Scope and Contents
Correspondence, field reports, memoranda, and government documents chiefly relating to Bateman's service on various government commissions, among them the Metals and Minerals Division of the Foreign Economic Administration (1942-1946), the U.S. Missions to Mexico (1942), the President's Materials Policy Commission (1951-1953). The few items from his teaching career at Yale include gradebooks for the years 1907-1955 and reports on the Sheffield Scientific School.
Dates
- 1907-1968
Creator
Conditions Governing Access
The materials are open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright status for collection materials is unknown. Transmission or reproduction of materials protected by U.S. Copyright Law (Title 17, U.S.C.) beyond that allowed by fair use requires the written permission of the copyright owners. Works not in the public domain cannot be commercially exploited without permission of the copyright owners. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of the Yale Geology Department, 1960; Mrs. H. C. Carlisle, 1968; and Mrs. A. Bateman, 1972.
Arrangement
Arranged in two series: I. Correspondence. II. Topical files.
Extent
8 Linear Feet (8 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Catalog Record
A record for this collection is available in Orbis, the Yale University Library catalog
Persistent URL
Abstract
Correspondence, field reports, memoranda, and government documents chiefly relating to Bateman's service on various government commissions, among them the Metals and Minerals Division of the Foreign Economic Administration (1942-1946), the U.S. Missions to Mexico (1942), the President's Materials Policy Commission (1951-1953). The few items from his teaching career at Yale include gradebooks for the years 1907-1955 and reports on the Sheffield Scientific School.
Biographical / Historical
Alan M. Bateman: geologist; field geologist for Harvard University, 1913-1915; taught geology at Harvard, 1916-1925; taught at Yale University, 1925-1941, and chairman of the Geology Department; consultant to industry and government, 1941-1942; director of Metals and Minerals, Foreign Economic Administration, 1942-1946; consultant, 1946-; editor of several journals.
- Bateman, Alan M. (Alan Mara), 1889-1971
- Educators
- Geologists
- Mines and mineral resources
- New Haven (Conn.)
- Science
- United States. Foreign Economic Administration
- United States. President's Materials Policy Commission
- World War, 1939-1945
- Yale University -- Faculty
- Yale University. Department of Geology and Geophysics
- Yale University. Sheffield Scientific School
- Title
- Guide to the Alan Mara Bateman Papers
- Status
- Under Revision
- Author
- compiled by William E. Brown, Jr.
- Date
- June 1986
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written in English.
Part of the Manuscripts and Archives Repository
Yale University Library
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Location
Sterling Memorial Library
Room 147
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New Haven, CT 06511