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Aldo Giorgini papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 532
Content Description

This collection documents the artistic output of Aldo Giorgini, who was a professor of Civil Engineering at Purdue University from 1968 through the 1990s. The collection includes art prints and their accompanying software documentation, biographical information, writings, clippings, and some photographs.  For a more detailed inventory of the collection please contact an archivist.

Dates: 1964 - 1999

William K. Hatt papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 165
Scope and Contents

The William K. Hatt papers contain certificates, a program from the 1903 Purdue train wreck memorial service, and bibliographic information. The majority of the collection comprises publications by Hatt on topics including civil engineering, transportation research, concrete, and highways.

Dates: 1922 - 1929

Warren E. Howland papers

 Collection — Box: Communal Collections 24, Placement: 16
Identifier: MSF 182
Scope and Contents

The collection is comprised of three folders which contain publications by Warren Howland.

Dates: 1930 - 1962

Indiana Engineering Society records

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSP 16
Scope and Contents The Indiana Engineering Society Records (1913-1937, 0.5 cubic feet) document the correspondence, activities and conferences of the Indiana Engineering Society. Highlighting individual members and other regional engineering societies, the collection shows the Indiana Engineering Society's involvement with the community. Although the records span the years of 1913 to 1937, the majority of the records cover from 1927 to 1937. Types of materials include: correspondence, meeting minutes, by-laws,...
Dates: 1913 - 1937

College of Civil Engineering, Joint Transportation Research Program collection

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: UA 47
Scope and Contents The College of Engineering/Civil/Joint Transportation Research Program collection documents the history of the Joint Highway Research Project, which was formed in 1937, and later became known as the Joint Transportation Research Program. The collection also contains items from the Purdue Civil Engineering Department, prior to 1937; numerous photographs, including 301 photographs and notations about the educational background of graduate students, circa 1920s-1960s, and photographs of early...
Dates: 1920 - 2007

E. A. Kingsley papers

 Collection — Box: Communal Collections 8, Placement: 15
Identifier: MSA 154
Scope and Contents

The papers consist of one folder which contains an address by Kingsley, and publications by and about him.

Dates: 1912 - 1920

Herbert S. O'Brien papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 260
Scope and Contents

The Herbert S. O'Brien papers contain materials that were created by, received by, or that are about Herbert O'Brien. Contents include, but are not limited to, a Class of 1915 photo album, photographs of O'brien, letters, notes, newspaper clippings, and various publications.

Dates: circa 1912-1982

Collection of Robert Dale Owen notebooks

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSP 324
Scope and Contents

The Collection of Robert Dale Owen notebooks contains three notebooks kept by Owen as a young man. Owen organized his notes by topic, with volumes related to science, engineering, Galileo, and a daily journal of his activities in spring 1824.

Dates: 1824 - 1835

Doris Hurt Powers papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSA 2
Scope and Contents The Doris Hurt Powers papers (1942 – 2008; 2 cubic feet) documents the student, aviation, and business activities of Doris Hurt Powers. Powers’ experience as a woman breaking into the male-dominated fields of engineering and aeronautics is well documented through autobiographical speeches and her memoir Nothing but Blue Skies. One strength of the collection are the speeches delivered by Powers that address the particular challenges and opportunities...
Dates: 1945-2011; Other: Date acquired: 03/04/2009

Purdue Society of Construction Engineers pin

 Collection — Box: Communal Collections 63, Placement: 01
Identifier: UA 157
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of one gold, metal pin from the Purdue Society of Construction Engineers from 1986.

Dates: 1986

John Rennie manuscripts

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSP 21
Scope and Contents

The collection is comprised of eleven original manuscripts on the History of Civil Engineering by John Rennie. Volume IV is missing from the collection. The manuscripts document the history of the civil engineering profession from its commencement in Great Britain up to the middle of the 19th century.

Dates: 1839 - 1850

Charles M. Romanowitz papers

 Collection — Box: Communal Collections 56, Placement: 07
Identifier: MSA 345
Scope and Contents The Charles M. Romanowitz papers (1907-1971; 0.2 cubic feet) document Charles Romanowitz’s Purdue career, from his application to Purdue in 1907 to a certificate for his sixtieth anniversary of his degree in 1971. The postcards in the collection, adressed to family members and his future wife Ruth Ritchie, are panoramic scenes of Purdue campus. Of particular interest might be his original senior thesis, “Comparative Costs Foundations in 11-story office bldg. (Variation story height).” The...
Dates: 1907 - 1971; Majority of material found within 1907 - 1911

Alfred J. Steffen papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSF 524
Scope and Contents

The Alfred J. Steffen papers contain a reprint of Steffen's article "Waste Disposal in the Meat Industry (A Comprehensive Review of Practice in the United States)" as published in the Journal of Pure and Applied Chemistry. They also contain a typed course handout for his civil engineering class entitled Man and the Environment and his outline text for the Environmental Engineering I course.

Dates: 1972 - 1975

Joseph L. Waling papers

 Collection — Box: Communal Collections 40, Placement: 04
Identifier: MSF 404
Scope and Contents

The collection consists of one folder which contains a bulletin by J. L. Waling.

Dates: 1953

Morris T. Whitmore papers

 Collection — Box: 1
Identifier: MSA 387
Scope and Contents Morris Whitmore papers document his time working as a buildings appraisor in Chicago, and the daily logs of his time as Constructing Quartermaster Camp Polk and Camp Stewart, 1941, daily personal journal of Major M.T. Whitmore, Constructing Quartermaser, Camp Savannah, Georgia. Includes Apprasial Unit Tables for various Chicago apartment buildings, modern office spaces, and skyscrapers, 1931. This was used by the Board of Assessors, Cook County, IL. Includes information on...
Dates: 1920 - 1941

W. N. Wilson engineering notebook

 Collection — Box: Communal Collections 66, Placement: 17, Folder: 1
Identifier: MSA 380
Scope and Contents

Includes one Civil Engineering notebook on the topic of stresses from 1914. The notebook includes drawings, graphs, and calculations.

Dates: 1914

Kenneth B. Woods papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSF 544
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of the papers of Kenneth Woods: Personal Files, volumes I-X Reports, volumes I-II Speeches and Papers, volumes I-II Notes to our Grandchildren, volumes I-IV Interim Report, "Soil Conditions and Foundation Analysis Proposed High Level Bridge." Final Report, "To the Foundation of Canada Engineering Corporation Limited."

Dates: undated

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