Easter Ellen Cupp Papers, 1899-1980 (SMC 97)

OFF-SITE STORAGE: COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE. ALLOW ONE WEEK FOR RETRIEVAL OF MATERIALS.

Extent: 9.8 Linear feet (8 archives boxes, 1 card file box, 5 oversize boxes)

Digital Content

Selected photographs from this collection have been digitized and can be viewed through links in the container list.

The collection consists of papers and photographs documenting the life and career of marine biologist Easter Ellen Cupp, including her graduate studies and research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Marine biologist Easter Ellen Cupp (1904-1999) was born in Neola, Iowa. Her family moved to Whittier, California in 1910. Cupp attended Whittier College (A.B. 1926) and earned a master's degree in zoology from the University of California, Berkeley in 1928. In 1934, Cupp became the first woman in North America to receive a PhD in oceanography when she was awarded her doctorate from the University of California for research on plankton completed at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. Cupp remained at Scripps and worked initially as an associate oceanographer, then instructor, from 1934-1939, but departed in 1940 when a faculty position proved elusive. During this period she completed work on her book, Marine Plankton Diatoms of the West Coast of North America, published in 1943. Cupp became an assistant biologist for the Naval Biological Laboratory from 1940-1943; when that assignment ended, she taught English and science at Woodrow Wilson Junior High School in San Diego until her retirement in 1967. She passed away in San Diego at the age of 95.

The collection consists of papers and photographs documenting the life and career of marine biologist Easter Ellen Cupp, including her graduate studies and research at Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

Arranged in six series: 1) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS, 2) CORRESPONDENCE, 3) STUDENT NOTES, 4) RESEARCH MATERIALS, 5) WRITINGS, and 6) PHOTOGRAPHS.

Negatives for photographic prints by Harry Erickson in the PHOTOGRAPHS series are located with the Harry Erickson Negatives collection, which may be found by searching the library catalog.

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

Container List

BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 1) BIOGRAPHICAL MATERIALS: Personal documents from Easter Ellen Cupp and her family, including her parents' marriage certicate, Cupp's grades, transcripts and diplomas, and curriculum vitae, accomplishment certificates, and materials from her employment with Consolidated Aircraft Corporation.

Box 1 Folder 1
Cupp family biographical materials, 1899-1946

Easter Ellen Cupp

Box 1 Folder 2
Biographical materials, 1911-1967 and undated
Box 1 Folder 3
Grades and transcripts, 1911-1941 and undated
Box 1 Folder 4
Diplomas and commencement programs, 1918-1926
Box 10 Folder 1
Diplomas, oversize, 1917-1934
Box 1 Folder 5
Consolidated Aircraft Corporation, 1943

CORRESPONDENCE

Scope and Content of Series

Series 2) CORRESPONDENCE: Personal and professional correspondence with friends and research collaborators, including letters regarding Cupp's dissertation and some of her publications. Arranged in chronological order.

Box 1 Folder 6-15
1922-1950
Box 2 Folder 1-5
1951-1980 and undated

STUDENT NOTES

Scope and Content of Series

Series 3) STUDENT NOTES: Course notes and laboratory manuals with notes from junior high school to graduate studies, as well as teacher certication courses. Arranged alphabetically.

