Kenneth L. Hobbs journals
Collection
Identifier: Ms-0156
Scope and Contents
The Kenneth L. Hobbs Journals, 1928-1965, contain materials relating to Hobbs travels around the world. Most items have been compiled into four bound journals: Western Trip of 1928, Arizona and Northern Mexico, China 1933 and The Netherland Indies, Around the World, 1934. Also included is an unbound journal of Hobbs' stay in the Philippines (ca. 1932-36). The journals contain photographs, descriptions of flora and wildlife, steamship line passenger lists, invitations, programs and letters, as well as narrative descriptions of Hobbs' travels. The collection also contains a travel report from Hobbs' travels to Australia and the South Pacific in 1965, loose photographs and an oversize map of Sonora.
Dates
- 1928-1965
Conditions Governing Access
Open. All materials in this collection are available for research under supervised conditions in the Research Room.
Conditions Governing Use
Copyright. All rights possessed in this collections by Marianne Thaeler have been assigned to the Rio Grande Historical Collections of New Mexico State University Library
Biographical / Historical
Kenneth L. Hobbs was born in 1906. He was raised in Linden, Maryland and spent his early years on the East Coast. He moved west to attend college in California, apparently at Stanford University. Hobbs studied zoology and human anatomy. In 1928, he made a trip across the American West to documenting plant and animal life. In 1930 he made another such trip through Arizona and Northern Mexico. While working on his thesis, apparently pertaining to bat species, in 1932, Hobbs accepted a position to teach Human Anatomy at The Afable College of Medicine in the Philippine Islands. Hobbs was named head of the Department of Anatomy and dean of the institution. Between the years 1932-1936 he traveled through the Philippines, China, the Dutch East Indies and Europe. He created travel journals documenting each of his trips. Hobbs recorded not only plants and animals during his trips, but also humans, their languages, cultures and his own observations.
Hobbs married Tonie Schulte, and they settled their family in San Francisco where Hobbs taught biology at San Francisco Junior College.
Extent
3 Linear Feet (9 Boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
Journals kept by Dr. Kenneth L. Hobbs on his travels to Arizona, Northern Mexico, China, the Dutch East Indies, Philippines, Australia and other locations. Also includes photographs, newspaper clippings, maps, and a copy of the Philippine constitution.
Processing Information
Merleen Dibert, June 1980
Marah deMeule and Christine Moreland-Bruhnke, revised November 1999
- Title
- Guide to the Kenneth L. Hobbs journals
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Merleen Dibert, June 1980 Marah deMeule and Christine Moreland-Bruhnke, revised November 1999
- Date
- Updated in 1999
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- English
Repository Details
Part of the New Mexico State University Library Archives and Special Collections Repository