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Arthur C. Trowbridge, March 15, 1963 |
Scope and Contents
These papers reflect the professional career of professor Arthur C. Trowbridge. They include field notes dated 1912 to 1947 written by Trowbridge and others while working with the U.S. Geological Survey Bureau. The collection also includes Trowbridge's writings, professional correspondence, University of Iowa course instruction, maps, photographs of geological formations, and committee work. Materials are arranged in chronological and alphabetical order. Correspondence includes letters to and from Trowbridge under the name of the correspondent. General correspondence organized by year follows correspondence organized alphabetically.
Biographical Note
Arthur Carleton Trowbridge was born March 4, 1885, in Glasgow, Missouri. He received his B.S. degree in geology at the University of Chicago in 1907 and his Ph.D. there in 1911. While enrolled at the University of Chicago, he was in charge of the university geology laboratory.
Trowbridge joined the faculty of the State University of Iowa in July 1911. He taught general geology courses and introduced summer field courses and laboratory methods to the curriculum. To aid in teaching the geology laboratory courses, Trowbridge and Rollin Salisbury published three manuals in 1912 and 1913. His areas of research were physiography and glacial geology. Later his focus was on stratigraphy and sedimentation. He wrote numerous research papers about the driftless area of the Upper Mississippi Valley.
In 1922 Trowbridge worked with the U.S. Engineer Corps of the War Department to study sediment deposition problems on the Mississippi Delta. From 1928 to 1930 he made geographical surveys which were used to determine locations for navigation locks and dams on the Mississippi River. In 1925 and 1926 Trowbridge worked as a consultant for the Turkish Petroleum Company of London in an international effort to survey Iraq. During the early 1930s he consulted with various petroleum companies in efforts to locate oil fields.
Trowbridge was named head of the department, as well as director of the Iowa Geological Survey and geologist for the state of Iowa in 1934, succeeding George F. Kay. He resigned from the Geological Survey in 1947 in order to devote time to teaching and administrative duties. He retired from the State University of Iowa in June 1952. Trowbridge continued to teach part time until 1965. He worked as a consultant for Gulf Research and Development Company in Houston from 1952 to 1955. Trowbridge received the Neil A. Miner award from the National Association of Geology Teachers in 1960 and was awarded the L.H.D. from Augustana College in 1963.
During World War I, Trowbridge was granted a military leave from the University. He served as educational director for the U.S. Army YMCA at Camp Dodge from 1917 to 1918 and at the New York City YMCA from 1918 to 1919. During World War II, Trowbridge and Professor Arthur K. Miller conducted geology classes while other geology professors served in the military.
Trowbridge married Sue Estelle Bussey in August 1911 and had two children, Charles Lambert and Carolyn Frances. Sue B. Trowbridge died March 28, 1968. Arthur C. Trowbridge died November 16, 1971. The Dental Science building was renamed Trowbridge Hall in 1973 when the Department of Geology occupied the building.
Related Materials
Folder, "Trowbridge, Arthur C.," Faculty and Staff Vertical Files collection (RG 01.15.03)
George F. Kay Papers (RG99.0086)
Frank A. Wilder Papers (RG 99.0090)
Samuel Calvin Papers (RG 99.0083)
Salisbury, Rollin D. and Arthur C. Trowbridge. The interpretation of topographic maps; a laboratory manual for use in connection with the topographic maps of the United States Geological survey. To accompany beginning courses in physiography. New York: H. Holt and Company, 1912.
Salisbury, Rollin D. and Arthur C. Trowbridge. Studies in geology; a laboratory manual based on topographic maps and folios of the United States Geological survey, for use with classes in physiographic and structural geology. New York: H. Holt and Company, 1912.
Salisbury, Rollin D. and Arthur C. Trowbridge. Laboratory exercises in structural and historical geology; a laboratory manual based on folios of the United States geological survey; for use with classes in structural and historical geology. New York: H. Holt and Company, 1913.
Trowbridge, Arthur Carleton. "Tertiary and Quaternary Geology of the Lower Rio Grande Region, Texas." U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, Report: B 0837(1932): 260 pp.
