Morrough P. O'Brien papers
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Descriptive Summary
Title: Morrough P. O'Brien papers
Date (inclusive): 1918-1981
Collection Number: WRCA 059
Extent:
12 linear feet
26 boxes
Repository:
Rivera Library. Special Collections Department.
Languages: English.
Access
Collection is open for research.
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Biographical Information
Morrough Parker O'Brien was born in Hammond, Indiana, on September 21, 1902. He completed high school in Toledo, Ohio, and
received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1925. He did graduate work at Purdue University,
1925-1927, and in 1927-1928, as the John R. Freeman Scholar of the American Society of Civil Engineers for study of fluid
mechanics at the Technische Hochschule in Danzig and The Royal College of Engineering in Stockholm. He received three honorary
degrees: the D.Sc. from Northwestern University; the D.Eng. from Purdue University; and the LL.D. from the University of California.
O'Brien engaged in three fundamentally different careers. His academic career as Professor, Chairman, and Dean of Engineering
at the University of California, Berkeley, spanned the years 1928-1959. A second career was his pioneering work in the development
of coastal engineering. His third career was his service form 1949 until his death to General Electric Company, to the University
of Florida and other universities, and to government agencies.
Ernest O. Lawrence and Robert J. Oppenheimer were appointed assistant professors in the same year as O'Brien, and the three
became good friends. These associations greatly influenced his views regarding the importance of research in a modern engineering
school. During his tenure as Dean of the College of Engineering at Berkeley he led the development of the College to its top-ranked
status in many engineering disciplines. He was widely regarded as a powerful and perceptive leader in engineering education.
Under his leadership, the University established the external Engineering Advisory Council, the Engineering Alumni Society,
and such research units as the Institute of Traffic and Transportation Engineering, the Sanitary Engineering Research Laboratory,
the University-wide Water Resources Center, and the Biomechanics Laboratory (in cooperation with the Department of Orthopedic
Surgery at the UC Medical School in San Francisco). UC President Emeritus Clark Kerr, who had served as Chancellor during
the later years of O'Brien's tenure as Dean, remembered him as "the mighty Mike" and the "builder of the College of Engineering
and a builder of Berkeley" during a symposium held in O'Brien's honor in March 1987. (A record of that symposium is in
Shore and Beach, July/October 1987).
O'Brien received a number of honors from the University. O'Brien Hall, which houses the Hydraulics Laboratory and the Water
Resources Collections and Archives, was named for him, and a portrait of O'Brien hangs in the entry hall of this building.
He was awarded a Doctor of Laws degree in 1968. In April 1988 he was awarded the Clark Kerr Award, given by the Academic Senate.
Dean O'Brien was also awarded the Lamme Award for excellence in teaching by the American Society for Engineering Education.
O'Brien was the founder of modern coastal engineering. He wrote a number of papers on the subject which have had a lasting
influence. He was appointed Civil Engineer for the U.S. Army Board on Sand Movement and Beach Erosion in 1929, and initiated
research by this board on coastal engineering. In 1930 he made field studies along the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California,
and wrote a detailed seven-volume report on the results of his observations. A landmark paper on the relationship between
tidal prism and entrance area was one of the results of these studies. He summarized many of his observations and thoughts
on beach processes and the effects of structures on beaches in his paper "The Coast of California as a Beach Erosion Laboratory"
(
Shore and Beach, July 1936). In 1938 he was appointed a member of the Beach Erosion Board, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, and served on it
until it was abolished in 1963. He was then appointed to its successor, the Coastal Engineering Research Board, serving there
from 1963 until 1978, a total of 40 years on the two boards.
The years of World War II were extremely busy for O'Brien, serving as Chairman of the Mechanical Engineering Department until
1943 when he was appointed both Dean of the College of Engineering and also Chairman of the Department of Engineering. He
was Executive Engineer of the Radiation Laboratory under Professor E.O. Lawrence in 1942-1943. O'Brien was asked by Lawrence
and General Groves, the Director of the Manhattan Project, to recruit an engineering team to design the engineering facilities
at Oak Ridge for the electromagnetic system. O'Brien said that probably the most important thing he did in his life was to
convince them that there was not time to build a competent staff, that they should hire companies with an established engineering
staff to do the job. He was in charge of the Statewide University of California Engineering Science and Management War Training
Program, 1940-1944, when the program registered 46,000 students who worked under 1,800 instructors. He worked for the U.S.
Navy Bureau of Ships on underwater sound, on cavitation generated by submarine propellers (the results of his research were
immediately implemented by submariners), and on the design and operation of amphibious craft. He also worked with Professor
H.U. Sverdrup of the Scripps Institute of Oceanography on the forecasting of waves, and he directed a program of field and
laboratory studies of landing craft for the bureau. In 1950 he and Professor Joe W. Johnson started what are now known as
the International Conferences on Coastal Engineering.
O'Brien was a member of the Army Scientific Advisory Panel, 1954-1965, serving as its chairman, 1961-1965; a member of the
Defense Science Board, 1961-1965; member of the Board of the National Science Foundation (a Presidential appointment), 1958-1960;
and he served on numerous committees of the National Research Council. He was twice awarded the Distinguished Civilian Service
Medal.
He was a leader in several fields of engineering, including pumps and air compressors. The compressor design for the first
American axial flow jet engine was laid out exactly in accordance with the method presented in the paper by O'Brien and Folsom
entitled "The Design of Propeller Pumps and Fans." It was incorporated in what became the J47 engine with a production run
of thousands. He was elected to the General Electric Company Propulsion Hall of Fame in 1984.
In 1988, his oral history,
Morrough P. O'Brien: Dean of the College of Engineering, Pioneer in Coastal Engineering, and Consultant to General Electric, was published by the Regional Oral History Office, Bancroft Library.
Professor O'Brien died on July 28, 1988, at his home in Cuernavaca, Mexico, at the age of 85.
Excerpted from:
In Memoriam, by R. E. Connick, H. D. Eberhart, J. W. Johnson, J. R. Whinnery, and R. L. Wiegel, 1988.
Collection Scope and Contents
Correspondence, reports, and documents, concerning sedimentation, flow of water in channels, rivers, flood control, waves
and surge, beach erosion, dams and related projects, pipes, hydraulic models, and pumps.
Collection described in:
Dictionary Catalog of the Water Resources Collections and Archives, University of California, Berkeley (G.K. Hall and Co., 1970).
Collection Number
Collection number updated February 2019. Legacy collection number was O'BRIEN. This change was part of a project in 2018/2019
to update the collection numbers for collections in the Water Resources Collections and Archives.
Indexing Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
Subjects
University of California, Berkeley. College of Engineering
American Shore and Beach Preservation Association
Beach erosion
Channels (Hydraulic engineering)
Hydraulic engineering
Hydraulic laboratories
Hydraulic models
Hydraulics
Inlets
Tides
Box 1, Item 1
Transportation of bed load
1934
Physical Description: 1 volume, holograph, bound
Box 1, Item 2
Channel contractions
1934
Physical Description: 1 folder (5 pieces)
Box 1, Item 3
Henry, Marc. Propagation of flood waves in a rectangular channel
1937
Physical Description: 25 leaves, Translated from the French by the aid of Works Progress Administration, University of Minnesota Sub-Project no.
40. Includes original copy in French
Box 1, Item 4
American Geophysical Union. Special Committee on Flood Waves. Reports and correspondence on flood waves
1935-1937
Physical Description: 1 folder (45 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Partial contents: Definitions and classification of flood waves / Robert E. Horton --Rain wave trains / Robert E. Horton --A
study of high velocity flow in curved channels of rectangular cross-section / A. T. Ippen and R. T. Knapp.
