Reminiscences of Richard Blackburn Black : oral history, 1962.

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Reminiscences of Richard Blackburn Black : oral history, 1962.

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Education in North Dakota and on New York University's floating university, 1926-27; mining, rescue, and recovery work; Admiral Richard Byrd and second Antarctic expeditition, 1933-34; Hawaii, 1936; Antarctic Service Expedition, 1939; Hawaii and Pearl Harbor, 1941; Antarctic Support Forces, 1954-56; on Admiral Byrd's staff, 1956-57; Office of Naval Research.

Transcript: 89 leaves.

Columbia University in the City of New York, Columbia University Libraries

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