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Irving Perrine papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 37-5-2515

Scope and content

Student scrapbooks, 1903-1907, 1909-1912; photograph album and loose photographs of family and friends; entrance examinations for Cornell; and memorial book. Also, five Cornell song sheets.

Dates

1903-1955.

Creator

Perrine, Irving, 1884-1955. (Person)

Biographical / Historical

Geologist. Irving Perrine received a B.A. (1907), M.A. (1911), and Ph.D. (1912) from Cornell University. He was a member of the faculty of the University of Oklahoma from 1912 to 1915, became a consulting geologist and oil operator in 1915, served as a consultant to the Navy during World War II, and headed the Dept. of Geology at Oklahoma City University from 1945 until his retirement in 1951.