Papers of Leighton E. Orr, 1968-2003.

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Papers of Leighton E. Orr, 1968-2003.

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This collection contains the reports generated by Leighton E. Orr in the course of his work as a technical glass and ceramics consultant between 1968 and 2003. Orr lent his expertise to a variety of projects, large and small, throughout the United States and Canada, generating approximately 950 reports. These reports feature summaries, technical drawings and photographs. The collection preserves Orr's original order which is generally a chronologically organized number scheme, with certain folders dedicated to individual clients. Each folder contains a range of reports, with the specific clients and projects being named in the folder scope content notes, which are inventories directly based upon Orr's index found in Box 1, Folder 1. In many cases Orr employed idiosyncratic spellings and abbreviations in his index, while the actual reports tended towards accuracy in these matters. When possible, to facilitate keyword searching, misspelled names and odd abbreviations have been normalized. The materials in this collection date from September 9, 1968 to May 10, 2003.

2.5 linear ft. (2 boxes)

University of Pittsburgh

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