Ford Ashman Carpenter Collection
Scope and Contents of the Collection
The collection includes Carpenter’s publications on weather and air travel, with emphasis on the climate in California. Includes pamphlets, reprints, clippings and mimeographed copies of articles from various publications. Practical Applications of Weather Science includes materials collected, bound, and titled by Carpenter.
Dates
- Creation: 1888-1944
Creator
Language of Material
Languages represented in the collection: English.
Access
Collection open for research.
Publication Rights
All requests for permission to reproduce or to publish must be submitted in writing to Special Collections.
Biography / Administrative History
Dr. Ford Ashman Carpenter was manager of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce Department of Meteorology and Aeronautics for 22 years. A scientist and aviation pioneer, for many years Dr. Carpenter was in charge of the U.S. Weather Bureau in Los Angeles and served as meteorological adviser to several large airlines and steamship companies, realty developments, and the Hollywood Bowl. He advised the Congressional Naval Affairs Committee in 1930; was a fellow of the American Meteorological Society, the Royal Meteorological Society of London, the Royal Geographical Society, and the American Seismological Society; served as president of the Southern California Academy of Sciences from 1929 to 1931; held membership in the Federation of Aeronautic International, the Eighth International Geographic Congress at Washington, D.C. in 1904, the Royal Geographic Society of London, and of the San Diego Society of Natural History; and lectured at many colleges during career. Dr. Carpenter died on November 10, 1947 at the age of 79.
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Extent
0.2 Linear Feet (1 half-size document box)
Abstract
The collection includes Carpenter’s publications on weather and air travel, with emphasis on the climate in California.
Physical Location
Please consult repository.
Accruals
No additions to the collection are anticipated.
Processing Information
Arranged and processed by Special Collections staff.
Subject
Cultural context
Genre / Form
Geographic
Topical
- Title
- Ford Ashman Carpenter Collection
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Russell Michalak
- Date
- 2008
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the 01 - Special Collections & Archives, The Claremont Colleges Library Repository
800 North Dartmouth Ave
Claremont CA 91711 United States
Email: specialcollections@claremont.edu