Correspondence and printed material. 1951-1974.

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Correspondence and printed material. 1951-1974.

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Correspondence and printed material relating to the career of Dr. Elwood Mead, American irrigation engineer, who was chairman of the Victorian State Rivers and Water Supply Commission from 1907 to 1915. Comprises book entitled "The Elwood Mead Professorship of Engineering at Colorado State University", published by the University ca. 1970, when the E. Mead Professorship was established (includes biography of E. Mead); articles from the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission journal "Aqua", 1951-1964, relating to Mead; correspondence, 1974, from Hubert Harding, regarding Elwood Mead's and George Kreutzer's work for the State Rivers and Water Supply Commission; and bibliography of Elwood Mead.

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Victoria. State Rivers and Water Supply Commission

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Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936

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Elwood Mead (1858-1936) was territorial engineer and later, the first state engineer of Wyoming, 1888-1899, and author of its first water code. From 1899-1907, he was in charge of irrigation investigations for the U.S. Department of Agriculture. He was chairman of the Rivers and Water Supply Commission in Victoria, Australia, 1907-1915, professor of Rural Institutions at the University of California, 1915-1924, and Commissioner of the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation from 1924 until his death in 1936....

Harding, Hubert.

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Kreutzer, George.

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