Collection Summary
Haynes, Winthrop P., 1887-1979
Winthrop P. Haynes papers
1880-1981
07795
11.55 cubic ft. (22 boxes)
University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.
English
Papers of this Harvard educated and well-traveled petroleum geologist including diaries, correspondence, field notes, photographs, maps, teaching materials, manuscripts, mementos, passports, and clipping files.
Biography of Winthrop P. HaynesWinthrop Perrin Haynes, petroleum geologist, professor of geology, author of many publications on stratigraphic and structural geology and paleontology, and World War I aerial photographer, was born 6 September, 1887, in Hyde Park, Massachusetts, to Frederic M. and Annie (Rogerson) Haynes. Educated at Harvard University, he earned his A.B. in 1910, A.M. in 1912, and Ph.D. in 1914. While at Harvard, Haynes went on the Shaler Memorial Expedition to South America (Brazil) in 1908. He also went on the great American Geographical Society Transcontinental Excursion of 1912. He was the instructor in charge for Harvard Summer School’s geological expeditions to Montana; New Brunswick and Quebec, Canada; and Colorado in the years 1913 to 1916.
Haynes was an assistant geologist at Harvard, 1908-1916, instructor at Radcliffe College, 1911-1914, and instructor at Wellesley College, 1914-1916. From 1916 to 1918 he was an assistant professor at Kansas University. His time at Kansas was interrupted by the First World War when he was commissioned in August, 1918, as a 2nd Lieutenant and made commanding officer of the Second Army’s Thirteenth Photographic Section stationed in Toul, France. After being honorably discharged in August, 1919, he returned to Kansas University as an associate professor until 1920.
In 1920, Haynes joined Standard Oil Company of New Jersey (SONJ) as geologist and chief of party for an expedition to Mexico’s west coast. He then transferred to Europe as chief geologist, traveling all around Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa inspecting existing oil fields and prospecting for new sources from 1922 to 1936. He returned to the U.S. in 1936 as geologist for Standard Oil’s Producing Department in New York City. In 1948, Haynes went back to Harvard University as a visiting lecturer until his retirement in 1955. He served on the Board of Overseers of Harvard during the years 1960-1962. Dr. Winthrop P. Haynes died in June, 1979.
Scope and ContentThe Winthrop P. Haynes papers, 1880-1981, contain material related to oil exploration and production in oil fields around the world for Standard Oil Company. Haynes’ travels and experiences are well documented through field notes, reports, journals, expense books, maps, and more than 5,000 photographs. A large amount of personal correspondence also describes these travels, in the form of logs and diaries sent to his family weekly back in the U.S.
Haynes’ U.S. Army Air Service files contain several hundred photographs (some very graphic in nature) taken before, during, and after World War I in France. They depict French and German front lines, trenches and dugouts, camouflage, aerial reconnaissance photos and maps, airplanes, and the destruction of France’s villages, cities, and forts after the war. Of very important note are some photos of German soldiers in their own camps, which were printed off captured German film. There are also photos and plans for front line emplacements and photos of a Balloon Company launching its balloons.
Geology course outlines, notes, exams, and other miscellaneous items illustrate Haynes’ student years at Harvard as well as his teaching career at Radcliffe, Kansas University, Wellesley, and Harvard. The 1908 Shaler Memorial Expedition to Brazil is well documented through photo albums, diaries, and reports, as are the summer school field expeditions to Montana, Colorado, and Canada. Manuscripts and other publications included in the collection are Haynes’ Ph.D. dissertation entitled, “A Contribution to the Geology of the Region About Three Forks, Montana,” as well as other articles written by him, his son Edward, and other colleagues.
A notable item contained in the Haynes Papers is correspondence from a Jewish geologist friend who wrote to Haynes about post-World War II conditions in Central Europe, mainly hunger, as well as about the Nazis during war time. This man and his family attempted to flee from Austria to England but were unsuccessful. They lost everything they owned, but they did survive.
Access Restrictions
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Related Materials
There are no other known archival collections created by Winthrop P. Haynes at the date of
processing.
Acquisition Information
Edward Haynes, son of Winthrop Haynes, donated his father’s papers to the American Heritage Center in 1981 and 1983.
Processing Information
The collection was processed by Ronda Frazier in January 2003 and updated by D. Claudia Thompson in January 2020.
Preferred Citation
Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Winthrop P. Haynes papers, 1880-1981, Collection
Number 07795, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.
Access Terms
Harvard University.
United States. Army. Air Service.
Standard Oil Company of New Jersey.
