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Creator:
Hagan, Robert Mower, 1916-
Title: Robert Mower Hagan Papers
Date (inclusive): 1901-1993
Extent:
33.2 linear feet
Abstract: Robert Mower Hagan (1916-2002) served as Professor of Water Science at the University of California, Davis from 1948-1987.
The Hagan Papers contain writings, teaching files including class lecture notes and background materials, as well as subject
files which contain materials on topics such as the peripheral canal and Delta water management. The collection provides documentation
of the politics of California's water in the late twentieth century.
Physical location: Researchers should contact Special Collections to request collections, as many are stored offsite.
Repository:
University of California, Davis. General Library. Dept. of Special Collections.
Davis, California 95616-5292
Collection number: D-348
Language of Material: Collection materials in English.
Robert Mower Hagan was born in Oakland on December 6, 1916 to Hugh Lawrence Hagan and Geneva Mower Hagan. He received his
B.S. in Chemistry (1937) and an M.S. in Soil Physics (1941) from the University of California, Berkeley and his Ph.D. in Soil
Science and Plant Physiology (1948) from the University of California, Davis.
During the Second World War, Hagan served as a commissioned officer for six years and taught military science to ROTC students
at UC Berkeley.
Hagan served as Professor of Water Science at the University of California, Davis from 1948-1987.
He passed away on July 3, 2002.
Source:
"Robert Hagan Obituary" in the
Davis Enterprise, July 17, 2002.
The Hagan Papers contain writings, teaching files including class lecture notes and background materials, as well as subject
files which contain materials on topics such as the peripheral canal and Delta water management. The collection provides documentation
of the politics of California's water in the late twentieth century.
The collection is arranged in eight series: 1. Biographical Materials, 2. Works by Hagan, 3. Speeches and Talks, 4. Teaching
Files, 5. Subject Files, 6. Audiovisual Materials, 7. Maps and posters, and 8. Ephemera.
Special Collections also holds an oral history interview of Hagan conducted in 2001 by the UC Davis Emeriti Association, AR-074:
145.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Hagan, Robert Mower, 1916---Archives
University of California, Davis--Faculty--Archives
Water-supply, Agricultural--California
Water in agriculture--California
Water conservation--California
Delta Region (Calif.)
Water resources development
Uncovering California's Environmental Collections Project
Collection is open for research.
Processing of the Robert Mower Hagan Papers was generously funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and administered by
the Council on Library and Information Resources (CLIR). UC Davis Special Collections was awarded a Cataloging Hidden Special
Collections and Archives grant from 2010-2012, "Uncovering California's Environmental Collections," in collaboration with
eight additional special collections and archival repositories throughout the state and the California Digital Library (CDL).
Grant objectives included processing hidden collections related to the state's environment and environmental history. The
collections document an array of important sub-topics such as irrigation, mining, forestry, agriculture, industry, land use,
activism, and research. Together they form a multifaceted picture of the natural world and the way it was probed, altered,
exploited and protected in California over the twentieth century. Finding aids are made available through the Online Archive
of California (OAC).
Sara Gunasekara processed this collection and created and encoded this finding aid with assistance from student employee Michelle
Xie.
Gift of Robert M. Hagan in 2000.
[Identification of item], Robert Mower Hagan Papers, D-348, Department of Special Collections, General Library, University
of California, Davis.
Copyright is protected by the copyright law, chapter 17, of the U.S. Code. All requests for permission to publish or quote
from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Special Collections. Permission for publication is given on behalf
of the Department of Special Collections, General Library, University of California, Davis as the owner of the physical items
and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by the researcher.