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Call Number: SC1108
Creator:
Shockley, William Hillman, 1855-1925.
Title: William Hillman Shockley papers
Dates: circa 1860-1971
Bulk Dates: 1890-1920
Physical Description:
2.25 Linear feet (5 boxes)
Summary: The materials consist of photographs, lecture notes, letters, books, and manuscripts documenting Shockley’s career as a mining
engineer and professor at Stanford, including documentation of geology expeditions to Alaska, China and Russia.
Language(s): The materials are in English.
Repository:
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives.
Stanford University Libraries.
557 Escondido Mall
Stanford, CA 94305
Email: speccollref@stanford.edu
Phone: (650) 725-1022
URL: http://www-sul.stanford.edu/depts/spc/spc.html
The materials are open for research use.
All requests to reproduce, publish, quote from, or otherwise use collection materials must be submitted in writing to the
Head of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, California 94305-6064. Consent
is given on behalf of Special Collections as the owner of the physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission
from the copyright owner. Such permission must be obtained from the copyright owner, heir(s) or assigns. See: http://library.stanford.edu/depts/spc/pubserv/permissions.html.
Restrictions also apply to digital representations of the original materials. Use of digital files is restricted to research
and educational purposes.
[identification of item], William Hillman Shockley Papers (SC1108). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
William Hillman Shockley Collection (University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Department of Special Collections)
William Hillman Shockley Photographs (David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University)
William Hillman Shockley (1855-1925) was an American mining engineer and amateur photographer. He worked and traveled in Russia,
Korea, Australia, and China, and was active in the Chinese mining regions during the same approximate period when another
American, Herbert Hoover, also worked as a young mining engineer. Shockley was the father of William B. Shockley, inventor
of the transistor and winner of the Nobel Prize for Physics (1956). He married May Bradford, who had been a federal deputy
surveyor of the mineral lands. The Shockley's son William B. was born in England in 1910; they returned to the U.S. in 1913.
The materials consist of photographs, lecture notes, letters, books, and manuscripts documenting Shockley’s career as a mining
engineer and professor at Stanford, including documentation of geology expeditions to Alaska, China and Russia.
Shockley, William Hillman, 1855-1925.
China--Pictorial works.
Coal mines and mining--China.
Coal mines and mining--Russia.
Documentary photography--China.
Documentary photography--Russia.
Mining engineering--Pictorial works.
Mining geology.
Photoprints.
Russia--Pictorial works