William Hammond Hall papers and scrapbooks, 1873-1911.

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William Hammond Hall papers and scrapbooks, 1873-1911.

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Correspondence, reports, and clippings produced in Hall's capacities as a state official and engineer for water resources and water management in Calif. Includes correspondence (including four letter books) with Hall as State Engineer; USGS reports for Truckee Basin, Lahontan Division, and other locations and topics; reports on canals, irrigation, sewage, rivers, and miscellaneous notes on related topics; and eleven scrapbooks containing newspaper clippings on irrigation and crop cultivation, mining debris controversy and legislation (1881), rainfall, flood, and river matters; Supreme Court decisions on irrigation and water rights (1886-1891); and bulletins from the University of California, Agricultural Experiment Station.

4 boxes, 5 flat boxes (4.5 linear ft.)

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California historical society

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Geological Survey (U.S.). Water Resources Division. California District

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California. Office of State Engineer

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Hall, Wm. Ham. (William Hammond)

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Hall was a Calif. engineer who served as Superintendent and Engineer of Golden Gate Park (1871-1876), a consultant in the grading and development of the University of California campus at Berkeley (1872-1873), chief engineer for the Central and West Side Irrigation Districts (1870s), the first State Engineer of Calif. (1879-1889), and Supervising Engineer of the Irrigation Bureau at the United States Geological Survey (1889). Beginning in 1890, he worked in the private sector as a civil engineer...