Finding Aid to the Clyde Wahrhaftig Papers
Lara Michels
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
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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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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Clyde Wahrhaftig papers, BANC MSS 98/77 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Acquisition Information
The Clyde Wahrhaftig papers were gifted to the Bancroft Library by Dorothy Lindheim on May 12, 1998.
Processing Information
Processed by Lara Michels in November, 2014.
Separated Materials
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).
Biographical / Historical
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.
Scope and Content
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
Series 1:
Correspondence
approximately 1962-1980
Physical Description: Carton 1
Series 2:
Teaching
approximately 1960-1980
Physical Description: Carton 2-5
carton 2, folder 30, carton 3
carton 4, carton 5, folder 1-5
carton 5, folder 21-32, carton 6, folder 1-3
carton 4-5
Geology Department materials
carton 6, folder 16-17, carton 7, folder 1-3
Series 3:
Writings and Projects
approximately 1960-1980
Physical Description: Carton 7, folder 6-23; carton 8-9
carton 7, folder 23
Trouble with the rate of erosion (talk)
1970
carton 8, folder 1
Progress in understanding the tradeoffs between mineral extraction and wilderness preservation
1973
carton 8, folder 2-3
Geologic and hydrologic study of the Golden Gate
1974
carton 8, folder 4
Road log for Santa Cataline Island field trip
1954
carton 8, folder 5
Engineering Geology packet
1954
carton 8, folder 6
Our energy economy in geological perspective (talk at A.E. Michelson School, Murphys, California)
1975
carton 8, folder 7
Miscellaneous environmental talks
1966-1974
carton 8, folder 8
Outer continental shelf oil and gas
1974
carton 8, folder 9
Miscellaneous lectures
1965
carton 8, folder 10
Tomales Bay Environmental Study
carton 8, folder 11-18
Plagioclase zonin gpaper
approximately 1940
carton 8, folder 19
Last Chance Prospect, Hyder, Alaska
approximately 1940
case 8, folder 21-28
Tower Peak Quadrangle
approximately 1957-1962
carton 8, folder 20
Studies in a Hyder Dyke Rock...
carton 8, folder 29-38, carton 9, folder 1-2
Emigrant Basin
approximately 1970
carton 9, folder 3-15
INQUA field conference
1965
carton 9, folder 16-22
Assorted other project files
Series 4:
Personalia and Unidentified Files
approximately 1940-1980
Physical Description: Box 1
Series 5:
Maps
approximately 1974
Physical Description: Tube 1; oversize folder 1-3
tube 1
Geologic map, Southern Marin County, including San Quentin, by James Clark Bangert
1974
tube 1
Slope Stability Map, Southern Marin County, including San Quentin
1974
tube 1
Borehole Data Map, Southern Marin County
1974
oversize_folder 1
Six maps (Billy-Goat Hill in San Francisco; Yosemite; Tower Peak Quadrangle)
oversize_folder 2
Assorted maps of San Francisco
