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Frank A. Crampton papers, 1878-1980 (bulk 1900-1958)

Title: Frank A. Crampton papers 1878-1980 (bulk 1900-1958)

Frank A. Crampton was a mining and water resource engineer who worked in the U.S. West and South Korea. His collection contains correspondence, mining reports, water resource reports, photographs, and the manuscript for his memoirs.

ArchivalResource: 4.4 cubic ft. (13 boxes)

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Crampton, Frank A. Frank A. Crampton papers, 1902-1958.

Title: Frank A. Crampton papers, 1902-1958.

This collection contains the business and personal papers of Frank A. Crampton. There is correspondence that begins in 1918 and covers the years of Crampton's life when he was a mine consultant, an army engineer, a Bureau of Reclamation engineer, and an advisor to President Rhee of Korea. The collection includes his mining publications and an autobiographical manuscript Crampton published in 1956 as "Deep Enough." A large collection of photographs complement this period that depict western scenes of Death Valley and the Mojave Desert in Nevada; mines in Nevada County, California; cowboys, cattle drives, homesteading, families living in the West and three photographs of California artist Ferdinand Burgdorff painting a desert landscape. There are newspaper clippings and papers covering Crampton's time with the Bureau of Reclamation and his dispute with the water resource contract the Bureau offered Contra Costa County, California. There are typed transcripts of dictabelt tapes he made in Korea from 1952 to 1953 and numerous negatives and two roles of slide negatives.

ArchivalResource: 4.25 cubic ft. (11 boxes)

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