Inventory of the Harry B. Walker Papers
Series 1 Major Research & Projects 1928-1948
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Subseries 1.1 Mechanical Farm Equipment Research Project (USDA) 1928
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U.S. Civil Service Commission Application circa 1927
U.S.D.A. Farm Data and Studies circa 1927
"Progress of Correlation in Farm Equipment Research" circa 1927
Minutes of the Advisory Council Meeting on Research in Mechanical Farm Equipment 1927
Correspondence and Project Reports (1 of 4) 1927
Correspondence and Project Reports (2 of 4) 1927
Correspondence and Project Reports (3 of 4) 1927
Correspondence and Project Reports (4 of 4) 1927-1928
Report on Research in Mechanical Farm Equipment, draft 1928
Report on Research in Mechanical Farm Equipment, bound 1928
"Research in Mechanical Farm Equipment", final report 1928
Subseries 1.2 Sugar Beet Mechanization 1938-1947
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Sugar Beet Machinery Notes 1938-1939
Correspondence and Newsletters 1938-1940
Sugar Beet Conferences 1938-1942
Various Manuscripts 1938-1943
Advisory Committee to U.S. Beet Sugar Association circa 1938
Advisory Committee to U.S. Beet Sugar Association, 1st meeting 1938
Advisory Committee to U.S. Beet Sugar Association, 2nd meeting 1938
Freemont Foundry & Machine Company, photos and correspondence 1939-1940
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Sugar beet machinery notes 1939-1940
Sugar Beet Machinery Newspaper articles, copies 1939-1943
Sugar Beet Machinery Newspaper articles, originals 1939-1943
Advisory Committee to U.S. Beet Sugar Association, 3rd meeting 1939
Advisory Committee to U.S. Beet Sugar Association, 4th meeting (1 of 2) 1939
Advisory Committee to U.S. Beet Sugar Association, 4th meeting (2 of 2) 1939
Correspondence, notes, general research & newsletters circa 1940
Advisory Committee to U.S. Beet Sugar Association, 5th meeting 1940
Advisory Committee to U.S. Beet Sugar Association, 6th meeting 1940
Correspondence, notes, general research & newsletters 1941
Advisory Committee to U.S. Beet Sugar Association, 7th meeting 1941
] "Seed Splitting May Cut Beet Growing Cost", Woodland Democrat Article, copy 1941
] "Seed Splitting May Cut Beet Growing Cost", Woodland Democrat Article, original 1941
Advisory Committee to U.S. Beet Sugar Association, 8th meeting 1941
Machine photographs circa 1942
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Correspondence & notes (1 of 2) 1942
Correspondence & notes (2 of 2) 1942
Advisory Committee to U.S. Beet Sugar Association, 9th meeting 1942
Sugar beet machinery photographs 1943
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Correspondence, notes & general research 1943
Correspondence, photos & general research 1944
Correspondence, notes & general research 1945
Advisory Committee to U.S. Beet Sugar Association, 10th meeting 1943
Advisory Committee to U.S. Beet Sugar Association, 11th meeting 1943
Advisory Committee to U.S. Beet Sugar Association, 12th meeting 1944
Marion beet harvester photographs circa 1944
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Tramontini beet harvester patent for U.S. Beet Sugar Association 1944
Advisory Committee to U.S. Beet Sugar Association, 13th meeting 1945
Marbeet beet harvester photographs and brochure circa 1945
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Tramontini beet lifter patent for U.S. Beet Sugar Association 1945
Newspaper articles, various 1945
Advisory Committee to U.S. Beet Sugar Association, 14th meeting 1947
Series 2 Committees & Professional Affiliations 1928-1953
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Subseries 2.1 University of California Committees 1942-1950
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Subseries 2.1.1 Postwar Planning 1943-1945
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Correspondence, reports & general research 1942 September 8-1943 October 19
Correspondence, reports & general research 1943 November
Correspondence, reports & general research 1943 December
Correspondence, reports & general research 1944 January-1944 March
"Postwar education at Iowa state", newspaper article 1944
Correspondence, reports & general research 1944 April-1944 May
Correspondence, reports & general research 1944 June-1944 July
Correspondence, reports & general research 1944 August-1944 October
Correspondence, reports & general research 1944 November-1944 December
Correspondence, reports & general research 1945 January-1945 March
Correspondence, reports & general research 1945 May
