Roger E. Nathan papers
Scope and Contents
Roger E. Nathan participated in the Delaware Boundary Commission's re-establishment of Delaware's boundary monuments throughout the 1980s and 1990s. Nathan visited all of the 179 monuments that mark Delaware's boundaries and provided photographs and written reports to the Delaware Boundary Commission. Nathan died in 2005. This collection includes information on the Delaware boundaries, the Mason Dixon Line, and boundary agreements with our neighboring states (Maryland, Pennsylvania, New Jersey). The Roger E. Nathan papers comprise notes, letters, photographs of geological markers and Delaware events, information on geological surveys, memos, press releases, newspaper clippings, and a copy of Report on the Resurvey of the Maryland-Pennsylvania Boundary Part of the Mason Dixon Line (1909).
Dates
- Creation: 1909, 1980s-2005
Creator
- Nathan, Roger E. (Person)
Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
Conditions Governing Use
Use of materials from this collection beyond the exceptions provided for in the Fair Use and Educational Use clauses of the U.S. Copyright Law may violate federal law. Permission to publish or reproduce is required from the copyright holder. Please contact Special Collections Department, University of Delaware Library, https://library.udel.edu/static/purl.php?askspec
Extent
2 linear foot (2 boxes)
Language of Materials
English
Metadata Rights Declarations
Custodial History
Barbara Nathan (wife of Roger E. Nathan) donated the materials after his death.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Gift of Barbara Nathan, February 2007.
Physical Description
A Plan of the Boundary Lines Between the Province of Maryland and the Three Lower Counties on Delaware is breaking along the folds, so use caution when unfolding.
Processing Information
This collection is unprocessed, which means material has not been organized or housed archivally, and is still in the order and condition in which it was received. This preliminary collection description was created by Jessica Thelen, based on a survey conducted in June 2022.
- Title
- Finding aid for Roger E. Nathan papers
- Status
- Unprocessed
- Author
- University of Delaware Library, Special Collections.
- Date
- 2023-08-22
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the University of Delaware Library Special Collections Repository