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  • Language of Material: English
    Contributing Institution: Department of Special Collections and University Archives
    Title: William Hillman Shockley papers
    creator: Shockley, William Hillman
    Identifier/Call Number: SC1108
    Physical Description: 2.5 Linear Feet (6 boxes)
    Date (inclusive): circa 1860-1971
    Date (bulk): bulk
    Abstract: 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.

    Access to Collection

    The materials are open for research use.

    Publication Rights

    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.

    Preferred Citation

    [identification of item], William Hillman Shockley Papers (SC1108). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives, Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.

    Related Materials

    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)

    Biograhpical/Historical note

    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.

    Scope and Contents

    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.

    Subjects and Indexing Terms

    Coal mines and mining -- Russia.
    Documentary photography -- China.
    Documentary photography -- Russia.
    Mining engineering -- Pictorial works.
    Mining geology.
    China -- Pictorial works.
    Photoprints.
    Coal mines and mining -- China.
    Russia -- Pictorial works
    Shockley, William Hillman
    Shockley, William Hillman