Personal Papers
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 96-099, Richard E. Blackwelder Papers
Richard E. Blackwelder received a doctorate in entomology from Stanford University in 1934. The following year he received the Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship, which enabled him to conduct field work on the beetles of the West Indies from 1935 to 1938. These papers consist of journals from Blackwelder's field work in the West Indies while he was recipient of the Walter Rathbone Bacon Traveling Scholarship (1935-1938); journals of his wife, Ruth M. Blackwelder, from the same period; notebooks from his research in museums in the United States and England; a notebook listing species in his personal collection; a notebook containing recollections on entomologists met by Blackwelder; a journal kept on field trips to the American west, 1960, 1962, 1964; and an album of photographs from his field work in the West Indies. For field notes from Blackwelder's West Indies work see Record Unit 7156.
This record series is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.
Journal of Ruth M. Blackwelder, West Indies, July 1935 to August 1935. [Image nos. SIA2014-04563 to SIA2014-04589]
Journal of Ruth M. Blackwelder, West Indies, August 1935 to November 1935. [Image nos. SIA2014-04590 to SIA2014-04653]
Journal of Ruth M. Blackwelder, West Indies, November 1935 to January 1936. [Image nos. SIA2014-04654 to SIA2014-04723]
Journal of Ruth M. Blackwelder, West Indies, February 1936 to July 1936. [Image nos. SIA2014-05916 to SIA2014-05991]
Journal of Ruth M. Blackwelder, West Indies, July 1936 to January 1937. [Image nos. SIA2014-05992 to SIA2014-06072]
Journal of Ruth M. Blackwelder, West Indies, January 1937. [Image nos. SIA2015-003138 to SIA2015-003189]
Journal of Richard E. Blackwelder, West Indies, June 22, 1935 to September 17, 1935. [Image nos. SIA2014-04100 to SIA2014-04185]
Journal of Richard E. Blackwelder, West Indies, September 18, 1935 to December 26, 1935. [Image nos. SIA2012-1157 to SIA2012-1223]
Journal of Richard E. Blackwelder, West Indies, December 27, 1935 to March 22, 1936. [Image nos. SIA2014-04215 to SIA2014-04295]
Journal of Richard E. Blackwelder, West Indies, March 22, 1936 to July 12, 1936. [Image nos. SIA2012-1224 to SIA2012-1287]
Journal of Richard E. Blackwelder, West Indies, July 13, 1936 to October 27, 1936. [Image nos. SIA2014-04296 to SIA2014-04363]
Journal of Richard E. Blackwelder, West Indies, October 28, 1936 to March 7, 1937. [Image nos. SIA2014-06073 to SIA2014-06162]
Museum Notes (western), volume 1, 1947-1948. [Image nos. SIA2014-04364 to SIA2014-04400]
Museum Notes (western), volume 2, 1947-1948. [Image nos. SIA2014-06239 to SIA2014-06297]
Museum Notes (eastern), 1934-1942. [Image nos. SIA2014-06298 to SIA2014-06346]
British Museum Notes, 1937. [Image nos. SIA2014-06347 to SIA2014-06411]
Blackwelder Collection, list of species. [Image nos. SIA2014-06412 to SIA2014-06455]
Entomologists, 1926-1947. Contains Blackwelder's reflections on fellow entomologists. [Image nos. SIA2014-06456 to SIA2014-06514]
Journal from field trips to the American west, 1960, 1962, 1964. [Image nos. SIA2014-06515 to SIA2014-06584]
Photograph album from West Indies field work, 1935-1937. [Image nos. SIA2015-002850 to SIA2015-003000]