Finding Aid for the John P. Buwalda and Imra Wann Buwalda Papers 1907-1981

Processed by John Powers, Charlotte Erwin.

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Descriptive Summary

Title: John P. Buwalda and Imra Wann Buwalda Papers,

Date (inclusive): 1907-1981

Collection number: 10056-MS

Creator: Buwalda, John P. 1886-1954

Extent: 8 linear feet

Repository: California Institute of Technology. Caltech Archives

Pasadena, California 91125

Abstract: The personal and organizational correspondence, working papers, notebooks, and manuscripts of John P. Buwalda (1886-1954) form the the bulk of the collection known as the John P. and Imra Wann Buwalda Papers in the Archives of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech). The writings of Imra Wann Buwalda, wife of John P. Buwalda, on the history of Caltech, the subject of earthquakes, and miscellaneous family and professional papers connected to her work as a policewoman form a subgroup of this collection. John P. Buwalda was a structural geologist who became the first chairman of Caltech's new Geology Division in 1925.

Physical location: Archives, California Institute of Technology.

Language of Material:

Languages represented in the collection:

English

Access

The collection is open for research. Researchers must apply in writing for access.

Publication Rights

Copyright may not have been assigned to the California Institute of Technology Archives. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Caltech Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the California Institute of Technology Archives as the owner of the physical items and, unless explicitly stated otherwise, is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the reader.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], John P. Buwalda and Imra Wann Buwalda Papers, 10056-MS, Caltech Archives, California Institute of Technology.

Acquisition Information

The Papers of John P. and Imra Wann Buwalda were contained in a large set of files donated by Caltech's Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences in August 1990. The papers of a personal and specific nature--those mainly unrelated to Buwalda's role as Division chairman--were separated from the larger collection and processed in 1998 as the Papers of John P. and Imra Wann Buwalda.

Biography

John Peter Buwalda was born December 16, 1886, in Zeeland, Michigan, a town settled by Dutch immigrants, to which group his parents belonged. In 1897 the family moved to Yakima, Washington, where Buwalda graduated from high school in 1905. He began his undergraduate studies at the University of Washington, but after some time off from school, during which he worked in the Coeur d'Alene mines of Idaho and surveyed for the Northern Pacific Railway in the Cascade Mountains, he enrolled as a geology major at the University of California, Berkeley, in 1909. He received his BS with honors in 1912. His mentors were John C. Merriam (paleontology) and Andrew C. Lawson (geology). In 1915 he completed his doctorate and began an instructorship at Berkeley. In 1917 he married a Berkeley graduate, Imra Wann, and took up a teaching position at Yale, where he remained until 1921--with a year off (1918-1919) to work for the US Geological Survey in Washington. In 1921 he returned to Berkeley as professor of geology and also held the post of Dean of Summer Sessions.

In 1925 Buwalda was invited by Robert Millikan to take on the chairmanship of the newly formed Geology Division at Caltech. Upon his arrival in Pasadena in January of 1926 to begin his new duties, one of his first actions was to appoint his Berkeley colleague Chester Stock to a position in vertebrate paleontology. Stock would later succeed Buwalda as chairman of the division.

Buwalda was a meticulous administrator and devoted much time to setting up a curriculum in geology modeled largely on Berkeley's program. He eventually integrated the Seismological Laboratory--established in Pasadena in the 1920s under the aegis of the Carnegie Institution of Washington--into the Caltech geology division. He also devoted himself extensively to consulting, notably, in water supply, mining and oil exploration. One of his major involvements was with the National Park Service, and he served on the Yosemite National Park Board from 1929 until his death in 1954. He was active in many professional and civic organizations.

Buwalda's scientific career was focused in structural geology. His interests ranged from vertebrate paleontology to engineering geology and almost all aspects of Earth science.

Imra Wann Buwalda was a native of Berkeley, California. Her birth date is unconfirmed (ca. 1895), but she attended Berkeley High School and the University of California, graduating from the latter in 1917 with a bachelor's degree in law. (By her own explanation, the first year of law school at that time was equivalent to senior year for the AB degree.) After her marriage to John P. Buwalda in 1917, she became one of the first policewomen in the city of Washington, DC. She continued to advocate the presence of women on police forces and to work on social intervention as a means of crime prevention, especially in the cases of juveniles and women. She maintained a high level of activity in local social, civic and political organizations throughout her life. In her later years she wrote a history of the California Institute of Technology, which has remained unpublished. She and John Buwalda were the parents of four children.

