Oral history interview with Richard Blackburn Black, 1962.

Biographical Note

Naval officer, explorer.

Scope and Contents

Education in North Dakota and on New York University's floating university, 1926-27; mining, rescue, and recovery work; Admiral Richard Byrd and second Antarctic expeditition, 1933-34; Hawaii, 1936; Antarctic Service Expedition, 1939; Hawaii and Pearl Harbor, 1941; Antarctic Support Forces, 1954-56; on Admiral Byrd's staff, 1956-57; Office of Naval Research.

Subjects

• Antarctica--Discovery and exploration--American.
• Black, Richard Blackburn, 1902-1992--Interviews.
• Byrd, Richard Evelyn, 1888-1957.
• Cromie, William J., 1930-2014, interviewer.--http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ivr
• Explorers--Interviews.
• Interviews.
• Navies--Officers.
• Oral histories (literary works)
• Scientific expeditions--Antarctica.
• United States. Navy.
• Veterans--Interviews.

Access Conditions

Copyright by The Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York, 1971.