Description
The Gilbert Gaines Photograph Collection includes images of the San Diego area and southern California from the 1940s-2002, documenting Gaines's personal life and
travels. Several images document Gaines's camping trips in the Cuyamaca Mountains and San Diego County Backcountry in the
1940s, and trips to Yosemite Valley in the 1950s. Gaines's trip to Thule Air Base in Greenland and the surrounding glaciers
is well documented by a large series of 35mm slides. Also included are images from Gaines's travels to the east coast, most
notably Fort Eustis, Virginia, but also Washington D.C. and New York.
Background
Gilbert Gaines was a certified petroleum geologist, and lived in the San Diego area from the 1940s-2010. During 1953-1954
Gaines served with the U.S. Army Transportation Corps, Artic Group, headquartered at Fort Eustis, Virginia, and conducted
geological explorations around Thule Air Base in Greenland.
Restrictions
The copyright interests in these materials have not been transferred to San Diego State University. Copyright resides with
the creators of materials contained in the collection or their heirs. The nature of historical archival and manuscript collections
is such that copyright status may be difficult or even impossible to determine. Requests for permission to publish must be
submitted to the Head of Special Collections, San Diego State University, Library and Information Access. When granted, permission
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical item and is not intended to include or imply permission
of the copyright holder(s), which must also be obtained in order to publish. Materials from our collections are made available
for use in research, teaching, and private study. The user must assume full responsibility for any use of the materials, including
but not limited to, infringement of copyright and publication rights of reproduced materials.
Availability
This collection is open for research.