Inventory of the Jack Adelbert Killalee papers
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Title: Jack Adelbert Killalee papers
Date (inclusive): 1927-1958
Collection Number: 2014C36
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
4 manuscript boxes
(1.6 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, diaries, memoranda, reports, notes, personal documents, and photographs, relating to American technical assistance
to Turkey and to highway construction in Turkey, Lebanon, and elsewhere.
Creator:
Killalee, Jack Adelbert, 1899-1957
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives.
Access
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Use
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Acquisition Information
Materials were acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 2014.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Jack Adelbert Killalee papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives
Biographical note
| 1899 |
Born, San Francisco, California |
| 1917-1919 |
U.S. Army service |
| 1925 |
B.S., University of California, Berkeley |
| 1925-1955 |
Highway engineer, U.S. Bureau of Public Roads |
| 1943 |
Alcan (Alaska-Canada) Highway construction engineer |
| 1947-1950 |
Assistant division engineer, U.S. Public Roads Administration Group, Turkey |
| 1955-1957 |
Consulting engineer, Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton Company, Lebanon |
| 1957 |
Died, Burlingame, California |
Scope and Contents note
The career of Jack A. Killalee as a United States government highway engineer was notable for its international dimension.
After many years of activity in planning and constructing highways in the United States, he took part in an early Marshall
Plan project to build highways in Turkey from 1947 to 1950. This was an instance of the far-flung work of the U.S. Economic
Cooperation Administration in aiding in post-World War II reconstruction and development in many countries. After retiring
from the U.S. Bureau of Public Roads in 1955, Killalee returned to the Middle East as a consulting engineer with the Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton
Company, which was employed under a U.S. Foreign Operations Administration contract to plan and build a highway from Beirut,
Lebanon, to Damascus, Syria. He was also involved with proposals for further highway construction in Jordan.
While the collection is small, it provides representative documentation of American international assistance and of the practicalities
of life for Americans engaged in such assistance abroad. Many photographs of highway work are incorporated in textual reports
in the collection.
Killalee maintained a permanent residence in Burlingame, California, and his papers were deposited with the Burlingame Historical
Society after his death. The Hoover Institution received those of his papers focusing on his international work from the Burlingame
Historical Society in 2014. Other Killalee papers remain with the society.
Related Materials
Jack A. Killalee papers, Burlingame Historical Society, Burlingame, California
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Highway engineering
Technical assistance, American
Roads -- Turkey
Roads -- Lebanon
Engineers
United States. Bureau of Public Roads
Biographical File
1927-1958
Scope and Contents note
Letters, obituaries and miscellany re Jack A. Killalee
box 1, folder 1
General. Letters, genealogical notes and miscellany
1927-1929 and undated
U.S. Bureau of Public Roads File
1931-1955
Scope and Contents note
Diaries, correspondence, reports, memoranda, and miscellany regarding the work of Jack A. Killalee for the U.S. Bureau of
Public Roads
box 1, folder 3
General. Retirement letter of appreciation from Secretary of Commerce Sinclair Weeks and memoranda
1950-1955
Diaries regarding highway work in California and neighboring states
box 1, folder 6
Alcan (Alaska-Canada) Highway. Letters, organization chart, printed article, and memorabilia
1943
box 1, folder 7
Visiting foreign engineers. Bound folder of letters, reports, and photographs regarding visits of engineers from various countries
to Bureau of Public Roads headquarters in San Francisco
1946-1947
box 1, folder 8
Visiting Indian engineers. Bound folder of letters, reports, and photographs regarding visits of engineers from India to Bureau
of Public Roads headquarters in San Francisco
1946-1947
U.S. Public Roads Administration Group, Turkey, File
1947-1950
Scope and Contents note
Diary, correspondence, memoranda, printed matter and photographs regarding the work of Jack A. Killalee for the U.S. Public
Roads Administration Group in Turkey
box 2, folder 1
General. Letters, memoranda and miscellany
1948-1949.
Scope and Contents note
Includes Palace of Nations (Geneva) brochure
box 2, folder 3
Directory of U.S. government personnel in Turkey
1949
La Quinzaine d'Ankara, Serial issues
box 2, folder 6-7
Bound scrapbook folders of telegrams, clippings, memorabilia, and photographs
1947-1949
box 3, folder 1-2
Photographs of scenes in Ankara and of highway work, circa 1947-1950
Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton Company File
1954-1957
Scope and Contents note
Diary, correspondence, memoranda, reports, printed matter, and photographs regarding the work of Jack A. Killalee for the
Tippetts-Abbett-McCarthy-Stratton Company in Lebanon
box 3, folder 4
Correspondence and memoranda
1954-1957.
Scope and Contents note
Includes business contracts and list of American evacuees from Beirut at time of Suez War (1956)
box 3, folder 5-6
Highway materials testing. Correspondence, memoranda, reports, charts, and photographs
1955-1957.
Scope and Contents note
Includes material on work of Highway Materials Laboratory near Beirut
box 4, folder 1
Jordan highway proposal. Correspondence, memoranda, notes, map, and printed matter
1956, regarding the proposed highway in Jordan from Amman to Aqaba
box 4, folder 2
U.S. Operations Mission, Lebanon, reports
1954-1957
box 4, folder 3-4
Printed matter. Clippings, serial issues, and Arabic-English dictionary
1956-1957
box 4, folder 5-6
Miscellany. Business cards, lists, notes, and diagram
1956-1957
box 4, folder 7
Photographs
1955 and undated