Box 1, Item 5
Henry, Marc. Account relative to disturbance able to propagate at a uniform velocity in an open channel
1937
Physical Description: 9 leaves
Scope and Contents
Includes copy of original in French.
Box 1, Item 6
Goodridge, R. S. A preliminary draft of report on "Deficiencies in basic hydrologic data."
Physical Description: 25 leaves
Scope and Contents
With special reference to dynamics of unsteady flow, such as flood waves and related phenomena in open channels.
Box 1, Item 7
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Discharge of the Mississippi River at Friar Point, Miss
1932
Physical Description: 1 folder (2 graphs)
Box 1, Item 8
Waves (surges) in open channels
1932-1933
Physical Description: 1 folder (79 pieces, includes photographs)
Scope and Contents
Partial contents: Translatory waves in open channels : theoretical analysis of movement caused by changing the depth of water
/ Horace W. King --Checks on the model law for hydraulic structures / Morrough P. O'Brien.
Box 1, Item 9
Flood waves
1935-1938
Physical Description: 1 folder (11 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Partial Contents: Die Wasserstandsvorhersage fur Wien = Water level forecasting for Vienna / Viktor Felber --Beitrag und Beispiel
zur Schwallberechnung = Contribution and example for flood computation / Franz Vögerl --Slide rule for routing floods through
storage reservoirs or lakes / Chesley J. Posey Velocity of flood crests --O'Brien's notes on these papers.
Box 1, Item 10
O'Brien's manuscript computations on "Wasserschwall und Wassersunk" by Philipp Forchheimer
1924?
Physical Description: 26 leaves
Box 1, Item 11
Karman, Theodore von. Letter to M. P. O'Brien on theory of flood waves
1937
Physical Description: 1 folder (3 pieces)
Box 1, Item 12
Kramer, E. W. Report to Federal Power Commission on persistence of waves in New and Kanawha rivers due to regulation in flow
at Radford Reservoir
1936
Physical Description: 1 folder (6 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence and data to M. P. O'Brien, prepared in connection with the study of waves on the Pit-Sacramento and
Klamath Rivers.
Box 1, Item 13
Allen, J. Experiments on water waves of translation in small channels
1934
Physical Description: p. 754-768
Box 1, Item 14
Selim, Mohamed Ahmed. Flood waves
1940
Physical Description: 33 leaves, holograph, bound
Box 1, Item 15
Johnson, J. W. Notes on unsteady or variable flow surges in channels
1934
Physical Description: 1 folder (45 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Partial Contents: Checks on the model law for hydraulic structures / Morrough P. O'Brien --Velocity-head correction for hydraulic
flow / Morrough P. O'Brien and Joe W. Johnson.
Box 1, Item 16
Pacific Coast photographs
1933-1937
Physical Description: 28 photographs and postcards
Scope and Contents
Includes: Santa Barbara; Ventura; Long Beach; San Francisco; Russian River (mouth); Laguna Beach; La Jolla; Del Mar; Carmel
Beach; Berkeley; Ensenada (Baja California, Mexico).
Box 1, Item 17
Beach erosion Pacific Coast, San Francisco entrance and adjacent beaches, Russian River to Santa Cruz excluding Half Moon
Bay
1930-1933
Physical Description: 1 volume, bound
Scope and Contents
Includes news clippings and photographs.
Box 1, Item 18
Siuslaw River, Oregon
1929
Physical Description: 17 leaves, bound : photographs, maps
Box 1, Item 19
Model of Neches Canal
1935
Physical Description: 1 folder (16 pieces), Includes correspondence with W. W. McLaughlin and E. W. Kramer on the Lower Neches Valley project and
mapages
Box 1, Item 20
Centrifugal pumps (reversed flow)
1930-1932
Physical Description: 1 folder (97 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, graphs, calculations, etc. Partial contents: Reversed flow through centrifugal pumps / Morrough P.
O'Brien and James E. Gosline --Reversed rotation of centrifugal pumps / Morrough P. O'Brien and James E. Gosline.
Box 2, Item 21
Surges in pipelines
1932-1939
Physical Description: 1 folder (107 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, notes, graphs, data, etc. Partial Contents: Flow of water in 54-in. concrete conduit, Denver, Colo.
/ Fred C. Scobey --New emergency water supply for City of Santa Barbara / Raymond A. Hill.
Box 2, Item 22
Pine Canyon and Morris Dams, California
1937
Physical Description: 1 folder (7 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes graphs, correspondence, maps, etc.
Box 2, Item 23
Problems on Guadalupe and Calero spillways
1935
Physical Description: 1 folder (7 pieces)
Box 2, Item 24
Scobey, Fred C. Notes on conduit-capacity studies of interest to World Water Power Conference
1934
Physical Description: 1 folder (5 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes: On the use of vd/1 as a parameter in the practice of hydraulics / by E. Parry.
Box 2, Item 25
Steady non-uniform flow, special structures : notes of M. P. O'Brien
1927-1933
Physical Description: 1 folder (28 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Partial contents: Improved transition adds to flume capacity / J. A. Fraps --Spillway discharge capacity of Wilson Dam / Louis
G. Puls --Tests of broad-crested weirs / James G. Woodburn --Pondage important factor in spillway design / Melvin D. Casler.
Box 2, Item 26
Steady non-uniform flow, backwater curves : notes of M. P. O'Brien
1932-1937
Physical Description: 1 folder (48 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Partial contents: Analyzing hydraulic models for effects of distortion / Morrough P. O'Brien Un'osservazione elementare nel
calcolo dei canali / Francesco Marzolo --Computing backwater curves for surface slopes in streams / J. C. Stevens.
Box 2, Item 27
Analyzing hydraulic models for effects of distortion
1932
Physical Description: 1 folder (5 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with Julian Hinds on free overfall at the end of a horizontal channel, 1933.
Box 2, Item 28
Notes on velocity distribution in open channels
1933-1937
Physical Description: 1 volume, bound
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, graphs, and computations.
Box 2, Item 29
Notes on circular and triangular weirs
1927-1934
Physical Description: 1 volume, bound
Scope and Contents
Includes papers, graphs, and computations.
Box 2, Item 30
Memorandum re checks on the model law for hydraulic structures
1932
Physical Description: 11 leaves, holograph
Box 2, Item 31
Models of estuaries
1935
Physical Description: 18 leaves
Box 2, Item 32
Discussion of "The motion of water through sluices and scale models" by Hurst and Watt
undated
Physical Description: 10 leaves, holograph
Box 2, Item 33
Rangoon tidal model : correspondence with J. G. Brown, of Sir Alexander Gibb Partners, London
1933-1934
Physical Description: 1 folder (4 pieces)
Box 2, Item 34
Speeches on hydraulic engineering
1929
Physical Description: 1 folder (2 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Presented at Student Chapter, American Society of Mechanical Engineers.
Box 2, Item 34-1
Photographs of model tests of Pine Canyon Dam and Los Angeles County Flood Control District Dams no. 1 and no. 2
Physical Description: 1 folder (13 photographs and 6 pieces)
Box 2, Item 35
Siphon spillway at the Oakdale development of the Indiana Hydro Electric Power Company
1925-1935
Physical Description: 1 folder (10 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence, graphs, etc. Partial contents: Results of tests on siphon spillways for large flume / T. J. Corwin
and A. W. Kidder --Siphon-spillway models tested against prototypes / Herbert H. Wheaton.
