Charles Lewis Camp papers, bulk approximately 1904-1980

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Summary

Title:
Charles Lewis Camp papers
Dates:
bulk approximately 1904-1980
Creators:
Camp, Charles Lewis
Abstract:
Papers of paleontologist and zoologist Charles Lewis Camp.
Extent:
24 linear feet (18 cartons, 2 boxes, 2 oversize folders)
Language:
English and Collection materials are in English.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Charles Lewis Camp papers, BANC MSS C-B 862, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Background

Scope and content:

Collection consists of personal and professional correspondence, writings and notes, teaching materials, other professional files, subject files, personal materials, clippings. Some of the materials relate to Camp's paleontology work and others to his work in Western American history.

Biographical / historical:

Charles Camp was born in Jamestown, North Dakota on March 12, 1893 to Theodosia Baird Camp and Edgar Whittlesey Camp, a prominent attorney. Several years later, the Camp family moved to Southern California and Charles Camp attended Throop Polytechnic Institute in Pasadena, California. He earned his A.B. in 1915 at the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. in 1923 from Columbia University. His doctoral work was interrupted from 1917 to 1919 by active service with the United States Army in France. Camp joined the University of California, Berkeley faculty as a zoologist in 1922. He transferred to the Paleontology Department in 1930, and he directed the museum of Paleontology from 1930 until 1949. Camp retired from teaching in 1960.

Camp was also a dedicated historian of the American West. He edited and published the journals of frontiersmen James Clyman and George C. Yount and three times revised Henry R. Wagner's bibliography The Plains and the Rockies. Camp was an important figure in the California Historical Society and a founding member of the Friends of the Bancroft Library. Charles Camp died on Aug. 14, 1975.

Acquisition information:
The Charles Lewis Camp papers were gifted to the Bancroft Library by Mr. Charles Lewis Camp between 1961 and 1973.
Processing information:

Initial processing by Mary Ellen Jones. Additional processing and finding aid created by Lara Michels in 2014.

Physical location:
For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Lara Michels
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2015-01-09 12:53:47 -0800 .

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research.

Terms of access:

Materials in this collection may be protected by the U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.). In addition, the reproduction of some materials may be restricted by terms of University of California gift or purchase agreements, donor restrictions, privacy and publicity rights, licensing and trademarks. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by copyright beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of without permission of the copyright owner. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley 94720-6000. See: http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/reference/permissions.html.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Charles Lewis Camp papers, BANC MSS C-B 862, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.

Location of this collection:
University of California, Berkeley, The Bancroft Library
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000, US
Contact:
510-642-6481
bancref-library@berkeley.edu
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