Frank A. Crampton papers, 1902-1958.

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Frank A. Crampton papers, 1902-1958.

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This collection contains the business and personal papers of Frank A. Crampton. There is correspondence that begins in 1918 and covers the years of Crampton's life when he was a mine consultant, an army engineer, a Bureau of Reclamation engineer, and an advisor to President Rhee of Korea. The collection includes his mining publications and an autobiographical manuscript Crampton published in 1956 as "Deep Enough." A large collection of photographs complement this period that depict western scenes of Death Valley and the Mojave Desert in Nevada; mines in Nevada County, California; cowboys, cattle drives, homesteading, families living in the West and three photographs of California artist Ferdinand Burgdorff painting a desert landscape. There are newspaper clippings and papers covering Crampton's time with the Bureau of Reclamation and his dispute with the water resource contract the Bureau offered Contra Costa County, California. There are typed transcripts of dictabelt tapes he made in Korea from 1952 to 1953 and numerous negatives and two roles of slide negatives.

4.25 cubic ft. (11 boxes)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7807652

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.

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United States. Bureau of Reclamation

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The Bureau of Reclamation (Reclamation Service) was a bureau of the Department of the Interior which oversaw water development projects in the western United States. In July of 1902, in accordance with the Reclamation Act 32 Stat. 388, approved June 17, 1902 (also known as the Newlands Act), Secretary of the Interior Ethan Allen Hitchcock established the Reclamation Service within the Geological Survey. The new Reclamation Service studied potential water development projects in each western stat...

Rhee, Syngman, 1875-1965

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Synman Rhee (1875-1965) was the first and last Head of State of the Provisional Government of the Republic of Korea and the President of South Korea from 1948-1960. He spent his early life as a Korean revolutionary, with his focus shifting to the Korean independence movement after Japanese occupation. Much of this period was spent in effective exile including while obtaining degrees from George Washington University and Harvard University before ultimately becoming the first Korean to receive...

Crampton, Frank A.

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Frank A. Crampton was a mining engineer who worked in western mining in the first half of the twentieth century. He later worked as a water resource engineer for the Bureau of Reclamation in California. He spent 1952-1953 in Korea as a mining advisor to President Syngman Rhee to help with the rebuilding of South Korea. Later in his life he wrote of his early mining experiences in a book, "Deep Enough," published in 1956. From the description of Frank A. Crampton papers, 1902-1958. (U...

Burgdorff, Ferdinand, 1881-1975.

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