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Title: Cory family papers,
Date (inclusive): 1896-1932
Collection number: 665
Creator: Corey family
Extent: 13 boxes (6.5 linear ft.)
Abstract: Harry Thomas Cory (1870- ) was an assistant engineer at A. & M. Railway in 1888, before undertaking numerous engineering projects
including one with the Southern Pacific Railroad, where he was personally in charge of diverting the Colorado River from running
to the Salton Sea (1906-07). Clarence Linus Cory (1872-1937) was a professor of electrical engineering at Highland Park College
in Des Moines, Iowa and a professor of electrical engineering at the University of California at Berkeley. The collection
contains about 130 transcript engineering reports, including ground water, surface water (hydrolic), electrical, and mining
investigations, primarily for cities, counties, and corporations in California.
Language: Finding aid is written in English
Repository:
University of California, Los Angeles. Library. Department of Special Collections.
Los Angeles, California 90095-1575
Physical location: Stored off-site at SRLF. Advance notice is required for access to the collection. Please contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
COLLECTION STORED OFF-SITE AT SRLF: Open for research. Advance notice required for access. Contact the UCLA Library, Department
of Special Collections Reference Desk for paging information.
Restrictions on Use and Reproduction
Property rights to the physical object belong to the UCLA Library,
Department of Special Collections. Literary rights, including copyright,
are retained by the creators and their heirs. It is the responsibility of
the researcher to determine who holds the copyright and pursue the
copyright owner or his or her heir for permission to publish where The UC
Regents do not hold the copyright.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of the Cory family.
[Identification of item], Cory Family Papers (Collection 665). Department of Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, UCLA.
UCLA Catalog Record ID:
4232909
Collection was Esther Vécsey, 23 February 1967 and then revised by Saundra Taylor, April 1970.
Harry Thomas Cory was born on May 27, 1870 in Lafayette, Indiana; BME (1887), BCE (1889), Purdue University; MCE (1893), MME
(1896), Cornell University; Dr. Engineering, Purdue University, 1929; became assistant engineer at A.& M. Railway in 1888,
after which he undertook numerous engineering projects including one with the Southern Pacific Railroad, where he was personally
in charge of diverting the Colorado River from running to the Salton Sea (1906-07); also worked on projects for the Egyptian
and Sudanese governments and in French and Spanish Morocco, before becoming a consulting engineer in Los Angeles; publications
include
Irrigation and river control in the Colorado River Delta (1913) and
The Imperial Valley and the Salton Sink (1915); Clarence Linus Cory was born in Lafayette on September 4, 1872; BME, Purdue University, 1889; ME, Cornell University,
1891; ED, Purdue University, 1914; professor of electrical engineering, Highland Park College, Des Moines, Iowa, 1891-92;
professor of electrical engineering in 1892, and dean of the College of Mechanics in 1901, University of California at Berkeley;
he died on August 2, 1937.
Collection contains about 130 transcript engineering reports, including ground water, surface water (hydrolic), electrical,
and mining investigations, primarily for cities, counties, and corporations in California. Also contains vol.2 of the Cory
family genealogy, biographical and bibliographical materials on Clarence L. Cory, and 6 photograph albums compiled by Harry
Thomas Cory.
Arranged in the following series:
- Reports (Boxes 1-4).
- Genealogy, letters and ephemera (Boxes 5-6).
- Photographs and glass slides (Boxes 3 and 5-7).
- Receipts (Box 8).
- Yearbooks (Box 9).
- Card indexes (Boxes 10-13).
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Corey family--Archives.
Cory, H.T. (Harry Thomas), b. 1870--Archives.
Cory, Clarence Linus, 1872-1937--Archives.
Engineers--California--Archival resources.
Photograph albums.
- The Cory photographs of the Colorado River project of the California Development Company. Separately catalogued as part of the Photograph Album Collection (call no.94/1, 2 boxes). Request at Department of Special Collections, UCLA.