Tillie Genter Papers, 1901-1955 (SMC 30)

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Extent: 0.8 Linear feet (2 archives boxes, 1 map case folder)

Digital Content

Selected photographs from this collection have been digitized and can be viewed through links in the container list, or by searching on the term "Tillie Genter Papers" on the UC San Diego Digital Collections website.

Tillie Genter's papers and photograph collection, assembled over the course of her career from 1919-1948 as secretary to three consecutive directors at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Tillie Genter (1893-1955) was secretary to three consecutive directors at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography from 1919 until her retirement in 1948: William Emerson Ritter, Thomas Wayland Vaughan, and Harald Ulrik Sverdrup. Throughout her career she collected photographs documenting the campus, history, and personnel of SIO.

The collection consists of Tillie Genter's papers and photographs, gathered over the course of her career from 1919-1944 as secretary to three consecutive directors at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO). The 250 photographic prints and approximately 170 negatives document the early years of the Marine Biological Association of San Diego, and its evolution into SIO at its current location in La Jolla, California. The collection includes images of buildings, the campus site, research vessels, faculty and staff by local photographers Harry Erickson and Herbert Fitch, although the creators of most of the photographs are unidentified. The papers include miscellaneous material relating to Genter's career and the history of SIO, including early construction documents for Irving J. Gill buildings and the pier.

Arranged in two series: 1) PHOTOGRAPHS & NEGATIVES, and 2) PAPERS.

SIO Biographical Files, SAC 5. Special Collections & Archives, UC San Diego.

Container List

PHOTOGRAPHS & NEGATIVES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) PHOTOGRAPHS & NEGATIVES. Arranged in five topical subseries: A) SIO Campus & Buildings, B) Ships, C) People, D) Places, and E) Animals.

SIO Campus & Buildings

Oversize MC-025-15
Aerial photograph of the SIO campus, and southwest-facing photograph of campus with La Jolla Cove in the background, ca. 1935

Laboratory and museum interiors, ca. 1905 - 1931

Box 1 Folder 4
Little Green Laboratory at La Jolla Cove, 1905

Selected photographs in this folder have been digitized.

Box 1 Folder 5
George H. Scripps Memorial Marine Laboratory, 1910
Box 1 Folder 6
Marine Sediments Laboratory, 1933 October

All photographs in this folder have been digitized.

Box 1 Folder 7
Pier Laboratory, undated
Box 1 Folder 8
Miscellaneous laboratories, 1931
Box 1 Folder 9
Scientific instruments, ca. 1919 - 1935

Selected photographs in this folder have been digitized.

Box 1 Folder 10
Museum, 1933 October

Selected photographs in this folder have been digitized.

Box 1 Folder 11
Residences, 1925 - 1928

Cottages and Director's Residence.

Box 1 Folder 12
Pier, ca. 1927 - 1932

One photograph in this folder has been digitized.

Pier at sunset, 1931

Ships

Box 1 Folder 13
R/V Alexander Agassiz , 1907

Selected photographs in this folder have been digitized.

Box 1 Folder 14
R/V Elsie , 1901

Selected photographs in this folder have been digitized.

Box 1 Folder 15
R/V E.W. Scripps , 1940

Selected photographs in this folder have been digitized.

Box 1 Folder 16
R/V Scripps , 1930 - 1935

Selected photographs in this folder have been digitized.

Box 1 Folder 17
U.S. Fisheries Steamer Albatross , 1904

Selected photographs in this folder have been digitized.

Box 1 Folder 18
Miscellaneous ships, ca. 1910 - 1935

Selected photographs in this folder have been digitized.

Taking samples, 1935 November

People

Individuals

Box 1 Folder 19
Denis Llewellyn Fox, 1936

Selected photographs in this folder have been digitized.

Portrait, 1936
Box 1 Folder 20-21
Tillie Genter, ca. 1910 - 1934

Includes professional portraits, candid shots and Genter at work.

Box 1 Folder 22
Bjorn Helland-Hansen, 1935
Box 1 Folder 23
Blodwen Lloyd, 1935

Selected photographs in this folder have been digitized.

