Series 3: Field Trips and Expeditions, 1932-1950

This series contains materials preserved by Camp related to his field trips and expeditions to Virginia and Kentucky (1936), Oaxaca (1936-1937), Haiti (1943) and Ecuador (1944-1945). Notable in this series is the Personal Diary written via correspondence to an unknown recipient which records the impressions of Camp regarding the effect of the War on Central America as well as his intimate philosophical speculations.

A complete record of the analyses of Cinchona samples that were the point of the expedition is here. Important maps of this, at the time, uncharted area of Ecuador are found here. The manuscript of Elaine Joyal’s publication of Camp’s Field Notes has been added here.

Photographs, except for those of botanical samples which would lose their context are found in Series 8: Photographs, Subseries B. Oversize photographs from this series of Oaxahaca, Guatemala and Ecuador and analytical charts regarding Cinchona are found in Box 13. The scrapbook of photographs of Western U.S. (1932) and mounted Landscapes from Virginia and Kentucky (1936), are located in Box 5. Series 9: Lantern Slides contains 12 boxes of “Kodaslides” transparencies, some of which are dated during the period of his expeditions but have not been identified. There are also four glass positives related to his field trips and expeditions.

All negatives are found in Series 10 Subseries D, Boxes 8-10.