Finding Aid to the David Weeks papers
Lara Michels
The Bancroft Library
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
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Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: David Weeks papers
Creator:
Weeks, David
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS 87/20 c
Physical Description:
6.5 Linear Feet
(5 cartons, 1 volume)
Date (bulk): approximately 1912-1967
Abstract: Papers of David Weeks, agricultural economist and University of California, Berkeley faculty member.
Location of Materials: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog.
Language of Material: Collection materials are mostly in English.
Conditions Governing Access
Collection is open for research.
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Immediate Source of Acquisition
The David Weeks papers were gifted to the Bancroft Library by Mary Weeks in 1986.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], David Weeks papers, BANC MSS 87/20 c, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley.
Processing Information
Processed by Lara Michels in February 2015.
Separated Materials
Photographs transfered to the Pictorial Collections of the Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1987.002).
Biography
David Weeks (1890-1986) was born in Aurora, Nebraska and educated at the University of Nebraska and Iowa State College. He
received his doctoral degree from the University of California, where he served as a faculty member in Agricultural Economics
for most of his career. Weeks focused his research on land and water development and held research appointments with the California
Agricultural Experiment Station and the Giannini Foundation of Agricultural Economics. In addition to his academic work, Weeks
served in the following consulting positions: consultant to the California Department of Water Resources during the 1950s;
advisor to the President of Bolivia; member of the President's Water Resources Policy Commission in 1950; consultant in the
development of a master plan for El Dorado County in 1962; advisor in the Hydraulics Works Department of the Turkish government
in 1964-1965; and water policy consultant for the sheikdom of Kuwait in 1965 and the Corporacion Venezolao de Guyana in Venezuela
in 1966-1967.
Scope and Content
Collection consists of biographical materials, a file documenting Weeks' professional experience, one file of professional
correspondence, a professional chronological file (consisting of materials on various projects and writings, mostly on land
and water policy); and a small number of other papers.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Weeks, David--Archives
University of California (1868-1952). Division of Agriculture
University of California, Berkeley. College of Agriculture
California Division of Water Resources
Agriculture -- Economic aspects
Land use--United States
Land use--California
Land use -- Law and legislation
Land use -- Latin America
Water use--United States
Water use--California
Water utilities
Irrigation--California
Land settlement--California
Delhi Land Settlement (Calif.)
El Dorado County (Calif.)
Faculty papers
Series 1:
Biographical materials and experience file
1912-1965
Physical Description: Carton 1, folder 1-20
Content Note
Includes a file of biographical and bibliographical materials as well as chronologically arranged files of contracts and professional
correspondence relating to Weeks' employment in a range of positions over the course of his career.
Series 2:
Correspondence
approximately 1930-1965
Physical Description: Carton 1, folder 21
Content Note
One file of general correspondence.
Series 3:
Professional chronological file
approximately 1914-1965
Physical Description: Carton 1, folder 22-42; carton 2-4; carton 5, folder 1-2
carton 1, folder 22
Hydrographic Report of State Engineer, Nebraska
1914
carton 1, folder 23
Winter Discharge of the Loup River at Columbus, Nebraska and Fairbury Municipal Power Development
1915
carton 1, folder 24-26
Transactions of the American Society of Agricultural Engineers
1919-1924
volume 1
Land Settlement in California
1915-1931
Content Note
Bound in single volume: assorted articles, legislation, and reports on land settlement in California between 1915 and 1931.
carton 1, folder 27
California Land Settlements
1922-1925
carton 1, folder 28-29
Rural Institutions Division of the University of California School of Agriculture
approximately 1923-1925
carton 1, folder 30
Paradise Irrigation District
1922
carton 1, folder 31
Assorted manuscripts
1922-1929
carton 1, folder 32-37
Federal Land Bank of Berkeley cooperative projects
1922-1925
Content Note
Includes the following: file on the California Agricultural Experience Station, Project 678B; Report on The Economic Situation
in the South San Joaquin Irrigation District and related materials; Report on The Economic Situation of the Anderson-Cottonwood
Irrigation District and related materials; Report on the Federal Farm Loans within Irrigation Districts and Classification
of Districts; Report on The Economic Situation of the Tule and Baxter Irrigation Districts and Lassen Irrigation Company Project;
and Report on The Economic Situation of the Merced Irrigation District.
carton 1, folder 38
Reports on the Engineering, Agricultural, and Economic Feasability of the Kittitas Division...
1925
carton 1, folder 39
Land Settlement Conditions in Irrigation Districts in California
approximately 1925
carton 1, folder 40
Report of Special Committee to the United States Bureau of Reclamation on Agricultural and Economic Development of Lands Adjacent
to the New Lands Reclamation Project under the Proposed Spanish Springs Storage Resevoir
1924
carton 1, folder 41
Report to the Legislative Committee on the State Land Settlement at Delhi
1925
carton 1, folder 42, carton 2, folder 1-2
Bolivia, assorted
1926-1953
carton 2, folder 3-4
Report on the Colonization of the Altiplano
1926
carton 2, folder 5
Essays on Agricultural Policy (with Appendix)
approximately 1927
carton 2, folder 6
United States Bureau of Reclamation Progress of Southern Investigations
1927
carton 2, folder 7
Assorted reprints, bulletins, and articles
1927-1929
carton 2, folder 8
Social Sciences Research Council, Bulletin 1-2; Advisory Committee on Social and Economic Research in Agriculture
1930-1931
Content Note
"Research in Public Finance in Relation to Agriculture" and "Research in Agricultural Land Utilization."
