Guide to the Elwood Mead Papers
The Bancroft Library
2017
The Bancroft Library
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-6000
bancref@library.berkeley.edu
Language of Material:
English
Contributing Institution:
The Bancroft Library
Title: Elwood Mead papers
Identifier/Call Number: BANC MSS C-B 1041
Physical Description:
25 linear feet
(20 cartons)
Date (inclusive): approximately 1907-1924
Conditions Governing Access
Open for research. Collection is minimally processed and may be difficult to use. The container list for this guide is derived
from a preliminary carton-level list created at the time the collection was acquired.
Conditions Governing Access
COLLECTION STORED, IN PART, OFF-SITE:, Advance notice required for use.
Biographical / Historical
Elwood Mead (1858-1936) was a professor of engineering at the University of California, Berkeley. As a politician and engineer,
he is known for heading the United States Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) from 1924 until his death in 1936. In that capacity,
Mead oversaw the Hoover, Grand Coulee and Owyhee dams projects.
Related Archival Materials
Cartons 6-7, glass plate negatives transferred to the Pictorial Collections of The Bancroft Library (BANC PIC 1966.035--NEG).
Related Archival Materials
Lantern slides transferred to the Bancroft Pictorial Collections (BANC PIC 1966.036).
Related Archival Materials
Photographs transferred to the Bancroft Pictorial Collections (BANC PIC 1966.033--ALB and BANC PIC 1966.040--POR).
Scope and Contents
Correspondence, research data, manuscripts and reprints of writings, photographs and slides, hearing transcripts, students'
theses, etc., relating in part to agriculture, irrigation, and engineering in California, Australia, Canada, Britain, and
Mexico. There are typed cards in many cartons or attached to folders which provide detail on the contents of the collection.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936
University of California (1868-1952).. Dept. of Engineering
Engineers -- California -- Berkeley
Irrigation -- California -- History
Agriculture -- California -- History -- Sources
Engineering -- California -- History -- Sources
Faculty papers
Carton 1
Correspondence~-incoming and outgoing together, A-O
1922
Carton 2
Correspondence-- P-Z
1922
Carton 4
Australia
1906-1923
Scope and Contents
Reports, maps and other material on Australian irrigation work and related coreespondence (1907-1915) and 1923 visit. Material
on rural settlement of soldiers in Australia.
Carton 5
Hawaii
approximately 1920s
Scope and Contents
Material on Mead's work with the Hawaii Homes Commission in putting native Hawaiians back on the land. Reports by Mead and
various companiess and individuals, some correspondence, maps etc.
Carton 5
Land settlement in foreign countries
approximately 1920s
Scope and Contents
Reports and other material on land settlement work in
Canada, Great Britain, and Mexico. Questionaire sent to foriegn countries and replies.
Carton 5
California
approximately 1920s
Scope and Contents
Berkeley Land Settlement Conference, 1922--speeches
and reports, correspondence; miscellaneous reports on land reclamation, etc.; Articles of Incorporation of the Dehli Co-operative
Association; Walter Packard's Report of Proposed Settlement, Inyo, Calif., 1924; articles and clippings regarding California
reclamation; Dehli and Durham projects; periodicals, etcetera regarding land settlement in California.
Carton 8
Clippings concerning the Dehli and Durham settlements
1917-1923
Carton 9
Tracts of land offered to the State for settlement projects
Scope and Contents
Reports of investigations and related correspondence.
Carton 10
Farm Tenancy Survey
Scope and Contents
Survey done in Turlock district on farm conditions; individual questionaires.
Carton 12
Articles and speeches by Mead
1905-1922
Scope and Contents
Primarily on land settlement, irrigation add soldier settlement. These are arranged chronologically according to a list included.
Carton 13
Assorted other articles and speeches by Mead
Carton 13
Assorted non-California land material
Carton 13
Manuscript and revisions of Irrigation Institutions (book) and other irrigation materials
Carton 13
Davis residential community settlement project planning, correspondence
Carton 14
Soldier land settlement
Scope and Contents
Proposed legislation regarding soldier land settlement and rehalbilitation; reports, etcetera, on soldier land settlement;
problems of the returned soldier and rural settlement in foreign countries and the United States.
Carton 14
United States land settlement miscellany
Scope and Contents
Notebook containing material for 1923 Land Settlement
Conference and other correspondence and miscellany; report of the Committee on Co1onization; Official Report to the Jewish
Colonization Assiation; On Two Years' Experimental Work in Agriculture,
by Amran Khazanoff; North Carolina--papers on rural credits;
Land settlement miscellany.
Carton 14
Orland Project
Scope and Contents
Reports, data, correspondence and statements of settlers
on the Orland Federal Reclamation project.
Carton 15
Clippings
Scope and Contents
On soldier settlement, agriculture , rural credits, farm tenancy, irrigation and Mead himself.
Carton 16
Commercial land settlement investigations
Scope and Contents
Reports of investigations into the policies and conditions of land settlement ventures of commercial land companies in California.
These include the statements of companies, of settlers of the land, advertisements, and reports of the investigators to Mead.
Carton 17
Commercial land settlement investigations, continued
Scope and Contents
Includies the Imperial Valley and Kerman land colony.
Carton 18
Correspondence of the U.S. Reclamation Service Board of Review
Carton 18
Proposed legislation on reclamation
Carton 18
Material on Arizona reclamation and irrigation
Scope and Contents
Reports and correspondence. Also North Platte project.
Carton 18
Orland, Calif., Federal Reclamation project, report of local board
Carton 18
Miscellaneous papers regarding hearings by Board of Review on California lands
Carton 18
Milk production and marketing in Bay area
Carton 18
Food marketing in Australia, Germany, and United States, particuarly
California
Carton 18
Miscellaneous reports on agriculture, irrigation (not by Mead)
Carton 18
Maps of Madera district and other irrigation projects in California
Carton 19
Transcripts of the proceedings of the California State
Rural Credit Commission
September 29-October 23, 1915
Carton 19
Hilgardia
Scope and Contents
vol. 6, no. 1, 5; vol. 10, no. 1-10.
Carton 19
Proceedings of the 1945 California Water Conference
and other publications dealing with irrigation
Carton 19
Kansas Agricultural publications
Carton 20
Agricultural publications from various state institutions, Kansas-Wyoning
Carton 21
Student theses
1908-1925
Scope and Contents
From the College of Mechanics, of Civil Engineering etcetera, dealing with storage batteries, engines, power plants, pumps
etcetera.
Carton 22
Student theses and reports, continued
1908-1925
