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Contributing Institution:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Title: George Harrington photograph albums and papers
Identifier/Call Number: SC0592
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear Feet
Date (inclusive): 1921-circa 1993
Date (bulk): 1921-1928
Immediate Source of Acquisition note
Gift of William C. Harrington, 1993.
This collection is open for research.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must
be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford
University Libraries, Stanford, California 94304-6064. Consent is given on behalf of Special
Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply
permission from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright
owner, heir(s) or assigns. See:
http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of
digital files is restricted to research and educational purposes.
George Harrington Photograph Albums and Papers (SC0592). Dept. of Special Collections and
University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Biographical/Historical Sketch
George Harrington, born in Minnesota in 1883, earned his engineer's degree from the
Minnesota School of Mines in 1912. He was a geologist with Standard Oil in Argentina from
1921 to 1943. He retired to Palo Alto in 1943; after the war he became a research associate
to Stanford paleontologists Myra Keen and Hans Thalman. His daughter Jane Harrington Jones,
Stanford class of 1941, established the George L. Harrington Faculty Scholar Fund in his
honor.
The major part of this collection is two albums of photographs from Harrington's work and
travels in Bolivia and Argentina, 1921-1926 and undated. Images include villages, local
people, trekking on mountain trails and by river boat, geologic formations, other
geologists, oil rigs, and various camps established by the oil company. There is one photo
of the Harrington family, ca. 1930. Other papers include a copy of a letter from Harrington
written in La Paz, Bolivia, about difficulties with instruments and weather, 1925; a
Christmas card with a sketch of the camp at Senillosa; a copy of Harrington's typescript
memoirs; and a booklet on the George L. Harrington Faculty Scholar Fund at Stanford
University which includes a short biography of Harrington, ca. 1993.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Albums.
Petroleum industry and trade -- Argentina.
Petroleum industry and trade -- Bolivia.
Geology -- Photographs. -- Argentina
Geology -- Photographs. -- Bolivia
Photoprints.
Smith, Judy
Stanford University. Department of Geology