Scope and Content Note
The papers of H. Carl Harms (1910- ) span the years 1940-1946 and pertain to an expedition to the Galapagos Islands, December 1940-May 1941, by the United States Navy and the Pacific Development Company to select a site for a military base. Harms, the expedition's cook and cartographer, was part of a contingent that studied the topography of the Sierra Negra crater basin and the cattle herds of the Great Pampas at the foot of Serro Azul. The papers document the expedition with a guidebook and map of Panama and the Panama Canal, newsletters of the Chaumont (transport), and a journal, photographs, and scrapbook.