Box 2 Folder 6
Bacteriology, undated
Box 2 Folder 7-8
Biology, undated
Box 2 Folder 9
Biology 12 Invertebrates, undated
Box 2 Folder 10
Botany, undated
Box 2 Folder 11
Botany 2A, San Diego State College, 1939-1940
Box 2 Folder 12
Comparative Anatomy, Biology 123, undated
Box 2 Folder 13
Descriptive Geometry, University of California Engineering Science Management War Training, San Diego, 1943
Box 3 Folder 1
Domestic Science, undated
Box 3 Folder 2
Economic Vertebrate Zoology 116, University of California, 1927
Box 3 Folder 3
Embryology, Biology 104, 1925
Box 3 Folder 4
Histology, Biology 123, undated
Box 3 Folder 5
Laboratory Exercises (unbound), undated
Box 3 Folder 6
Laboratory Manual for General Bacteriology , ca. 1939
Box 3 Folder 7
A Laboratory Manual of Organic Chemistry , 1922
Box 3 Folder 8
Nutrition and dental health lectures notebook, 1950-1951
Box 4 Folder 1-2
Nutrition and Diet, UC Extension, ca. 1940-1941
Box 4 Folder 3-4
Ornithology, San Diego State College, 1940-1941
Box 4 Folder 5
Parasitology, Zoology 111, undated
Box 4 Folder 6
Protozoology, 1926
Box 4 Folder 7
Psychology, 1946
Box 4 Folder 8
Reading note cards, undated
Box 4 Folder 9
Woodrow Wilson Junior High School, undated

RESEARCH MATERIALS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 4) RESEARCH MATERIALS: Notes, summaries, data collection, and illustrations by Cupp. Subjects include diatoms, fouling organisms, and plankton hauls; also includes three sets of miscroscope slides and three rock samples.

Box 4 Folder 10-12
Diatoms drawings, notes, negatives and photographs, ca. 1920s
Box 4 Folder 13
Diatom key, culture media, 1928-1941
Box 5 Folder 1
Dinoflagellates, silicoflagellates, and other drawings, ca. 1927-1938
Box 5 Folder 2-4
Fouling organisms notes and photographs, ca. 1941-1943
Box 5 Folder 5
Mann Laboratory notes, undated
Box 5 Folder 6
Methods of diatom study, Mann, etc., ca. 1921-1926
Box 9
Microscope slides and samples embedded in wax, undated

Three small boxes of microscope slides. Labels affixed to the boxes read as follows: "Cosc[inodiscus] marginatus;" "Misc[ellaneous] subjects - for high school? Wax embedded samples;" and "Coscinodiscus centralis?" One microscope slide box includes unidentifed samples embedded in wax.

Box 5 Folder 7
Mounting, fixing, staining, sectioning methods, Dr. G. Dallas Hanna lecture notes and correspondence, ca. 1931-1939
Box 5 Folder 8
Nannoplankton seminar notes and research paper summaries, ca. 1936
Box 5 Folder 9
Nitzschia seriata and other notes, undated
Box 5 Folder 10
Notebook of data and daily records - Nitzschia seriata and loose sheets, 1933-1935
Box 5 Folder 11
Photography notebook and loose notes - inc. Bostwick pearl pictures notes, ca. 1930s
Box 5 Folder 12
Phytoplankton growth factors notes, undated
Box 5 Folder 13
Plankton hauls and laboratory procedures, 1925 and undated
Box 5 Folder 14
Plankton hauls data notebook and loose sheets, ca. 1933-1936
Box 9
Thee rock samples - unidentified, undated
Box 5 Folder 15
Tube worms notes, ca. 1934-1937
Box 5 Folder 16-17
Miscellaneous research paper summaries and notes, undated
Box 6 Folder 1-3
Miscellaneous research paper summaries and notes, undated

WRITINGS

Scope and Content of Series

Series 5) WRITINGS: Drafts, typescripts, galley prints, and original drawings and figures for Cupp's dissertation and research articles. Original negatives of figures used in Cupp's dissertation are located in Series 6) PHOTOGRAPHS, subseries E) Research. Arranged chronologically.

Box 6 Folder 6
Sirotrichonympha Polygyra Sp. Nov. from Neotermes Simplicicornis banks , 1930-1931
Box 10 Folder 2
Sirotrichonympha Polygyra Sp. Nov. from Neotermes Simplicicornis banks, original drawings, ca. 1930-1931

Figures A-P and Plates I-IV

Box 6 Folder 4-5
A Critical Study of Certain Distinguishing Characteristics in Three closely allied species of the Diatom Genus Nitzschia and their Relationships to Certain Conditions, Dissertation, 1934
Box 10 Folder 3
A Critical Study of Certain Distinguishing Characteristics in Three closely allied species of the Diatom Genus Nitzschia and their Relationships to Certain Conditions, Dissertation drawings, ca. 1934

Plates I-V. Original negatives of figures are located in Series 6) PHOTOGRAPHS, subseries E) Research.

