Finding aid created by: Matthew Isom
Date: 2014
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| 2016 | Additional correspondence added to collection (AES) |
Summary |
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| Creator: | Hopkins, Thomas Cramer. |
| Title: | Thomas Cramer Hopkins Papers |
| Dates: | 1887-1931 |
| Size: | 9 boxes, 1 wrapped package (6 linear feet) |
| Abstract: | The Thomas Cramer Hopkins Papers contain material from his academic and professional careers, including the years he was a professor of geology at Syracuse University. |
| Language: | English |
| Repository: |
University Archives, Special Collections Research Center Syracuse University Libraries 222 Waverly Ave., Suite 600 Syracuse, NY 13244-2010 |
Thomas Cramer Hopkins was born on May 4, 1861 in Warrior's Mark, Pennsylvania. He attended Dickinson Seminary in Williamsport, Pennsylvania and later entered DePauw University, combining his studies with his passion for the outdoors to focus on geology. Hopkins received his Bachelor of Science in 1887 and a master's degree in 1890 from DePauw. He continued on to Leland Stanford University to earn his Master of Arts in 1892 and his doctorate from the University of Chicago in 1900. In 1923, Colgate University awarded Hopkins an honorary degree of Doctor of Science.
Hopkins started his professional career working as an assistant geologist for the Arkansas and Indiana Geological Surveys, during which he wrote numerous scientific articles, many focused on the geological features of the areas he worked. He was an instructor of chemistry at DePauw University in 1888 and 1889 and a professor of geology in Pennsylvania State College from 1896 to 1898. Hopkins came to Syracuse University in 1900 as a professor and head of the Geology Department, a role he held until his retirement in 1931.
Even with his responsibilities to Syracuse University, Hopkins continued to publish scientific and scholarly work, including a secondary school textbook, Elements of Physical Geography (1908) and its companion text, A Laboratory Manual on Physical Geography (1909). Another geological work, Geology of the Syracuse Quadrangle (1914), has become a classic work for those who wish to study the Central New York area.
Hopkins resigned his position in 1931 due to failing health, from which he never fully recovered, and died on April 3, 1935.
The Thomas Cramer Hopkins Papers contain materials from 1887 to 1931 covering his academic career. The collection is divided into five series.
The Correspondence series is composed mostly of professional letters concerning his research to and from various individuals, geological associations, and universities.
The Coursework series is comprised of Hopkins' personal notebooks from the classes that he attended at the University of Chicago. There are also some material from his time as a professor at Syracuse University.
The Newspaper Articles series is a variety of newspaper clippings kept by Hopkins, the majority having to deal with geological topics. A number of articles were either written by or about Hopkins, and others are just of personal interest.
The Research series spans Hopkins' professional career in the geological field. There is material pertaining to the Syracuse, New York area, including a geological map and agricultural questionnaires of the outlying areas of the city. His geological survey notebooks detail his work with in-depth descriptions of the land, mines and companies of various areas.
The Writings series contains his drafts of numerous papers and notes on the geological aspects of different countries. There are also copies of geological publications by Hopkins, including a popular secondary school textbook, Elements of Physical Geography (1908).
Access Restrictions:
Please note that the collection is housed off-site, and advance notice is required to allow time to have the materials brought to the Reading Room on campus.
Use Restrictions:
Written permission must be obtained from University Archives,
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries and all relevant rights holders
before publishing quotations, excerpts or images from any materials in this
collection.
The Archives holds a clipping file and portrait file on Thomas Cramer Hopkins. The Archives' Lantern Slide Collection also has slides with geological subjects that may have been created by Hopkins and used in some of his lectures.
Names
Hopkins, Thomas Cramer.
Syracuse University -- History.
Syracuse University.
Subjects
Geology.
College teachers.
Higher education.
Types of Material
Notebooks.
Preferred Citation
Preferred citation for this material is as follows:
Thomas Cramer Hopkins Papers,
University Archives,
Special Collections Research Center
Syracuse University Libraries
Acquisition Information
Records show that some of the Hopkins Papers were given to the University before the Archives were created. Additional material was transferred to the Archives from the Syracuse University Library in 1978.
Processing Information
Materials were rehoused in acid-free folders and boxes.