Scope and Content

The John P. Buwalda papers include 11 boxes of personal and professional papers, including correspondence, subject files, manuscript, technical notes, memorabilia and photos. They comprise papers relating to various aspects of geology, including seismology, earthquake engineering and paleontology, professional organizations, national parks, and personal and family matters. The papers of Imra Wann Buwalda, occupying 4 boxes, contain her own unpublished history of the California Institute of Technology; and her studies of the social effects of earthquakes and other civic and social action materials, including reference to her pioneering work in criminology as a policewoman.

The collection is organized into the following series:

Series 1. Personal Correspondence
Series 2. Organizational Correspondence and Documents
Series 3. Caltech-Related Correspondence and Documents
Series 4. Technical Correspondence and Notes
Series 5. Lectures, Manuscripts, Talks
Series 6. Personal
Series 7. Notebooks
Series 8. Miscellaneous
Series 9. Imra Wann Buwalda

Related Material

Materials relating to John Buwalda's tenure as chairman of Caltech's Geology Division may be found in the collection called Records of the Division of Geological and Planetary Sciences.

Indexing Terms

The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.

Subjects

California Institute of Technology

Geology

National Parks and Reserves

Seismology

Occupations

Geologists

Series 1. Personal Correspondence

Box 1, Folder 1

Anderson, George H. 1929, 1932, 1936-1939, undated

Box 1, Folder 2

Arnold, Ralph 1925-1927, 1931

Box 1, Folder 3

Balch, Allan C. 1935-1937

Box 1, Folder 4

Benioff, Hugo 1934, 1938-1939, 1946,

Box 1, Folder 5

Bush, Vannevar 1939, 1941-1942, undated

Box 1, Folder 6

Byerly, Perry 1935-1942, 1944-1954

Box 1, Folder 7

Davis, William Morris 1921, 1925-1928, 1930-1936, 1938, 1962-1963, undated

Box 1, Folder 8

Day, Arthur L. 1931-1932, 1934-1938, undated

Box 1, Folder 9

DuBridge, Lee A. 1947

Box 1, Folder 10

A-D Miscellaneous

Scope and Content Note

American Red Cross 1940
Associated Brick Manufacturers of Southern California 1952-1953
Bannell, Joseph 1918
Barnes, John A. 1936
Barrett, E. C. 1937
Bauer, Harry J. 1934
Bean, Lt. George L. 1929
Beard, Charles A. 1931
Boas, Frank 1931
Bode, Francis D. 1943
Bowie, William 1937
Brittles, Bruce 1931
Brockman, C. Frank 1946
Bryant, Harold C. 1929-1930
Butterworth, Emerson 1929
California Association for Adult Education 1930
California Taxpayers' Association, Los Angeles 1926
California Taxpayers' Association, San Diego County Division 1934
Calkins, Hager, Hall & Linforth 1926
Campbell, Ian 1958-1959, undated
Campbell, W. W. 1926
Carter, Honorable Albert E. 1934
Cattell, J. McKeen 1927
Cattell, Ware 1937
Chadwick, W. L. 1942
Chamberlain, Stewart H. 1931
City of Los Angeles 1945, 1948
City of Redlands 1940, 1953
Clark, Bruce L. 1918, 1928
Clay Products Institute of California 1929
Cloos, Ernst 1935
Coachella Valley Cooperative Drainage Investigations 1948
Colby, William E. 1942
Corlett, Will G. 1934
Cotten, S. M. 1935
Cunningham, Solon W. 1917
Curry, H. D. 1936
Curtice, A. A. 1933
Davenport, Mr. 1932
Dávila, Rafael 1941
Douglas, J. R. 1927
Duhring, Frederick S. 1937-1938

