Scope and Contents The Harold Boyd Maris papers comprise the personal papers of physicist Harold Boyd Maris, who worked in various research fields at the Naval Historical Research Lab in Anacostia, Virginia from 1925-1942. His own research, however, concentrated on the study of photo-elastic stress analysis. The papers include correspondence, experimental and expeditionary data and material, daybooks, logbooks, publications, reprints, newspaper clippings, photographs, slides, and plates of a professional and...