Subseries 2.1.2 College of Engineering Executive Committee, Berkeley 1943-1949
Correspondence, reports, minutes & newsletters 1944-1949
Subseries 2.1.3 Academic Senate 1946-1951
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Meeting minutes, reports & correspondence (1 of 2) 1946-1947
Meeting minutes, reports & correspondence (2 of 2) 1946-1947
Meeting minutes, reports & correspondence 1949 May-1949 July
Meeting minutes, reports & correspondence 1949 August-1949 September
Meeting minutes, reports & correspondence 1949 October-1949 November
President's Advisory Committee, administrative files & papers 1948
President's Advisory Committee, administrative files & papers 1949
President's Advisory Committee, administrative files & papers 1950
"Privilege & Tenure" Committee, hearings (1 of 2) 1950
"Privilege & Tenure" Committee, hearings (2 of 2) 1950
"Privilege & Tenure" Committee, report drafts 1950
"Privilege & Tenure" Committee, final report (1 of 2) 1950
"Privilege & Tenure" Committee, final report (2 of 2) 1950
"Privilege & Tenure" Committee, minutes, notes & correspondence (1 of 2) 1950
"Privilege & Tenure" Committee, minutes, notes & correspondence (2 of 2) 1950
"Privilege & Tenure" Committee, newspaper clippings (copies) 1950-1951
"Privilege & Tenure" Committee, newspaper clippings (originals) 1950-1951
"Privilege & Tenure" Committee, miscellaneous correspondence 1951
Subseries 2.1.4 University Expansion & Planning 1947-1950
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Davis Campus Committee 1947
Statewide University Committee, report draft (3 copies) 1948
Statewide University Committee, report revision draft (3 copies) 1948
"Digest of a report of a survey of the needs of California in higher education" 1948-March
Statewide University Committee minutes, notes & correspondence (1 of 4) 1948
Statewide University Committee minutes, notes & correspondence (2 of 4) 1948
Statewide University Committee minutes, notes & correspondence (3 of 4) 1948
Statewide University Committee minutes, notes & correspondence (4 of 4) 1948
Legislative Visit to U.C. Davis, College of Agriculture 1949
Legislative Visit to U.C. Davis, College of Agriculture information packet 1949
College of Letters & Science Committee, administrative files 1950
College of Letters & Science Committee, report drafts 1949
Subseries 2.2 Ag Research Study Committee 1946-1947
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Active Experiment Station Projects circa 1946
"Report on Supplemental Budget for Agricultural Research" circa 1946
Condensed Statement of Research, drafts circa 1946
College of Agriculture, Supplemental Budget for 1946-1947 1946-June
Federal and California state legislative documents 1946
California State Cooperative Extension work plans (1 of 2) 1946
California State Cooperative Extension work plans (2 of 2) 1946
Administrative files from Dean Hutchinson 1946
Ag Experiment Station, "Condensed Statement of Research", final (1 of 4) 1946
Ag Experiment Station, "Condensed Statement of Research", final (2 of 4) 1946
Ag Experiment Station, "Condensed Statement of Research", final (3 of 4) 1946
Ag Experiment Station, "Condensed Statement of Research", final (4 of 4) 1946
Correspondence & notes (1 of 4) 1946
Correspondence & notes (2 of 4) 1946
Correspondence & notes (3 of 4) 1946
Correspondence & notes (4 of 4) 1946
Report to Governor, Part I, drafts 1946
First report to Governor: "Agricultural Research in California" 1947
Second report to Governor: "Agricultural Research in California" 1947
Correspondence & Notes 1947
"Additional Needed Research" Proposal 1947
Budget report for U.C. College of Agriculture 1947 July
Confidential letter 1948 March
"Proposed new research projects and major expansions in research" for 1949-1950 1948 July
Third report to Governor, Section 2, untitled 1948 October
Subseries 2.3 Farm Machinery Advisory Committee, USDA War Board 1939-1945
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"Power Farming Inventory", statistical pamphlet 1939
"Farms, Facts & Figures", statistical pamphlet 1941
Correspondence & notes 1941
Correspondence & notes (1 of 3) 1942
Correspondence & notes (2 of 3) 1942
Correspondence & notes (3 of 3) 1942
Correspondence & notes (1 of 2) 1943
Correspondence & notes (2 of 2) 1943
"Maximum wartime capacity of California agriculture" 1943 August
Correspondence & notes 1944-1945
"Means of promoting economically & socially desirable types of farm ownership & operation in the United States", Potomac Grange Research Committee report 1945