Box 1, Folder 11

Fraser, Horace J. 1934-1936, 1946, undated

Box 1, Folder 12

Gilbert, Grove Karl 1917-1918, 1921, 1950, undated

Box 1, Folder 13

Grant, U. S. 1953-1954

Box 1, Folder 14

Gutenberg, Beno 1929-1930, 1932, 1942, 1945, 1953

Box 1, Folder 15

Hale, George Ellery 1927, 1929

Box 1, Folder 16

Hopper, Richard H. 1940-1941, 1944-1947

Box 1, Folder 17

Jahns, Richard H. 1937-1938, 1943, 1945, undated

Box 1, Folder 18

E-J Miscellaneous

Scope and Content Note

Eccles, Linton 1941, 1943
Elmquist, Paul O. 1945
Ernst, Morris 1929
Faris, R. L. undated
Field, Richard M. 1932
Fischer, Will H. 1935
Fisher, Wayne H. 1931-1932, 1945
Fleming, Jno A. 1945
Foley 1936
Foster, Bertha Galloway 1949
Fox, J. H. 1934
Freeman, John R. 1929, 1932
Friday Morning Club 1931
Fullerton Oil Co. 1932, 1934
Gardner, W. I. 1944-1945
Gester, G. C. 1932
Gianella, Vincent P. 1933
Giggey, Marjorie 1941
Gillenwaters, T. R. 1939
Glendale Junior College 1932
Gordon, Wallace 1917
Gould, Martin J. 1939, 1941
Gregory, Herbert E. 1918
Grout, Frank F. 1935
Hahn, D. S. 1939
Handley, L. R. 1954
Harris, Henry 1935
Harshman, J. E. 1945
Heck, N. H. 1937
Hellweg, J. F. 1942
Hewett, D. F. 1938
Hill, Mason L. 1952-1953
Hill, Robert T. 1929-1930
Holway1917
Jenkins, Olaf P. 1931, 1937
Johnson, Harry R. 1941
Johnson, Hiram1935
Jones, O. T. 1934-1935
Judy, C. K. 1939

Box 1, Folder 19

Martel, R. R. 1925, 1927, 1933, undated

Box 1, Folder 20

Maxson, John H. 1935, 1937-1938, 1941-1946, 1950, undated

Box 2, Folder 1

Merriam, John C. 1917-1919, 1924-1931

Box 2, Folder 2

Merriam, John C. 1932-1939

Box 2, Folder 3

Merriam, John C. 1940-1942, undated

Box 2, Folder 4

Millikan, Robert A. 1925, 1927, 1930-1931, 1933-1937, 1939, 1948

Box 2, Folder 5

Mudd Family 1938-1940, 1942-1943, 1953, undated

Box 2, Folder 6

K-O Miscellaneous

Scope and Content Note

Kahn, Florence B. 1934-1935
Kersey, Vierling 1934
Kirkbride, Walter H. 1927, 1935-1936
Kittredge, Frank A. 1944
Kopelman, Myron 1950
Kotterman, Hubert 1934
Latham, Ector B. 1932-1933
Lawson, Andrew C. 1927-1928, 1935, 1939, undated
Lea, Clarence F. 1935
Le Conte Junior High School 1934
Lee, F. W. 1936
Leeds, Charles T. 1926
Lind, R. J. 1954
Line, Francis R. 1944
Long Beach Apartment House Association 1935
Long Beach Press Telegram 1933
Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce 1927, 1947-1948
Los Angeles County 1933 Grand Jury 1933
Los Angeles Times 1933
Louderback, George D. 1927, 1933, 1935, 1939, 1946-1947, 1951-1952
Macelwane, James B., S. J. 1923, 1928, 1934, 1946-1947, 1950, 1956, undated
Macmillan Company 1937
Maryland Hotel and Garden Bungalows 1936
Marsh, H. E. 1940
Mathews, E. D. 1936
Matthes, F. E. 1928
Mattier, A. P. 1933
Mauger, George L. 1939
Mayo, E. E. 1952, 1954
McAdoo, William Gibbs 1935
McDuffie, Duncan 1934
Mead, Elwood 1933
Meek, Bert B. 1935
Mendenhall, Walter C. 1930-1931
Merriman, Thaddeus 1934, undated
Meyerhoff, Howard A. 1952
Milbank, Lee B. 1947
Morris, Samuel B. 1926-1927, 1946
Mortenson, Clara E. 1919
Morton, Lindley 1935-1936
Murphy, F. M. 1935
Myers, Desaix B. 1932-1933
Nash, Joseph P. 1941
Noble, Levi F. 1932
Norris, Donald K. 1952
Northwestern Mutual Fire Association 1951
Noyes, Arthur A. 1925-1926
Occidental College 1927
O'Melveny, Stuart 1938
Osborn, Henry F. 1917
Osborne, L. D. 1942
Otto, George H. 1934

