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Guide to the Stanley Hiller, Sr. Collection, 1922-1962
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Title: Stanley Hiller, Sr. Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1922-1962
Box Number: 501-644
Creator:
Hiller family
Extent: 145 boxes
Repository:
California State Library
Sacramento, California
Language:
English.
Unrestricted.
Please credit California State Library.
Copyright has not been assigned to California State Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts
must be submitted in writing. Permission for publication is given on behalf of California State Library 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 reader.
[Identification of item], Stanley Hiller, Sr. Collection, California State Library.
Airplanes
Canned fruit industry--California
Charcoal--California
Fish-meal--California
Fishing--California
Fishing--Pacific Coast
Fishing--Newfoundland
Fishing--Norway
Fisheries--By-products
Fishery law and legislation--California
Fishes--California
Food processing by-products industry--California
Food processing machinery
Helicopters
Hiller, Stanley, 1888-1968.
Hiller, Stanley
Labor laws and legislation
Marine resources conservation
Merchant mariners
Oils and fats
Real estate development--California--Alameda Co.
Urban transportation
Wankel engine
Waste products as feed
Waste products as fuel
Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944
Business and personal papers of Stanley Hiller, Sr. The collection includes some of Stanley Hiller, Jr.'s papers concerning
two of his inventions: a new type of die-casting process and the first practical coaxial helicopter. A separate key to the
arrangement of the collection and subject index to the key have been compiled by California State Library staff. The key details
the contents of the collection as organized down to the folder level. No separate lists of correspondents have been compiled.
Born in Alameda, California, September 3, 1888, Stanley Hiller, Sr. was an inventor, and manufacturer of machinery and plants
for processing food by-products, including the first seagoing fish processing plants (1927); a California land developer (1930-1955);
commercial fisheries lobbyist (1934-1938); and early aviator. He died in Oakland, August 8, 1968.
- Hiller, Stanley, 1888-1968
Material Transferred from the Collection
- Books and printed materials, blueprints and maps (larger than 8½ x 11"), photographs (identified as California), and scrapbooks