Standard Oil Company.
Scientific expeditions--Brazil.
Scientific expeditions--United States.
Scientific expeditions--Canada.
World War, 1914-1918--France.
Petroleum--Prospecting--Mexico.
Petroleum--Prospecting--Africa.
Petroleum--Prospecting--Asia.
Petroleum--Prospecting--Europe.
Petroleum--Prospecting--Middle East.
Oil Fields--Tunisia.
Oil Fields--Poland.
Oil Fields--Romania.
Aerial reconnaissance--France.
Toul (France).
Diaries.
Aerial photographs.
Petroleum geologists.
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Science, Technology and Health
Energy Production
Science
Agriculture and Natural Resources
Mines and Mineral Resources
Business, Industry, Labor, and Commerce
Container List
Series I.
Biographical
1
1
Clippings
1898-1970
1
2
Diary
1926-1930
Harvard University:
1
3
Exam Questions
1905-1912
1
4
50th Year Class Reunion
1960
1
5
Geology 4 Notes
1912-1913
(Notebook)
1
6
Grade Reports
1907-1911
1
7
Mementos
1906-1915
1
8
Mementos (Other)
1904-1929
1
9-10
Passports and Visas
1920-1926, 1926-1935
2
1
Photographs
circa 1905-1927
2
2
Professional Organizations
1913-1958
2
3
Wellesley College Mementos
1911-1915
Series II.
General Correspondence
Correspondence:
2
4
1880-1917
2
5-8
1920-1926
2
9
1930-1981
2
10
Postcards
circa 1907-1928
Series III.
Trips and Expeditions
Sub-series 1.
Africa
2
11
Egypt: Field Notes,
1921
2
12
Ethiopia: The Dudley Expedition to Abyssinia
1921
(Notes)
Tunisia:
2
13
Field Notes
July 1926
3
1-2
Trip to Chiba Dome Camp, Northern Africa and on through Italy,
February 1925
(Field Notes and Photo Album)
Sub-series 2.
Asia
Indonesia:
3
3
Field Notes, Dutch East Indies
1924-1927
3
4
Trip From Paris to Java and Sumatra
March 6–July 31, 1924
(Photo Album)
3
5
Trip to Dutch East Indies and Persia (Iran)
March-July, 1924
(Field Notes)
3
6
Trip to Dutch East Indies and Persia (Iran)
March-July, 1924
(Photo Album)
22
Trip to Dutch East Indies and Persia (Iran) (includes India, Baghdad, Jerusalem, Baalbek, etc.)
March-July, 1924
(Photo Album)
3
7
Turkey: Field Notes
1937
Sub-series 3.
Europe
3
8
Austria, Hungary, Italy, and Roumania (Romania): Photo Album
1934
3
9
Crossing on “S.S. Orduna,”
January 23-30, 1922
(Photo Album)
Czechoslovakia (Czech Republic):
4
1
Czecho Slovakia, Galicia (Poland)
1922
(Photo Album and Journal)
4
2
Czechoslovakia, Roumania (Romania), Poland, France, and Germany
1922
(Photo Album)
England:
4
3
Field Notes
1931, 1936
4
4
Hardstoft Well
May 1926
(Field Notes and Photo Album)
France:
4
5
France, Yugoslavia and the United Kingdom
1922-1923
(Photo Album)
4
6
Trip to Reims (Rheims), Soissons, Chateau Thierry
April 1919
(Journal with Photographs)
4
7
Trip to the Vosges Mts., June 6-9, 1919
June 10, 1919
(Journal with Photographs)
Germany:
4
8
Field Notes
1931
4
9
Photographs, Nuremberg
undated
4
10
Greece: Photo Album
undated
4
11
Holland (The Netherlands): Photo Album
1923, 1925
Hungary:
4
12
Böhönye Station
February 1936
(Photographs)
4
13
Hungary and Austria
undated
(Field Notes)
Italy:
4
14
Field Notes
1926-1932
4
15
Photo Album (Ski Trip to Italian Alps)
January 1923
4
16
Photo Album (Florence, Pisa, Rome)
March 1923
5
1
Photo Album (Florence, Pisa, Rome, Venice)
March 1923
5
2
Photographs (Miscellaneous)
circa 1930-1935
5
3
Photographs (Pompeii Ruins)
circa 1925-1928
5
4
Miscellaneous Field Notes
1922-1936
5
5
Miscellaneous Photographs
circa 1922-1936
Poland:
5
6
Field Notes
1922-1936
5
7
Photo Album
circa 1922-1923
5
8
Photographs
mid 1920s
Roumania (Romania):
5
9
Field Notes
1922-1936
5
10
Ochiuri
undated
(Photographs)
5
11
Photo Album
circa 1923-1925
5
12
Photographs
May 1930
5
13
Roumania, Jugoslavia (Yugoslavia) and Hungary
circa 1923-1924
(Photographs)
5
14
Roumanian Oilfields, Ploesti
circa 1929
(Photographs)
Spain:
5
15
Field Notes
September 1923
6
1
Photo Album
September 1923
6
2
Spain and France
1923
(Photo Album)
6
3
Trip in the Mountains of Catalonia
September 1923
(Journal, Photographs and Map)
Switzerland:
6
4
Photo Album (The Matterhorn)
undated
6
5
Photographs (Ski Trip)
circa 1925-1935
Sub-series 4.
