Audio / Video

Nathan C. Clark

  • Tape 1, Side A
  • Tape 1, Side B
  • Tape 2, Side A
  • Tape 2, Side B

Description

Interviews conducted by Richard Searle for the Sierra Club History Committee in Los Angeles, Jan. 5-19, 1976; Joan Clark assisting. Preface by his brother Lewis F. Clark. Copies of photographs inserted. Early trips throughout California with his father; career teaching electrical engineering and work with Philo T. Farnsworth on vacuum tubes; activities in the Sierra Club as chairman of various committees, vice-president and president; move to Southern California; experiences hiking, skiing, rock-climbing; courtship and marriage to Joan Dyar; her publication of the Mugelnoos; schism in the Club's Southern California Chapter; work with the Sierra Club Foundation and with the Sierra Club Council; the Brower controversy; Mineral King; San Gorgonio, San Jacinto; founding of the Montecito Hills Improvement Association; establishment of the Riverside Chapter; association with government agencies and conservation organizations; future role of the Club.

Details

Title

Nathan C. Clark

Creator

Clark, Nathan C., 1906-

Clark, Lewis Frothingham, 1900-

Clark, Joan Dyer.

Searle, Richard.

Farquhar, Marjory Bridge, 1903-1999.

LeConte, Helen M., 1904-

Creator

Sierra Club. History Committee.

Sierra Club Oral History Project.

Published

San Francisco, Calif., Sierra Club, ©1977.

Full Collection Name

California Audiovisual Preservation Project

Other Identifiers

cabeuroh_000164

Subject (Person)

Farnsworth, Philo Taylor, 1906-1971.

Brower, David, 1912-2000.

Subject (Corporate)

Sierra Club.

Sierra Club Foundation.

Sierra Club Council.

Montecito Hills Improvement Association.

Sierra Club. Riverside Chapter.

Subject (Topic)

Electrical engineering.

Vacuum-tubes.

Conservation of natural resources United States.

Génie électrique.

Tubes à vide.

electrical engineering.

vacuum tubes.

Type

Audio

Format

Oral histories.

Archive

The Library

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Collection

California AV Project

Tracks

cabeuroh_000164_t01_a_access.mp3 Tape 1, Side A

cabeuroh_000164_t01_b_access.mp3 Tape 1, Side B

cabeuroh_000164_t02_a_access.mp3 Tape 2, Side A

cabeuroh_000164_t02_b_access.mp3 Tape 2, Side B

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