Robert Jackson Belknap papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: 3632
Scope and content
Papers, photographs, and motion picture films concerning China, Africa, and Southeast Asia, and the exploration and development of energy sources in these areas. Includes a diary, 1943-1945; daybooks concerning the construction of fuel facilities in China; negatives of Burma and China; five reels of 8mm movie film of areas of China, 1942-1944; scrapbooks of the Standard-Vacuum Oil Company (Stanvac) in Ethiopia and Kenya; scrapbook of General Stilwell's retreat through Burma.
Dates
- 1942-1966.
Creator
- Belknap, Robert Jackson, 1913-1976. (Person)
Biographical / Historical
Petroleum geologist. Cornell University Class of 1934.
Extent
1.3 cubic feet. (1.3 cubic feet.)
Language of Materials
English
Physical Medium
Material base and configuration--Includes five reels of 8mm movie film.
- Africa -- Pictorial works
- Burma -- Pictorial works
- China -- Pictorial works
- Daybooks.
- Diaries
- Geologists.
- Indonesia -- Pictorial works
- Kingsha Kiang River (China) -- Pictorial works
- Motion pictures (visual works).
- Negatives.
- Petroleum -- Geology.
- Photographs
- Scrapbooks
- Southeast Asia -- Pictorial works
- Standard-Vacuum Oil Co
- Stilwell, Joseph Warren, 1883-1946.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Burma.
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
Contact:
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
Ithaca NY 14853
607-255-3530
607-255-9524 (Fax)