Middle East
6
6
Iran: Anglo-Persian Oil Co. Ltd.
undated
(Notes)
Iraq:
6
7
Iraq and Persia (Iran)
1926-1930
(Field Notes)
6
8-9
Iraq and Persia (Iran)
1926-1930
(Photo Album)
6
10
Miscellaneous Photographs
circa 1924-1930
6
11
Photographs by W.P. Haynes of Trip May-July 1936 to Iraq, Syria, Roumania, Poland, Austria, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Italy, and Germany; Photos of Albania by W.M. Small
May – July 1936
(Photo Album)
7
1
Stratigraphic Section of the Caucasus Tertiary
undated
7
2
Yemen: Photographs, with list
undated
Sub-series 5.
North America
7
3
Aboard S.S. Berengaria, The Seidels
February 1924
(Photo Album)
Canada:
7
4
Canadian Rocky Views
1911-1914
(Photo Album)
7
5
Harvard Summer School in New Brunswick & Prov. Quebec
June-July 1914
(Photo Album)
7
6
New Brunswick and Nova Scotia
1907, 1909
(Photo Album)
Guatemala:
7
7
Notes, Reports and Correspondence
1920-1921
7
8
Trip to Coban
May 1921
(Field Notes and Photo Album)
Mexico:
7
9
Field Notes
1920-1921
7
10
Hunting Trip in Chihuahua
circa 1920-1921
(Journal)
7
11
Mexican Trip for Standard Oil of New Jersey
1920-1921
(Miscellaneous Photographs)
7
12
Photo Album
November 1920 – April 1921
8
1
Photo Album
October-December 1921
8
2
Trip to Mexico W. Coast 1921-1922 For Standard Oil of New Jersey
1921
(Photographs)
United States:
8
3
American Geographical Society Transcontinental Excursion
1912
8
4
Arizona (Photographs)
September 1921
8
5
California (Photo Album)
circa 1917
8
6
Field Notes
1919-1924
8
7
Geologic Report on Part of Ray Co. Missouri
1917
8
8
Grand Canyon (Arizona)
1913
(Photo Album)
8
9
Grand Coulee, Central Washington
August 25-27, 1911
(Photo Album)
8
10
Harvard Summer School of Geology (Montana) in the Harvard Alumni Bulletin
1910
8
11
Harvard Summer School of Geology (Montana)
July 7-August 11, 1911
(Photo Album)
8
12
Harvard Summer School of Geology (Montana)
1912
(Photo Album)
8
13
Harvard Summer School of Geology (Montana)
1913
(Photo Album and Miscellaneous)
8
14
Harvard Summer School of Geology (Montana)
1914
(Course Description)
8
15
Harvard Summer School of Geology (Colorado)
1916
(Photo Album)
9
1
Kansas (Photo Album)
1916-1918
9
2
Kansas Tornado
1916
(Photo Album)
9
3
Miscellaneous Geology and Stratigraphy
circa 1913-1916
9
4
New England (Photo Album)
1907-1911
9
5
New Hampshire, New York and Massachusetts (Photo Album)
1911-1916
9
6
Scenes in New York Harbor
February 16, 1924
(Photo Album)
9
7
U.S. Trip (Arkansas, Illinois, Louisiana, Oklahoma & Texas) (Photographs)
March-April 1939
9
8
Yellowstone Park Trip
August 12-22, 1911
(Photo Album)
Sub-series 6.
South America
Shaler Memorial Expedition:
9
9
Diary of my Trip to Brazil, Summer of 1908
9
10
Mementos
1908-1915
9
11
Photo Album
1908
10
1
Photo Album
1908
10
2
Report on the Geology of Southeastern Brazil
1908
(Manuscript, Photographs and Maps)
Series IV.