carton 2, folder 9
Assorted reprints, bulletins, and articles
1930-1936
Content Note
Includes, among other publications, California State Division of Water Resources Bulletin Number 35: Permissible Economic
Rate of Irrigation Development in California, A Cooperative Report by the College of Agriculture, University of California.
carton 2, folder 10
Assorted manuscripts
1930-1939
carton 2, folder 11
California Economic Research Council
approximately 1932-1934
carton 2, folder 13
Report on the Advisory Committee on Land Utilization of the State of California Planning Board
1935
carton 2, folder 14
Report on the Project: A Study of Adjustments in Farming by Regions and Type-of-Farming Areas from the Standpoint of Agricultural
Adjustment and Planning Including Soil Conservation
approximately 1935
carton 2, folder 15
Report on Kennett Power System of Central Valley Project
1935
carton 2, folder 16-17
El Dorado County, California, assorted papers and reports
1939-1961
carton 2, folder 18
Assorted manuscripts
1940-1949
carton 2, folder 19
Problems of Resource Development Along the Eastern Front of the South American Andes
1941
carton 2, folder 20
Land Classification in the United States: National Resources Planning
1941
carton 2, folder 21-25
Sierra Nevada Foothills, various reports and documents regarding land use and planning in
1941-1943
carton 3, folder 1
Wartime Farm Production Adjustments in California (report)
1942
carton 2, folder 2
Assorted reprints, bulletins, and articles
1943-1948
carton 3, folder 3
Land Tenure and Agrarian Organization in Hispanic America (mss and assorted papers)
approximately 1943-1947
carton 3, folder 4
South American Land Tenure Series (mss)
approximately 1950
carton 3, folder 5
Assorted reprints, bulletins, articles
1950-1957
carton 3, folder 6
Assorted manuscripts
1950-1959
carton 3, folder 7-8
President's Water Resources Policy Commission
1950
Scope and Contents
Water Resources and Agricultural Production by the Committee on Water Policy Involving Land Use Economics; Volume 1 of A Water
Policy for the American People.
carton 3, folder 9
Food and Agricultural Organization of the United Nations: Report on the Latin-American Seminar on Land Problems (Brazil)
1953
carton 3, folder 10
A Preliminary Projection of California Crop Patterns for Estimating Ultimate Water Requirements
1954
carton 3, folder 11-13
California State Water Resources Board Bulletin Number 2
1955
Scope and Contents
Bulletin Number 2: Water Utilization and Requirements of California, vol. 1 text and appendices. Weeks worked as a consultant
on this project.
carton 3, folder 14-18
California Department of Water Resources Feather River and Delta Diversion Project
1957-1962
carton 4, folder 1
California Department of Water Resources: Sample Analyses of Financial Feasibility of Aqueduct Systems to Deliver Feather
River Project Water to Southern California
1958
carton 4, folder 2
California Department of Water Resources: Material Used at August 19, 1958 Meeting in Berkeley on Glendale Project
1958
carton 4, folder 3
California Department of Water Resources: Economic Practices Manual
1960
carton 4, folder 4
California Department of Water Resources: Alternative Aqueduct Systems to Serve Southern California
1959
carton 4, folder 5
California Department of Water Resources: Operations Manual (draft)
1959
carton 4, folder 6-7
California Department of Water Resources: Director's Special Study Group Emphasis on Unjust Enrichment
1959-1960
carton 4, folder 8-10
California Department of Water Resources: Materials on Assembly Current Resolution Number 14
1958
carton 4, folder 11
Metropolitan Water District of Southern California 24th Annual Report
1962
carton 4, folder 12
Kern County Water Agency
1962
carton 4, folder 13-15
Reports and other materials on various water districts in California
1963-1965
Scope and Contents
Berrenda Mesa Water District; Lost Hills Water District; Rosedale-Rio Bravo Water Storage District.
carton 4, folder 16
Venezuela and Guyana
1963
carton 4, folder 17
Turkey
1964-1965
Scope and Contents
Prices, Demand and Supply of Turkish Agricultural Products in Relation to Irrigation Development
carton 4, folder 18, carton 5, folder 1
Iraq-Kuwait
approximately 1965
Scope and Contents
Iraq-Kuwait Water Scheme: Economic Report to Metcalf and Eddy Engineers; Water for Kuwait (report by Metcalf and Eddy Engineers).
carton 5, folder 2
China
approximately 1946
Content Note
Two manuscripts: Would the Zebu Help China?; Possibilities of More Effective Utilization of China's Land and Water Resources.
carton 5, folder 3
Assorted undated manuscripts
undated
Series 4:
Other papers
approximately 1924-1981
Physical Description: Carton 5, folder 4-11
Content Note
Materials by and about Elmwood Mead; George C. Kreutzer: Epitome of a First Class Professional by David Weeks; Current Water
Policy (1959) by Eugene Grant; papers on land reform in Italy, Mexico, Japan, China, and Czechoslovakia (not written by Weeks);
Owed to Marie Wegener and Viola Jank (poem by David Weeks); assorted writings and materials by others.
