Biographical notes and narratives ca. 1968-1972
Curricula vitae undated
Awards 1952-2000
Awards (oversize) 1986, 2000
International Hod Carriers' Building and Common Laborers' Union of America membership book 1938
Diaries 1954-1995
Calendars 1961-1963
Calendars 1975-1977
Calendars 1978-1980
Calendars 1984-1986
CORRESPONDENCE
Professional correspondence 1946-1976
Professional correspondence 1977-1988
Personal correspondence 1956-1987
Aquatic toxicity testing 1984
Beaches ca. 1950-1959
Bikini Atoll - Bascom's research file on Bikini Islanders 1980-1989
Carpenter vs. City of Santa Monica 1982
CBS 1954-1958
Cleopatra's Island 1985-1986
Conservation of salvaged artifacts 1972-1973
Deep sea instrument platforms 1950-1959
"Deep Water Aircraft Salvage" film 1969
Diamonds 1964-1984
"Diamonds Under the Sea" film 1965, 1983
Diving - Notes and correspondence 1949-1954
E-Quest 1962-1968
Fomento Industrial 1968
HEXCEL Products, Inc. 1955-1961
Home shelters for civilians 1956-1962
Home shelter blueprint (oversize) by Bascom 1956
J.H. Pomeroy & Co., Inc. 1957-1958
Kentworthy vs. Marx 1974-1980
Mahon, John 1966-1972
Marine Archaeology and Maritime History - Course taught by Bascom at SIO 1977-1978
Marine ecology 1974-1976
Mark IX wave recorder ca. 1955
Marx, Robert 19701-979
Metcalf and Eddy, Inc. Engineers 1978-1985
Moorings and instruments 1950-1959
Ocean engineering education - Correspondence, notes and proposed curricula 1948-1953
Ocean Search, Inc. 1973-1974
General information and correspondence 1975-1982
Court of Claims documents 1975-1978
Attachments and exhibits (cont.) 1958-1976
Deposition of Professor John Isaacs 1977 March 1
Notes 1970-1979
Petroglyphs 1976
Point Loma kelp beds 1982-1985
Press and appearances 1980-1989
R/V ALCOA SEAPROBE 1967-1974
Research sailing vessels blueprints and plans ca. 1980-1989
Santa Monica Basin 1985
SCUBA 1953
Speaking engagements ca. 1960-1980
Television programming ca. 1950-1980
Television programming (cont.) ca. 1950-1980
Trace metals 1973-1979
Undersea warfare 1953-1956
Underwater archeology projects - Correspondence and notes 1970-1975
Underwater archeology education 1974-1978
Virgin Islands rum liquor discharge 1977
Water Planning for Israel Ltd. 1976
AAAS Committee on the Public Understanding of Science 1960-1962
The Adventurers' Club 1977-1981
Advisory Committee on Civil Defense, NAS-NRC 1954-1957
Atomic Energy Commission Plowshare Advisory Committee 1965-1971
California Regional Water Quality Control Board 1982-1985
Civil Defense Board to the Montgomery County Council 1958
Coastal Engineering Research Board 1984-1985
Deep Submersible Pilots Association 1981-2000
National Academy of Sciences ca. 1950-1956
National Research Council Panel on Underwater Swimmers 1951-1957
Naval Research Advisory Committee 1970-1977
Ocean Sciences Board 1978-1982
President's Committee on Government Operations - Study of Civil Defense 1957
Seafinders, Inc. 1970-1977
Searle Consortium (International consultants in ocean engineering, towing, salvage and diving) 1986-1991
General information and correspondence 1963-1975
Finances 1963-1967
Management and personnel 1965-1968
Operational Committee meetings 1966-1968
Proposals and reports
USS Thresher 1963, 1975-1976
OSE Proposes SEARCH: SEA Recovery of Costly Hardware to NASA 1964 April
Progress Report for April-May 1964 to De Beers Consolidated Mines Limited on the Southern Diamond Corporation Concession Evaluation Project 1964 August
Report on Rockeater Sampling Programme in the Marine Diamond Corporation Concession 1965 January
Report on Rockeater Sampling Programme in the Atlantiese Diamant Korporasie 1965 March
Tidal Diamonds Concession Geologic Report 1965 August
Proposal to Aluminum Corporation of America for an Aluminum Oceanographic Laboratory 1966 December
The Construction and Operation of a Ship to Recover Valuable Objects from the Ocean Floor 1967 June
A Proposal to Air Force Intelligence of a Study of the Feasibility of Recovering Fragments of Soviet Missiles form the Floor of the Deep Ocean undated
Correspondence and notes about proposed book on salvage engineering 1969-1971
