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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.

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Title
Nathan C. Clark, Sierra Club leader, outdoorsman & engineer, 1976.
Creator
Clark, Nathan C., 1906-
Clark, Lewis Frothingham, 1900-
Clark, Joan Dyer.
Searle, Richard.
Farquhar, Marjory Bridge, 1903-1999.
LeConte, Helen M., 1904-
Sierra Club. History Committee.
Sierra Club Oral History Project.
Published
San Francisco, Calif., Sierra Club, ©1977.
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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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