, California and earned his B.A. from Caltech and
his Ph.D. in geology from Harvard. He worked for the United States Geological Survey for his entire professional life and
was the author of a number of geological guide books to Western cities, including San Francisco. Wahrhaftig's guidebooks are
notable for, among other things, providing information about access to geological attractions by public transportation.
Papers of Clyde Wahrhaftig, professor of geology, including professional correspondence, manuscripts of and notes regarding
his guidebooks, research and report materials (including materials regarding Emigrant Basin and Golden Gate National Recreation
District), and course and teaching materials.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Wahrhaftig, Clyde--Archives
University of California, Berkeley. Department of Geology and Geophysics
UInternational Union for Quaternary Research
Geology--California
Geology--Study and teaching
Manuscripts for publication
Faculty papers
Geological maps