Box 2, Item 36
Siphon tests
1932-1935
Physical Description: 1 folder (25 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes calculations on siphons, correspondence with Libby's Canal Ranch, etc.
Skin friction of rough surfaces
1930
Physical Description: 1 folder (8 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes: "Experimental investigations on the problem of roughness" by H. Schlichting, translated by Josef Staufer; and O'Brien's
calculations on both papers.
Box 3, Item 38
Surges in hydraulic pipe
1929?
Physical Description: 1 folder (16 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Partial contents: Gibson method of measurement in pipes of variable areas --Vibration and extension of a ring under hydraulic
pressures --Pressures in penstocks caused by the gradual closure of gates / Norman R. Gibson.
Box 3, Item 39
Surge tanks
1915-1932
Physical Description: 1 folder (30 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Partial contents: The investigation of the surge tank problem by model experiments / A. H. Gibson --Johnson differential surge
tank at Allens Falls, N. Y. --The differential surge tank / R. D. Johnson --Penstocks and surge tank problems / Minton M.
Warren.
Box 3, Item 40
Forthmann, E. About turbulent diffusion of flow lines
1934
Physical Description: 12 leaves
Scope and Contents
Translated from the German; originally published in
Ingenieur Archiv, Vol. 5, no. 1 (February 1934), pages 42-54.
Box 3, Item 41
Notes on turbulence theory : miscellaneous notes to September 1935
1935
Physical Description: 1 folder
Scope and Contents
(28 pieces) Partial contents: Review of the theory of turbulent flow and its relation to sediment-transportation / M. P. O'Brien
--The present state of the turbulence problem / Walter Tollmien.
Box 3, Item 42
Von Karman, Theodore. Similarity of turbulent flow
1935
Physical Description: 4 leaves
Box 3, Item 43
Small eddies : correspondence and diagrams for Klamath County Chamber of Commerce
1937
Physical Description: 1 folder (4 pieces, includes 1 photograph)
Box 3, Item 44
Notes on turbulence data to September 1935
1935
Physical Description: 1 folder (4 pieces, approximately 30 leaves)
Box 3, Item 45
Liceni, Franco. On the influence of Reynold's number on the turbulent flow in the tubes
1935
Physical Description: 132 leaves, holograph
Scope and Contents
Includes original paper in Italian "Sopra l'influenza del numero di Reynolds sull'efflusso turbolento nei tubi."
Box 3, Item 46
Schmidt, Wilhelm. Mass-exchange in free air and related phenomena; translated from the German by Jos. Staufer
1936
Physical Description: 118 leaves, bound
Scope and Contents
Translation of: Der massenaustausch in freier luft und verwandte erscheinungen. Originally published in
Probleme der Kosmischen physik, Vol. 7 (1925).
Box 3, Item 47
Burgers, E. M., and M. A. Velikanov. The study of correlation of velocity pulsations in various points of a stream; translated
from the Russian by Soomii
1934
Physical Description: 6 leaves
Box 3, Item 48
Gebelein, Hans. Turbulence : physical statistics and hydrodynamics
1935
Physical Description: 163 leaves
Scope and Contents
Translation of: Turbulenz : physikalische statistik und hydrodynamik.
Box 3, Item 49
American Geophysical Union. Special Committee on Flood Waves. Sub- committee II. Flood waves : bibliography
1937
Physical Description: 1 envelope
Box 3, Item 50
Miscellaneous reports on flood waves
1932-1937
Physical Description: 1 folder (4 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Contents: The use of models in hydraulic laboratories / M.P. O'Brien --Flood waves / L. B. Wilby --Surging in harbors / C.
R. Broshous --Surges and oscillatory waves in open channels / R. G. MacDonnell.
Box 3, Item 51
O'Brien, M. P., and Richard G. Folsom. The axial adjustment of deepwell turbine pumps. Berkeley : University of California
Press, 1940. (University of California publications in engineering ; v. 4, no. 2).
Physical Description: 7 pages
Box 3, Item 52
Model study of hydraulic forces on caisson for Pier 5, Tacoma Narrows Bridge
1939
Physical Description: 31 leaves, bound : photographs and 1 folder (1 notebook and 21 pieces) Folder contains background materials, photographic
negatives, data, graphs, correspondence, news clippings, etc
Box 4, Item 52-1
Smith, Frederick C., and George S. Vincent. Aerodynamic stability of suspension bridges, with special reference to the Tacoma
Narrows Bridge. Part II, Mathematical analysis : a report of an investigation conducted by the Structural Research Laboratory,
University of Washington, under direction of the Washington Toll Bridge Authority, in cooperation with the Bureau of Public
Roads, Department of Commerce. Seattle : University of Washington Engineering Experiment Station, 1950. (Bulletin ; no. 116,
pt. 2).
Physical Description: 63 pages
Box 4, Item 53
Models of estuaries
1934
Physical Description: 35 leaves
Box 4, Item 54
Proposed design, T-10 armored amphibian tank
1942
Physical Description: 100 leaves, bound and 1 envelope of drawings : photographs
Box 4, Item 55
O'Brien, M. P., and Richard G. Folsom. The transportation of sand in pipe lines. Berkeley : University of California Press,
1937. (University of California publications in engineering ; v. 3, no. 7).
Physical Description: p. 343-383
Box 4, Item 56
Gosline, James E., and M. P. O'Brien. The water jet pump. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1934. (University of
California publications in engineering ; v. 3, no. 3).
Physical Description: p. 167-190 and 2 notebooks of data and 1 folder (14 pieces) of background material WRCA has another copy: 68.2 F4
Box 5, Item 57
O'Brien, M. P., and Joe W. Johnson. The velocity-head correction
1934?
Physical Description: 12 leaves
Box 5, Item 58
O'Brien, M. P., and James E. Gosline. The hydraulic ram. Berkeley : University of California Press, 1933. (University of California
publications in engineering ; v.3, no. 1).
Physical Description: 58 pages and 2 folders (ms. copy and background materials)
Box 5, Item 59
A report on sand movement and beach erosion along the Pacific Coast of the United States. 1931.
Physical Description: 17 volumes, bound
Scope and Contents
Includes portions of the original 7 volumes; see O'Brien 63 for photocopy of published report. Contents: Pt. II. Beach erosion
(California): 1. Half Moon Bay; 2. Sand samples, 1930; 3. San Luis Obispo; 4. Santa Barbara Channel; 5. Santa Monica Bay;
6. Point Fermin to Newport --Pt. III. Harbors: 1. Gray's Harbor; 2. Willapa Bay, Washington; 3. Columbia River; 4. Nehalem
River, Oregon; 5. Tillamook Bay, Oregon; 6. Yaquina Bay; 7. Umpqua River; 8. Coos Bay; 9. Coquille River, Oregon; 10. Columbia
River (mouth); 11. San Diego Bay.
Box 6, Item 60
O'Brien, M. P., and George H. Hickox. Elements of fluid mechanics with applications to hydraulics. Berkeley : University of
California, 1934.
Physical Description: 1 volume (approximately 200 leaves), bound
Box 6, Item 61
Roles of hydraulic laboratories in geophysical research
1936
Physical Description: 4 leaves
Box 6, Item 62
Forest Service program : transient conditions, storage in banks, flood waves on steep gradients
1938-1940
Physical Description: 1 folder (20 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Work done for California Forest and Range Experiment Station, San Dimas; includes correspondence, reports, data, maps, etc.
