Guide to the George Harrington Photograph Albums and Papers
Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University. Libraries.
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Stanford, California
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Call Number: SC0592
Creator:
Harrington, George.
Title: George Harrington photograph albums and papers
Dates: 1921-circa 1993
Bulk Dates: 1921-1928
Physical Description:
0.5 Linear feet
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Department of Special Collections and University Archives
Green Library
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305-6064
Email: specialcollections@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://library.stanford.edu/spc
Gift of William C. Harrington, 1993.
This collection is open for research.
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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.
Smith, Judy
Stanford University. Department of Geology.
Albums.
Geology--Photographs.--Argentina
Geology--Photographs.--Bolivia
Petroleum industry and trade--Argentina.
Petroleum industry and trade--Bolivia.
Photoprints.
Collection Contents
Box 1
Papers
Box 1
