This fonds contains correspondence and resource material relating to Dr. Kupsch's research, particularly on Frank Davies, Balfour Currie, and the Second International Polar Year; as well as both published and unpublished material from "Gold and Other Stories" and the "Musk-Ox." Additionally, there is considerable reference material relating to uranium mining and nuclear energy, documenting both sides of the ongoing debate over the use of uranium. This fonds also contains an extensive collection of images, documenting 50 years of Dr. Kupsch's field work in northern Saskatchewan and northern Canada, as well as a variety of images relating to the history of geology.

Illustration of smelting bitumen from bituminous rocks after Agricola, 1550. Illustration copied from book.

Distillation apparatus. Diagram copied from a book.

Photograph of a watertank at Mohenjo Daro. Shows bituminous layer. Photograph copied from a book.

Diagram of a cut through an excavated watertank at Mohenjo Daro. Diagram copied from a book.

Photograph of a glazed and baked Arabian handgrenade filled with inflammable or burning mixtures used in war. Photograph copied from a book.

Map of areas where there was damage to agriculture through inundation in the Netherlands, 1945. Map copied from a book.

Map of the Netherlands showing the extent of alluvium deposits (post Pleistocene or Recent). Map copied from a book.

Aerial photograph showing the gaps in dunes caused by violent gales, North of Bergen aan Zee.

Small low angles normal fault in Ravenscrag Formation (Paleocene) off setting coal seam. Northwest of Killdeer along road from Killdeer to Wood Mountain. May, 1964.

Close up of jointed boulders of varying lithology in Wright's Gravel Pit near Eastend, Saskatchewan. May, 1964.

Frenchman River Valley between Eastend and Ravenscrag, Saskatchewan, to show horizontal strata exposed in valley wall. May, 1964.

Horshoe Canyon, flank dissection of a plateau on horizontal Cetaceous Belly River sediments. Near Drumheller along Drumheler-Calgary road. May 1964.

Diagram of wedge of the earth showing the major zones and boundaries. Zumberge, 1958, p. 90.

The theory of drifting continents according the Wegener. One protocontinent, Gondwanaland, existing through most of geologic time (A), but later broke into "blocks: (B), and "drifted" to their present positions (C). Dotted areas on continents are areas formerly covered by shallow seas. Zumberge, 1958, p. 65.