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Collection Overview
Title: The Papers of Frank J. Wright, 1924-1949
ID: UA/RG-PP/02/Wright, F
Extent: 0.5 Cubic Feet
Scope and Contents of the Materials
The papers of professor Frank J. Wright who taught Geology at Denison from 1924-1949.
Administrative Information
Repository:
Denison University Archives
Preferred Citation:
The Papers of Frank J. Wright, Denison University Archives. Granville, Ohio.
Finding Aid Revision History:
Converted finding aid to Archon by Parker Sumwalt in 2015
Box and Folder Listing
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- Box 1
- Folder 1: Biographical
- Folder 2: Bridgewater College Commencement Speech, 1932
- Folder 3: The Proposed Shenandoah National Park - Radio Talk
- Folder 4: The Older Appalachians of the South - First Half, October 27, 1931
- Loose leaf version of the first half of Frank J. Wright's "The Older Appalachians of the South" which he submitted for the A. Cressey Morrison Prize in Natural Science.
- Item 1: The Older Appalachians of the South - Second Half, October 27, 1931
- Bound version of the first half of Frank J. Wright's "The Older Appalachians of the South" which he submitted for the A. Cressey Morrison Prize in Natural Science.
- Item 2: The Older Appalachians of the South - Additional Plates
- Item 3: The Physiography of the Upper James River Basin in Virginia
- Box 2
- Folder 1: Field Notes, 1922-1934
- 12 fieldbooks with notes taken by Frank J. Wright - mainly during research in the Appalachians. Plus pages presumably cut out of a fieldbook.
- Folder 2: Field Notes, 1938-1945
- Another notebook of notes by Frank J. Wright and a couple loose papers of notes
- Folder 3: Denison Univeristy Bulletin Publications
- Folder 4: Other Publications
- Box 3
- Folder 1: Correspondence: Berkey, Charles P., 1916-1932
- Folder 2: Correspondence: Bowman, Paul H., 1925-1946
- Folder 3: Correspondence: Brown, Kenneth I., 1940-1948
- Kenneth Brown was Denison's president from 1940-1950
- Folder 4: Correspondence: Burke, Edmund, 1945
- Folder 5: Correspondence: Byrd, Harry F., 1929-1937
- US Senator
- Folder 6: Correspondence: "B" Names
- Folder 7: Correspondence: Carman, J. Ernest, 1928
- Folder 8: Correspondence: Carney, Frank, 1928-1931
- Frank Carney was a geology professor at Denison from 1904-1917
- Folder 9: Correspondence: Chamberlain, C.W., 1924-1928
- Clark W. Chamberlain was Denison's president from 1913-1925
- Folder 10: Correspondence: "C" Names
- Folder 11: Correspondence: Ebaugh, W.C., 1931-1932
- Folder 12: Correspondence: Frasch, R.R., 1926-1928
- Folder 13: Correspondence: Giles, Albert W., 1924
- Folder 14: Correspondence: "D" - "G" Names
- Folder 15: Correspondence: Herrick, C. Judson, 1927
- Charles Judson Herrick taught Biology at Denison. He and his brother C.L. Herrick are the namesakes of Herrick Hall.
- Folder 16: Correspondence: Hubbard, George D., 1927-1928
- Folder 17: Correspondence: Johnson, Douglas W., 1916-1922
- Douglas Johnson attended Doane Academy and was expected to graduate from Denison in 1901 before leaving to attend school in New Mexico
- Folder 18: Correspondence: Johnson, Douglas W., 1923-1925
- Douglas Johnson attended Doane Academy and was expected to graduate from Denison in 1901 before leaving to attend school in New Mexico
- Folder 19: Correspondence: Kemp, James F., 1926-1926
- Professor at Columbia
- Folder 20: Correspondence: Kerr, Paul F., 1944-1947
- Folder 21: Correspondence: Knight, S.H., 1927-1936
- Folder 22: Correspondence: Lobeck, A.K., 1926-1945
- Armin K. Lobeck was a noted American Cartographer, Geomorphologist and Landscape Artist.
- Folder 23: Correspondence: Lusk, Ralph, 1925
- Denison Geology Graduate
- Folder 24: Correspondence: "H" - "L" Names
- Box 4
- Folder 1: Correspondence: McCann, Franklin, 1928
- Franklin McCann, class of 1925, also briefly taught at Denison from 1928-1930 and 1933-1934
- Folder 2: Correspondence: Moore, Raymond C., 1926-1935
- Class of 1926
- Folder 3: Correspondence: Morris, Fred K., 1927-1929
- Professor at MIT
- Folder 4: Correspondence: "M" Names
- Folder 5: Correspondence: Neuschel, Sherman and Virginia (Smith), 1942
- Virginia Smith, Class of 1934. Sherman Neuschel, Class of 1937. Geology students.
- Folder 6: Correspondence: "N" - "R" Names
- Folder 7: Correspondence, Sanger, W.T., 1924-1946
- Folder 8: Correspondence: Sharp, Henry S., 1927-1947
- Henry S. Sharp was a geologist. Briefly taught at Denison from 1930-1932
- Folder 9: Correspondence: Shaw, Avery (and Clara), 1927-1940
- Avery Shaw was Denison's president from 1927-1940
- Folder 10: Correspondence: "S" - "T" Names
- Folder 11: Correspondence: Watson, Thomas L., 1911-1924
- Thomas L. Watson taught at Denison from 1901-1904
- Folder 12: Correspondence: Williams, C.L., 1928-1933
- Denison Professor
- Folder 13: Correspondence: Woodford, A.O., 1923-1935
- Folder 14: Correspondence: Woodward, Herbert P., 1934
- Folder 15: Correspondence: Wright, Charles C., 1930-1940
- Frank J. Wright's brother (letters with Charles' children included here)
- Folder 16: Correspondence: Wright, Horace, 1931-1945
- Folder 17: Correspondnece: "W" - "Z" Names
- Box 5
- Folder 1: Correspondence Subject: Automobile
- Folder 2: Correspondence Subject: Columbia University (Teaching)
- Folder 3: Correspondence Subject: Family and Close Friends
- Folder 4: Correspondence Subject: Politics
- Folder 5: Correspondence Subject: Publications
- Folder 6: Correspondence Subject: Early Correspondence
- Box 6
- Item 1: Prof. and Mrs. Douglas Johnson with Anna and Frank J. Wright at Natural Bridge, August 1934
- Box of negatives
- Item 2: Appalachian Mountains Research Negatives, 1934
- Box of negatives
- Item 3: Appalachian Mountains Research Negatives, 1935
- Box of Negatives and some prints
- Item 4: Appalachian Mountains Research Negatives, 1935
- Box of negatives
- Item 5: Tom Thumb Wedding glass negatives
- Box of glass plate negatives of a "Tom Thumb Wedding" (locations, date, and reason for them to be in FJW's items unknown)
- Item 6: Kame Structure: Hobart's gravel pit, No. Granville
- Magic lantern slide of people at a gravel pit
- Item 7: Licking Narrows, May 1905
- Magic lantern slide of people on cliff
- Item 8: Section at Haven's Quarry near Newark, Ohio, October 1907
- Magic lantern slide of a geolgic section.
- Note: Glass slide is cracked.
- Item 9: Missionary Ridge Panoramas
- Two identical copies of a black and white panorama and one of a different view from similar position
- Item 10: Lookout Mountain Panorama
- Black and white panorama
- Box 7
- Item 1: Metal printing plate
- Some sort of metal plate, presumably used for printing. Seems to be a map of an area in the Appalachian Mountains. Was found in Professor Frank J. Wright's materials.
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