Finding Aid to the C. D. Walcott Letter MS.738
Holly Rose Larson
Library and Archives at the Autry
2012 November 16
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Library and Archives at the Autry
Title: C. D. Walcott Letter
Creator:
Hill, Louis C. ǂq (Louis Clarence)
Creator:
Walcott, Charles Doolittle
Creator:
Hodge, Frederick Webb
Identifier/Call Number: MS.738
Physical Description:
0.1 Linear Feet
(1 folder)
Date: undated
Abstract: This is a typed copy of a letter from H. L. C., Supervising Engineer of the Roosevelt Dam construction in Arizona, to C. D.
Wolcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington D. C. The author of the letter says he is enclosing letters from
and to topographer Samuel O. Potter, concerning the Salt River Reservoir as ground for exploration, and offering his possible
assistance. The letter was originally written on June 8, 1908, but no date exists on the copy.
Language of Material:
English
.
Louis C. Hill (1865-1938) was the Supervising Engineer for the Roosevelt Dam project.
Samuel O. L. Potter traveled as topographer for the engineering department of the U.S. army. He traveled across that part
of Arizona now named the Salt River Reservoir, and with some of the soldiers there, discovered graves and ruins of ancient
cliff dwellings.
This is a typed copy of a letter from H. L. C., Supervising Engineer of the Roosevelt Dam construction in Arizona, to C. D.
Wolcott, Secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, Washington D. C. In the letter, the author says he is enclosing letters
from and to Samuel O. Potter, concerning the Salt River Reservoir as ground for exploration, and offering his possible assistance.
The letter was originally written on June 8, 1908, but no date exists on the copy. This collection includes a completed Works
Progress Administration Individual Manuscript Form. Corrections to the manuscript were made by Southwest Museum director Frederick
Webb Hodge, 1939 May.
Walcott Letter, undated, Braun Research Library Collection, Autry Museum of the American West, Los Angeles; MS.738.
Donated to the Library as part of the Munk Library of Arizoniana, before 1931.
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Subjects and Indexing Terms
Theodore Roosevelt Dam (Ariz.)
Salt River (Ariz. : River)
Water use -- Arizona
Arizona -- Description and travel
Potter, Samuel O.L.