Partial contents: Recreational use of forest waters / C. A. Betts --On the theory of the chemical method for gauging discharge
/ V. M. Makkveyev --A new method for determining the flow in natural and artificial water courses / J. Aastad and R. Sognen
--The San Dimas stream gaging flume : a code for dimensions, installation and operation as developed by the California Forest
and Range Experiment Station, U.S. Forest Service. Washington : U.S. GPO, 1938? --"The San Dimas stream-gaging flume" by Munson
and Bermel / comments by H. G. Wilm.
Box 6, Item 63
A report on sand movement and beach erosion along the Pacific Coast of the United States
1931
Physical Description: 3 volumes, bound (photocopy)
Scope and Contents
Contents: Pt. 1, Sect. 1. General data and conclusions --Pt. 1, Sect. 2. Model tests --Pt. 2. Beaches (California) --Pt. 3.
Tidal inlets.
Box 6, Item 64
Studies of inlets
1969
Physical Description: 5 leaves, bound
Scope and Contents
Includes holograph and typescript drafts.
Box 6, Item 65
Coefficient of discharge, inlets
1971
Physical Description: 1 volume (approximately 30 leaves), holograph, bound
Box 6, Item 66
Notes on tidal inlets on sandy shores. Berkeley, Calif. : University of California, Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory, 1971.
(Technical report ; HEL-24-5).
Physical Description: 52 leaves WRCA has another copy: 25.6 K1
Box 6, Item 66-1
Tidal inlets on sandy shores
1971
Physical Description: 10 volumes, bound
Scope and Contents
Notes and drafts for O'Brien's Notes on tidal inlets on sandy shore. Contents: Vol. 1, pt. 1. Introduction; pt. 2. Equilibrium
flow area; pt. 3. Elements of the hydraulic regimen --Vol. 2, pt. 4. Energy dissipation in a tidal basin --Vol. 3, pt. 5.
Power available for maintenance of flow area --Vol. 4, pt. 6. Value of tidal prism in maintaining interior channels --Vol.
5, pt. 7. Stable channels and stable inlets --Vol. 6, pt. 8, Velocity at the throat of a tidal inlet; pt. 9. Friction slope
at throat section --Vol. 7, pt. 10. Duration of tide; pt. 11. Tide wave engineering a wide deep inlet --Vol. 8, pt. 12. Setup
in a lagoon by wave action; pt. 13. Wave refraction by currents at an inlet; pt. 14. Inlets as traps for littoral transport
--Vol. 9, pt. 15. Suggested studies of tidal inlets --Vol. 10, pt. 16. Laboratory study of the effect of an uncontrolled inlet
on the adjacent beaches.
Box 6, Item 67
Biographic material, reprints of articles by and bibliography of the works of Osborne Reynolds
1853-1970
Physical Description: 1 folder (9 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Partial contents: Excerpt from "Osborne Reynolds and engineering science today," edited by D. M. McDowell and J. D. Jackson
--Publications of Osborne Reynolds --Los modelos hidr ulicos y Osborne Reynolds.
Box 6, Item 68
Semi-monthly progress reports of the field party at Long Branch, New Jersey, May to July, 1929 : report to Beach Erosion Board
1929
Physical Description: 1 volume (approximately 40 leaves), bound
Box 8, Item 69
Fellenius, Wolmar. International Cooperation for Experimental Work in Hydraulics
1935
Physical Description: 1 folder (4 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Translation of "Internationale Zusammenarbeit fur das wasserbauliche Versuchswesen." This organization was the predecessor
of the International Association for Hydraulic Research.
Box 8, Item 70
A critical review of the E. I. Brown analysis of "Inlets on sandy coasts." Berkeley : Hydraulic Engineering Laboratory, University
of California, 1971. (Technical report ; HEL-24-10).
Physical Description: 1 volume (approximately 40 leaves)
Scope and Contents
With: Inlets on sandy coasts / Earl I. Brown --The stability of tidal inlets / Francis F. Escoffier. WRCA has another copy:
57 K1-1
Box 8, Item 71
Newspaper clippings on dredging at Santa Barbara Harbor, April 1938-August 1939
1938-1939
Physical Description: 1 volume, bound
Box 8, Item 72
Miscellaneous notes on tidal inlets
1972
Physical Description: 1 volume (approximately 240 leaves), bound
Box 8, Item 73
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Los Angeles District. Tidal prism and entrance channel area data, Morro Bay, Calif
1967?
Physical Description: 1 volume, bound
Box 8, Item 74
Empirical hydraulic relationships for tidal inlets
1971
Physical Description: 1 volume (14 leaves), bound
Box 8, Item 75
Tendency for tidal currents to move sand into or out of an entrance
1971
Physical Description: 1 volume (50 leaves), holograph, bound
Box 8, Item 76
Original basic data on equilibrium areas of inlets
1966
Physical Description: 1 volume, bound
Box 9, Item 78
Notes on hydraulic machinery : for Mechanical Engineering 126, University of California, Berkeley
1938
Physical Description: 3 volumes, bound
Scope and Contents
Contents: Hydraulic machinery problems --Reaction turbines --Hydrology, Stream flow.
Box 9, Item 79
O'Brien, M. P., and R. G. Folsom. Notes on the theory of pumping machinery : for Mechanical Engineering 127, University of
California, Berkeley
1934-1942
Physical Description: 2 volumes, bound
Box 9, Item 80
Studies of sand movement and beach erosion
1930
Physical Description: 14 leaves, bound
Box 9, Item 81
Characteristics of ocean waves
1936
Physical Description: 1 volume (approximately 20 leaves), bound
Box 9, Item 82
O'Brien, M. P., and R. G. Folsom. Fixed plant for interception dredging and beach restoration, Santa Barbara, Calif
1940
Physical Description: 3 leaves, bound : drawings
Box 10, Item 83
River and harbor hydraulics : lecture notes for Mechanical Engineering 275, Fall 1938, University of California, Berkeley
1938
Physical Description: 1 volume, bound and 1 folder (5 pieces)
Box 10, Item 84
Dorton, R. M. Supplemental report no. 2 on economic advantages of breakwater for Monterey Harbor
1928
Physical Description: 23 leaves, bound and 1 folder (4 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes file of correspondence
Box 10, Item 85
Woolley, J. A. Report on proposed harbor development for recreational and defense areas at Anaheim Bay, Seal Beach, California
1941
Physical Description: 1 volume, bound : maps, photographs
Scope and Contents
Includes: Report on protection of ocean shore between Anaheim Bay entrance channel and easterly city limits of the City of
Seal Beach, California.
Box 10, Item 86
Sonderegger, A. L. Report on plans and specifications prepared by J. A. Woolley, consulting engineer, on dredging, timber
groins, stone jetty, beach fill and appurtenances at Anaheim Bay entrance
1941
Physical Description: 6 leaves, bound
Scope and Contents
Prepared for the City of Seal Beach, California.
Box 10, Item 87
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Committee on Tidal Hydraulics. San Francisco Bay, California, disposal of dredge
spoil. Vicksburg, Miss. : Committee on Tidal Hydraulics, 1965.
Physical Description: 35 pages : maps
Scope and Contents
Includes BCDC progress report, 1967.
