Preliminary Inventory of the Wendell Minckley Papers 1920-2000 1950-1990

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Preliminary Inventory of the Wendell Minckley Papers 1920-2000 1950-1990

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This collection houses notes, correspondence, manuscripts, reports, contracts, photographs, publications, and other materials documenting Wendell Minckley's work with Arizona fishes and water studies. This collection has not been processed in full and can be viewed only by appointment. Contact Archives and Special Collections for more information.

22 Boxes; (20.92 Linear Feet)

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Arizona State University Libraries University Archives

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Minckley, W. L.

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Wendell Lee Minckley was born in Ottawa, Kansas on November 13, 1935. He contracted polio in 1945 and spent time in an iron lung before defying medical predictions by relearning how to walk. Shortly after graduating from high school in 1953, Minckley spilled a gallon of naphthalene on himself and was set ablaze while passing by a water heater with an open pilot light on his way to into his home to wash off the chemical. His mother wrapped him in a blanket and rushed him to the hospi...