Box 2, Folder 7

Ransome, Frederick L. 1923, 1927, 1935-1936, 1939, undated

Box 2, Folder 8

Ricketts, Louis D. 1926, 1928, 1942, undated

Box 2, Folder 9

Rieber, Frank 1945-1947

Box 2, Folder 10

Stock, Chester 1925-1929, 1933, 1936, 1943, 1946-1947, 1950-1952, undated

Box 2, Folder 11

Weaver, Charles E. 1945, 1950-1951

Box 2, Folder 12

Willis, Bailey 1926-1928, 1934-1935, 1937, 1940, 1945, 1947

Box 2, Folder 13

Wood, Harry O. 1923, 1925-1926, 1929, 1933, 1936-1938, 1940-1941, 1949, undated

Box 2, Folder 14

Woodring, Wendell P. 1927, 1930, 1934, 1937-1938, undated

Box 2, Folder 15

P-Z Miscellaneous

Scope and Content Note

Packard 1916, undated
Painter, Muriel 1940
Palmer, Harold S. 1949
Pasadena Lecture Course Lecture undated
Pasadena Star-News/Pasadena Post 1934
Pasadena Star-News Publishing Co. 1932
Payne, Paul G. 1949
Pope, James H. 1935
Potapenko, G. 1944
Probert, Frank H. 1938
Providence Washington Insurance Co. 1951-1952
Reid, Harry Fielding 1927
Reno, Leonora 1945
Richter, Charles 1954
Riverside College 1952
Rossby, Carl G. 1944
Ruddock, Albert 1953
Salvatori, Henry 1939
San Joaquin Light and Power Corporation 1933
Santa Fe Railroad 1927
Scattergood, E. F. 1941
Schenck, H. G. 1930
Schoeller, Philip 1934
Schultz, John R. 1946
Seaboard Oil Company 1954
Sheeler, W. L. 1919
Signal Engineering Company 1930
Slichter, Louis B. 1947
Sorensen, R. W. 1940
South Pasadena City School District 1948
Southern Pacific Company 1952
Southern Pacific Railroad 1927
Spalding, Keith 1946
Sproul, Robert G. 1934-1935
Standard Oil Company of California 1952
State Highway Department 1932
Stefan, Karl 1947
Stevens, P. E. 1935
Stronk, John 1918
Sutton, Ransome 1931, undated
Taylor, Walter P. 1919, 1953
Thompson, O. Scott 1933
Tolan, John H. 1938
Troxell, Edward L. 1943
Ulrich, Franklin P. 1937
U. S. Bureau of Reclamation 1948
U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 1953-1954
University of California, Berkeley 1924
University of Oregon 1937
Van Norman, H. A. 1933
Van Osdel, Edgar B. 1940
Vanwinkle, Mina C. 1919, 1926
Wallace, Mrs. Earnest 1928
Wallace, Robert E. 1945, 1952
Warren, Harry V. 1940, 1945
Washburne, Chester W. 1928
Watson, E. C. 1945
Webster, A. J. 1934
Willard, Frances E. Junior High School 1933
Williams, Ira A. 1928
Winebrenner, Ken 1948
Wissig, Samuel 1946
Woodford, Alfred O. 1928, 1934, 1939
Worley, Lloyd 1953
Young, C. A. 1939
Unidentified (3) 1917, 1954, undated

Series 2. Organizational Correspondence and Documents

Box 3, Folder 1

Advisory Committee in Seismology--Carnegie Institution 1926-1937, 1948, 1954

Box 3, Folder 2

American Association for the Advancement of Science 1931

Box 3, Folder 3

American Association of Petroleum Geologists 1933, 1945

Box 3, Folder 4

American Geological Institute 1951

Box 3, Folder 5

American Geophysical Union 1925, 1927-1931, 1933-1934, 1936-1945, 1947, 1951, 1953, undated

