Guide to the William Hillman Shockley Papers
Jenny Johnson and Daniel Hartwig
Stanford University Libraries.
Dept. of Special Collections & University Archives.
May 2012
Copyright © 2012 The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved.
Overview
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
Administrative Information
Information about Access
The materials are open for research use.
Ownership & Copyright
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.
Cite As
[identification of item], William Hillman Shockley Papers (SC1108). Dept. of Special Collections and University Archives,
Stanford University Libraries, Stanford, Calif.
Associated 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.
Access Terms
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
Collection Contents
Box 2, Folder 1
Biographical/Genealogical
Box 2, Folder 2
Birth certificate - William Bradford Shockley
Box 2, Folder 3
Bookplates - William H. Shockley
Box 2, Folder 5
Clipping from
The Nevadan
1971 Jul 11
Box 2, Folder 6
Clipping re William I. Shockley
1936
Box 2, Folder 7
Correspondence - evelopes
Box 2, Folder 8
Correspondence and photos
1888-1915
Box 2, Folder 10
Correspondence
1924 Nov 18-Dec 1
Box 2, Folder 11
Correspondence - laid in
In Search of a Siberian Klondike
Box 2, Folder 12
Reprints and notes - laid in
Russian Notes journal
Box 2, Folder 13
Colorado Meeting of the American Institute of Mining Engineers
1918 Sep 1-6
Box 2, Folder 17
The Whale Ship Charles W. Morgan
Box 1, Folder 2
New Bedford - houses
circa 1890s
Box 1, Folder 3
New Bedford - buildings (exteriors and interiors)
Box 1, Folder 4
New Bedford - buildings (exteriors and interiors)
Box 1, Folder 7
Texas trip: Marfa mines, Terlingua/Jaurez
Box 1, Folder 11
Walter A., William H., and George Shockley
Box 4
Framed photographs (various portraits) and watch
Box 5
Album - William B. Shockley, Los Angeles area and mountain trip
circa 1930s
Box 3
Russian Notes, by William H. Shockley
Scope and Content Note
Several bound articles, including, "Gold Dredging in the Urals, with Notes on Dredging in Siberia;" "The Bogoslovsk Mining
Estate;" and "The People and Scenery of the Urals." Also includes handwritten notes.
Box 3
The "Brownies" in "Yurep" or Cycling Beyond the Sea, by Charles R. Cutter and F. R. Goodrich.
Box 3
In search of a Siberian Klondike, by Washington Baker Vanderlip and Homer Bezaleel Hulbert
