Roy W. Simonson papers
Collection
0546-GWP
Roy W. Simonson (September 7, 1908 - November 2, 2008) was a scientist and professor who studied soil across the United States and on islands in the Western Pacific. He was educated at the North Dakota Agricultural College, where he received his Bachelor of Science in 1934, and at the University of Wisconsin, where he received his doctorate in 1938. He taught at Iowa State College from 1938 to 1943, when he took a new position of Soil Correlator for the United States Department of Agriculture Division of Soil Survey. Following World War II, Dr. Simonson worked for the Military Geology Unit to map soils on islands in the Western Pacific. Dr. Simonson spent the rest of his career at the Division of Soil Survey until his retirement in 1973. He occassionally taught a course on soil genesis as a visiting professor at the University of Maryland until relocating to Oberlin, Ohio, in 1993, where he resided until his death in 2008. This collection consists of Kodachrome photographic slides of Dr. Simonson's 1947-1948 trip to Japan, Okinawa, Palau, Guam, and Hawaii, Kodachrome photographic slides of Dr. Simonson's 1951 trip to London, England, and a USB drive containing scanned images of the slides. In addition, this collection contains travel documents from 1945 to 1949, relating to Simonson's trip to Japan.
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450 Photographic Slides : Color photographic slides
1 Hard Drives (Hard drive)
1 Folders
English
Roy W. Simonson was a scientist and professor who studied soil across the United States and in islands in the Western Pacific. The collection consists of Kodachrome photographic slides of Simonson's 1947-1948 trip to Japan, Okinawa, Palaus, and Guam, a USB drive containing scanned images of the slides, and travel documents from 1945 to 1949 relating to Simonson's trip to Japan.
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This collection was donated to the University of Maryland Libraries by Bruce M. Simonson, Dr. Simonson's son, on June 7, 2019 and on March 16, 2023.
Digital copies of the photographic slides are available at http://digital.lib.umd.edu/ in the University of Maryland's Digital Collections.
This collection is processed. Slides remain in their original order in the slides boxes in which they were received and have been placed together in an archival oversize box. An inventory was provided by the donor upon donation. Paper travel documents were accrued on March 16, 2023 and in the accessioning process they have been collected in a folder and placed in an archival Hollinger box. Please note original descriptions may include outdated and/or harmful descriptive language. Original descriptions have been retained to preserve the original context of how the creator described their items and is not an endorsement of the language it contains.
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