Box 3, Folder 6

American Society of Mechanical Engineers 1933

Box 3, Folder 7

Building Owners and Managers Association of Los Angeles 1935, undated

Box 3, Folder 8

Carnegie Institution of Washington 1927-1930, 1932-1935, 1937-1940

Box 3, Folder 9

Dept. of the Interior: National Parks Service 1928-1929, 1931, 1936, 1940, 1942, 1944, undated

Box 3, Folder 10

Dept. of the Interior: U. S. Geological Survey 1917-1919, 1921-1922

Box 3, Folder 11

Earthquake Engineering Research Institute 1951

Box 3, Folder 12

Geological Council of America 1943

Box 3, Folder 13

Geological Society of America 1935, 1939, 1951, undated

Box 3, Folder 14

International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics 1938-1939

Box 3, Folder 15

Joshua Tree National Monument 1930, 1942, 1949, 1954, undated

Box 3, Folder 16

Journal of Geomorphology 1937-1938

Box 3, Folder 17

Journal of Geophysics 1934-1936

Box 3, Folder 18

Kings Canyon National Park 1938-1939, undated

Box 3, Folder 19

Los Angeles City Emergency Corps 1940-1941, 1944-1948

Box 3, Folder 20

National Academy of Sciences 1934

Box 3, Folder 21

National Parks Association 1926, 1936-1939

Box 3, Folder 22

National Research Council Shoreline Committee 1923, 1926-1932, 1934-1935, 1938, 1951, undated

Box 4, Folder 1

Oregon State Parks 1928, 1932, 1939-1942, 1945, undated

Box 4, Folder 2

Owens Valley Area of California 1929, 1939, undated

Box 4, Folder 3

Parks 1928, 1938, 1944, 1954

Box 4, Folder 4

Seismological Society of America 1921-1922, 1924, 1928-1933, 1935-1949, 1951-1954, undated

Box 4, Folder 5

Sequoia National Park 1937, undated

Box 4, Folder 6

Southern California Council on Earthquake Protection 1925-1926, undated

Box 4, Folder 7

Southern California Teachers' Institute 1925

Box 4, Folder 8

State Board of Registration for Civil and Professional Engineers 1948-1949

Box 4, Folder 9

U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey: General 1926, 1928, 1931-1938

Box 4, Folder 10

U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey: General 1940-1942, 1945-1953, undated

Box 4, Folder 11

U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey: Identification Process 1934

Box 4, Folder 12

U. S. Navy: Department of 1937

Box 4, Folder 13

U. S. Navy: Twelfth Naval District 1937

Box 4, Folder 14

U. S. Navy: U. S. Naval Observatory 1937, 1942

Series 3. Caltech-Related Correspondence and Documents

Box 4, Folder 15

Alumni Day Seminar 1953

Box 4, Folder 16

Assistantships 1926-1928, 1931, 1934-1935

Box 4, Folder 17

Associates Symposium 1952-1953

Box 4, Folder 18

Branner Club 1935, 1937, 1956

Box 4, Folder 19

Committees 1927-1934, 1938-1941, 1943-1947, 1949, 1951-1954, undated

Box 4, Folder 20

Dormitories 1923, 1928-1929, 1945, undated

Box 4, Folder 21

Executive Committee 1946

Box 5, Folder 1

Curriculum Planning 1917, 1925-1927, 1929, 1935, 1937-1938, 1948, 1953, undated

Box 5, Folder 2

Dedication of Palomar Observatory 1948, 1953

Box 5, Folder 3

Department Finances 1926, 1932, 1936-1939

Box 5, Folder 4

Employment of Faculty 1928, 1934-1935, 1937-1938, 1941, 1945, 1947, 1952

Box 5, Folder 5

Foreign Students at Caltech 1927-1932, 1934, 1938, 1940, 1943-1947, 1949-1951, 1953-1954, undated