Box Contents List
Maps
Field work
Iron ore areas of Cherokee County, Texas, 1889
South Texas soil map used by G. C. Matson, 1912
Progressive military map of the U.S. Southern Department, for Rio Grande survey in 1919-1920
Illinois soil stratification, 1943
Illinois Geological Survey log of Dubuque Star Brewing Company well, 1933
Maps, photographs, correspondence, 1944
New England
Maine, Katahdin Quadrangle, 1944
New Hampshire-Maine, Gorham Quadrangle, 1942
New Hampshire-Maine, North Conway Quadrangle, 1945
Vermont-New Hampshire, Littleton Quadrangle, 1940
New Hampshire, Crawford Notch Sheet, 1946
New hampshire, Franconia Quadrangle, 1941
New Hampshire, Moosilauke Quadrangle, 1943
New Hampshire, Mt. Washington Quadrangle, 1943
New Hampshire, Whitefield Quadrangle, 1946
New York, Lake Placid Sheet, 1946
New York, Gilboa Quadrangle, 1945
New York, Mt. Marcy Quadrangle, 1946
New York, Elizabethtown Quadrangle, 1947
New York, Ausable Quadrangle, 1946
Driftless area
Drift sheets of Iowa, 1955
Iowa-Illinois, Lancaster Quadrangle, 1908
Iowa-Illinois, Peosta Quadrangle, 1901
Iowa-Wisconsin, Elkader Quadrangle, 1902
Iowa-Wisconsin, Waukon Quadrangle, 1903
Wisconsin, Gays Mills Quadrangle, 1926
Wisconsin, Viroqua Quadrangle, 1926
Illinois State Geological Survey, 1966-1968
Northeast Iowa
Southeast Iowa and Davenport, 1962
Box 2
Maps, cont.
Drift sheets of Iowa, 17 x 24
[Preliminary Map of the Glacial Geology of Iowa] Iowa Geological Survey, 1952, 11 x 18
[Drift Sheets of Iowa: Unpublished and Unofficial] 10 x 16
Texas
Transparency sheets
Northern Illinois, 12 x 15
Driftless region, 8 x 9.5
Blueprints
[Board of Commissioners Port of New Orleans, Louisiana, Inner Harbor Navigation Canal, Boring at Lake End] September 10, 1920
Texas
Uvalde Quadrangle, 1908
Zavala County, 1915
Bridge data and blueprints, 1929
Keithsburg, Illinois, bridge
Burlington, Iowa
Blueprints of High Street Bridge and main piers 2-5Corps of Engineers blueprint of Upper Mississippi River improvement
Railroad bridge
Louisiana, Missouri, blueprints of bridge over Mississippi River
Hannibal, Missouri, railroad bridge
Alton, Illinois, bridge
Cape Girardeau, Missouri, bridge
Dubuque, Iowa, railroad bridge
Fort Madison, Iowa, railroad bridge
Quincy, Illinois
Railroad bridge
Quincy Memorial Bridge
Map housed in map case
U.S. Geological Survey Reconnaissance Erosion Survey Map of Iowa, 1934, 36 x 46
Box 3
Sample from peat and muck bed of Thayer pit in Iowa. From Cornelia Cameron, 1964.
Field notes
G. C. Matson in south Texas, 1912
T. Wayland Vaughan on south Texas, 1913
G. H. Ashley on Santo Tomas coalfield, August 8, 1917
A. G. Maddren on Rio Grande, Book 1, June 5-July 12, 1919; Book 2, July 14-September 1, 1919
A. C. Trowbridge on Rio Grande, Book 1, June 3-July 18, 1919; Book 2, July 7-August 30, 1919
A. C. Trowbridge on Rio Grande, Book 3, June 25-July 31, 1919; Book 4, August 1-September2, 1919
Lloyd North on Rio Grande, Book 1, June 26-August 3, 1920; Book 2, August 4-31, 1920
W. S. Glock on Rio Grande, Book 1, June 29-August 2, 1920; Book 2, August 3-September 1, 1920A. C. Trowbridge on Texas and New Orleans, Book 5, July 13-August 9, 1921
July 1922August 1922
A. C. Trowbridge, 1924
August 1927
September 1927
V. E. Briard, July 1929
August 1929
A. C. Trowbridge, 1929
1930
August-September 1930
August 1931
August-September 1932
W. H. Bussey, includes two photographs, July-August 1933
June 1934
February 1935
June 1946
Whitefield, New Hampshire, July-August 1947
Record of salaries and expenses, May 1919-August 1921
1955-1960
1960-1961
1961-1963
1966-1967
1967-1969
Instruction
State University of Iowa
Pleistocene course
1951-1952
1956
Geology course no. 106, 1957
Seashore, C. E. Comments on the Plan for Sectioning Classes on the Basis of Ability. 1922
Geology enrollment statistics
1920-1930, 1954-1959, 1962-1964
1954-1959
Distinguished alumni noted
1964-1966
1955-1968
Geology scholarship funds
Littlefield fund, 1967
Iowa Geology fund, 1968
Department records
1960-1961
1961-1962
1962-1963
1963-1964
1963-1966
1964-1965
