University of Wyoming
Blackwelder, a geologist, taught at the Universities of Wisconsin, Illinois, and Chicago between 1905 and 1919. He worked as chief geologist for East Butte Copper Mining Company from 1919-1921 and was manager of the Teton Syndicate from 1921-1922. Blackwelder was chair of the geology department at Stanford University from 1922-1945. He did field work for the U.S. Geological Survey in the western U.S. including southeastern and western Wyoming, Utah, Idaho, Alaska and the Great Basin and served as a paleontologist with the 1903-1904 Carnegie Institution Expedition to China.
Blackwelder was vice-president (1933, 1939) and president (1940) of the Geological Society of America. After his retirement, he was active in the Palo Alto, California, chapter of the Atlantic Union Committee.
Collection contains correspondence (1903-1964); files of correspondence, notes, maps, logs, and printed materials related to geology; 7 boxes of files related to his Atlantic Union Committee activities; 18 boxes of lantern slides, photographs, slides and negatives; geologic field notes including the Medicine Bow, Bighorn, and Teton ranges in Wyoming and the Wasatch range in Utah; maps; reprints of papers by Blackwelder and others; speeches; biographical information; and manuscripts of research papers.
There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.
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There are no known other archival collections created by Eliot Blackwelder at the date of processing.
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