Box 5, Folder 6

Geology Division: Annual Reports 1927-1929, 1942, 1953

Box 5, Folder 7

Geology Division: Meteorology/Post-War Adjustment 1945-1948, undated

Box 5, Folder 8

Geology Division: General 1935

Box 5, Folder 9

Geology Division: General 1940-1945, undated

Box 5, Folder 10

Geology Division: General 1946, 1951, undated

Box 5, Folder 11

Geology Field Trips 1922, 1926-1928, 1930, 1937-1939, 1943-1944, undated

Box 5, Folder 12

Geology Instruction 1941

Box 5, Folder 13

Geology Library 1925-1928, 1938, 1940-1941, 1943, 1946-1947, undated

Box 5, Folder 14

Graduate Students 1926, 1942-1943, undated

Box 5, Folder 15

Lectures and Speakers 1925-1926, 1940

Box 5, Folder 16

New Geology Building 1929-1931, 1933, 1935-1939, 1941, 1945, undated

Box 5, Folder 17

Rift Club 1925-1940, 1946-1947, 1952, undated

Box 5, Folder 18

Seismological Laboratory: Industrial Sponsors 1932, 1938-1939, 1942, 1944-1946, 1952, 1956, undated

Box 5, Folder 19

Seismological Laboratory: Background 1926, 1930-1933, undated

Box 5, Folder 20

Seismological Laboratory: Reports 1934, 1938-1942

Box 5, Folder 21

WPA Projects 1935-1936, undated

Series 4. Technical Correspondence and Notes

Box 6, Folder 1

Building Safety 1925, 1934-1936, 1952, 1954

Box 6, Folder 2

Conservation 1890, 1928-1929, 1936, 1940-1942, 1947, 1953, 1956

Box 6, Folder 3

Crystallography 1930, undated

Box 6, Folder 4

Determining the Age of Rocks 1929, 1932-1935, 1944, undated

Box 6, Folder 5

Earthquake Activity in the Pacific Northwest 1932, 1934, 1936, 1939, 1942, 1952-1953, undated

Box 6, Folder 6

Earthquake Hazard in Mojave 1953

Box 6, Folder 7

Earthquake Levelling 1933

Box 6, Folder 8

Earthquake Risk 1934, 1940, 1944-1945

Box 6, Folder 9

Engineering Geology 1937, 1939-1941, 1948-1951, 1954

Box 6, Folder 10

Engineering Seismology 1938, 1948, 1951-1952, undated

Box 6, Folder 11

Fort Tejon 1859

Box 6, Folder 12

Frazier Mountain 1929, 1935-1936, 1938, 1954

Box 6, Folder 13

Gardena Earthquake 1941, undated

Box 6, Folder 14

Geology of Petroleum 1919, 1921, 1925-1930, 1936, 1939-1942, 1945-1948, 1955, undated

Box 6, Folder 15

Geology of the Ridge Route Region (Hwy. 99) undated

Box 6, Folder 16

Geophysics 1932, 1939, 1941, 1945

Box 6, Folder 17

Geophysics and Oil 1932, 1936, 1950

Box 6, Folder 18

Glaciers 1927, 1932

Box 6, Folder 19

Gravimetric Profile Project 1934, 1940

Box 6, Folder 20

Haywards Rift 1925, undated

Box 6, Folder 21

Historical Earthquakes 1857, 1927, 1933, 1940, 1952-1953, undated

Box 6, Folder 22

Long Beach Earthquake 1933

Box 6, Folder 23

Maps/Charts 1913, 1928, 1932-1933

Box 6, Folder 24

Memos to Buwalda 1940-1941, 1956, undated

Box 6, Folder 25

Mineralogy 1919, 1927-1928, 1930-1931, 1933, 1936-1940, 1944-1946, undated

Box 6, Folder 26

"Nut" Letters 1924, 1928, 1931-1937, 1940-1942, 1944, 1946, 1952, undated

Box 6, Folder 27

Press Releases 1927, 1934, 1952, 1954, undated

Box 7, Folder 1

Paleontology: General 1926-1927, 1930-1932, 1934-1935, 1937-1939, 1942, 1944, 1949-1950, 1954

Box 7, Folder 2

Paleontology: Invertebrate 1919, 1927-1928, 1937, 1939, 1941

Box 7, Folder 3

Paleontology: Vertebrate 1918-1924, 1926-1928, 1930, 1932, 1935-1936, 1938-1940, 1943-1944, 1948, 1951-1953, undated