1962-1967
1967-1968
1968-1969
1969-1970
Geology faculty and staff biographical notes, 1967
Lectures
Periodicals purchased, 1960-1963
USGS exam questions regarding geologic map interpretation, 1960-1961
Geology test questions, 1933
Iowa Geological Survey information sheets
"Rocks and Minerals of Iowa"
"Fossil Collecting Areas in Iowa"
"Geodes"
U.S. state geologists and their duties, 1965-1966
Pleistocene field trip to southeast Iowa locations, 1949
Geology Club field trip to Devil's Lake State Park, Wisconsin, 1959
Personal opinions of Professor Trowbridge, 1957, 1959
Southern Illinois University, 1955-1957
Speeches
Sigma Xi, November 1940
"Are Glaciers Rivers of Ice?," November 1945
"Pleistocene Problems in Iowa," to A.A.A.S., January 1946
Scandinavia, to Kiwanis Club, August 1946
"Notes on Danish and Swedish Glaciology," GSA in Chicago, December 1946
"Deglaciation in the Rondane Area, Norway," December 1946
"Recent Studies in Glacial Geology," to Sigma Xi, December 1949
"Multiple Pleistocene Glaciation," Rice Institute seminar, May 1955
Burlington, October 1957
Saint Paul, April 1958
Geology Club
Research Club
1945
1948
1951
Reviews by Trowbridge
1934
1956
1957
1958
1959
1965
Clippings
Work in Iraq, 1925
Science articles, 1936-1967
Article about Trowbridge presentation at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois, 1964
Iowa Geological Survey, article about, 1955
Lake Calvin, 1959, 1970
Trowbridge received Neil Miner Award, 1960
Wisconsin discovery, 1966
Awards
Neil Miner Award by the National Association of Geology Teachers, GSA meeting in Denver, 1960
Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters, Augustana College, 1963
Honorary member, National Association of Geology Teachers, 1967
Genealogy
Note and poem
Letter from Trowbridge's father to Missouri Geological Survey, 1873
Article by Trowbridge's son
Biographical
Photograph and University of Chicago residence hall annual, The Snell Hall Cooler, 1910, 1911
U.S. Army YMCA service in New York, 1919
World Who's Who in Science, 1968
Retirement, 1951-1952
Letter from friend Harold Snyder, 1967
Photographs
George F. Kay
Geological formations
Geological formations, photographer L. T. LeBron, Jr., of Galena, Illinois, 1932
Images for slides
Box 5
Committees and annual conferences
Stratigraphic Commission, 1953
Stratigraphic Committee report, 1958-1959
Stratigraphic Committee, discussion of report no. 6, ca. 1960
Glossary Committee, American Geological Institute project, 1955
Glossary Committee correspondence, 1955-1957
Sub-committees and definitions (Glossary)
Glossary popularity, 1957-1962
American Association of Petroleum Geologists (AAPG) annual convention
1959
1960
1960-1961
1961-1962
American Geophysical Union
Meeting program, 1963
Converting subscription information to computer records, 1966
American Institute of Professional Geologists, newsletter and membership roster, 1967
American Petroleum Institute, Research Project 43 Advisory Committee, 1951-1955
Friends of the Pleistocene annual field trips
1951
1953, includes history of the meetings
Midwest Friends of the Pleistocene Field Conference, 1960
1963
1965
1966
Geology Society of America (GSA) program of annual meetings
1958
1959
1960-1962
1965
1968
Geological Society of Iowa Newsletter, November 1967
Historical Directory of State Geological Surveys, listing for all states, 1962
International Association for Quaternary Research (INQUA)
1954-1955
1965
Iowa Academy of Science, 1967-1968
Loess field conference
1947
1948
Quaternary of Illinois Symposium, 1968
Tri-state conference, 1935
Box 6
Correspondence
Adney, John R.
1963-1964
1964-1965
1965-1969
1966-1967
1967-1968
1968-1969
Anteves, Ernst, 1948-1955
Augustana College, 1967-1968
Berry, Edward W., 1943
Bezanson, Lillian C., regarding memoir, 1957-1959
Billings, Marland P., 1947
Black, Robert F., 1965
Boekenkamp, Richard P., 1965
Bretz, J. Harlen
1961
1965-1966
1968
Brown, Charles, 1957
Cameron, Cornelia1964-1965
1965
Childs, Orlo E., 1966
Cooper, G. Arthur, 1956
Davis, Morgan J., 1967
Fees, Leon V.
