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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

MacDonald, Thomas H. (Thomas Harris), 1881-1957. Thomas H. MacDonald reports, 1921-1950.

Title: Thomas H. MacDonald reports, 1921-1950.

Material concerning federal highway construction; also hearings before a subcommittee of the Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, June 1950.

ArchivalResource: 1 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34423616 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

Horner, Frederick Cecil, 1887-1974. Papers, 1917-1960 (bulk 1922-1940).

Title: Papers, 1917-1960 (bulk 1922-1940).

Personal and business files consisting of correspondence, diaries, memoir, memoranda, reports, speeches, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and photographs, relating to Horner's career in transportation, chiefly as an executive with General Motors Corporation. The collection reflects the development of motor truck and bus transportation in the U.S. and abroad and efforts to coordinate these modes with railroad transport. Includes material on Horner's involvement with General Managers' Association of New York, Joint Committee of Railroads and Highway Users, National Automobile Chamber of Commerce, National Transportation Committee (headed by Calvin Coolidge), National Transportation Conference (1923), Society of Automotive Engineers, and World Engineering Congress in Tokyo (1929). Topics include transportation legislation, regulation, safety, and taxation. Also includes material relating to Horner's involvement with various New York City civic organizations such as the Charity Organization Society's tenement housing committee and the Regional Plan Association's transportation committee. Correspondents include William Wallace Atterbury, Bruce Barton, Ralph Budd, William James Cunningham, Pierre S. Du Pont, Herbert Hoover, Pyke Johnson, Charles Franklin Kettering, Thomas H. MacDonald, James David Mooney, John J. Raskob, Eddie Rickenbacker, Alfred P. Sloan, Edward R. Stettinius, and Alfred H. Swayne.

ArchivalResource: 30.4 linear ft.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/31816491 View

Babcock, Charles M. (Charles Merritt), 1871-1936. Charles M. Babcock and family papers, 1873-1960.

Title: Charles M. Babcock and family papers, 1873-1960.

Biographical and family history information (1873-1939), personal correspondence 1893-1957), papers regarding a Charles M. Bacock Memorial (1937, 1947), household management (1941-1957) and farm investment (1917-1938) records, clippings, and photographs documenting the family and career (1917-1932) of a Minnesota state highway commissioner.

ArchivalResource: 0.25 cu. ft. (1 box).

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/317118760 View

Kennedy, G. Donald (George Donald), 1900-1988. G. Donald Kennedy papers, 1928-1968.

Title: G. Donald Kennedy papers, 1928-1968.

Correspondence, speeches, scrapbooks, photographs, and reports relating to his professional career; contain files relating to his work as municipal engineer in Pontiac, with the Mackinac Straits Bridge Authority, the American Association of State Highway Officials, the Automotive Safety Foundation, and the Huron-Clinton Metropolitan Authority; include papers relating to highway and airport construction, to economic mobilization during World War II, the Willow Run Bomber Plant, Democratic Party politics. And the campaign visit of Franklin Roosevelt to Michigan in 1936. Correspondents include: Prentiss M. Brown, Richard E. Byrd, Albert E. Cobo, Frederick Delano, James A. Farley, Edward Jefferies, Edward H. Litchfield, Thomas H. McDonald, Rodolfo Michelf, Frank Murphy, Chase Osborn, George Romney, Charles Sorenson, Murray D. Van Wagoner, Henry A. Wallace, and G. Mennen Williams.

ArchivalResource: 6 linear ft. (7 boxes) and 15 v. [outsize].

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/34418403 View

Frederick Cecil Horner Papers, 1917-1960, (bulk 1922-1940)

Title: Frederick Cecil Horner Papers 1917-1960 (bulk 1922-1940)

Transportation engineer and executive with General Motors Corporation. Correspondence, diaries, memoir, memoranda, reports, speeches, printed matter, newspaper clippings, and photographs documenting Horner's career in transportation, chiefly as an executive with General Motors Corporation.

ArchivalResource: 26,600 items; 75 containers plus 5 oversize; 30.4 linear feet

http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms004015 View