Box 1 Folder 24
George Francis McEwen, ca. 1920 - 1935

Selected photographs in this folder have been digitized.

Box 2 Folder 1
Roger Revelle, undated
Box 2 Folder 2
Harald Ulrik Sverdrup, undated

Selected photographs in this folder have been digitized.

Portrait, undated

Groups

Box 2 Folder 4
Marine Biological Association of San Diego, 1904 June 5

One photograph in this folder has been digitized.

Staff of the Marine Biological Association of San Diego, Hotel del Coronado boathouse summer laboratory, 1904 June 5
Box 2 Folder 5
Scripps Institution of Oceanography staff, 1923

Subjects identified as: W. E. Allen, Eric Moberg, W. Scrandall, R. R. Huestis, Jack Ross, F. B. Sumner, George McEwen, Tillie Genter, M. G. Shain, N. W. Cummings, Chas Michael, Myrtle E. Johnson, Maurine Leslie, Percy Barnhart and William E. Ritter.

Box 2 Folder 6
Scripps Institution of Oceanography staff, 1929

Hand-colored black and white photo.

Box 2 Folder 7
Scripps faculty portrait, 1935 May 15

All photographs in this folder have been digitized.

Subjects identified as: Norris Rakestraw, Richard Fleming, Roger Revelle and Eric Gustaf.

Box 2 Folder 8
Grounds staff, 1936

Selected photographs in this folder have been digitized.

Subjects identified as: James Ross, C. Johnson, Claude Palmer, Oliver Maler, Williams Simmons, R. Wilson and T. Wayland Vaughan.

Grounds staff
Box 2 Folder 9
Scripps Institution of Oceanography staff, 1936 August 30

All photographs in this folder have been digitized.

Subjects identified as: Denis Llewellyn Fox, W. E. Allen, George McEwen, James Ross, Richard Fleming, Roger Revelle, Martin Wiggo Johnson, Eric Moberg, Francis Sumner, Claude ZoBell, Percy Barnhart, Easter Cupp, Tillie Genter, T. Wayland Vaughan, Ruth Ragan, Ruth McKitrick and Stanley Chambers.

Box 2 Folder 10
Scripps Institution of Oceanography staff, 1939

All photographs in this folder have been digitized.

Box 2 Folder 11
U.S. Air Force meteorology training class, 1944

Selected photographs in this folder have been digitized.

U.S. Air Force meteorology training class, 1944
Box 2 Folder 12
Miscellaneous people, ca. 1904 - 1920

Selected photographs from this folder have been digitized.

Denis Llewellyn Fox playing with monkeys near Hotel Del Coronado, 1904

Places

Box 2 Folder 13
Places, ca. 1900 - 1927

Includes Del Mar Natatorium and miscellaneous ocean scenes; also one print of the interior of the Federal Fisheries Laboratory in Beaufort, North Carolina, ca. 1902-1914.

Oversize MC-025-15
Plat of the Easterly Portion of the La Jolla Park, 1906 October 22

Board of Public Works, City Engineer's Office, San Diego.

Animals

Box 2 Folder 14
Animals, ca. 1915-1940

Selected photographs in this folder have been digitized.

Giant seabass, ca. 1915Striped guitarfish, 1937 August

PAPERS

Box 2 Folder 15
Specifications of the materials and workmanship required and to be furnished for the erection of the Biological Station to be constructed for The University of California, ca. 1909

Irving J. Gill, architect.

Box 2 Folder 16
Proposed Pier for Biological Station, 1912 December 23

Letter detailing construction bid. Gough & Trounce, civil and construction engineers.

Box 2 Folder 17
Dr. Dooley Visits the Biological Station - Short story, 1917

Comic short story about a fictional visit to the Biological Station based on the Mr. Dooley articles of Finley Peter Dunne.

Box 2 Folder 18
Clerical notes, 1910 - 1942
Box 2 Folder 20
Greeting card celebrating Tillie Genter's 25th anniversary at Scripps, 1944 October 1

Signed by SIO staff.

Oversize MC-025-15
Celebration of retirement oversize card, 1948 May
Box 2 Folder 21
Program, Tillie Genter Memorial Service, 1955 August 23