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Guide to the Bailey Willis Geological Formations Photographs
A0099
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Call Number: A0099
Creator:
Willis, Bailey, 1857-1949.
Title: Bailey Willis Geological formations photographs
Dates: 1884-1899
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
Custodial History
Administrative transfer from the Dept. of Geology, 2000
None.
Property rights reside with the repository. Literary rights reside with the creators of the documents or their heirs. To obtain
permission to publish or reproduce, please contact the Public Services Librarian of the Dept. of Special Collections and University
Archives.
[Identification of item], Bailey Willis Geological Formations Photographs (A0099). Department of Special Collections and University
Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Bailey Willis, a member of the United States Geological Survey, came to Stanford University in 1915 to succeed John C. Branner
as head of the Department of Geology and taught here until his retirement in 1922.
This album contains photographs of various geological formations, including columnar basalt, monoclinal ridges and folds,
sandstone dikes, and exfoliated granite. Locations include New Jersey, New York, West Virginia, California (Lassen, Inyo,
and Shasta Counties), Colorado (Garden of the Gods and Golden), Nebraska (Sioux and Banner Counties), and South Dakota (Big
Bad Lands and the Black Hills). Photographers and dates are identified on only a few images. In one image (taken in Wilbur,
New York) an outdoor advertisement for a performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin is visible on a shed.