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PAPERS OF CARROLL LANE
FENTON AND
MILDRED
ADAMS FENTON
Collection Dates: 1960s
3.5 linear ft.
This document describes a collection of materials held
by the
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
Phone: 319-335-5921
Fax: 319-335-5900
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Posted to Internet: May 2000
Acquisition Note: This collection was given to the University of Iowa
Libraries by the Fentons in the early nineteen-sixties.
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Biographical Note
Carroll Lane Fenton was born in 1900 on a farm in Butler County, Iowa, near the town of Costor. Between the ages of five and ten he lived in Saskatchewan, where the birds, coyotes, and other wildlife, combined with the books of Ernest Thompson Seeton, stimulated his early interest in nature study. After his return to Iowa, the fossil deposits near his home in Charles City, extended this scientific interest to paleontology.
In 1926, Fenton received a doctoral degree in geology from the University of Chicago. He has held positions at the University of Michigan, the University of Cincinnati, the University of Buffalo, and at Rutgers, has conducted seminars in nature writing at Northern Arizona University. In 1938 -- 1939, he was the director of science broadcasts for the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and for several years he was consultant in general science for the magazine Children's Activities.
Together with his wife, Mildred Adams, a fellow Iowan who is also a geologist and writer, he traveled extensively in North, Central, and South America gathering material for his books. Most of these books, some written for children and others for adults, are illustrated with drawings he made himself. Fenton has also published numerous articles in professional and popular scientific magazines, including the American Midland Naturalist, Pan-American Geologist, Nature Magazine, Scientific Monthly, and the Bulletin of the Geological Society of America. Carroll Lane Fenton died in 1969.
Mildred Adams Fenton, was born near West Branch, Iowa. She graduated from the University of Iowa, where her interest in geology and fossils had been aroused. She met her husband Carroll Lane Fenton while they were both undergraduates and they were married in 1921.
The Fentons spent the next ten years as students and research workers, devoting their summers to field trips on which they studied modern animals as well as ancient rocks and fossils. When Carroll began to write popular books for children and adults, Mildred acted as critic, research assistant, typist, and photographer. The next step was co-authorship, which began with a volume for adults and was soon followed by one for children.
Animal and Plants
Printer's typescript.Mock-up illustrations.
Dust jacket.
Basic Biology
Galley proofs. (2 folders)
Birds We Live With
Correspondence, 1963.First draft with corrections and revisions. (2 folders)
Original typescript with revisions.
Typescript. (2 folders)
Index. Typescript.
Galley proofs.
Page proof without illustrations.
Page proofs with illustrations.
Dust jacket.
The Fossil Book
Printer's typescript with revisions. (4 folders)Galley proofs. (3 folders)
The Fossil Book (cont.)
Page proofs. (4 folders)
Goldie Is A Fish
Printer's typescript.Galley proof.
In Prehistoric Seas
Correspondence, 1961 -- 1962.Typescript with corrections and revisions.
Typescript carbon.
Galley proofs.
Reproduction proofs.
The Land We Live On
Correspondence, 1964 -- 1966.Original manuscript with corrections and revisions.
Pages rejected from original manuscript.
Typescript with corrections and revisions.
Typescript carbon.
Printer's typescript with revisions.
Material prepared by publisher without author's knowledge.
Designer mock-ups.
First edition with tentative changes for edition actually published.
The Moon for Young Explorers
Printer's typescript.Galley proofs.
Page proofs.
Tales Told By Fossils
Original manuscript with revisions. (2 folders)Corrections and revisions.
Suggested changes.
Typescript carbon.
Printer's typescript with revisions.
Mock-up of front cover.
Tales Told By Fossils (cont.)
Galley proofs. (2 folders)Page proofs.
Reproduction proofs.
Worlds in the Sky
Printer's typescript.Galley proofs.
Page proofs.
Animals and Plants
Reproduction proofs.
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