Photographs of Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory, Yale University, 1958-1959 (inclusive).

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Photographs of Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory, Yale University, 1958-1959 (inclusive).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702153076

The collection consists of photographs documenting the construction of Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory at Yale, which forms the west wing of the Peabody Museum of Natural History.

.25 linear ft.

Yale University Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 8019817

Yale University Library

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Peabody Museum of Natural History.

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Yale University.

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Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory.

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The Bingham Oceanographic Laboratory was formed in 1930 with the gift of the 3,000 item Bingham Oceanographic Collection by Henry Payne Bingham, Yale 1910. This rare and valuable group of oceanographic specimens, collected personally by Bingham, had been at Yale on loan since 1927. With the oceanographic collection came Albert Eide Parr, a young Norwegian who had been working at the New York Aquarium. Parr was Assistant Curator from 1927-1930, Curator of the collection from 1930-194...