Roy M. Huffington Personal and Professional Papers

The collection formats include photos, correspondence files, awards, and speeches. Huffington assembled an abundance of primary and secondary source material in his field. Highlights of this collection include Huffington’s education, his start into petroleum geology, and his later work in philanthropy.The collection is now arranged into three series. Series I: Personal encompasses the honors Huffington received as well as other personal milestones. Subseries B offers a copy of Huffington’s dissertation “Geology of the Quitman Mountains Trans-Pecos Texas” followed by Subseries C: Addendum, which includes the field journals from the first hand work in the Quitman Mountains. Series II: Professional provides a wealth of information on the geology of areas of Texas and New Mexico, especially the maps featured in in this series. Documented as well are the professional societies Huffington belonged to. Series III: Oversized contains mementos from the Huffington family.