U.S. Army Air Service
10
3
Book: A History of the Second Army Air Service, Headquarters Air Service, Second Army, at Toul (France)
April 1919
10
4
Cartographic Exercises Course, Sorbonne: Technical Physiographic History Reports
1918-1919
10
5
Correspondence
April 1918-October 1921
Lantern Slides:
(Note: Many of these glass slides are copies of photos found in the various photo albums in this series.)
11
Box 1
1915-1919
12
Box 2
1915-1919
13
1
Mementos
1918-1919
13
2
Newsletter: News Letter to the 13th Photographic Section: Formerly 2nd Army HQ, Toul, France, at Present all Over the United States and Europe
April 1923
13
3
Newspaper: The Airscout’s Snapshot
June 1, 1918, July 13, 1918
Official Documents:
13
4
Orders
March 1918-August 1919
13
5
Other
1917-1924, 1939
Photo Albums:
13
6
Aerial and Ground Photos (France)
1915-1919
13
7
Aerial Photos of French Villages, Cities and Forts
1916-1918
13
8-9
Aerial Reconnaissance Photos and Maps (France)
July-November 1918
14
1
Aerial Reconnaissance Photos, Apremont, France
February 11, 1919
14
2-3
French and German Front Lines (France)
1918-1919
14
4-6
Front Line Emplacements (WWI France), 9th Photo Section
1918-1919
15
1
Photographing the 10th Balloon Company South of Pont-a-Mousson
November 23, 1918
15
2
Second Army
1918-1919
15
3
Toul, St. Mihiel and Verdun
November 1918-February 1919
15
4
Trenches and Dugouts in France
1919
15
5
Verandplatz Dugout, Camp of the 13th Photo Section, Located Between Apremont and St. Mihiel, France
December 1918
15
6
WWI Airplanes
1918-1919
15
7
Photographs
1916-circa 1918
Series V.
Teaching Career
Harvard University:
15
8
Correspondence
1909, 1914, 1947-1948
15
9
Geology 2b, Course Outlines, Notes and Exams
1947-1951
15
10
Geology 17a, Course Outlines, Notes and Exams
1947-1948
15
11
Geology 27b, Course Outlines, Notes and Exams
1948
15
12
Geology 171, Course Outlines, Notes and Exams
1950-1955
16
1
Geology 172, Course Outlines, Notes and Exams
1949-1955
16
2
Geology Course Teaching Materials
1945-1952
(Visual Aids and Handouts)
16
3
Miscellaneous
1908-1914, 1960-1962
16
4
Radcliffe College
1911-1912
16
5
University of Kansas
1917-1920
16
6
Wellesley College
1914-1916
Series VI.
Standard Oil Company
Sub-series 1.
Exploration and Prospecting
16
7
Correspondence
1948
16
8
English Venture, Report on Prospecting in England and Scotland by AAOC Production Department
1938
16
9
Geological Report on the State of Coahuila, Mexico
November 1919
16
10
Geology and Oil and Gas Possibilities of Northern Tamaulipas and Northeastern Nuevo Leon
1920
16
11
Memorandum: European and Egyptian Exploration Operations
May 6, 1938
16
12
Notes on the Oil and Gas Possibilities of the Heathfield Area, Sussex, England
undated
17
1
Oil Occurrence: A Preliminary Analysis Thereof and a Look at Some of the Factors That Appear to Control It
September 1942
17
2
Petroleum Possibilities of Northern Spain
September-October 1923
(Report, Photographs and Maps)
17
3
Preliminary Analysis of the Results of Exploration for Oil in the U.S.A.
July 1941
17
4
Report on Oil and Gas in Jugoslavia (Yugoslavia)
1936
17
5
Report on the Geology and Oil and Gas Possibilities of Northeastern Chihuahua, Mexico Near Ojinaga
1920-1921
17
6
Report on the Geology and Oil and Gas Possibilities of Sinaloa and Nayarit, Mexico
December 1921
17
7
Report on the Geology of the State of Sonora, Mexico
November 1921
17
8
Report on the Oil and Gas Possibilities of a Portion of Southern Nuevo Leon, Mexico
May 1921
17
9
Report on the Oil and Gas Possibilities of Central Tamaulipas, Mexico
July 1921
17
10
Report on the Oil and Gas Possibilities of Eastern Coahuila
April 1921
17
11
Report on the Southeastern Part of Mexico States of Yucatan, Campeche, Tabasco, Southern Vera Cruz, and Parts of Chiapas, Oaxaca and Quintana Roo
1920
17
12
Report on Visit to Iraq and Syria in May-June 1936
18
1
Stratigraphic Charts
circa 1922-1950
18
2
Summary Report on Chapeno Salt Dome, South of Matamoros
1921
18
3
Tampico Region
circa 1921
18
4
Voghera Foothills (Italy)
1936
Sub-series 2.