Box 10, Item 88
Grant, Ulysses S., and W. B. Myers. Preliminary geological report on a portion of Terminal Island and the Seaside Park area,
Long Beach, California
1940
Physical Description: 1 volume (approximately 100 leaves), bound : maps, photographs (including aerial photos)
Box 10, Item 89
Grant, Ulysses S., and W. B. Myers. Preliminary report on a geological investigation of the Long Beach tidelands
1939
Physical Description: 1 volume (approximately 20 leaves), bound : maps, photographs
Box 10, Item 90
Grant, Ulysses S., and W. B. Myers. Preliminary report on the lower part of the old San Gabriel River channel, Long Beach,
California
1939
Physical Description: 1 volume (approximately 40 leaves), bound : maps, photographs
Box 11, Item 91
Board of Harbor Commissioners, Long Beach, California : regarding Long Beach tidelands
1939-1949
Physical Description: 2 volumes, bound : maps
Scope and Contents
Contents: Technical material to March 15, 1939 --Correspondence to May 1, 1940.
Box 11, Item 92
Long Beach tideland litigation
1939
Physical Description: 3 volumes, bound Contents: v. 1. Geology, U.S.C. G.S. -- v. 2. Tides to end of technical notes -- v. 3. Survey of Bancroft
Library beach erosion reports
Scope and Contents
Includes reports, memorandum, correspondence, diagrams, etc., regarding Long Beach tideland litigation.
Box 12, Item 93
Harbor maintenance and beach restoration at Santa Barbara, California
1938-1941
Physical Description: 3 volumes, bound and 2 folders (42 pieces) Contents: To September 12, 1938 -- January 31-October 5, 1940 -- October 5, 1940-May
9, 1941
Scope and Contents
Includes file of correspondence, newspaper clippings, photographs, etc., regarding Santa Barbara harbor.
Box 12, Item 94
Maintenance dredging and beach restoration at Santa Barbara, California
1935-1938
Physical Description: 3 volumes, bound Contents: May 1935-October 1937 -- Correspondence to December 16, 1937; Report of Leeds, Verrill and Fitzgerald;
Information on dredges and dredging costs -- Correspondence to April 8, 1938
Scope and Contents
Includes: Report of Board of Engineers on restoration and maintenance of beaches and harbor, Santa Barbara, Calif., June 30,
1936 / by Charles T. Leeds, G. E. Verrill, and Gerald C. Fitzgerald.
Box 13, Item 95
Maintenance and improvement of existing river and harbor works : specifications for dredging, Santa Barbara harbor, California.
Los Angeles : U.S. Engineer Office
1940
Physical Description: 1 volume (approximately 25 pages), bound and 1 folder (38 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes file of correspondence and photographs regarding Santa Barbara dredging.
Box 13, Item 96
Correspondence regarding Surfside Colony beach protection
1941
Physical Description: 1 folder (17 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes correspondence with Alfred Barstow and J. A. Woolley.
Box 13, Item 97
Fixed pumping plant, Santa Barbara, California : correspondence, January- June, 1942
1942
Physical Description: 1 volume, bound : maps and 1 folder (4 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes copy of report on preliminary design, longhand notations on report, priorities critical list, notice to applicant
for preference rating, plan of maintenance considered.
Box 13, Item 98
River and harbor hydraulics : lecture notes for Mechanical Engineering 275-A, University of California, Berkeley
1938
Physical Description: 1 volume, bound
Box 14, Item 99
California Beaches Association. Transcript of meeting of the California Beaches Association held March 28 and May 16, 1936
1936
Physical Description: 1 volume (loose-leaf, approximately 165 leaves)
Box 14, Item 100
California Beaches Association. California Beaches Association monthly bulletin
1936-1937
Physical Description: 1 folder (13 volumes) Contents: Vol. 1, no. 1 (January 1936)-v. 2, no. 1 (January-February 1937)
Box 14, Item 101
Shoreline Planning Association of California, Inc. California coast
1949-1950
Physical Description: 1 folder (6 volumes) Contents: Vol. 3, no. 3 (August 1949)-v. 4, no. 4 (December 1950)
Box 14, Item 102
American Shore and Beach Preservation Association. Our national shoreline : a priceless heritage
1940-1964
Physical Description: 1 folder (11 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Partial contents: Our national shoreline and preservation --History of the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association
--Our shrinking shoreline.
Box 14, Item 103-1
Saving the American beach : a position paper by concerned coastal geologists; results of the Skidaway Institute of Oceanography
Conference on America's Eroding Shoreline: the need for geologic input into shoreline management, decisions and strategy,
25-27 March, 1981, Savannah, Georgia / Orrin H. Pilkey, Jr. and James D. Howard, conveners. 1981?.
Physical Description: 16 leaves, bound WRCA has another copy: 25.82 M1
Box 14, Item 103-2
Memorandum on the objectives of the American Shore and Beach Preservation Association
1981
Physical Description: 1 volume (approximately 30 leaves), bound
Scope and Contents
Partial Contents: Memorandum covering a document entitled "Saving the American beach: a position paper by concerned coastal
geologists" / M. P. O'Brien --Healthful recreation of the people versus environmental restraint / Richard O. Eaton --Structures
and sandy beaches / M. P. O'Brien and J. W. Johnson.
Box 15, Item 104
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Anaheim Bay Harbor, Calif. : letter from the Secretary of the Army transmitting a
letter from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, dated November 30, 1953, submitting a report, together with accompanying
papers and an illustration, on a preliminary examination and survey of the Harbor at Anaheim Bay, Calif., with a view to shore
protection, authorized by the River and Harbor Act approved on July 24, 1946. Washington : U.S. GPO, 1954. (House document
(United States. Congress (83d, 2d session : 1954). House) ; no. 349).
Physical Description: 56 pages : mapages
Box 15, Item 104-1
Moore, A. T. W. Beach erosion report on preliminary examination of harbor at Anaheim Bay, Calif. Los Angeles : U.S. Army Corps
of Engineers, Los Angeles District, 1947.
Physical Description: 55 pages : map, photographs
Box 15, Item 104-2
Shuler, W. R. Shore-protection report on survey of Anaheim Bay Harbor, Calif. Los Angeles : U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Los Angeles District, 1952.
Physical Description: 154 pages
Scope and Contents
Includes appended materials regarding the U.S. Beach Erosion Board action on the subject report.
Box 15, Item 105
Port Hueneme, Calif. : letter from the Secretary of the Army transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, United States
Army, dated November 10, 1950 .. on a preliminary examination and survey of harbor at Port Hueneme Washington : U.S. U.S.
GPO, 1954. (House document (United States. Congress (83d, 2d session : 1954). House) ; no. 362).
Physical Description: 51 pages : mapages
Box 15, Item 105-1
Port Hueneme Harbor, California : letter from the Secretary of the Army transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers,
Department of the Army, dated June 3, 1968 on a review of the report on Port Hueneme Harbor .. Washington : U.S. U.S. GPO,
1968. (House document (United States. Congress (90th, 2d session : 1968). House) ; no. 362).
Physical Description: 56 pages : mapages
Box 15, Item 105-2
Moore, A. T. W. Shore protection report on survey of harbor at Port Hueneme, Calif. Los Angeles : U.S. Army Corps of Engineers,
Los Angeles District, 1948.
Physical Description: 2 volumes, bound : map and 1 folder (18 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes revisions made April 29, 1949 and correspondence relating to U.S. Beach Erosion Board action on the subject report.
Box 16, Item 106
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Redondo Harbor, Cal. : letter from the Secretary of War transmitting a letter from
the Chief of Engineers, report on examination of Redondo Harbor, Cal. Washington : U.S. GPO, 1913. (House document (United
States. Congress (62nd, 3rd session : 1913). House) ; no. 1192).
Physical Description: 8 pages : mapages
Box 16, Item 106-1
Moore, A. T. W. Review of reports on Redondo Beach Harbor, Calif. Los Angeles : U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles
District, 1949.