Box 7, Folder 4

Research: General 1917, 1927-1928, 1930-1931, 1937, 1941-1942, 1945, undated

Box 7, Folder 5

Research: Specific 1919, 1930-1932, 1934-1936, 1947-1948, undated

Box 7, Folder 6

San Andreas Fault 1952

Box 7, Folder 7

San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge 1938,

Box 7, Folder 8

Santa Barbara Earthquake 1925

Box 7, Folder 9

Sedimentary Petrography 1919, 1938, undated

Box 7, Folder 10

Seismic Reflection Prospecting 1936

Box 7, Folder 11

Seismological Station 1938-1939, 1942, 1944-1945, 1947

Box 7, Folder 12

Site for San Diego Civic Center 1933-1934

Box 7, Folder 13

Smog 1954, undated

Box 7, Folder 14

Stress Research 1925, 1929, 1931, 1951-1952, undated

Box 7, Folder 15

Subsidence-Long Beach 1932, 1935, 1941, 1945-1946, 1950, undated

Box 7, Folder 16

Tehachapi Region 1934, 1939, 1946, 1951-1954

Box 7, Folder 17

Transmutation of Elements 1935

Box 7, Folder 18

Trip to Mexico 1944-1945, undated

Box 7, Folder 19

Volcanoes 1936, 1938, 1944, 1947, 1952, 1956-1957, undated

Box 7, Folder 20

Yellowstone-Beartooth-Bighorn Project 1932-1937, undated

Box 8, Folder 1

Yosemite National Park 1930, 1932-1933, 1935, 1937-1942, 1952, undated

Box 8, Folder 2

Yosemite National Park: Brochures and Photos 1950-1954, 1956, undated

Box 8, Folder 3

Yosemite National Park: Yosemite Valley Geophysical Investigation 1931, 1934-1939, undated

Series 5. Lectures, Manuscripts, Talks

Box 8, Folder 4

Abstracts and Outlines 1923, 1928, undated

Box 8, Folder 5

Articles 1924, 1934-1935, 1939, 1948-1949, 1954, undated

Box 8, Folder 6

Lectures 1930, 1933-1936, 1938, undated

Box 8, Folder 7

Lectures and Talks 1922, 1925, 1927-1929, 1931, 1952, 1957, undated

Box 8, Folder 8

Manuscript: "Exploring and Depths of the Earth" undated

Box 8, Folder 9

Manuscripts 1933, 1942, undated

Box 8, Folder 10

Merriam: Synopsis of Lectures in Palaeontology 1 and Eight Lectures, "The History of Life" 1922, 1928, 1942

Box 8, Folder 11

News Clippings 1933-1935, 1940, 1948-1949, 1955-1957, undated

Box 8, Folder 12

News Clippings and Articles 1915, 1923, 1936-1937, 1940, 1947, 1949-1950, 1953-1954, 1957-1958, 1964, 1966, 1971-1972, undated

Box 9, Folder 1

Printed Matter 1914, 1929, 1931, 1933, 1938-1939, 1941, 1952, 1954-1956, 1958, 1962, undated

Box 9, Folder 2

Publications 1952, 1957

Box 9, Folder 3

Reports: "Earthquake Hazard and Earthquake Protection" 1933

Box 9, Folder 4

"Seismic-Acoustic Experiments, San Francisco Bay, 1937-1939" 1939, undated

Box 9, Folder 5

Reports/Statements 1930, 1935, 1938, 1941, undated

Box 9, Folder 6

Reprints by Others 1923, 1949, 1952

Box 9, Folder 7

Richter, Charles F.: "Seismic History" undated

Box 9, Folder 8

Speeches by Others 1927

Series 6. Personal

Box 9, Folder 9

Balch Correspondence 1941, 1943, undated

Box 9, Folder 10

Biographical and Personal Information 1917-1918, 1945, 1948, 1955-1956, undated

Box 9, Folder 11

Buwalda's Retirement as Division Chairman 1946-1947, undated

Box 9, Folder 12

Correspondence with Family Members 1914-1915, 1917-1922, 1937, 1943-1944, 1946, undated

