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Batcheller, Willis Tryon, 1889-1975. Willis Tryon Batcheller papers, circa 1915-1970.

Title: Willis Tryon Batcheller papers, circa 1915-1970.

Correspondence, diaries, reports, proposals, maps, project and planning files, speeches, writings, and clippings relating to Batcheller's engineering projects. Included are materials relating to the Canadian-Alaska Railway Company (circa 1929-1957), for which he did preliminary studies and which he served as president and chief engineer; the Columbia Basin Project (1921-1969), for which he did the original survey for the state of Washington, and other work; and the Seattle Lighting Dept. (1915-1950), for which he did the preliminary work and design of the Skagit River power project (1916-1921). Other organizations represented include Alaska Railway Commission, Alaska Mining and Exploration Company, Alaska Pulp and Paper Company, Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, Columbia Basin Commission, Columbia River Development League, Tacoma (Wash.) Dept. of Public Utilities, U.S. Reclamation Service, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Washington State Dept. of Conservation and Development, and Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company. Correspondents include T.L. Carr, William M. Clapp, A.H. Dimock, David Christian Henny, Henry M. Jackson, Warren G. Magnuson, J.D. Ross, and Reginald Heber Thomson.

ArchivalResource: 18.7 cubic feet.

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Batcheller, Willis Tryon, 1889-1975. Papers, ca. 1915-1970.

Title: Papers, ca. 1915-1970.

Correspondence, diaries, reports, proposals, maps, project and planning files, speeches, writings, and clippings, relating to Batcheller's engineering projects. Subgroups of papers relate to Canadian-Alaska Railway Company (ca. 1929-1957), for which he did preliminary studies and which he served as president and chief engineer; Columbia Basin Project (1921-1969), for which he did the original survey for the state of Washington, and other work; and Seattle Lighting Dept. (1915-1950), for which his projects included preliminary work and design of the Skagit River power project (1916-1921). Other organizations represented include Alaska Railway Commission, Alaska Mining and Exploration Company, Alaska Pulp and Paper Company, Allis-Chalmers Manufacturing Company, Columbia Basin Commission, Columbia River Development League, Tacoma (Wash.) Dept. of Public Utilities, U.S. Reclamation Service, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Washington State Dept. of Conservation and Development, and Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company. Correspondents include T.L. Carr, William M. Clapp, A.H. Dimock, David Christian Henny, Henry M. Jackson, Warren G. Magnuson, J.D. Ross, and Reginald Heber Thomson.

ArchivalResource: 21 ft.

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