John Debo Galloway papers, 1920-1940.

University of Texas.

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These slides were transferred to the Briscoe Center from the Harry Ransom Center in 2008. From the guide to the UT Color Slides Collection 2008-079., 1938-1965, (Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin) These images were used for UT’s 75th Anniversary presentations in 1958. Many are copies of photographs in the Briscoe Center’s collections and are dated much earlier than the reproductions in this collection. From the guide to ...

Online Archive of California

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Dolbear, Samuel Hood, 1886-

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Moore, J. H. (Joseph Haines), 1878-1949

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Astronomer, astrophysicist, and administrator. From the description of Correspondence, 1942-1949. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 82530355 ...

Republican Party. California. State Central Committee.

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Requa, M. L. (Mark Lawrence), 1865-1937

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Virginia City, Nevada is the location of the Comstock Lode which yielded $400,000,000 in gold and silver between 1859 and 1880. Gold Hill was about a mile south of Virginia City. The author's father, Isaac L. Requa, was a mill superintendent in this area for many years in the 1860s and 1870s. From the description of Recollections of early days in Virginia City and Gold Hill : and a recount of the "Big Cravasse" : typescript, [undated]. (California Historical Society). WorldCat record...

Engineers' National Hoover Committee.

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Galloway, John Debo, 1869-1943

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Biography John Debo Galloway, the son of James and Emily Myers (Hoover) Galloway, was born on October 13, 1869, at San Jose, Calif. His ancestors were residents of Maryland, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania prior to the American Revolution. His parents died when he was still quite young. Left to his own resources, one of his dominant characteristics, self-reliance, early came to the fore. His boyhood experiences, some of which were acquired at Vi...

Blackwelder, Eliot, 1880-

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Professor of geology, Stanford University, 1922-1945. From the description of Eliot Blackwelder papers, 1903-1968. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754870182 Eliot Blackwelder was a professor of geology at Stanford University from 1922-1945. He received his A.B. (1901) and his Ph.D. (1914) from the University of Chicago. From the description of Eliot Blackwelder papers, 1907-1925. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 754863736 Blackwelder, a geologi...

Lick Observatory

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Brooks, Sidney, 1892-

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From the little that is known about Sidney Brooks, it appears that he made his money as a financier of business enterprises, principally in New York. Although he rented an apartment in New York in 1867, he maintained a home in Newport, R.I., which he expanded in the 1860s by acquiring his neighbor's land property and removing all the buildings. He and his wife were personal friends Major General George B. McClellan, and carried on an active correspondence during the Civil War with expatriate Con...

University of California (1868-1952)

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Administrative History During the mid-twentieth century, the American Labor Movement reached a pinnacle of power and influence within society. The Second World War required that labor be managed as a strategic resource; the high productivity of workers during the war carried over in the peace time economy, which experienced a sustained economic "boom." Unlike European labor relations, where unions play an "official" role in government, the Am...

Hoover, Herbert, 1874-1964

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Herbert Clark Hoover (b. August 10, 1874, Iowa-d. October 20, 1964), thirty-first president of the United States, was born in Iowa, and was orphaned as a child. A Quaker known from his childhood as "Bert" to his friends, he began a career as a mining engineer soon after graduating from Stanford University in 1895. Within twenty years he had used his engineering knowledge and business acumen to make a fortune as an independent mining consultant. In 1914 Hoover administered the American Relief Com...

Sproul, Robert Gordon, 1891-1975

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Sproul was at this time the president of the University of California; according to Alma's letter, he was a personal acquaintance of General Mark Clark, the U.S. high commissioner in Austria in the immediate postwar period. Ida was Robert's wife. From the description of Correspondence with Alma Mahler and Franz Werfel, 1943-1946. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 155864521 Personal correspondence and papers as President and President Emeritus of the U...

Kirkbride, W. H.

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Lippincott, Joseph Barlow, 1864-1942

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Historical Background The story of the Union Pacific Railroad's involvement with oil and the Tidelands goes back to at least 1911 when the State of California granted the City of Long Beach its tidelands properties for development of commerce, navigation, fisheries, and recreation under a public trust doctine, meaning any development and revenues from such development would have to benefit the state as a whole rather than merely neighboring c...

Reed, Thomas Harrison, 1881-

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Reed earned his Harvard AB in 1901. From the description of The municipal government of Manchester, [thesis for] Government 10, [1901] (Harvard University). WorldCat record id: 77074413 Consultant in municipal government, professor of political science at the University of California and the University of Michigan. From the description of Thomas H. Reed papers, 1902-1971. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 154302203 Reed's career ...

Engineers' Hoover Committee, Southern California.

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Reynders, John V. W. (John Van Wicheren), 1866-1944

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Downing, Paul M.

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Wright, William Hammond, 1871-1959

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Ward, James W. (James William), 1861-

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Merrill, Charles Washington, 1869-1956

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Colby, Safford K.

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Calhoun, John Williams, 1871-

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