Financial
18
5
Expenses
1920-1934
18
6
Statement of Cash Disbursements: Paris Office
July 1929-May 1932
Sub-series 3.
Producing
18
7
Oil Developments in the Middle East (Report)
January 1948
18
8
Producing Report: Europe
circa 1940
18
9
Weekly News Letters and Production Reports: Europe
July 1929, July 1936
18
10
World Crude Oil Production, by Countries, by Years
February 10, 1947
Sub-series 4.
Publications
18
11
The Esso Manhattan
June 23, 1967
(Newsletter)
18
12
The Lamp
1931-1937
(Company Magazine)
18
13
Petroleum
1928
(Booklet on the Petroleum Industry)
Series VII.
Manuscripts and Publications
Sub-series 1.
Drawings
18
14
Sea Shells
undated
(Pen and ink on blue linen)
Sub-series 2.
Haynes (as Author)
19
1
A Contribution to the Geology of the Region About Three Forks, Montana
May 1, 1914
(Ph.D. Dissertation)
19
2
The Fauna of the Upper Devonian in Montana: Pt. 2. The Stratigraphy and the Brachiopoda
January 1916
19
3
Geological Work in the Carpathians
1922
19
4
The Grand Coulee
May 1914
(2 copies and draft)
19
5
The Lombard Overthrust and Related Geological Features
April-May 1916
19
6
Resume of Thesis by R.E. Somers on ‘The Geology of Virginia City,’
undated
Sub-series 3.
Others (as Author)
19
7
Correlation of Devonian and Lowermost Mississippian Rocks Between Outcrops in Western and Central Montana and the Williston Basin in Eastern Montana by C.A. Sandberg
1962
(Abstract)
19
8
Developments in Eastern and Northwestern Colorado and Western Nebraska in 1966 by Edward H. Haynes
1966
19
9
Devonian of the Northern Rocky Mountains and Plains by C.A. Sandberg & W.J. Mapel
September 1967
(International Symposium on the Devonian System)
19
10
Devonian System in Williston Basin and Central Montana by C.A. Sandberg & C.R. Hammond
1958
(Reprint)
19
11
Five Exploration Ventures by Ray P. Walters
1972-1974
19
12
Miscellaneous
1924, 1944, 1961, 1972
19
13
Petroleum Research in Northern Africa by H. DeCizancourt
1932
(Reprint)
19
14
Petroleum: The Story of an American Industry by American Petroleum Institute
1930
19
15
Shaler Memorial Expedition
1909
19
16
Stratigraphic Section of Type Three Forks and Jefferson Formations at Logan, Montana by C.A. Sandberg
1962
19
17
A Structure Section Across the Canadian Rockies by P.E. Raymond & B. Willard
1931
Sub-series 4.
Periodicals
19
18
Oil and Gas
1925-1974
19
19
Paleontology
March 1962
19
20
Shaler Memorial Expedition
April 1906
Series VIII.
Clipping Files
19
21
British Antarctic Expedition
1909-1910
(Lt. E.H. Shackleton)
20
1
Deterding, Sir Henri
1933
20
2
Expeditions (Others)
1908-1913
20
3
Forestry
1906
20
4
Harvard University
1909-1933
20
5
Mexico
undated
20
6
Miscellaneous
1906-1958
20
7
New England
undated
20
8
Oil and Gas
1935, 1951
20
9
Scientific Discoveries
1906-1914
20
10
South America
1907-1912
20
11
Standard Oil Company
1922, undated
20
12
U.S. Army Air Service
1927, 1930, 1941
20
13
Wellesley College
1914-1915
Series IX.
Maps and Blueprints
(Oversized)
21
1
Africa
1948, undated
21
2
Asia, Oceania and Other
undated
Europe:
21
3
Geologic and Oil
1924-1943
21
4
WWI France
1917-1918
21
5
Middle East
1947, undated
North America:
21
6
Canada and Greenland
1935-1950
21
7
Guatemala
1920-1921
21
8
Mexico
1905-1921
21
9
United States
1907-1967
21
South America
1946, undated