Physical Description: 4 volumes, bound : maps and 1 folder (3 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes supplementary enclosures and revisions made for U.S. Beach Erosion Board members.
Box 16, Item 106-2
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Redondo Beach Harbor, Calif. : letter from the Secretary of the Army transmitting
a letter from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, dated July 18, 1949 on a review of reports on Redondo Beach Harbor
.. Washington : U.S. GPO, 1949. (House document (United States. Congress (81st, 1st session : 1949). House) ; no. 303).
Physical Description: 37 pages : maps
Box 16, Item 107
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Playa del Rey inlet and basin, Venice, Cal. : letter from the Secretary of War transmitting
with a letter from the Chief of Engineers, report on preliminary examination of Playa del Rey inlet and basin, Venice, Cal.
Washington : U.S. GPO, 1917. (House document (United States. Congress (64th, 2d session : 1917). House) ; no. 1880).
Physical Description: 8 pages
Box 16, Item 107-1
Moore, A. T. W. Report on survey navigation harbor at Playa del Rey, Calif. Los Angeles : U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los
Angeles District, 1948.
Physical Description: 2 volumes, bound : maps and 1 folder (6 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes supplementary enclosures and revisions made for U.S. Beach Erosion Board members.
Box 16, Item 107-2
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Playa del Rey inlet and basin, Venice, Calif. : letter from the Secretary of the
Army transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, dated August 8, 1952 on a preliminary examination
and survey of harbor at Playa del Rey inlet and basin .. Washington : U.S. GPO, 1954. (House document (United States. Congress
(83d, 2d session : 1954). House) ; no. 389).
Physical Description: 46 pages : map WRCA has another copy: G4609 H4
Box 16, Item 107-3
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Los Angeles District. Plaza del Rey Harbor, Venice, California : specifications for
dredging and revetment. Los Angeles : The District, 1959.
Physical Description: 1 volume (approximately 50 pages) and 17 maps
Box 17, Item 108
Report on proposed improvements at Santa Barbara Harbor
1934
Physical Description: 1 volume (approximately 35 leaves), bound
Box 17, Item 108-1
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Beach erosion at Santa Barbara, Calif. : letter from the Secretary of War transmitting
a letter from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, dated March 12, 1938 on studies and investigations of beach erosion
at Santa Barbara .. Washington : U.S. GPO, 1938. (House document (United States. Congress (75th, 3rd session : 1938). House)
; no. 552).
Physical Description: 51 pages : maps
Box 17, Item 108-1 Suppl
United States. Beach Erosion Board. Supplementary report, beach erosion study at Santa Barbara, California. Washington : The
Board, 1941.
Physical Description: 15 leaves, bound : mapages
Scope and Contents
Supplement to "Beach erosion at Santa Barbara, Calif.," published as House Document 552, 75th Congress, 3d Session, March
18, 1938.
Box 17, Item 108-2
United States. Beach Erosion Board. Beach erosion study at Santa Barbara, California. Washington : The Board, 1938.
Physical Description: 55 leaves, bound : maps
Box 17, Item 108-3
Fixed pumping plant, Santa Barbara, California : correspondence; enabling legislation for California Beach Erosion Board and
California Shore Protection Board
1940-1941
Physical Description: 2 volumes, bound : maps
Scope and Contents
Contents: April-December 1940 --January-December 1941.
Box 17, Item 108-4
Preliminary design of a fixed pumping plant for harbor maintenance and beach restoration at Santa Barbara, California
1940
Physical Description: 13 pages, bound and 1 folder (6 pieces)
Box 17, Item 108-5
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Santa Barbara Harbor, Calif. : letter from the Secretary of War transmitting a letter
from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, dated June 9, 1941 on reexamination of Santa Barbara Harbor .. Washington
: U.S. GPO, 1941. (House document (United States. Congress (77th, 1st session : 1941). House) ; no. 348).
Physical Description: 17 pages : mapages
Box 17, Item 108-6
Hunter, R. C. Report on cooperative beach erosion study at Santa Barbara, Calif. Los Angeles : War Dept., U.S. Engineer Office,
1946.
Physical Description: 56 leaves, bound and 1 folder (18 leaves)
Scope and Contents
Includes memorandum for U.S. Beach Erosion Board.
Box 17, Item 108-7
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Santa Barbara Harbor, California : letter from the Secretary of the Army transmitting
a letter from the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, dated July 6, 1962 on a review of the reports on the Santa Barbara
Harbor .. Washington : U.S. GPO, 1962. (House document (United States. Congress (87th, 2d session : 1962). House) ; no. 518).
Physical Description: 74 pages : mapages
Box 17, Item 108-8
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Los Angeles Engineer District. Review report for navigation, Santa Barbara Harbor,
Santa Barbara, California (with appendixes). Los Angeles : The District, 1961.
Physical Description: 1 volume, bound : maps
Box 18, Item 109
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Santa Cruz County, Calif., beach erosion control study : letter from the Secretary
of the Army transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, dated February 26, 1957 on a cooperative
beach erosion study of Santa Cruz .. Washington : U.S. GPO, 1958. (House document (United States. Congress (85th, 1st session
: 1958). House) ; no. 179).
Physical Description: 91 pages : 4 maps and 1 folder (15 pieces and 6 photographs)
Scope and Contents
Includes file of preliminary drafts and correspondence.
Box 18, Item 110
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Beach erosion study, Orange County, Calif. : letter from the Secretary of War transmitting
a letter from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, dated February 13, 1940 on a beach erosion study, Orange County
.. Washington : U.S. GPO, 1940. (House document (United States. Congress (76th, 3rd session : 1940). House) ; no. 637).
Physical Description: 41 pages : maps
Box 18, Item 110-1
United States. Beach Erosion Board. Beach erosion study, Orange County, Calif
1938-1939
Physical Description: 1 folder (58 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Draft and preliminary materials to report published (title as given above) as House Document 637, 76th Congress, 3d Session,
1940.
Box 18, Item 110-2
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Orange County, California, Appendix V, Phase I, Beach Erosion Control Study : letter
from the Secretary of the Army transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, dated May 9, 1960
.. on a cooperative beach erosion control study of shore from Newport Bay to San Mateo Creek Washington : U.S. GPO, 1960.
(House document (United States. Congress (86th, 2nd session : 1960). House) ; no. 398).
Physical Description: 67 pages : maps
Box 18, Item 110-3
Newton, C. T. Beach erosion control report on cooperative study of Orange County, California (Contract no. W-04-193-ENG.-5196,
Appendix V, Phase I). Los Angeles : U.S. Army Engineer District, Los Angeles, Corps of Engineers, 1959.
Physical Description: 1 volume, bound : maps
Box 19, Item 111
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Beach erosion study, Coronado, Calif. : letter from the Secretary of War transmitting
a letter from the Acting Chief of Engineers, United States Army, dated September 30, 1941 on a beach erosion study, Coronado
Washington : U.S. GPO, 1942. (House document (United States. Congress. House) ; 77th Congress, no. 636).
Physical Description: 25 pages : maps
Box 19, Item 111-1
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Oceanside, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach, and Coronado, San Diego County, Calif., beach
erosion control study : letter from the Secretary of the Army transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, United States
Army, dated February 28, 1956 on a cooperative beach erosion control study of Oceanside, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach, and
Coronado Washington : U.S. GPO, 1957. (House document (United States. Congress (84th, 2d session : 1956). House) ; no. 399).
