Finding Aids to Personal Papers and
Special Collections in the Smithsonian Institution Archives

Record Unit 7284
Stuart H. Perry Papers,
1930-1954, with related materials to 1963

By William Cox

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Introduction

Historical Note

Descriptive Entry

Series Descriptions

  Series 1. General Correspondence, 1930-1954.

  Series 2. Photographs and Newspaper Clippings, 1933, 1963 and undated.

INTRODUCTION

HISTORICAL NOTE

DESCRIPTIVE ENTRY

SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

SERIES 1.
General Correspondence, 1930-1954.

The correspondence is arranged alphabetically by the name of the meteorite which the letters concern, except for correspondence of Arthur R. Allen, Anton Berger, Giuseppe Bonafede, Lincoln LaPaz and Harvey Harlow Nininger which is filed at the end of the series.

Box 1 of 1

Folder	1		Aggie Creek, Alaska Meteorite, 1942, 1947
Folder	2		Amherst, Nebraska Meteorite, 1949-1950
Folder	3		Atoka, Oklahoma Meteorite, 1945-1946
Folder	4		Cavour, South Dakota Meteorite, 1948
Folder	5		Cedartown, Georgia Meteorite, 1935, 1938. Correspondents include Edward P. Henderson and Henry Windsor Nichols.
Folder	6		Dayton, Ohio Meteorite, 1951. Correspondents include Maurice Gordon Frey.
Folder	7		Deadwood Ridge, California Meteorite, 1944-1945. Correspondents include A.W. Herbenar. Includes photographs of and notes on the meteorite.
Folder	8		Dimmitt, Texas Meteorite, 1945-1949
Folder	9		Edmonton, Kentucky Meteorite, 1944. Correspondents include Edward P. Henderson.
Folder	10		Havana, Illinois Beads, 1946-1948. Concerns an analysis, by Perry, of beads of meteoric iron found in an Indian mound near Havana, Illinois, 1945. Correspondents include Robert Mann Grogan.
Folder	11		Linwood, Nebraska Meteorite, 1945. Correspondents include Edward P. Henderson, Orr Goodson, Henry Windsor Nichols, and J.W. Vrana.
Folder	12		Livingston, Tennessee Meteorite, 1941, 1945. Correspondents include Edward P. Henderson.
Folder	13		Loreto, Mexico Meteorite, 1951. Correspondents include Harvey Harlow Nininger. Includes a photograph of the meteorite.
Folder	14		Loyola Meteorite Collection, 1945
Folder	15		Mertzon, Texas Meteorite, 1946
Folder	16		Moduc, Kansas Meteorite, 1941-1943
Folder	17		Mulino, Oregon Meteorite, 1943-1944
Folder	18		Odessa, Texas Meteorite, 1940, 1944-1945. Includes a newspaper clipping concerning the meteorite.
Folder	19		Paragould, Arkansas Meteorite, 1930. Correspondents include Oliver Cummings Farrington, Chester A. Reeds, L.V. Rhine, Rupert C. Wright, and Charles Clayton Wylie.
Folder	20		Pine River, Wisconsin Meteorite, 1936, 1942, 1947. Correspondents include Edward P. Henderson and Rufus Mather Babb.
Folder	21		Pitts, Georgia Meteorite, 1939, 1941. Correspondents include Aurelius Sydney Furcron and H.F. Strickland.
Folder	22		Rushville, Indiana Meteorite, 1951. Correspondents include Richard C. Erd and Harvey Harlow Nininger.
Folder	23		Tambo Quemada, Peru Meteorite, 1950-1952. Correspondents include Harvey Harlow Nininger.
Folder	24		Miscellaneous correspondence concerning fiscal matters, 1944-1952
Folder	25		Allen, Arthur R., 1949
Folder	26		Berger, Anton, 1949-1951
Folder	27		Bonafede, Giuseppe, 1948-1951
Folder	28		LaPaz, Lincoln, 1948, 1950-1951, 1954
Folder	29		Nininger, Harvey Harlow, 1947-1954

SERIES 2.
Photographs and Newspaper Clippings, 1933, 1963 and undated.

Box 1 of 1

Folder	30		Photographs of meteorites, 1933 and undated
Folder	31		Newspaper clippings, 1963 and undated. Includes an obituary of Perry's wife, Maude Caldwell Perry, 19 October 1963.

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