1966-1969
1968-1969
Feulner, Alvin J., 1957
Fisk, H. N., Humble Oil and Refining Company, 1954-1955
FitzPatrick, E. A., 1960-1961
Flint, Richard F., 1947-1953
Frye, John C.
1940-1949
1950-1956
1960-1965
1966-1967
Fryxell, F. M., 1968-1969
Geological Society of America, regarding M. A. Stainbrook memorial, 1956-1957
Glock, Waldo S.
1957-1958
1964-1969
Goldthwait, Richard P., 1947
Gooding, Ansel M., 1961
Grawe, Mrs. O. R. (Sally), 1965-1968
Gulf Research and Development Co.
1952-1954
1960
Hanna, M. A., 1955
Hares, Charles Joseph, 1965-1966
Hedges, James
1962
1965-1967
1967-1968
1969
Hershey, H. G., 1948
Hinman, Eugene E., 1968
Horberg, Leland, 1945
Hunt, Charles B., 1960-1961
Iowa Academy of Science, 1956-1969
Kanneberg, Ralph W., 1948
Kay, Marshall, 1969
Kempers, L., 1968
Ladd, Harry S., 1947
Leeper, Leo R., regarding biographical note for M. A. Stainbrook, 1956
Leighton, Morris M.
1940
1940-1942
1952-1955
1956-1957
1959-1960
1960
1960-1961
1961-1962
1963-1964
1964-1965
1957-1966
1965-1967
1966-1967
1968-1969
Leonard, A. Byron, 1955
Leverett, Frank, 1915-1921
Linch, Lyle K., ca. 1965, includes photograph
Lougee, Richard J., 1945
Ludwick, John C., 1955-1957
Lugn, Alvin L., 1950
Macalester College, consultation, 1962
Mattox, Richard B., 1955
Milling, Marcus E.
1966-1968, includes Iowa Geological Survey topographic map of Iowa City Quadrangle dated 1938
1967-1969
Mosnat, H. Roy, 1947, includes photographs of George F. Kay visiting artesian well at Belle Plaine, Iowa, 1930s
North, Lloyd, 1965-1967
Owen, Edgar W., 1963-1969
Patton, Leroy T., 1956-1957
Ray, Louis L.
1946-1949
1960
1966-1969
Robinson, W. I., 1956
Ruhe, Robert V.
1948-1951
1962-1965
1965-1968
Russell, R. Dana, 1968
Scruton, P. C., 1956
Sorenson, Mrs. Ira L., 1969
Stainbrook, G. L., 1948-1957
Stainbrook, R. W., 1957
Swenson, Frank
1942-1948
1948-1969
1961
Thudium, Orville, 1968
Trowbridge, Arthur H., 1967
Ulrich, E. O., 1934
Vaughan, Peggy, 1967
Worrell, Roy A., 1968
Youngquist, Walter, 1957
General correspondence1952-1957
1956
1955-1956
1956-1957
1957-1958
1958-1959
1959-1960
1960-1961
1961-1962
1965-1966
1966-1967
1967-1969
1968-1969
Writings
Acknowledgements for paper, "Glacial Drift in the 'Driftless Area' of Northeast Iowa," 1967
Bibliography lists, including regarding glaciation of the Driftless Area
Contribution to McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology, draft, correspondence, map, photographs, April-August 1958
McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science and Technology
1960-1961
1962
1966-1969
Scribner's Dictionary of Scientific Biography, contributions by Trowbridge, 1968-1970
Papers by Trowbridge
"Review of Modern Literature of Sedimentology, Especially as Related to Petroleum Geology," 1955
Photographs and correspondence, "The Mississippi River in Glacial Times," Palimpsest, July 1959
"Driftless Area of the Upper Mississippi Valley," 1962-1967
"The Single Erosional Cycle"
"Geologic History of Mississippi River of Iowa, Wisconsin, Illinois and Missouri," by Trowbridge, Williams, Frye, Swenson
" Preliminary Report on Geological Work in North-Eastern Iowa," Iowa Academy of Science
Utica, New York, 1917
"The Erosional History of the Driftless Area"
"The 'Driftless Area' of Iowa," by Trowbridge and A. J. Williams
"Reconnaissance Study of New England Glaciation," by Trowbridge and Louis L. Ray, 1947
Mississippi Delta reports and notes
"Notes on the Mouths of the Mississippi River," by Lt. Col. E. J. Dent, January 1921Record of dredging, "Fish-Hawk Log", by E. W. Shaw, June 22-24, 1921
Depth measurements
Analyses of dredged material from Mississippi Delta
Report
Manuscript, including photographs and diagrams
"Preliminary Geological Report on the Mississippi Delta," submitted for review February 20, 1924
Houston, Texas well samples, ca. 1952
Reprints
1908-1923
1926-1932
1933-1939
1959-1963, n.d.