Box 10 Folder 4
Plankton Diatoms of the Gulf of California obtained by Allan Hancock Pacific Expedition of 1937, figure drawings, 1937
Box 11 Folder 1-4
Marine Plankton Diatoms of the West Coast of North America, original drawings and figures, undated

Plates 1-5, Figures A-H and 1-46

Box 12 Folder 1-4
Marine Plankton Diatoms of the West Coast of North America, original drawings and figures, undated

Figures 47-90

Box 13 Folder 1-4
Marine Plankton Diatoms of the West Coast of North America, original drawings and figures, undated

Figures 91-135

Box 14 Folder 1-2
Marine Plankton Diatoms of the West Coast of North America, original drawings and figures, undated

Figures 136-156 and 158-160

Box 14 Folder 3
Marine Plankton Diatoms of the West Coast of North America, original figure galleys, ca. 1943
Box 6 Folder 7
Structural Variation in a Marine Plankton Diatom, typescript and figures, undated
Box 6 Folder 8
Variations in Nitschia Seriata var. fradulenta Cl. a marine plankton diatom , undated
Box 10 Folder 5
Nitschia Seriata publication, map and figure drawings, undated

Map of Central America and Figures 2-36

Box 10 Folder 6
Miscellaneous temperature and salinity figure drawings, undated

PHOTOGRAPHS

Scope and Content of Series

SERIES 6) PHOTOGRAPHS: Photographs, negatives, and glass slides documenting personal and professional activities, including some notes. Many of the photographs and all of the negatives were taken by Cupp, though some images of the Scripps campus and personnel were taken by Harry Erickson (the "Flying Photographer") and Eugene LaFond, and have been credited where appropriate. A selection of photographs from the collection have been digitized, and can be viewed through links in the container list.

Arranged in five subseries: A) Animal and Objects, B) People, C) Places, D) Ships and E) Research.

Animals and Objects

Box 6 Folder 9
Cats, undated
Box 6 Folder 10
Miscellaneous animals, undated
Box 9
Monkey illustration - glass slide, undated
Box 6 Folder 11
Miscellaneous objects, undated

People

Box 6 Folder 12
Allen, Windred Emory, undated
Box 6 Folder 13
Anderson, David Quentin, undated
Box 6 Folder 14
Baker, Fred, undated
Box 6 Folder 15
Barnhart, Percy Spencer, undated
Box 6 Folder 16
Bjerknes, Vilhelm, undated
Box 6 Folder 17
Bostwick, LaPlace and cultured pearls, undated
Box 6 Folder 18
Buch, Kurt, undated
Box 6 Folder 19
Chambers, Stanley W., undated
Box 6 Folder 20
Coe, Wesley, undated
Box 6 Folder 21
Coe, W.S., undated
Box 6 Folder 22-23
Cupp, Easter Ellen, undated
Box 7 Folder 1
Cupp family, undated
Box 7 Folder 2
Dietz, Robert S., undated

All photographs from this folder have been digitized.

