Walter L. Huber scrapbooks on hydroelectric and hydraulic projects, and water issues, 1913-1960.

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Walter L. Huber scrapbooks on hydroelectric and hydraulic projects, and water issues, 1913-1960.

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Primarily clippings and articles on municipal, state, and federal hydroelectric and hydraulic projects, and water issues, collected by California engineer Walter Leroy Huber. Material includes the following topics: water project bonds, power companies and plants, dams, engineering and engineers, irrigation, river rights, conservation, flood control, Hetch Hetchy Reservoir, Spring Valley Water Company, Owens River, Salt Lake Aqueduct, and the St. Francis Dam collapse. Also consists of some material on business and finance, the construction of San Francisco buildings (e.g., Castro Theatre, Alamo School, The Emporium), and mountaineering, including Huber's own ascent of Mt. Haeckel (among other climbs), and two John Muir obituaries. Contains biographical pieces on Huber, and ephemera and publications from the American Society of Civil Engineers, including Huber's inaugural president address of 1952. Also includes clippings on history, news, and Herbert Hoover, and some poems and short prose.

7 v. : ill. ; 36 cm. or smaller.

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Huber, Walter Leroy, 1883-1960.

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Civil engineer from San Francisco, California. From the description of Some observations concerning the effect of the Charleston, South Carolina, earthquake of 1886 on buildings and other structures, 1927. (The South Carolina Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 32139840 Walter Leroy Huber was born in San Francisco in 1883, graduated from the University of California, Berkeley, and had a career as an engineer of hydroelectric and hydraulic projects. Huber worked as engin...