American Commission of Stratigraphic Nomenclature, notes 1-13, 1947-1952
"Discussion: Accretion-Gley and the Gumbotil Dilemma," 1961
The Interpretation of Topographic Maps
Laboratory Exercises in Structural and Historical Geology
n.d.
1913-1939
Studies in Geology
National Research Council, Report of the Committee on Sedimentation
1930-1932
1932-1934
Notes and data
Nebraskan Drift south of Waukon, 1940
Nebraskan Drift in caves at Guttenberg, 1940
Nebraskan Drift Around Dubuque, 1940
Nebraskan Drift West of Dubuque and Frye correspondence, 1966
Notes from student reports, 1915, 1961, n.d.
Wisconsin drift in northwestern Iowa, 1948
Effects on Sea Level
Southern Illinois geology
"Trowbridge's Notes on Problems of Early Pleistocene History of Mississippi River," 1957
1957
1968
"Drainage History of Upper Mississippi River"
Sample analyses, samples collected by Trowbridge, 1931
Altimeter readings at Bellevue and McGregor, 1951
Pleistocene sections in Iowa, 1960-1961
Iowa River flood of June 24, 1938, map of Allamakee County, conditions 1888-1938
Abstracts
1955-1956
1959-1960
1960-1961
1965-1966
Abstracts regarding glacial and climate change, 1957
Andersen, S. A., "The Waning of the Last Continental Glacier in Denmark as Illustrated by Varved Clays and Eskers," 1931
Cameron, Cornelia C., "A Major Problem in Cenozoic Statigraphy of South Central Iowa," 1962-1964
Climate fluctuations, various papers, 1931-1951
Cooke, C. Wythe, 1945
Deep stage valleys, 1964-1965
Fehrenbacher, J. B., "Loess Distribution in Southeastern Illinois and Southwestern Indiana," 1965
Fisk, H. N., 1952
Foss, Sam Walter, "The Calf Path" poem
Frye, John C. "Additional Studies on the History of Mississippi Valley Drainage," SUI Ph.D. thesis, June 1938, includes photographs
Frye, John C., soil depositions levels
Geological unconformities, various papers
Gumbotil subject, includes photographs, articles, correspondence
Hadding, Assar. Hidden Hiatuses and Related Phenomena, 1958
Jerseyan Drifts and other drifts in New England, 1934-1941
Jones, Hendricks, 1954
Kay, George F., "Annotated Guide of Eastern Iowa: Fort Madison to Iowa City, Iowa"
Leighton, Morris M. and Paul R. Shaffer paper, 1941-1949
Leighton paper and Trowbridge's editorial notes, 1957
Leighton, summer 1957
Leighton, Morris M., "Some Major Aspects of the Glacial History of Illinois," 1958-1959
Leighton criticism of article, 1958-1959
Leighton, Morris M., "Elements in the Classification of the Late Glacial Quaternary of Midwestern North America," paper, correspondence, maps, photographs, 1962-1963
Leighton, Morris M., "Preliminary Appraisal of the Recently Proposed Classification of Wisconsin Loess," 1962-1965
Leverett, Frank, "Outline of Pleistocene History of Mississippi Valley," 1921
MacClintock, Paul, 1926-1929
Mickelson, John C., paper, correspondence, field notes, 1948-1951
Miscellaneous references
Oceanography, 1960-1961
Patton, Leroy
Phleger, F., memoir, 1951-1954
Raasch, 1931
Rich, J. L. "Burired Stagnant Ice as a Normal Product of a Progressively Retreating Glacier in Hilly Regions," 1941
Rocky Mountains, various papers, 1907-1930
Salisbury, Rollin D. The Interpretation of Topographic Maps, manuscript, 1908
Shepard, F. P., 1948-1954
Soil Conservation Service classification of sedimentary deposits, 1938
Swenson, F. A., river elevations or levels
Thwaites, Fred T., 1921
Wanless, Harold R., "Nebraskan Till in Fulton County, Illinois," 1929
Windrow formation, 1921
Longhand drafts and statistics
Lengths