Miscellaneous photographs 1960-1970
Sketches of equipment undated
Menke notes 1965-1968
PROJECTS AND EXPEDITIONS
Consultant work 1972-1985
Project Mohole
General information and correspondence 1960-1963
Ship design 1961-1963
The Earth's Crust and the Mohole Project - Bascom lecture 1962 November 21
Notes undated
Photographs of personnel aboard CUSS I 1961
Miscellaneous photographs of personnel, equipment and vessels 1961-1962
Cable survey in South Africa 1965
Bahamas treasure 1971-1973
Dan Region Wastewater Project 1976
Southern California Coastal Water Research Project 1975-1985
Southern California Coastal Water Research Project (cont.) 1975-1985
Santa Monica sand accretion 1981-1982
Waterways Experiment Station, Army Corps of Engineers 1984
San Diego Designation Study 1985
Ballast Trail of Black Rock galleon wreck 1987-1993
CETREL, Bahia 1989
Black Sea ancient ship expedition 1991
Cape Artemision salvage 1993-1997
Fourth Conference on Coastal Engineering 1953
International Conference on the Peaceful Uses of Atomic Energy 1955 June 30
Undersea Warfare Committee Meeting 1955 September 16
First Conference on Coastal Engineering Instruments 1955 October 31-November 2
AAAS Moho (Mohole) Symposium 1960 December 30
Drilling Beneath the Ocean - Honeywell Engineers Lecture Series 1963 February 24
Fairleigh Dickinson Oceanology Conference 1967 June 20-22
Interregional Seminar on New Methods for Mineral Exploration with Emphasis on Geophysical Techniques 1967 July 17-22
AAAS-Brookings Seminars for Members of Congressional Staffs 1968 March 26-27
Workshop on the Effects of Human Activity on the Coastal Ocean 1984 January 9-11
A Forum for Discussion of Municipal Waste Disposal, Conference of Coastal Agencies 1984 March 8
Working Solutions: Shore and Beach - O'Brien Symposium 1987 March 23-24
Papers and Publications
The Causes of Movement of Ocean Sands 1950 December
The Relationship Between Sand Size and Beach Face Slope 1951 April
A Preliminary Study of the Problems of Underwater Demolition Teams 1951 June
"Beach Characteristics," ONR Manual of Amphibious Oceanography 1951 July
Observations on Water Temperature, Wave Steepness and Beach Width, Carmel, California 1951
My Bubbles Rise in Steps: Free-Diving Adventures in the Tropical Pacific - Memoir from Capricorn Expedition 1953 March
Diving Geologists! Why Not? 1953 June
Lambersten, Christian J. and Willard Bascom. "The Permissible Level of Carbon Monoxide in Inspired Air Used for Diving" 1953 December
Characteristics of Natural Beaches 1953
A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea 1959-1966
Force and Policy 1956 August
Anti-Shark Alternatives 1956
To Be or Not To Be… 1956
Old Uses for a New Navy ca. 1957
Biological Versus Cultural Evolution 1958 August
Civil Defense, Encyclopedia Britannica 1958
Science and Network Television ca. 1958
Peacetime Uses of Deep-Moored Buoys 1959 February
Gregory, John B. and Willard Bascom. "Maneuvering Devices for Ships" 1959 March
"The Mohole", Scientific American 1959 April
Beaches 1960
The Origin of the Ocean 1961
A Second Front ca. 1961
Ocean Science in Vietnam 1967
Oil in the Arctic Islands 1969
The Pearl Divers of Takaroa 1969
Technology and the Ocean 1969
The Remarkable CRAWLCUTTER of O.S. & E, Inc. 1970
Proposal for Doing Deep Marine Archaeology in Greek Waters 1971 April
"Deep Water Archeology," Science 174 1971 October
Proposal for Oil Storage and Transport Co. a Delaware Corporation 1972 January
Archaeology in Deep Water 1972
Ancient Ships in Deep Water 1973 June
Waste Disposal in the Ocean 1973-1976
Finding the Lost Treasure of the Mimbres ca. 1973
Deep Water, Ancient Ships: The Treasure Vault of the Mediterranean 1974-1977
Science and Ancient Sea Stories 1976 February
Imagination in Marine Education 1976
Waves and Beaches 1960-1980
Engineering and the Efficient Use of the Sea 1980
Remembrances of John Isaacs 1980 November
King Event, Operation Ivy 1981 March
Spilhaus, Athelstan and Willard Bascom. "A Sail Assisted Ship for Ocean Research" ca. 1982
Memorable Moments in Marine Technology undated
Offshore Prospecting for Minerals undated
Notes