Correspondence
Coursework
Newspaper Articles
Research
Writings
| Correspondence | |||||||||||
| Box 1 | 1887-1894 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | 1895 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | 1896 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | 1897 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | January 1898 - June 1898 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | July 1898 - December 1898 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | 1899 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | 1900 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | January 1901 - September 1901 | ||||||||||
| Box 1 | October 1901 - December 1901 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | January 1902 - March 1902 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | April 1902 - December 1902 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | 1903 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | 1904 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | 1905 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | 1906 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | 1907 | ||||||||||
| Box 2 | 1908 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | 1909 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | 1910 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | 1911-1912 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | 1913 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | 1914-1924,1930 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | undated | ||||||||||
| Coursework | |||||||||||
| Box 3 | Exercises, Outline for Field Work, Syracuse University undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Exercises, Study of Weather Maps, Syracuse University 1915 | ||||||||||
| Lecture Notebooks, University of Chicago | |||||||||||
| Box 4 | Pre-Cambrian Geology/Methods and Principles January 1894 - February 1894 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Economic Geology January 1894 - March 1894 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Biotic Geology/Analyses: Chicago Limestones January 1894 - May 1894 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Geographic Geology: Erosion, Sedimentation, Glaciers July 1894 - August 1894 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Metamorphism/Petrography, #1 August 1894 - December 1894 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Metamorphism/Petrography, #2 August 1894 - December 1894 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Methods and Principles August 1894 - December 1894 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Physiography October 1894 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Paleontology October 1894 - December 1894 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Paleontology Laboratory October 1894 - December 1894 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Continental Evolution January 1895 - March 1895 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Paleontology January 1895 - March 1895 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Petrography January 1895 - March 1895 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Multiple Class Notes 1895 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Physiography January 1898 - March 1898 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Various Lectures 1892-1898 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Paleontology/Principles and Methods January 1899 - March 1899 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | General Geology January 1900 - March 1900 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Methods and Principles January 1900 - March 1900 | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Biotic Geology undated | ||||||||||
| Box 4 | Chemistry Reactions undated | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Photograph, Falls at Fiddler's Green 1900 | ||||||||||
| Box 3 | Unexpected Answers from Examination Papers, Syracuse University undated | ||||||||||
| Newspaper Articles | |||||||||||
| Box 5 | Central New York Area Tours 1902 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Diamonds 1906-1926 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Earthquakes 1907-1914 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Glacial Age 1902 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Glacial Lakes 1910-1915 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Miscellaneous 1893-1912 | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Personal 1890-1913 | ||||||||||
| Research | |||||||||||
| Box 5 | Agricultural Questionnaires, Cardiff undated | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Agricultural Questionnaires, Farms of the Town of Onondaga undated | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Agricultural Questionnaires, Farms of the Towns of Tully and LaFayette undated (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 5 | Geological Graphs 1926 | ||||||||||
| Geological Survey Notebooks | |||||||||||
| Box 6 | Barometer Reads/Geological Data in Chicago Area June 1891 - January 1901 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Geological Survey of Indiana April 1895 - July 1895 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Geological Survey of Indiana June 1895 - July 1895 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Geological Survey of Indiana July 1895 - August 1895 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Geological Survey of Indiana August 1895 - October 1895 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Sandstone/Mine quarries and land in Indiana May 1895 - July 1896 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Geological Survey of various quarries July 1896 - August 1896 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Geological Survey of parts of Pennsylvania and Ohio August 1896 - September 1896 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Land in or near Pennsylvania September 1896 - October 1896 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Strata around various cities and diagrams October 1896 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Clay and brick companies/Analyses of clay and shale July 1897 - August 1897 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Various brick and pottery companies July 1897 - August 1897 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Strata of various places August 1897 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Affelder/More companies undated | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Companies, land and layers of earth September 1897 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Various companies, mines and layers of earth June 1898 - July 1898 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Various companies and layers of earth July 1898 - September 1898 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Various pottery and brick companies August 1898 - September 1898 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Geological Survey of Arkansas September 1898 - October 1898 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Companies, quarries and land September 1898 - August 1899 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Various mines and other feature of the land August 1899 - October 1899 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Land and strata of earth around Lake Superior June 1900 - July 1900 | ||||||||||
| Box 6 | Weather and land on a lake July 1900 - August 1900 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Areas, quarries, companies and roads of Indiana June 1901 - August 1901 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Geological Survey of Indiana August 1901 - September 1901 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Geological Survey of New York May 1901 - September 1906 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Syracuse/Geological data on Onondaga County April 1901 - January 1913 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Canada 1902, Geological Survey of mines in Canada June 1902 - September 1902 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Europe 1903 April 1903 - August 1903 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | California #1, Geological data about companies and land in California May 1904 - July 1904 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | California #2, Survey of companies and land in California June 1904 - July 1904 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | California #3, Geological Survey of brick, cement and pottery companies in California August 1904 - September 1904 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | California #4, Geological Survey of California August 1904 - September 1917 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Geological Survey in and around Onondaga County May 1905 - November 1906 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Wyoming-Ohio Oil Company/Geological Survey of Wyoming July 1917 - September 1917 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Geological Survey of Kentucky and surrounding areas July 1918 - September 1918 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Topographical Maps/Maps of New York State May 1927 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Syracuse Andean Expedition - Specimen Register, Geological Material January 1931 - March 1931 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Earl T. Apfel Syracuse Andean Expedition January 1931 - April 1931 | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Metallurgy undated | ||||||||||
| Box 7 | Chicago Lime and Building Stone undated | ||||||||||
| Package 10 | Syracuse Quadrangle Geological Map 1914 | ||||||||||
| Writings | |||||||||||
| Box 8 | Hopkins, Thomas Cramer - Description of Views undated | ||||||||||
| Hopkins, Thomas Cramer - Drafts | |||||||||||
| Box 8 | "Cuban Limestones" undated | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | "Granites in Norway" undated | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | "Granite in Sweden" undated | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | "Greek Marbles" undated | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | "Marble of Algeria" undated | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | "Marbles of Portugal" undated | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | "Marbles of Spain" undated | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | "Millstones in Greece" undated | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | "Note on Magnesite in Greece" undated | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | "Notes on the Granite Industry in Finland" undated | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | "Oolitic Limestone in the Bahama Islands" undated | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | "Stone in Bulgaria" undated | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | "The Stone Industry in Belgium" undated | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | "The Stone Industry in the British Isles," Draft A undated (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | "The Stone Industry in the British Isles," Draft B undated (2 folders) | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | "The Stone Industry in France" undated | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | "The Stone Industry in Italy," Draft A undated | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | "The Stone Industry in Italy," Draft B undated | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Hopkins, Thomas Cramer - Fragments undated | ||||||||||
| Hopkins, Thomas Cramer - Published | |||||||||||
| Box 9 | The Bedford Oolitic Limestone of Indiana 1896 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Clays and Clay Industries of Pennsylvania 1898 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Elements of Physical Geography, First Edition 1917 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Elements of Physical Geography, Second Edition 1919 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Elements of Physical Geography, Second Edition 1919 | ||||||||||
| Box 9 | Laboratory Manual in Physical Geography 1909 | ||||||||||
| Box 8 | Richardson, Charles H. - "Songs of A Scientist" 1888 - 1927 | ||||||||||