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MacDonald, Thomas H. (Thomas Harris), b. 1881. Thomas H. MacDonald road inspection trip logs, 1922-1927.

Title: Thomas H. MacDonald road inspection trip logs, 1922-1927.

Three typescript orginal and carbon copy logs of road inspection trips in the western United States made by MacDonald between 1922 and 1927. The three logs, dated July 6-August 10, 1922, June 15-July 29, 1925, and September 14-October 26, 1927, contain itineraries, mileage, remarks, and captioned photographs documenting the trips in California, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. The photographs document road conditions; construction projects; the inspectors; Taos Pueblo, New Mexico; and scenery, particularly Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks in Utah, the Grand Canyon, Mesa Verde, Colorado, and the Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks in Wyoming. Among the men who accompanied MacDonald on the trips were L.I. Hewes, Deputy Chief Engineer of the Bureau, mechanics George E. Campbell and William Gildersleeve, H.S. Fairbank, and Pyke Johnson. A mounted newspaper clipping from the July 22, 1925 issue of the Rocky Mountain News regarding MacDonald's visit to Colorado and federal funds for Colorado highway projects is laid in the second log.

ArchivalResource: 0.40 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/702150124 View

Robert Watts Hudgens Papers, 1925-1973

Title: Robert Watts Hudgens Papers, 1925-1973

Robert Watts "Pete" Hudgens (1896-1973), an investment banker, government official, corporation executive and amateur printer, was born in Laurens County, South Carolina. Personal and professional correspondence, writings, speeches, topical publications and notes, and other papers, relating to rural development programs in the U.S. and other countries, especially Latin America, U.S. Farmers Home Administration, Chapel Hill, N.C., The Citadel, Cosmos Club, Faith at Work, International Development Services, Society for International Development, Southeast Public Health Foundation, National Sharecroppers Fund, National Advisory Committee on Farm Labor, and Latin America.

ArchivalResource: 6,400 Items

http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/hudgens/ View

Paul Kester papers, 1880-1933

Title: Paul Kester papers 1880-1933

Paul Kester (1870-1933) was an American dramatist and author. He wrote popular novels and also plays which were produced on Broadway with well-known American and British actors. His older brother, Vaughan Kester (1869-1911) was a journalist and novelist who wrote short stories and assisted Paul with his plays. Harriet Watkins Kester was their mother and Jessie Jennings Kester was married to Vaughan Kester. Collection consists of correspondence, literary manuscripts and personal papers of Paul Kester and his brother Vaughan covering their work as dramatists and their correspondence with people in the performing arts. Harriet Watkins Kester's and Jessie Jennings Kester's personal papers are included in the collection. The bulk of Paul Kester's papers is correspondence with actors, actresses, playwrights, producers, publishers, and script writers. His personal letters, 1888-1924, are mainly to his mother, brother and sister-in-law and many of the letters refer to his daily activities as a playwright. Writings contain his working notes and drafts of some of his plays and novels. Miscellaneous papers include photographs of the Kester family and small collections of other individuals' papers. Vaughan Kester's papers contain incoming letters from colleagues; outgoing letters, 1891-1907, to his mother and to Paul Wilstach; writings; and miscellaneous papers. Papers of Harriet Watkins Kester consist of correspondence, 1874-1926, with her sons Paul and Vaughan about their careers and with her daughter-in-law Jessie; and writings, diaries and other materials. Jessie Jennings Kester's correspondence, 1899-1914, is with friends, her brother-in-law and mother-in-law, and with various members of the Kester and Watkins families. Also includes scrapbooks with press notices of Paul Kester's novels and plays.

ArchivalResource: 43 linear feet (42 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/1641 View

MacDonald, Thomas H. (Thomas Harris), 1881-1957. Thomas H. MacDonald road inspection trip logs, 1922-1927.

Title: Thomas H. MacDonald road inspection trip logs, 1922-1927.

Three typescript original and carbon copy logs of road inspection trips in the western United States made by MacDonald between 1922 and 1927. The three logs, dated July 6-August 10, 1922, June 15-July 29, 1925, and September 14-October 26, 1927, contain itineraries, mileage, remarks, and captioned photographs documenting the trips in California, Utah, Idaho, Oregon, Washington, Montana, Nevada, Arizona, New Mexico, and Colorado. The photographs document road conditions; construction projects; the inspectors; Taos Pueblo, New Mexico; and scenery, particularly Bryce Canyon and Zion National Parks in Utah, the Grand Canyon, Mesa Verde, Colorado, and the Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks in Wyoming. Among the men who accompanied MacDonald on the trips were L.I. Hewes, Deputy Chief Engineer of the Bureau, mechanics George E. Campbell and William Gildersleeve, H.S. Fairbank, and Pyke Johnson. A mounted newspaper clipping from the July 22, 1925 issue of the Rocky Mountain News regarding MacDonald's visit to Colorado and federal funds for Colorado highway projects is laid in the second log.

ArchivalResource: 0.40 linear ft. (1 box)

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/83782336 View