Description
Correspondence, reports, documents, news clippings, and several descriptive photograph albums, pertaining to projects on dams,
reservoirs, aqueducts, and other water supply works, groundwater and streamflow, in California, in particular for the Metropolitan
Water District of Southern California, and in Arizona and other Western States. Collection described in:
Water Resources Reports and Papers in the J. B. Lippincott Collection,compiled by Gerald J. Giefer and Anelle McCarty Kloski (Water Resources Collections and Archives Series Report no. 21, 1970).
Background
Joseph Barlow Lippincott was born in Scranton, Pennsylvania, on October 10, 1864, the son of Joshua Allen and Harriet (Phillips)
Lippincott. He attended Dickinson College in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, from 1880 to 1882, when the family moved to Kansas where
he entered the University of Kansas at Lawrence.
Extent
42 linear feet
86 boxes
Restrictions
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Availability
The collection is open for research.