Miscellaneous notes labeled "ideas to work on" 1958-1968
Miscellaneous notes 1976-1985
Miscellaneous notes from seminars ca. 1980-1989
Miscellaneous notes from seminars (cont.) ca. 1980-1989
Carmel Beach 1946-1947
Beach erosion, notes and graphs ca. 1950-1959
Desalination ca. 1950-1959
Instruments and equipment ca. 1950-1959
Waves ca. 1950-1959
Harbor surging ca. 1950-1959
Notes on theory on the origin of cancer from a discussion with Roger Revelle 1954 April
Buoys 1965
Design sketches ca. 1970-1979
Great Lakes shipwrecks ca. 1970
Bahama Bank film 1972
Magnetics 1972
Climate change 1974
Endangered birds 1979
Marine resources 1979
Notes on Southern California beach recreation statistics ca. 1980
Assimilative Capacity Concept 1982
Biochemistry 1984
Hydrocarbon outputs 1984
Cancer risks 1985
San Diego sand undated
PHOTOGRAPHS AND SLIDES
Photographs
Miscellaneous ship wrecks ca. 1910-1960
Miscellaneous ships in storms ca. 1910-1970
Miscellaneous ships and research vessels ca. 1945-1960
Miscellaneous ship equipment ca. 1950-1960
Engineers at work on beach ca. 1946
Operation Crossroads atomic bomb tests 1946
UC Berkeley Wave Project (cont.) ca. 1950-1959
Navy diving crew at work ca. 1950
Cable marker buoys ca. 1950-1960
Navy Electronics Laboratory 1951 July
Vented explosions at Coronado 1952 May
Bikini Atoll 1952
Capricorn Expedition 1952-1953
Diamond mining in South Africa ca. 1960-1969
Nuclear test sites ca. 1960-1969
Vibracorer ca. 1960-1969
Vietnam trips ca. 1960-1969
Diamonds 1964
Collinstar wreckage 1965 May
Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Plowshare Advisory Committee meetings 1965-1970
Cosmos Club movie showing 1967 April 4
Melville Island 1967
Bascom with Robert Marx ca. 1967
Pomona barge ca. 1967
Search for sunken 727 aircraft 1969
Mining in Thailand ca. 1969
Scallop boats 1969-1970, undated
R/V ALCOA SEAPROBE ca. 1970-1979
Oman trip 1971
Explorers Club meeting 1977 November 9
Bascom receiving Explorers Club medal 1980 May
Sea of Marmara sonar charts 1992
Sea of Marmara expedition 1993
At sea in Mediterranean 1994
Arctic research station and landscapes undated
Hawaiian Electric Co. Model Std. (C-245) undated
Ship crew at work undated
Unidentified men posing with items dredged from seafloor (labelled "Treasure Hunt") undated
Weapons Effects Buoy System (WEBS) buoys undated
Slides
Miscellaneous photos of Bascom ca. 1964-1993
Miscellaneous photos people and crew members ca. 1961-1970
Miscellaneous photos of ships and equipment ca. 1963-1969
Miscellaneous work at sea 1966-1970
CUSS I - Oil drillship contracted for Project Mohole 1959-1964
Puerto Rico WHOI survey expedition aboard R/V Vema 1959
Project Mohole 1960-1961
Capetown coastline 1963
Willard Bascom and Ted Chamberlain on Lanai 1964
Rockeater 1964-1967
Core sampling 1965
SEALAB III site survey 1966
STIT C-238 1966
R/V Wando River ca. 1966
R/V Oceaneer 1966-1967
Bow thruster at Avondale Shipyard 1967
OSE vibrating core drill off Newport, Calif. 1968
Alaska trip 1969
ASPSS 1st drop equipment (Sherwood) 1969
Navy parachute tests on beach 1969
OSE Director's Lunch 1969
Broward County Beach Restoration Project field office 1970
Diagrams of submersible corer 1970
Ft. Pierce, FL beach 1970
Newport vibratory anchors 1971
R/V Midwife 1971
R/V ALCOA SEAPROBE 1971-1972
Ocean Science & Engineering MCLS sea trials 1972
MCCB crown block 1973
MCCB shipping 1973
"Ocean Motion" crane - Unidentified equipment yard and machinery 1973
Ocean Science & Engineering MCCB 1973
Black Sea trip 1991
Russian expedition off Crimea 1991
Sea of Marmara trip 1992
Artemision Expedition 1993
Pompano Beach dredge in Florida undated
Measuring L.A. River floodwater undated
Oceaneering Vibracorer shop pictures undated
South Africa landscape undated
AUDIOVISUAL MATERIAL
16mm films
Oceanography ca. 1940-1960
Air Force Weapons Laboratory Deep Ocean Buoy System ca. 1960
Oceanography at Work: Diamonds Under the Sea ca. 1963
Project Mohole film 1966
R/V ALCOA Seaprobe undated
Hi-8 tapes and digital recordings
Turkey Pt. I 1991
Black Sea trip 1991
Black Sea Expedition Pt. I 1992
Black Sea Expedition Pt. II 1992
Genoa and Marmara 1993