Florence Bascom Papers, Sophia Smith Collection
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Title
Florence Bascom Papers, Sophia Smith Collection
Description
Geologist, Professor. The papers include biographical information, photographs, scrapbooks, sketchbooks, writings, memorabilia, financial records, and extensive personal and professional correspondence. Correspondents include Elaine Goodale Eastman, Annie Peck, Gifford Pinchot, Isabel Fothergill Smith, M. Carey Thomas, and Charles R. Van Hise. Correspondence from the Goldschmidt family is in German with English translation. Her writings include published and unpublished geology articles re: Pennsylvania, Maine, and Massachusetts. The papers also contain speeches, U.S. Geological Survey reports, verse, and photographs, which include pictures taken on geological expeditions to western and southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
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Contributor
Sophia Smith Collection (Smith College)
Items in the Florence Bascom Papers, Sophia Smith Collection Collection
Florence Bascom, geologist, and other women on Grand Canyon expedition, 1906.
Women in hats on mules, riding down a trail
