Inventory of the W. P. Hammon papers
Finding aid prepared by Hoover Institution Archives Staff.
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Title: W. P. Hammon papers
Date (inclusive): 1915-1930
Collection Number: 72007
Contributing Institution:
Hoover Institution Archives
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
3 manuscript boxes, 7 envelopes
(1.9 linear feet)
Abstract: Correspondence, reports, contracts, shipping lists, specifications for dredging equipment, annotated maps, and photographs,
relating to mining operations in China, Siberia, Korea, Malaya, and Poland.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Creator:
Hammon, W. P., 1854-1938.
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Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], W. P. Hammon papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquisition Information
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1972.
Accruals
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of boxes listed in this finding aid.
Biographical/Historical Note
American businessman; associated with Yuba Manufacturing Company, San Francisco.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, reports, contracts, shipping lists, specifications for dredging equipment, annotated maps, and photographs,
relating to mining operations in China, Siberia, Korea, Malaya, and Poland.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Amtorg Trading Corporation.
Giesche Spolka Akcyjna Company.
Yuba Manufacturing Company of San Francisco.
Mines and mineral resources--China.
Mines and mineral resources--Korea.
Mines and mineral resources--Malaya.
Mines and mineral resources--Poland.
Mines and mineral resources--Soviet Union.
Tin mines and mining--Malaya.
Box: 1
China and Siberia mining concessions for the Yuba manufacturing Company of San Francisco file
Box: 1
Corresponence and reports, 1921-22
Box: 1
Amtorg Trading Corporation contract with the Yuba Manufacturing Company of San Francisco file
Box: 1
Contracts and agreements, 1925-27
Box: 1
Bills of lading, shipping lists, receipts
Box: 1
Specifications for dredging equipment sold to the Chinese government and Japanese and Russian mining companies by the Yuba
Manufacturing Company, 1912-1917
Box: 2
Tze-Liu-Tsing District (Eastern Part), mining reports, Korea
Box: 2
Preliminary Report, Anjo Property, Korea, Nelson Dickerman, July 5, 1921
Box: 2
Preliminary Report on Placer Claims of the Chosen Kasan Co. in Chosen, Korea, Charles W. Gardner and H. R. Edwards, April
12, 1921
Box: 2
Report of H. R. Edwards on Korean Project, May 4, 1921
Box: 2
"Report on the Yung Hung Placers" (Korea), J.S. Bradford, 1920
Box: 2
Blueprint of Asano Concessions Yeng Byen, Seichikori?, Korea
Box: 2
Mechanical Report on Tin Dredging in Malaya, July 22, 1927
Box: 2
Report on Tin Dredging in Malaya, March 1, 1928
Box: 3
Mining Report on Tin Dredging in Malaya, July 22, 1927
Box: 3
Resoiling and reclamation of rice lands, reports, memoranda, correspondence and drawings
Box: 3
Poland, Giesche Spolka Akcyjna Company (Katowice, Poland), mining reports
Box: 3
"The Mining Informer" (guide concerning wages and working hours of Coolies in China, compiled or written in 1920)
Box: 3
"The World Economic Situation," by Herbert Hoover, 1919
Box: 3
Pro-Hoover campaign pamphlet,
1928
Photo file
Photographs
Physical Description:
367 prints / 5 envelopes / 276 negatives / 2 envelopes
Envelope A
55 photos of mining and land reclamation projects in Siberia,
1921-1922
Envelope B
70 photos of scenes in daily life in Siberia, circa 1920
Envelope C-F
500 photos of dredging equipment sent to the U.S.S.R. from the United States, circa 1947
Envelope G
24 prints of American and European political leaders, 1921-1935
