Chris Wheeler photographs collection circa 1910-1967

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Chris Wheeler photographs collection circa 1910-1967

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This collection contains photographs collected and possibly taken by Chris L. Wheeler (b. 1927), State Engineer of Oregon from 1962-1975. The bulk of the photographs depict the Tumalo Irrigation Project in Deschutes County, Or. in 1913-1915. Other photographs, color slides, and photograph albums depict other state and private irrigation efforts in Oregon, circa 1910-1925, and dams and reservoirs in Oregon from 1950-1967.

1.24 cubic feet; 837 photographs, 1 negative, and 92 slides in 1 document box and 2 oversize boxes

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Oregon Historical Society Research Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 6366204

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Wheeler, Chris, b. 1927,

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Chris L. Wheeler was born in Milton-Freewater, Or. on December 30, 1927. He graduated from high school in 1945 and went on to receive a Bachelor of Science degree from Oregon State University in 1951. That same year, Wheeler began working for the office of the State Engineer of Oregon as a civil engineer and became the head of the office's hydroelectric power division in 1961. After the retirement of State Engineer Lewis A. Stanley in April 1962, Oregon governor Mark O. Hatfield appointed Wheele...

Gifford, Benjamin A., photographer.

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Angelus Studio (Portland, Or.), photographers.

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