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Davis, Robert H. (Robert Hobart), 1869-1942. Robert H. Davis papers, 1903-1935.

Title: Robert H. Davis papers, 1903-1935.

Chiefly scrapbooks (3 v.), containing newspaper and magazine articles by or about Davis, who began his newspaper career in Nevada; correspondence; tributes and obituaries of his brother, Samuel Post Davis, editor of the Carson City Appeal; and poems.

ArchivalResource: 1 box.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/615581821 View

John Ripley Freeman papers, Bulk, 1876-1932, 1827-1952

Title: John Ripley Freeman papers

The collection documents the activities of John Ripley Freeman, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and later a member of the MIT Corporation. Freeman worked as a consulting engineer for almost sixty years, 1876-1932. Project files containing correspondence, photographs, drafts and published reports, maps, diaries, computation and data, clippings, reprints and transcripts of testimony record his work on over 100 projects in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and Panama including the Keokuk Dam in Iowa; the Great Lakes Study for the Chicago Sanitary District; the Charles River Dam Committee and the Metropolitan Water Board in Boston, Mass.; a study of the Catawba Dam failure in North Carolina; improvement of the Grand Canal and prevention of floods on the Yellow and Hwai Rivers in China; and eight major projects in California, including the construction of the Hetch Hetchy Dam. Reports, data, correspondence and notes document his studies and investigations for the Associated Factory Mutual Fire Insurance Companies; also included are reports and correspondence, drawings, notes, and photographs about his studies on the site and construction for a new MIT campus in Cambridge, Mass. Correspondence, minutes, and reports reveal his activities on the Board of Visitors to the National Bureau of Standards, as a member of the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics during World War I, and as a consultant to the National Research Council, as well as in many local New England government and civic organizations. Additional materials record Freeman's promotion of German-American intellectual exchange and influence of these exchanges on engineering in the United States, 1910-1932; his involvement in hydraulics research and hydraulic laboratories; activities in fire prevention and earthquake engineering; and mining speculation and other investment practices. Diaries and autobiographical materials help document both his personal and professional life.

ArchivalResource: 132.0 cubic feet; (125 record cartons, 16 manuscript boxes, 1 half legal manuscript box, 3 flat storage boxes, 3 oversize folders, 1 volume, 5 microfilm reels in one microfilm box)

https://archivesspace.mit.edu/repositories/2/resources/614 View

Richard Rogers Bowker papers, 1856-1958

Title: Richard Rogers Bowker papers 1856-1958

Records consist of general and family correspondence, personal papers, subject papers, writings and speeches, diaries and travel journals, financial records, papers of Bowker's father, Daniel Rogers Bowker, scrapbooks, photographs, printed matter, and memorabilia. General correspondence reflects R.R. Bowker's business affairs as well as his interest in tariff reform, free trade, copyright law, library science, civil service, and political reform. Other materials include family correspondence, 1857-1932; personal papers containing items such as childhood letters, school reports, family records, and letters of condolence; and subject papers relating to copyright, the Edison Electric Illuminating Co., free trade and tariff reform, and his biography. Also, letterbooks for the period from 1875 to 1913; Bowker's writings and speeches; diaries, 1859-1932; and travel journals from the 1860s to 1926 for trips in the United States, the West Indies, Europe, the Near East, and around the world in 1898. Financial records include accounts for personal and some business expenses, bank books, cancelled checks, and personal ledgers, 1893-1910.

ArchivalResource: 61 linear feet (126 boxes)

http://archives.nypl.org/mss/355 View