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Edward Sheldon Barr Papers

Owning Institution: UC San Diego, Special Collections and Archives

About this Collection

Photographs from the collection of Edward Sheldon Barr, who accompanied the 1950 MidPac Expedition as a high school student and the 1952 Capricorn Expedition as an undergraduate. The photographs include images of Bikini Atoll, Namdrik Atoll, work at sea, and candid shots of expedition personnel. View this collection on the contributor's website.

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139 items found in this collection

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100 foot long splice in kinked main coring cable (now 30,000 feet)
Adjusting wave recording meter on Cherrete Island. Stan Ruttenberg and Jeff Holter
A-frame at sunset
After sunset, the "after glow" from the stern of the Spencer F. …
Arthur Maxwell. Capricorn Expedition, 1952
Arthur Maxwell, H. William Menard, M.N. Bramlette observe the fathometer recording at …
Arthur Maxwell, right, with temperature probe. Midpac Expedition, 1950
Arthur Maxwell with heat probe on deck of Horizon
Atomic wash down system, Horizon. Winter Horton, Darsey in foreground
The Baksh family of Suva, Fiji, and Sister Norton from U.S.A. Capricorn …
Bathythermograph cast from R/V Horizon. Midpac Expedition, 1950
Beach on Bikini Island. Capricorn Expedition, 1952
Beer and movie at the Back and Atom Club, Bikini Island, during …
Before the movie showing - after dinner, during an early evening poker …
Bikini Island's "Little Petunia" encampment. Left to right: Edward Barr, Bob Dill, …
Camp on Enimon Isle
Chieerete Camp
Chieerete Camp
Cocktail Party, Suva, Fiji on R/V SPENCER F. BAIRD
Cordell in crew quarters, R/V Horizon, MidPac Expedition
Coring tube on deck
Crew member, Bernard Darsey, in Enniman camp, "Abstain I," on Bikini Atoll …
Crew members (left to right): Edward (Edward Sheldon) Barr, Bernard Darsey and …
Crewman Buck Miller, Bikini Island
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