Noah Fields Drake papers, 1886-1972.

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Drake, N. F. (Noah Fields), b. 1864. Noah Fields Drake papers, 1886-1972.

Noah Fields Drake papers, 1886-1972.

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Correspondence, reports, minutes of meetings, notes, notebooks, printed material, photographs, maps and land plats, business and other records created, received, or collected by Drake or members of his family. Materials pertain to Drake's academic career as student at Arkansas Industrial University and Stanford University (1888-1897), as associate professor of economic geology at Stanford University (1911-1912) and as professor of geology and mining at Pei-yang University in Tientsin (1898-1900, 1905-1911) and at University of Arkansas (1912-1920); to his business interests in Tientsin Land and Development Co., Ltd. (1904-1911) and American Machinery and Export Co. (1910); to life and travel and to mining and mineral resources in China, especially as regards coal mining (1898-1910); to his professional services as consulting geologist for Arkansas, Texas, and U.S. Geological Surveys (1887-1897), for American China Development Co. (1902-1904), and for various persons, institutions, and business firms in Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Mexico, especially as regards oil and gas exploration; to his commercial and avocational interests and activities in the cultivation of nut orchards in Northwest Arkansas; and to personal and familial affairs. Correspondents include John Clinton Futrall, Albert Homer Purdue, and John Newton Tillman.

10 linear ft.

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