Herbert Elmer Warfel was a well-known zoologist and oceanographer. He was born in 1902 in Yorktown, Indiana to William Turner Warfel and Hester Ann Myers. He lived in Winter Park, Colorado; Amherst, Massachusetts; New Hampshire; San Juan, Puerto Rico; and the Philippines. He was a college professor at Massachusetts State College in Amherst teaching zoology. In 1947, he left on a 3-year oceanography expedition living in the Philippines with his family. Their families and available resources in Ancestry are in the PDF files below.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Lot-of-350-Photos-Zoologist-Herbert-Warfel-Colorado-Philippines-New-Hampshire-/154170265254 350 photos of Herbert E. Warfel and his studies. For sale on Etsy Dec 2020. Seller is not know to us.
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Photograph Archive Documenting the Career of Zoologist Herbert Warfel in Colorado, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, the Philippines, and Puerto Rico. Various Places: 1920s-1960s. Collection of 350 photographs belonging to Herbert Warfel, a zoologist whose career spanned the country and the globe. In the 1920s, Warfel worked as a High School Biology teacher in Gunnison, then at the Rocky Mountain National Laboratory, a high altitude field station founded in 1928. He went on to work as a professor at Massachusetts State College and in the New Hampshire FIsh and Game Department, before departing in 1947 as part of a three year oceanographic and fisheries research expedition in Philippine waters aboard the Spencer F. Baird. One article called the expedition “the most intensive survey attempted in the at science [oceanography].” Warfel also served as head of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in the Philippines, before changing careers and becoming headmaster of the American school system in the Philippines in the 1950s and as superintendent of the largest private elementary school in San Juan, Puerto Rico in the 1960s. This collection includes images documenting every period in Warfel’s life. Roughly 60-80 images depict hiking and camping trips in the mountains around Gunnison, Colorado; some appear to have been high school field trips, while others were possibly research trips. Around 45 images (including a few 8 x 10″ photos) depict the Spencer F. Baird and her sister ships during the oceanographic expedition, including photos of crew members and many photographs of deep sea fishing–including the catching of huge, exotic sea creatures such as angel sharks and sand tiger sharks. 25 images from the same period depict the shores of the Phillipines, including a dozen or so photographs of native villages–houses, docks, villagers, and people rowing long canoes. Another 85 or so photos depict research work, mainly in Massachusetts and New Hampshire, including field work with students in swamps and marshes, laboratory images, and photographs of scientific slides and animal specimens. Finally, there are five photographs (and some newspaper clippings) relating to a teachers’ award ceremony in Puerto Rico, plus around 130 photographs of family life. Overall in excellent condition, some curling and/or yellowing. [5885]
