Frederick deWolf Pingree collection of air-sea survival materials
Scope and Content Note
The Air-Sea Survival Collection consists of materials collected by Pingree related to the subject of air-sea survival and rescue. Materials include books, articles, clippings, magazines, reports, and manuals.
Dates
- Majority of material found within 1942-1961
Language of Materials
The records are in
English.
Access
Open: materials are available for research.
Use
Copyright: Permission to publish material from the collection must be authorized by the Institution Archivist.
Biographical Information
Frederick deWolf Pingree was born in
Woburn, Massachusetts in 1902. He attended
Harvard University, and received his A.B. from
Ohio State University in 1940. Pingree was a research associate in engineering at
WHOI.
Extent
1 box (1.25 lin. ft.)
Overview
The Frederick deWolf Pingree collection of air-sea survival materials consists of books, articles, and other material collected by Pingree relating to issues of air-sea survival.
Arrangement
The collection is arranged in five series:
Custodial History
The custodial history of the collection is undocumented.
Acquisitions Information
The collection was received from Mrs. F. Pingree in November 1967.
Separated Material
A group of life raft charts were discarded because they had become brittle and the pages had fused together, making the charts unreadable.
Several books were also removed from the collection. See control file for complete list.
Processing Information
Processed by David Sherman in December 2009.
- Title
- A Guide to the Frederick deWolf Pingree collection of air-sea survival materials, 1942-1961
- Author
- David Sherman
- Date
- 2009
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding aid written inEnglish
Repository Details
Part of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Data Library and Archives Repository