Accession No.: 2008-23
PROCESSING RECORD
SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF OCEANOGRAPHY ARCHIVES
Jones, Alan Churchill 1927-
Alan Churchill Jones Slides, 1959, 1969
Physical Description: 627 35mm color slides
Description: The accession consists of 627 color 35mm slides taken by
Alan Jones on two expedition of the Scripps Institution of
Oceanography: Vermilion Sea Expedition, April 13-May 29, 1959 to
Mexico on R/V Spencer F. Baird and R/V Horizon and SCAN
Expedition, 1969-1970 to the South Pacific on R/V Argo. The slides
include images of scientists, work at sea, ports of call. Scan Expedition
slides include images of Hawaii, Japan, Tahiti, Pitcairn Island, Bora
Bora and Callao, Peru. The Pitcairn Island slides include images of the
medical evacuation of Russell Raitt (who broke his leg while jumping
into the Pitcairn long boat while leaving the island). The accession
includes images of oceanographers and crew including Dale Newhouse,
Russell Raitt, Uta Ritter, and George Shor.
Vermilion Sea Expedition (1959) ; Scientific expeditions ; California, Gulf of (Mexico); Shor, George G ; Newhouse, Dale ;
Raitt, Russell W