Box 7 Folder 3
Doudoroff, Peter, undated
Box 7 Folder 4
Feltham, Catherine B., undated
Box 7 Folder 5
Fiorini, L., undated
Box 7 Folder 6
Fleming, Richard H., undated
Box 7 Folder 7
Fox, Denis, undated
Box 7 Folder 8
Genter, Tillie, undated
Box 7 Folder 9
Gran, H.H., undated
Box 7 Folder 10
Hanzawa, undated
Box 7 Folder 11
Harper, Jacob, undated
Box 7 Folder 12
Helland-Hansen, Bjorn, undated
Box 7 Folder 13
Jacobs, Woodrow Cooper, undated
Box 7 Folder 14
Johnson, Carl, undated
Box 7 Folder 15
Johnson, Martin W., undated
Box 7 Folder 16
Johnson, Thelma, undated
Box 7 Folder 17
LaFond, Eugene, undated
Box 7 Folder 18
LaFond, Katherine Gehring, undated
Box 7 Folder 19
McEwen, George Francis, undated
Box 7 Folder 20
McKitrick, Ruth, undated
Box 7 Folder 21
Maler, Oliver, undated
Box 7 Folder 22
Marks, undated
Box 7 Folder 23
Marshall, L.C., undated
Box 7 Folder 24
Maury, Matthew Fontaine, undated
Box 7 Folder 25
Moberg, Erik, undated

Selected photographs from this folder have been digitized.

Erik Moberg portrait, undated
Box 7 Folder 26
Palmer, C.W., undated
Box 7 Folder 27
Ragan, Ruth, undated
Box 7 Folder 28
Revelle, Roger, undated
Box 7 Folder 29
Rosenbury, Dorothy, undated
Box 7 Folder 30
Ross, James, undated
Box 7 Folder 31
Ross, Murdock G., undated
Box 7 Folder 32
Schott, G., undated
Box 7 Folder 33
Scripps, E.W., undated
Box 7 Folder 34
Scripps, Robert Paine, undated
Box 7 Folder 35
Shepard, Francis P., undated
Box 7 Folder 36
Simmons, undated
Box 7 Folder 37
Sproul, Robert Gordon, undated
Box 7 Folder 38
Sumner, Francis B., undated
Box 7 Folder 39
Sverdrup, Harald U., undated
Box 7 Folder 40
Teeter, Charles, undated
Box 7 Folder 41
Thorp, Eldon Marion, undated
Box 7 Folder 42
Vaughan, Carolyn, undated
Box 7 Folder 43
Wilson, undated
Box 7 Folder 44
Wilt, undated
Box 7 Folder 45
Yamasaki, N., undated
Box 7 Folder 46
Young, R.T., undated
Box 7 Folder 47
ZoBell, Claude, undated
Box 7 Folder 48
Scripps Institution of Oceanography groups, 1936 and undated
Box 7 Folder 49
Candid work on Scripps Institution of Oceanography ships, undated
Box 7 Folder 50
Group at Millport, Great Cumbrae Island, Scotland, 1936

Individuals pictured are Richard Elmhurst, T. Wayland Vaughan, Sheina M. Marshall, and Andrew P. Orr.

Box 7 Folder 51
Miscellaneous and unidentified people, undated
Box 10 Folder 7
Miscellaneous and unidentified people, oversize (1 photograph), undated

Places

Box 7 Folder 52
Donner Pass Plaque, undated
Box 7 Folder 53
Easter Ellen Cupp's home, San Diego, undated
Box 7 Folder 54
Hoover Dam, n.d.
Box 7 Folder 55
Laboratory interiors, undated
Box 7 Folder 56
Old Globe Theatre, San Diego, undated
Box 7 Folder 57
Postcards, undated
Box 8 Folder 2
Tuolumne, California, 1930
Box 8 Folder 3
Washington, D.C., undated
Box 10 Folder 8-9
Trips to New Orleans, Washington, D.C., Chicago, and Utah, unbound photograph album, 1931
Box 8 Folder 4-5
Unidentified Places, undated

Ships

Box 8 Folder 6
R/V E.W. Scripps , undated

Selected photographs from this folder have been digitized.

Box 8 Folder 7
R/V Scripps , undated
Box 8 Folder 8
Wreck of R/V Scripps, by Eugene LaFond, 1936
Box 8 Folder 9
Miscellaneous ships, undated

Research

Box 8 Folder 10
Dissertation figures, negatives, undated
Box 8 Folder 11
Fouling organisms, undated
Box 8 Folder 12-15
Specimens, 1942 and undated
Box 9
Specimens and paper figures, undated

15 glass slides.