Oliver T. Reedy papers, 1902-1970.

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Reedy, Oliver T. Oliver T. Reedy papers, 1902-1970.

Oliver T. Reedy papers, 1902-1970.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/71152754

The Oliver T. Reedy papers are primarily about the Bureau of Reclamation projects in Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming. There are correspondence, notes, drawings, photographs, and articles by Oliver T. Reedy relating to canal and distribution works, under construction and in operation from 1902-1919. There are photographs of the North Platte Project, which was inclusive of Nebraska, South Dakota, and Wyoming.This included the Belle Fourche Project - Fort Laramie Unit (1915-1917). There are photographs of canals and rolling dams from the Grand Valley Project, Colorado (1910-1915), and of the Garza Dam at Dallas, Texas (1926). There are also Orman Dam records (1902), and snapshots of a Milwaukee Railroad Survey across Montana (1874, 1906). There are also some papers of his son, Oliver C. Reedy, who worked for the Bureau of Reclamation at the Denver field office, 1933-1942. His papers contain field notebooks, specifications, drawings, and reports relating to projects in the Upper Colorado Basin, the Gunnison Valley, and the Missouri River Basin (1933-1942), notes regarding the Great Lakes Basin Committee (1968-1970), and material on the Yellowstone River Compact (1921-1950).

1.2 cubic ft. (2 boxes)

Univerisity of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.