Camp, Charles Lewis, 1893-1975

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Charles Camp was born in Jamestown, N.D. on Mar. 12, 1893. He attended the University of California, Berkeley and Columbia University and joined the U.C. Berkeley faculty as a zoologist in 1922. He transferred to the Paleontology Department in 1930, and he directed the museum of Paleontology from 1930 until 1949. Camp was also a dedicated historian of the American West. Camp died on Aug. 14, 1975.

From the description of Charles Lewis Camp papers, circa 1908-1975 (bulk 1920-1975). (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 215456830

From the description of Charles Lewis Camp papers : additions, 1930-1950. (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 215370913

Camp was professor emeritus of paleontology at University of University of California, Berkeley, at the time of his death in 1975.

From the description of Charles L. Camp collection of stereographs [picture]. ca. 1867-ca. 1895? (University of California, Berkeley). WorldCat record id: 43699948

Biography

Charles Lewis Camp was born in 1893 in Jamestown, North Dakota. Camp attended the University of California, Berkeley and received his M.A. degree from Columbia University. He served in World War I before returning to Columbia to teach and earn his Ph.D. He then went back to Berkeley and became a Research Associate at the Museum of Paleontology at U.C. Berkeley, where he remained for the rest of his career. Known for his collecting of fossils in Nevada and elsewhere, he became a professor of Paleontology and head of the Department as well as director of the Museum.

Paleontological writings of his include A Study of the Phytosaurs With Description of New Material from Western North America (1930), A New Type of Small Bipedal Dinosaur From the Navajo Sandstone of Arizona (1936), and Phylogeny and Functions of the Digital Ligaments of the Horse (1942). He was a member of the following organizations: California Academy of Sciences, New York Academy of Sciences, Geological Society of America, Paleontological Society, American Society of Ichthyologists and Herpetologists, The Society of Vertebrate Paleontology, Cooper Ornithological Club, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the California Historical Society, and the Pacific Coast Branch of the American Historical Society.

Camp's interest in history led to his association with the California Historical Society beginning in 1922. He contributed to the California Historical Society Quarterly and edited books, such as Kit Carson in California and The Chronicles of George C. Yount . From 1923 to 1935 he was a Director of the Society and a member of its Publications Committee. In this period of time he wrote a check-list of Western History publications and book-reviews for the Quarterly . Camp also edited and expanded Henry R. Wagner's The Plains and the Rockies : a Contribution to the Bibliography of Original Narratives of Travel and Adventure, 1800-1865, first published in 1920.

Camp wrote a book of poetry called Earth Song (1952), which looked at his experiences as both a historian and a paleontologist. He died in 1975.

( Source : Farquhar, Francis P. Charles L. Camp : Biographer of the West . [California? : s.n., 1963.])

From the guide to the Charles L. Camp Collection of Stereographs, (The Bancroft Library. University of California, Berkeley.)

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referencedIn Armchair Strategists Society. Armchair Strategists Society records, [ca.1941-1946]. UC Berkeley Libraries
creatorOf Camp, Charles Lewis, 1893-1975. Bibliography of the works of Lorenzo Gordin Yates, [195-?]. UC Berkeley Libraries
creatorOf Camp, Charles Lewis, 1893-1975. Presidio of San Francisco, Cal. : sketch showing the reservations of Nov. 6th, 1850 and Dec. 31st, 1851. California Digital Library
creatorOf Camp, Charles Lewis, 1893-1975. [Sketch maps showing mines and camps in the Mother Lode, Calif.]. UC Berkeley Libraries
creatorOf Camp, Charles Lewis, 1893-1975. Copy of the conjectural plat enclosed in the letter from the Chief Engineer to the Sec. of War dated the 28th Oct. 1851. : [San Francisco and Marin County, Calif.]. California Digital Library
creatorOf Camp, Charles Lewis, 1893-1975. Charles L. Camp collection of stereographs [picture]. UC Berkeley Libraries
creatorOf Camp, Charles Lewis, 1893-1975. Charles Lewis Camp family portraits, photographs relating to his paleontological studies in Africa, and illustrations relating to California history [graphic] UC Berkeley Libraries
referencedIn Streeter, Thomas W. (Thomas Winthrop), 1883-1965. Papers, 1920-1965. American Antiquarian Society
referencedIn Howell, Warren Richardson, 1912-. Remarks made at services for Dr. Charles L. Camp : ms., 1975 Sept. 7. UC Berkeley Libraries
creatorOf Camp, Charles Lewis, 1893-1975. [Map of parts of the northern and western shoreline of San Francisco, California]. UC Berkeley Libraries
creatorOf Charles L. Camp Collection of Stereographs Bancroft Library
creatorOf Camp, Charles Lewis, 1893-1975. Charles Lewis Camp papers, circa 1908-1975 (bulk 1920-1975). UC Berkeley Libraries
referencedIn William B. Provine collection of evolutionary biology reprints, 20th century. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.
creatorOf Bradford, Sandy. Sandy Bradford letters to his parents and his uncle : ALS, 1849. UC Berkeley Libraries
creatorOf Camp, Charles Lewis, 1893-1975. Photographs from the Charles Lewis Camp papers [graphic]. UC Berkeley Libraries
creatorOf Camp, Charles Lewis, 1893-1975. Charles Lewis Camp papers : additions, 1930-1950. UC Berkeley Libraries
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Death 1975-08-14

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