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William Field is interviewed by Bill Schneider in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on November 12, 1987.
Title:
William Field is interviewed by Bill Schneider in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on November 12, 1987.
Physical Description:
3 audiocassettes (approximately 90 min.) : analog.
General Note:
For educational and non-profit uses only. For commercial uses, please contact the UAF Oral History Program.
Event Note:
Recorded in the home of William Field in Great Barrington, Massachusetts on November 12, 1987.
Abstract:
ORAL HISTORY 87-99-07. William Field talks about his 1926 trip to Alaska, his trip up the Taku Inlet to Percy Pond, visiting the Taku and Norris Glaciers, Ben Bullard's farm, his article on the Fairweather Range, Johns Hopkins Glacier, introduction to people in the Geological Survey, William N. Beech, his 1927 hunting trip to False Pass, camping at the base of Mt. Pavlov, his Alaska trip in 1928 up to McKinley National Park, glaciers in the Alaska Range, aerial photography of glaciers, his trip to Price William Sound in Alaska in 1931, advancing glaciers, Columbia Glacier, his publications in the Geographical review and the American Alpine Club, his 1935 trip to Prince William Sound with William S. Cooper, working for James Fitzpatrick Travel Logs, his trip to British Guiana, cultural relations with the Soviet Union, working with the American Geographical Society, studying the moraines at Glacier Bay, taking photographs of the Matanuska Colony in 1935, and taking aerial photographs of Glacier Bay glaciers.

ORAL HISTORY 87-99-08. William Field talks about mapping Muir Inlet in 1941, working with Don Lawrence, Taku Inlet, WWII interrupting his work, continued work on ice fields and glaciers, Maynard Miller, ice fields, the anomaly of Taku Glacier, working in the Canadian Rockies in 1948-49 and 1953, the Columbia Glacier, returning to Glacier Bay in 1950, the IGY, the 1957 trip, revisiting all the glaciers previously mapped in Southeastern Alaska in 1958, photographing glaciers after a severe earthquake in the Fairweather Range, the 1959 trip, the Hubbard Glacier, the tour of Glacier Bay in 1961 and 1964, the 1964 Alaska Earthquake, tsunami damage, viewing the earthquake damage from the air, and the Sherman Glacier.

ORAL HISTORY 87-99-09. William Field talks about Sherman Glacier, changes in glaciers over time, committees he was involved with for the International Geophysical Year, coordinating efforts in science between countries, his trip to Antarctica in 1957, studies of glaciers in New Zealand, places he visited in Antarctica, Switzerland glaciers, importance of some glaciers as the source of water supplies, and Jim Zumberg.
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