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Title: Percival Farquhar papers
Dates: 1922-1928
Collection Number: 54007
Creator: Farquhar, Percival, 1864-1953.
Collection Size:
4 manuscript boxes
(1.6 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives .
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, memoranda, and reports, relating to negotiations between P. Farquhar and associates and the Soviet government
concerning the development of Russia's iron ore and steel resources, and to the work of American engineers in the Soviet Union.
Includes reports on the Makeeva Steel Works, the Krivoy Rog Iron Ore District and Ekaterina and Donets Basin railway developments.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Languages:
English
Collection is open for research.
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[Identification of item], Percival Farquhar papers, [Box number], Hoover Institution Archives.
Acquired by the Hoover Institution Archives in 1954.
Materials may have been added to the collection since this finding aid was prepared. To determine if this has occurred, find
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http://searchworks.stanford.edu/ . Materials have been added to the collection if the number of boxes listed in the library catalog is larger than the number
of boxes listed in this finding aid.
American engineer.
Scope and Content of Collection
Correspondence, memoranda, and reports, relating to negotiations between P. Farquhar and associates and the Soviet government
concerning the development of Russia's iron ore and steel resources, and to the work of American engineers in the Soviet Union.
Includes reports on the Makeeva Steel Works, the Krivoy Rog Iron Ore District and Ekaterina and Donets Basin railway developments.
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
Coal mines and mining--Soviet Union.
Engineering--Soviet Union.
Railroads--Soviet Union.
Americans--Soviet Union.
Donets Basin.
Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine)
Soviet Union--Economic conditions--1917-1945.
Soviet Union--Industries.
Engineers.