Subseries 2.4 Professional Committees 1928-1954
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Subseries 2.4.1 Committee on the Relation of Electricity to Agriculture (CREA) 1928-1949
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Speeches & manuscripts 1928-1949
Rural Electric Short Course circa 1930
Rural Electric Short Course, mixed publications 1931-1933
Rural Electrical Conference 1934
Subseries 2.4.2 American Society of Agricultural Engineers (ASAE) 1935-1954
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(Sub-)Committee on Ag Engineering Education 1935-1936
Various ASAE committee notes & papers 1936-1953
Accrediting Committee files 1938-1949
American Land Grant Colleges & Universities Committee circa 1940-1948
Jury of Awards of Honor: Olney files to Walker 1941-1944
Jury of Awards of Honor: Roy Bainer file 1943-1944
Jury of Awards of Honor 1943-1954
Advisory Committee to the Ag Research Administration 1948 October
Accrediting Committee Report, drafts and final 1949 April
Subseries 2.4.3 Other Committees 1941-1953
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American Society of Sugar Beet Technologists, administrative files 1941-1953
Ag Committee, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce 1941-1942
Ag Committee, San Francisco Chamber of Commerce 1942-1945
Series 3 Consultant Work & Research Interests 1927-1956
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Subseries 3.1 Consultations 1927-1955
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Kansas Blaze Fork Drainage District 1927
Report to Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, 4 copies 1944
Report to Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association, 4 copies 1944
Tennessee Valley Authority, research notes 1946
Tennessee Valley Authority, correspondence and administrative papers 1946 April 2-1947 January 22; 1955 January 7-1955 February 28
University of Hawaii, newspaper clippings 1947
Report to Hawaiian Sugar Planters' Association and meeting minutes 1947
University of Hawaii, dedication ceremony address 1947
University of Hawaii, photograph scrapbook 1947-1950
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Subseries 3.2 Research 1928-1956
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Subseries 3.2.1 Farm Equipment 1928-1946
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"Combines in Iowa in 1927", by E.M. Mervine circa 1928
Notes & drawings circa 1928-1933
Farm machinery photographs (1 of 2) circa 1928-1934
Farm machinery photographs (2 of 2) circa 1928-1934
Milk house structures circa 1933
Sabbatical itinerary & planning correspondence 1935
Farm machinery photographs (1 of 5) circa 1946
Farm machinery photographs (2 of 5) circa 1946
Farm machinery photographs (3 of 5) circa 1946
Farm machinery photographs (4 of 5) circa 1946
Farm machinery photographs (5 of 5) circa 1946
Subseries 3.2.2 Farm Management circa 1941-1949
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Photographs, Foreign Economic Administration Headquarters Farm undated
"Farm Economics", various authors (1 of 4) undated
"Farm Economics", various authors (2 of 4) undated
"Farm Economics", various authors (3 of 4) undated
"Farm Economics", various authors (4 of 4) undated
Farm structure research 1941-1949
Research Station climate data circa 1946
National Institute of Farm Brokers conference 1947
Subseries 3.2.3 Academic Policy and Curriculum Development circa 1932-1956
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Engineering curricula miscellaneous circa 1932-1942
Report to accreditation committees, copy 1 (1 of 3) 1954
Report to accreditation committees, copy 1 (2 of 3) 1954
Report to accreditation committees, copy 1 (3 of 3) 1954
Report to accreditation committees, copy 2 (1 of 3) 1954
Report to accreditation committees, copy 2 (2 of 3) 1954
Report to accreditation committees, copy 2 (3 of 3) 1954
"Report on the Needs of Education in Agriculture in California", 2 copies 1954
"Summary of the Restudy of the Needs of California in Higher Education" 1955
"Report of the Proposed Expansion of the University of California in the San Diego Area" 1956
"Report to Consider the Place of the College of Agriculture on the Berkeley Campus" 1956
Series 4 Publications, Writings & Personal Miscellaneous 1917-1957
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Subseries 4.1 Speeches and Radio Talks circa 1921-1956
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Speeches and Radio Talks, Portfolio #1 (1 of 5) circa 1921-1927
