Overview of the Harry P. Hart papers

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Title: Harry P. Hart papers
Date (inclusive): 1919-1987
Collection Number: 91017
Contributing Institution: Hoover Institution Library and Archives
Language of Material: English
Physical Description: 8 manuscript boxes, 3 oversize boxes, 1 oversize folder (4.0 Linear Feet)
Abstract: Memoirs, diaries, letters, reports, printed matter, and photographs, relating to engineering projects, especially highway projects, in various parts of the world, especially in the Philippines, 1919-1921; China, 1922-1924 and 1946; and Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and other parts of South America, 1939-1942; and to social conditions in those countries.
Creator: Hart, Harry P., -1990
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Library & Archives

Access

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Use

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Acquisition Information

Acquired by the Hoover Institution Library & Archives in 1991.

Preferred Citation

[Identification of item], Harry P. Hart papers, [Box no., Folder no. or title], Hoover Institution Library & Archives.

Biographical/Historical Note

American engineer.

Scope and Content of Collection

Memoirs, diaries, letters, reports, printed matter, and photographs, relating to engineering projects, especially highway projects, in various parts of the world, especially in the Philippines, 1919-1921; China, 1922-1924 and 1946; and Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia and other parts of South America, 1939-1942; and to social conditions in those countries.

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Highway engineering
Engineers
China -- Social conditions -- 1912-1949
Latin America -- Social conditions
Engineering -- China
Philippines -- Social conditions
Engineering -- Philippines
Engineering -- Latin America
Pan American Highway System

 

Writings 1972-1987

box 1

Autobiography and Reports 1944-1987

os_folder 1

Diagrammatic Profile of Highway Route from Hankow to Chungking undated

os_folder 1

Diagrammatic Profiles of Various Highway Routes from Changsha to Chungking undated

os_folder 1

Profile and Observations Changsha to Chungking undated

os_folder 1

Sketch Map Showing Highway Routes from Changsha and Hankow to Kweiyang and Chungking 1946 June

os_folder 1

Profile and Observations Chungking to Paochi 1946 June

os_folder 1

Sketch Map Showing Highway Routes Between Chungking and Sian 1946 June

os_folder 1

Sketch map of part of Kenai Peninsula 1944 October

os_folder 1

U.S. Department of Agriculture Forest Service Alaska Kenai Peninsula Map 1940-1944

os_folder 1

Map of Kenai Mining District and Moose Pass Regions 1910

box 2

Notes and Reports 1921-1933

box 3

Reports on Ecuador and Bolivia 1939-1942

box 4

Ecuador, Bolivia, and southern South America 1939-1941

box 7

Bolivia, Columbia, Pan American Highway 1934-1942

box 5

Travels 1941-1970

 

Photographs

box 6

Bolivia 1942

box 9

Crossing the Pacific 1919-1924

box 10

Crossing the Pacific and Quito Churches 1919-1939

box 11

Ecuador 1940

box 8

Material not yet described