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UCLA Library Special Collections
Title: Fremont Ackerman papers
Creator:
Ackerman, Fremont
Identifier/Call Number: LSC.0312
Physical Description:
1 unknown
(62 boxes and 4 oversize boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1890-1945
Abstract: Fremont Ackerman worked as an engineer for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in Montana. He later established his own
business as a civil engineer and surveyor in the Southern California area. The collection consists of field books, maps, drawings,
correspondence, and business papers related to Fremont Ackerman's work with the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad
in Montana and his activities as a civil engineer and surveyor in the Los Angeles region.
Physical Location: Stored off-site. All requests to access special collections material must be made in advance using the request button located
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Language of Material: Materials are in English.
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[Identification of item], Fremont Ackerman Papers (Collection 312). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research
Library, University of California, Los Angeles.
Provenance/Source of Acquisition
Gift of William Coit Ackerman and Ruth Lovilla Ackerman, 1955.
Processed by Saundra Taylor, 1970-March 1971.
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UCLA Catalog Record ID:
994621293606533
Ackerman graduated from Ohio State University in 1883; worked as an engineer for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company in
Montana; moved to Los Angeles, California, and established his own business as a civil engineer and surveyor in the Southern
California area.
Collection consists of field books, maps, drawings, correspondence, and business papers related to engineer Fremont Ackerman.
Materials relate to his work with the construction of the Northern Pacific Railroad in Montana and his activities as a civil
engineer and surveyor in the Los Angeles region. Topics include land and water companies in Arizona and California and real
estate development in Southern California. Includes surveys conducted by Ackerman for the Lucky Baldwin estate, William Wolfskill
rancho, Abbot Kinney's Venice in America project, and the property of William Andrews Clark.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
Land surveys.
Drawings.
Real estate development -- California, Southern.
Surveyors -- California, Southern -- Archives.
Civil engineers -- California -- Los Angeles -- Archives.
Railroad engineers -- Montana -- Archives.
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Ackerman, Fremont--Archives.