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Speeches and Radio Talks, Portfolio #1 (2 of 5) circa 1921-1927
Speeches and Radio Talks, Portfolio #1 (3 of 5) circa 1921-1927
Speeches and Radio Talks, Portfolio #1 (4 of 5) circa 1921-1927
Speeches and Radio Talks, Portfolio #1 (5 of 5) circa 1921-1927
Speeches and Radio Talks, Portfolio #2 (1 of 6) circa 1922-1928
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Speeches and Radio Talks, Portfolio #2 (2 of 6) circa 1922-1928
Speeches and Radio Talks, Portfolio #2 (3 of 6) circa 1922-1928
Speeches and Radio Talks, Portfolio #2 (4 of 6) circa 1922-1928
Speeches and Radio Talks, Portfolio #2 (5 of 6) circa 1922-1928
Speeches and Radio Talks, Portfolio #2 (6 of 6) circa 1922-1928
Radio show scripts, various 1930-1941
Miscellaneous speeches undated
Farm Machinery Conferences, speeches circa 1933-1943
Farm Machinery Conferences, speeches circa 1946-1951
Purdue Teaching Seminar, speeches 1946
"Farm Equipment Dealers: Community Liaison Men", speech to the California Farm Equipment Dealers' Association 1947 October 20
Address to the Detroit Board of Commerce 1949 June 23
Correspondence for paper presentation to Farm Equipment Institute 1953-1954
Paper presentation drafts for Farm Equipment Institute 1953
"Balancing Agricultural Engineering Research", address to Farm Equipment Institute, 3 copies 1953 December 8
Correspondence and final speech for Pacific Coast Electrical Association Conference 1954 February-1954 May
"Electricity in Agriculture", keynote speech drafts for Pacific Coast Electrical Association Conference (1 of 2) 1954
"Electricity in Agriculture", keynote speech drafts for Pacific Coast Electrical Association Conference (2 of 2) 1954
"Administration of Agricultural Engineering", correspondence and speech for the Land Grant College Association 1954 March-1954 November
"The Engineer: The Man and His Profession" 1955
"Trends in Farm Mechanization" 1956
Subseries 4.2 Lectures circa 1934-1948
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"Farm Structures", discussions and course abstracts (1 of 2) undated
"Farm Structures", discussions and course abstracts (2 of 2) undated
Engineering lecture notes circa 1934-1948
Subseries 4.3 Manuscripts circa 1920-1957
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Various papers (1 of 3) undated
Various papers (2 of 3) undated
Various papers (3 of 3) undated
"Mr. Kilowatt and the Farmer" undated
Rural electrification, various papers undated
"Effect of External Variation on Concrete Bridges, Walker's graduation thesis, Iowa State University circa 1920
Various papers, assorted authors circa 1922-1955
Various papers circa 1928-1930
Agricultural engineering education, various papers circa 1928-1931
Farm electrification, various papers circa 1928-1931
Tillage, various papers circa 1928-1931
"Engineering as Applied to Agriculture", paper for World Engineering Congress in Japan 1929
"Engineering in Agriculture" circa 1930
Various papers 1931-1933
"The Engineer's Place in Agriculture" 1932-1941
Various papers 1932-1943
Discussions & various papers 1934-1939
Farm mechanics and education, paper drafts circa 1934
"Looking Ahead in Agricultural Engineering" 1936
Orchard heaters, various papers circa 1937-1938
Sugar beet machinery, various papers circa 1938-1946
Trends in farming, various papers circa 1940-1945
Wartimes and agriculture, various papers circa 1942-1945
"Survey of Mechanical Farm Power in California" circa 1943
"Survey of Mechanical Farm Power in California", notes and drafts circa 1943
Various papers circa 1945-1947
"Engineering Applications to Packing House Operations" 1946-1947
"Risks and Opportunities in Mechanized Farm Equipment" 1947
"Resume of Sixteen Years of Sugar Beet Machinery Research" 1948
"Seasonal Farm Labor and Mechanization", drafts circa 1950
"A Bold Plan to Cut Peak Farm-Labor Load", paper and resulting correspondence 1950
"A Bold Plan to Cut Peak Farm-Labor Load", newspaper originals 1950
Various papers circa 1950-1953
Various papers circa 1955-1957
Subseries 4.4 Personal Miscellaneous circa 1917-1954
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Mussolini and Hitler, Walker's handwritten notes undated
Personal correspondence and records 1917-1928
"Dinner at a Japanese Inn" circa 1929
Student paper, graded 1932
Mixed pamphlets, correspondence circa 1934-1949
Farming conferences, correspondence and notes 1948
Various notes, correspondence circa 1950-1954
Series 5 Water Projects 1891-1958
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Photographs (1 of 2) undated
Photographs (2 of 2) undated