Physical Description: 56 pages : maps
Box 19, Item 111-2
Frye, Arthur H., Jr. Beach erosion control report on cooperative study of Oceanside, Ocean Beach, Imperial Beach, and Coronado,
San Diego County, California. Los Angeles : U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District, 1955.
Physical Description: 1 volume, bound : maps and 1 folder (14 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes file of supplementary material developed by U.S. Beach Erosion Board in preparation of this report.
Box 19, Item 112
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Los Angeles District. Effect of proposed breakwater extension on adjacent shore line,
Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors, Calif. : Appendix 8. Los Angeles : The Corps, 1948.
Physical Description: 82 pages, bound : maps and 1 folder (6 pieces)
Scope and Contents
"To accompany review of reports, navigation, Los Angeles and Long Beach Harbors, Calif., with a view to extending the existing
breakwater and to improving Bixby Slough and Laguna Dominguez, dated July 1, 1948." Includes file of material accompanying
report: Draft "Beach erosion study, Long Beach, California," January 16, 1942, U.S. Beach Erosion Board; plates showing changes
in offshore depths, existing and proposed structures, and vicinity map.
Box 19, Item 113
Luplow, W. D. Shore-protection report on preliminary examination of harbor at Camp Pendleton, Calif. Los Angeles : U.S. Army
Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District, 1950.
Physical Description: 50 pages, bound : maps and 1 folder (6 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes file of material accompanying report: "Interim report on harbor-entrance improvement, Camp Pendleton, California,"
March 25, 1953. WRCA has another copy: MS 97/1 C42 1950.
Box 19, Item 114
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. San Francisco District. Beach erosion control report on cooperative study of Humboldt
Bay (Buhne Point), Pacific coastline of California : report and appendices. San Francisco : The District, 1956.
Physical Description: 1 volume (approximately 75 leaves), bound and 1 folder (8 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes file of correspondence and a U.S. Engineer Office map, "Jetties at entrance to Humboldt Bay, Cal.," dated August
29, 1919.
Box 20, Item 115
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Coast of Southern California - special interim report on the Ventura area, cooperative
beach erosion control study : letter from the Secretary of the Army transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, Department
of the Army, dated May 4, 1962 on a cooperative beach erosion control study of the coast of Southern California Washington
: U.S. GPO, 1962.
Physical Description: (House document (United States. Congress (87th, 1st session : 1962).House) ; no. 458). 80 pages : mapages
Box 20, Item 116
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Los Angeles District. Special interim report on Ventura area : beach erosion control
report on coast of Southern California, Appendix VII .. (with appendixes). Los Angeles : The District, 1961.
Physical Description: 1 volume (approximately 75 leaves), bound
Box 20, Item 117
United States. Beach Erosion Board. Study at Ventura and Hueneme, California
1940
Physical Description: 26 leaves, bound
Box 20, Item 118
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Appendix I, coast of California, Carpinteria to Point Mugu, beach erosion control
study : letter from the Secretary of the Army transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, dated
June 6, 1952 on a cooperative beach erosion control study of the Pacific Coast line of the State of California Washington
: U.S. GPO, 1953.
Physical Description: (House document (United States. Congress (83rd, 1st session : 1952). House) ; no. 29). 145 pages : maps
Box 20, Item 119
Shuler, W. R. Beach erosion control report on cooperative study of Pacific coast line of the State of California, Carpinteria
to Point Mugu. Los Angeles : U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District, 1951.
Physical Description: 1 volume, bound
Box 20, Item 120
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Appendix II, coast of California, Point Mugu to San Pedro breakwater, beach erosion
control study : letter from the Secretary of the Army transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army,
dated June 5, 1952 on a cooperative beach erosion control study of the Pacific Coast line of the State of California Washington
: U.S. GPO, 1954.
Physical Description: (House document (United States. Congress (83rd, 2nd session : 1953). House) ; no. 277). 202 pages : maps
Box 21, Item 121
Luplow, W. D. Beach erosion control report on cooperative study of Pacific coast line of the State of California, Point Mugu
to San Pedro breakwater. Los Angeles : U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District, 1950.
Physical Description: 3 volumes, bound : maps
Box 21, Item 121-1
United States. Beach Erosion Board. Beach erosion control report on cooperative study of Pacific coast line of the State of
California : correspondence, endorsements, corrections to appendices I and II, Point Mugu to San Pedro breakwater
1950-1951
Physical Description: 1 folder (12 pieces)
Box 22, Item 122
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. San Gabriel River to Newport Bay, Orange County, California, Appendix V, Phase II,
beach erosion control study : letter from the Secretary of the Army transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, Department
of the Army, dated August 8, 1962 on a cooperative beach erosion control study of the shore from San Gabriel River to Newport
Bay Washington : U.S. GPO, 1962. (House document (United States. Congress (87th, 2d session : 1962). House) ; no. 602).
Physical Description: 167 pages : maps
Box 22, Item 123
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. San Diego County, Calif., Appendix IV, Phase 2, beach erosion control study : letter
from the Secretary of the Army transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, dated August 25,
1960 on a cooperative beach erosion control study of San Diego County Washington : U.S. GPO, 1960. (House document (United
States. Congress (86th, 2d session : 1960). House) ; no. 456).
Physical Description: 169 pages : maps
Box 22, Item 123-1
Newton, C. T. Beach erosion control report on cooperative study of San Diego County, California : (Contract no. W-04-193-ENG.-5196,
Appendix IV, Phase 2). Los Angeles : U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Los Angeles District, 1960.
Physical Description: 1 volume, bound : maps
Box 22, Item 124
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Los Angeles District. Special study of City of San Diego (Sunset Cliffs) : beach
erosion control report on coast of Southern California, Appendix VII (Contract no. W-04-193-ENG.- 5196, with appendixes).
Los Angeles : The District, 1965.
Physical Description: 1 volume, bound : maps
Box 22, Item 125
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Umpqua River and entrance, Oregon : letter from the Secretary of War transmitting
report from the Chief of Engineers on preliminary examination of Umpqua River and entrance, Oreg. Washington : U.S. GPO, 1928.
(House document (United States. Congress (70th, 1st session : 1928). House) ; no. 317).
Physical Description: 19 pages : mapages
Box 22, Item 126
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Portland District. Report on beach erosion studies, Tillamook Bay, Oregon, with reference
to Bay Ocean. Portland, Or. : The District, 1940.
Physical Description: 104 leaves : maps, photographs
Scope and Contents
Includes memorandum to the Shore Protection Board on the report, December 17, 1940.
Box 22, Item 127
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Portland District. Report on Coos Bay tidal current survey : appendix A
1932
Physical Description: 25 leaves : 10 folded maps
Box 23, Item 128
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Ediz Hook, Port Angeles, Washington : letter from the Secretary of the Army transmitting
a letter from the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, dated August 21, 1972 on Ediz Hook, Port Angeles Washington
: U.S. GPO, 1973. (House document (United States. Congress (93d, 1st session : 1973). House) ; no. 93-101).
Physical Description: 178 pages : maps
Box 23, Item 129
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Seattle District. Report on survey Port Angeles Harbor, Washington. Seattle : The
District, 1940.
Physical Description: 2 volumes : maps, photographs and 1 folder (2 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes file of supplementary material by U.S. Shore Protection Board dated December 17, 1940.
Box 23, Item 130
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Seattle District. Review of reports on Grays Harbor and Chehalis River, Washington
(South Jetty). Seattle : The District, 1956.
Physical Description: 27 pages : mapages
Box 23, Item 131
United States. Shore Protection Board. Grays Harbor, Washington
1945
Physical Description: 26 leaves, bound : maps
Box 23, Item 132
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Seattle District. Review of reports on Willapa River and Harbor, Washington. Seattle
: The District, 1956.
