Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Ackerman, Fremont
- Abstract:
- Fremont Ackerman worked as an engineer for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in Montana. He later established his own business as a civil engineer and surveyor in the Southern California area. The collection consists of field books, maps, drawings, correspondence, and business papers related to Fremont Ackerman's work with the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad in Montana and his activities as a civil engineer and surveyor in the Los Angeles region.
- Extent:
- 1 unknown (62 boxes and 4 oversize boxes)
- Language:
- Materials are in English.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Fremont Ackerman Papers (Collection 312). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Collection consists of field books, maps, drawings, correspondence, and business papers related to engineer Fremont Ackerman. Materials relate to his work with the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad in Montana and his activities as a civil engineer and surveyor in the Los Angeles region. Topics include land and water companies in Arizona and California and real estate development in Southern California. Includes surveys conducted by Ackerman for the Lucky Baldwin estate, William Wolfskill rancho, Abbot Kinney's Venice in America project, and the property of William Andrews Clark.
- Biographical / historical:
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Ackerman graduated from Ohio State University in 1883; worked as an engineer for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in Montana; moved to Los Angeles, California, and established his own business as a civil engineer and surveyor in the Southern California area.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift of William Coit Ackerman and Ruth Lovilla Ackerman, 1955.
- Processing information:
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Processed by Saundra Taylor, 1970-March 1971.
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- Physical location:
- Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Rules or conventions:
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Indexed terms
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Open for research. All requests to access special collections materials must be made in advance using the request button located on this page.
- Terms of access:
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Property rights to the physical objects belong to UCLA Library Special Collections. All other 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.
- Preferred citation:
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[Identification of item], Fremont Ackerman Papers (Collection 312). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
- Location of this collection:
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A1713 Charles E. Young Research LibraryBox 951575Los Angeles, CA 90095-1575, US
- Contact:
- (310) 825-4988