Sea Turtle Conservation Collection

This collection consists of (80) 35 mm, full-color, photographic slides compiled by Dearl Adams for Project Ridley. The photographs depict the beaches and nesting grounds of Kemp's ridley sea turtles, and Adams efforts to re-establish the turtles on South Padre Island, Texas, during the mid-1960s. Collection is located at the Brownsville campus of the University Library, Special Collection & Archives.