Physical Description: 29 pages : 4 maps
Box 23, Item 133
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Seattle District. Review of reports on Neah Bay, Washington. Seattle : The District,
1949.
Physical Description: 2 volumes, bound : maps, photographs and 1 folder (3 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes file of material by the U.S. Beach Erosion Board dated April 17, 1950, which accompanies report.
Box 23, Item 134
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Waikiki Beach, Island of Oahu, T.H., beach erosion control study : letter from the
Secretary of the Army transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, United States Army, dated January 23, 1953 on a cooperative
beach erosion control study of Waikiki Beach Washington : U.S. GPO, 1953. (House document (United States. Congress (83d, 1st
session : 1953). House) ; no. 227).
Physical Description: 55 pages : mapages
Box 23, Item 135
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Waikiki Beach, Oahu, Hawaii, beach erosion control study : letter from the Secretary
of the Army transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, dated June 4, 1964 on a cooperative
beach erosion control study of Waikiki Beach Washington : U.S. GPO, 1965. (House document (United States. Congress (89th,
1st session : 1965). House) ; no. 104).
Physical Description: 55 pages
Box 23, Item 136
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Honolulu District. Report on cooperative study for beach erosion control at Waikiki
Beach, Honolulu, Island of Oahu, T.H. Honolulu : The District, 1950.
Physical Description: 2 volumes : maps
Box 24, Item 137
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. San Francisco District. Report on cooperative study for beach erosion control at
Waikiki Beach, Honolulu, Island of Oahu, T.H. San Francisco : The District, 1950.
Physical Description: 2 volumes : maps
Box 24, Item 138
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Honolulu District. Cooperative beach erosion control study : Waikiki Beach, Oahu,
Hawaii. Honolulu : The District, 1963.
Physical Description: 62 pages, bound : maps
Box 24, Item 139
Kaneohe-Kailua area, Oahu, Hawaii : letter from the Secretary of the Army transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers,
Department of the Army, dated November 23, 1970 on Kaneohe-Kailua area, Oahu Washington : U.S. GPO, 1971.
Physical Description: (House document (United States. Congress (92d, 1st Session : 1971). House) no. 92-141). 104 pages : mapages
Box 24, Item 140
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Honolulu District. Cooperative beach erosion control study : Haleiwa Beach, Oahu,
Hawaii. Honolulu : The District, 1962.
Physical Description: 1 volume, bound : maps
Box 24, Item 141
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Haleiwa Beach, Oahu, Hawaii, beach erosion control study : letter from the Secretary
of the Army transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, dated May 15, 1964 on a cooperative
beach erosion control study of Haleiwa Beach, Oahu Washington : U.S. GPO, 1965. (House document (United States. Congress (89th,
1st session : 1965). House) ; no. 107).
Physical Description: 110 pages : maps
Box 24, Item 142
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Waimea Beach and Hanapepe Bay, Island of Kauai, T.H., beach erosion control study
: letter from the Secretary of the Army transmitting a letter from the Chief of Engineers, Department of the Army, dated April
25, 1956 on a cooperative beach erosion control study of Waimea Beach and Hanapepe Bay Washington : U.S. GPO, 1957. (House
document (United States. Congress (84th, 2d session : 1956). House) ; no. 432).
Physical Description: 44 pages : maps
Box 24, Item 143
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. San Francisco District. Beach erosion control report on cooperative study of Waimea
Beach and Hanapepe Bay, Island of Kauai, T.H. San Francisco : The District, 1955.
Physical Description: 2 volumes, bound : maps and 1 folder (4 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes file of supplementary memoranda and a summary report by the U.S. Beach Erosion Board.
Box 24, Item 144
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Los Angeles District. Beach erosion : pertinent data for inspection by Beach Erosion
Board, 25, 26, 27 July 1955. Los Angeles : The District, 1955.
Physical Description: 34 leaves, bound : maps
Box 24, Item 145
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Los Angeles District. Beach erosion : pertinent data for inspection by Beach Erosion
Board, 26, 27, 28, 29 April 1960. Los Angeles : The District, 1960.
Physical Description: 80 leaves : maps
Box 25, Item 146
Bibliography, river hydraulics, sediment transport. 1918.
Physical Description: approximately 400 leaves, bound
Scope and Contents
Bibliography assembled for unidentified "investigation" which presumably was published. Includes both the citations "referred
to in parts I and II of the text" as well as those from which quotations were not taken. Emphasis on China, Grand Canal, Yellow
River and Mississippi River.
Box 25, Item 147
Cost estimates of by-passing sand at selected inlets. 1949.
Physical Description: 1 folder (7 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Includes data made available to the U.S. Beach Erosion Board on Santa Barbara and Port Hueneme Harbors, Calif.; Lake Worth
Inlet, Florida; Cold Spring Inlet, New Jersey; and Fire Island Inlet, N.Y.
Box 25, Item 148
Santa Monica beach problems, littoral drift: correspondence, news clippings, photographs
1936-1937
Physical Description: 1 folder (9 pieces)
Scope and Contents
Correspondence addressed to Morrough P. O'Brien, Dean, College of Engineering, University of California at Berkeley.
Box 25, Item 149
O'Brien, M. P., and Bruce D. Rindlaub. Report on transportation of bed load in channels. Berkeley, Calif. : University of
California, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, Hydraulic Laboratory, 1934.
Physical Description: approximately 120 leaves
Box 25, Item 150
Correspondence with Joe W. Johnson regarding coastal engineering investigations
1967-1974
Physical Description: approximately 250 leaves, bound
Box 25, Item 151
Miscellaneous materials pertaining to U.S. Beach Erosion Board studies and reports
1944-1947
Physical Description: 8 folders (approximately 175 pieces) Includes correspondence, news clippings, reports, memoranda, etc
Scope and Contents
Contents: Miscellaneous locations --California studies --Grand Isle, Louisiana --Galveston, Texas --Jones Beach, New York
--Connecticut studies --Pacific coast, general information, clippings --Technical reports and memoranda, miscellaneous.
Box 26, Item 152
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Seattle District. Review of reports on Shilshole Bay, Seattle, Washington. Seattle
: The District, 1949.
Physical Description: 2 volumes, bound : maps, photographs
Box 26, Item 153a
Kodiak seismic wave : earthquake pictorial. Kodiak, Alaska : Island Publishing Co., 1964?.
Physical Description: 32 pages and 5 photographs (col. and b
Box 26, Item 153b
Bell, Roscoe E. Letter, 1964 June 19, Anchorage, Alaska, to Maj.Gen. J.S. Seybold, Washington, D.C. : regarding the March
27, 1964 seismic wave and earthquake effect on shorelines in vicinity of Kodiak, Alaska.
Physical Description: 1 folder (2 pieces) and 18 photographs
Box 26, Item 154
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Los Angeles District. Beach erosion control report on cooperative study of coast
of Southern California, Point Conception to Mexican boundary : Appendix VII, Interim report (Contract no. W-04-193- ENG.-5196).
Los Angeles : The District, 1960.
Physical Description: 60 pages, bound : maps
Box 26, Item 155
United States. Army. Corps of Engineers. Los Angeles District. Beach erosion control report on cooperative study of coast
of Southern California, Cape San Martin to Mexican boundary : Appendix VII, Final report (Contract no. W-04-193-ENG.- 5196).
Los Angeles : The District, 1967.
Physical Description: 1 volume, bound : maps