Kellogg (Ralph H.) Papers, 1940-2007

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Summary

Title:
Ralph Henderson Kellogg Papers
Dates:
1940-2007
Creators:
Kellogg, Ralph H.
Abstract:
Ralph Henderson Kellogg was a professor of physiology at UCSF for many years. The papers of Dr. Kellogg primarily relate to his education, teaching, and research. Subjects include UCSF Department of Physiology, White Mountain research, people in the scientific community, and teaching activities.
Extent:
42.5 Linear Feet (30 cartons, 5 boxes)
Language:
English and Some collection materials are in German and French.
Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Ralph Henderson Kellogg Papers, MSS 90-38, Archives and Special Collections, University of California, San Francisco.

Background

Scope and content:

The papers of Dr. Kellogg primarily relate to his education, teaching, and research. Subjects include UCSF Department of Physiology, White Mountain research, people in the scientific community, and teaching activities. Materials include correspondence, photographic material, slides, artifacts, and data compilations including lab data, lab manuals, field and lab notebooks. The Research files feature work on high altitude physiology and respiration. It holds the published report Twenty Five Years of High Altitude Research at the White Mountain Research Station which includes a summary by Dr. Kellogg of his work there. The artifacts are predominantly awards and plaques.

Biographical / historical:

Ralph Henderson Kellogg was a professor of physiology at UCSF for many years. He was born in New London, Connecticut on June 7, 1920, graduated from medical school at the University of Rochester in 1943, and served as a medical officer in the US Navy for the duration of World War II. In 1946 Kellogg briefly acted as an Investigator in Physiology at Bethesda's Naval Medical Research Institute, then taught first year medical students at Harvard Medical School, while acquiring his Ph.D. in Physiology from Harvard in 1953.

In 1953 he was appointed to the faculty of the University of California School of Medicine, where he taught physiology for over 35 years. In addition to teaching, Dr Kellogg carried on extensive research. In the early years most of his work was centered on investigations in renal physiology. In 1955 he was invited to spend the summer at the White Mountain Research Station, near the summit of the arid 14,246 ft White Mountain, on the edge of the Owens Valley, in eastern California. His initial investigation that summer set the direction for his life-long interest in and work on high altitude physiology. Experiments performed by Kellogg and his associates at White Mountain from the mid-1950s and to the mid-1960s provided an extensive array of knowledge to climbers, scientists and others concerned with human response to high altitude conditions. Other investigations performed by Dr. Kellogg, or under his direction, focused on various aspects of the physiology of respiration.

Acquisition information:
This collection was donated to the UCSF Archives and Special Collections by Ralph H. Kellogg and Barbara Bogue from 1990 to 2016.
Processing information:

Processed by Lynda Letona in 2018.

Arrangement:

The collection has been subdivided into six series: I. University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), 1947-1997; II. White Mountain, 1955-1992; III. Research Files, 1940-2005; IV. Correspondence, 1947-2007; V. Pictorial, 1953-1995; VI. Artifacts, 1964-2009.

Accruals:

No future additions are expected.

Rules or conventions:
Describing Archives: A Content Standard

About this collection guide

Collection Guide Author:
Processed by Special Collections staff; machine-readable finding aid created by Lynda Letona.
Sponsor:
This collection was processed with the generous support of Ralph H. Kellogg.
Date Encoded:
This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2019-03-14 20:58:27 UTC .

Access and use

Restrictions:

Collection is open for research. The UCSF Archives and Special Collections policy places access restrictions on material with privacy issues for a specific time period from the date of creation. Restrictions are noted at the folder level. This collection will be reviewed for sensitive content upon request. Contact the UCSF Archivist for information on access to restricted material.

Terms of access:

Copyright has not been assigned to the Library and Center for Knowledge Management. All requests for permission to publish or quote from material must be submitted in writing to the UCSF Archivist. Permission for publication is given on behalf of the Library and Center for Knowledge Management as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.

Preferred citation:

[Identification of item], Ralph Henderson Kellogg Papers, MSS 90-38, Archives and Special Collections, University of California, San Francisco.

Location of this collection:
UCSF Library & CKM Archives and Special Collections, 530 Parnassus Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94143-0840, US