Box 9, Folder 13

Hiring of Buwalda 1925, undated

Box 9, Folder 14

Sale of Personal Library 1955

Box 9, Folder 15

Radio Broadcasts 1935-1937, 1942,

Series 7. Notebooks

Box 9, Folder 16

Notebooks and Field Notes 1918-1919, undated

Box 10, Folder 1

Notebooks

Scope and Content Note

Jun 26, 1907
1914
Jul 4, 1916
Aug 4, 1918
Aug 6, 1918
Aug 7, 1918
Aug 9, 1919
Aug 18, 1919
May 22, 1922
Aug 10, 1923
Sep 6, 1924
Oct 21, 1925
Aug 19, 1927
Dec 28, 1927
Feb 1, 1928
Jun 12, 1928
Jul 19, 1928
Nov 29, 1928
Dec 19, 1929
Oct 11, 1930
May 21, 1932
Jun 14, 1932
Oct 12, 1932
Sep 10, 1933
Feb 18, 1934
Sep 14, 1934
Jul 12, 1935
Dec 27, 1935
Jan 12, 1936
Feb 7, 1936
Mar 5, 1936
Mar 9, 1936
Apr 20, 1936
Apr 6, 1937
Jul 20, 1937
Jul 19, 1939
Jan 13, 1940
Sep 13, 1942
Aug-Sep 1947
Feb 2, 1948
Jan 19, 1949
Aug 28, 1950
Oct 28, 1950
Mar 5, 1951
Mar 8, 1951
Jun 24, 1952
Jul 21, 1952 (Tehachapi)
Jul 26 (no year)
Undated (1)
Undated (2)
Undated (3)
Undated (4)
Sand gauge folder

Series 8. Miscellaneous

Box 11, Folder 1

Photographs undated

Box 11, Folder 2

Book: Earthquakes in Kern County, California During 1952 undated

Series 9. Imra Wann Buwalda

Box 12, Folder 1

"The Roots of the California Institute of Technology": Chapters 1-8 1963, undated

Box 12, Folder 2

"The Roots of the California Institute of Technology": Chapters 9-19 undated

Box 12, Folder 3

"The Roots of the California Institute of Technology": Chapters 20-25 undated

Box 12, Folder 4

"The Roots of the California Institute of Technology": Chapters 26-Epilogue undated

Box 13, Folder 1

"The Roots of the California Institute of Technology, 1891-1929" (second version) undated

Box 13, Folder 2

"Caltech from the Wings" undated

Box 13, Folder 3

"Throop Institute of Technology, 1908-1913" undated

Box 13, Folder 4

"The Scherer Years, 1908-1920" undated

Box 13, Folder 5

"Phantasmagoria" undated

Box 13, Folder 6

"Caltech, the Community, and the Arts" undated

Box 14, Folder 1

Earthquake manuscript: first version undated

Box 14, Folder 2

Earthquake manuscript: second version undated

Box 14, Folder 3

"Earthquakes and Other Growing Pains" undated

Box 14, Folder 4

Correspondence related to "Earthquakes" manuscript 1957-1960, 1962, undated

Box 14, Folder 5

Permissions to quote re: "Earthquakes" 1959, undated

Box 14, Folder 6

"Earthquake: Could It Happen Here?" 1975, undated

Box 14, Folder 7

"Afraid of Earthquakes? Who Isn't?" undated

Box 14, Folder 8

"A Ship to Ride the Quakes" undated

Box 14, Folder 9

"Thank God for Earthquakes" undated

Box 14, Folder 10

"William Money, Earthquakes, and Seismological Engineering in San Gabriel, CA in the Mid-Nineteenth Century" undated

Box 14, Folder 11

Partial Manuscripts and Miscellaneous Material undated

Box 15, Folder 1

Biographical Material and Family Correspondence 1917, 1921, 1927, 1938, 1952, undated

Box 15, Folder 2

California Institute for Cancer Research 1955-1956

Box 15, Folder 3

City of Pasadena 1927, 1930, 1935, 1939-1941, undated

Box 15, Folder 4

Correspondence: General 1917, 1939, 1942, 1950, 1952, 1954-1955, 1959-1963, 1965-1966, 1969, undated

Box 15, Folder 5

Correspondence: Wu, Chien-Shiung 1959, 1966, 1969, 1971, 1974, undated

Box 15, Folder 6

McKenzie, R. Tait: Printed Matter 1923, 1926, 1928, undated

Box 15, Folder 7

Police Work 1929, 1935-1936, 1944-1945, 1974-1976, undated

Box 15, Folder 8

Throop Universalist Church: Correspondence and Printed Matter 1961, 1964-1966

Box 15, Folder 9

Imra Buwalda Oral History by Betty Lowenstam 1980-1981, undated