Central Valley Project, various pamphlets and brochures undated
"Central Irrigation District, California: Its Physical, Engineering and Business Problems and Conditions and Its Legal Status", (printed report) 1891 July
Missouri River Improvement, Secretary of War letter 1911
"Report on Devil Canyon Project" to the San Bernadino Board of Water Commissioners 1922
"Report of The California Joint Federal-State Water Resources Commission" 1930
American Society of Agricultural Engineers, various committee reports circa 1931
"Report of the California Joint Legislative Water Committee" 1932 April 20
Colorado River Aqueduct map 1938 January
South Coastal Basin Soil Classification map 1939
Central Valley Project Association, monthly bulletins (1 of 3) 1940-1944
Central Valley Project Association, monthly bulletins (2 of 3) 1945-1946
Central Valley Project Association, monthly bulletins (3 of 3) 1947-1949
"Suitability of Colorado River Water for Agricultural Use in South Coastal Basin", report 1940 July
Sacramento Valley Flood Control Project, automobile trip plans 1941 January
Central Valley Project, maps circa 1941-1945
PG&E Statements on Central Valley Project to House & Senate Appropriations Committee (1 of 3) 1941-1946
PG&E Statements on Central Valley Project to House & Senate Appropriations Committee (2 of 3) 1941-1946
PG&E Statements on Central Valley Project to House & Senate Appropriations Committee (3 of 3) 1941-1946
"Quality of Irrigation Water in the Santa Maria Valley 1941 December
Bureau of Reclamation, Central Valley Project publications and maps 1941-1946
"Water Requirements of Tulare County", report to Board of Supervisors 1942 January
Central Valley Project, clippings scrapbook, various publications (1 of 3) 1943-1947
Central Valley Project, clippings scrapbook, various publications (2 of 3) 1948 January-1948 February
Central Valley Project, clippings scrapbook, various publications (3 of 3) 1948-1949
"California's Central Valley Project", Chamber of Commerce Research Department report (2 copies) 1943 September
Central Valley Project, various manuscripts and publications 1944-1952
Central Valley Project, various correspondence 1944-1954
"Acreage Limitations and Excess Land Problems", Central Valley Project report 1944 March
"Part 5: Reclamation, Irrigation and Power Projects", U.S. Senate Hearing, Committee on Postwar Policy and Planning 1944 June 6
"Growth of Population", Statistical Memorandum No. 6, Population Committee for the Central Valley Project 1944 July 5
"Acreage Limitation in the Central Valley", Report on Problem 19, USDA Bureau of Agricultural Economics 1944 September 25
"Income", Statistical Memorandum No. 7, Population Committee for the Central Valley Project 1944 December 2
Central Valley Project, article series by Arthur Angel 1945 January 23-1945 February 2
"Effect of the Central Valley Project on the Agricultural and Industrial Economy and on the Social Character of California", Report on Problem 24, USDA Bureau of Agricultural Economics, copy 1 (1 of 2) 1945 March
"Effect of the Central Valley Project on the Agricultural and Industrial Economy and on the Social Character of California", Report on Problem 24, USDA Bureau of Agricultural Economics, copy 2 (2 of 2) 1945 March
Central Valley Project, article series by Robert De Roos (2 copies) 1945 November 25-1945 December 6
California Water Conference 1945 December 6-1945 December 7
San Diego County Water Authority, First Annual Report 1946 September 1
"California's Central Valley Project", article from "The Nation" 1946 September 7
"Central Valley Power", journal of the Commonwealth Club of California, Part II 1946 October 7
Central Valley Project, four articles from the "Central News" (originals) 1947-1949
Central Valley Project, four articles from the "Central News" (copies) 1947-1949
Solano County Project maps circa 1948
San Diego County Water Authority, Second Annual Report 1948 December 1
"Water", article from Governor's "Report to the People" 1949 November 1
Upper Colorado River Commission, First Annual Report 1950 March 20
Colorado River Aqueduct, pamphlet from the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California 1950 October
"A Hundred Years of Irrigation in Colorado", Centennial Celebration proceedings 1952
"California and the Colorado River", pamphlet from the Colorado River Association 1954
"Ground Water Storage and a State Water Plan", presentation by S.T. Harding 1958 December 10
Various water projects, oversized materials 1912-1945
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