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Title: Elwood Mead papers
Date (inclusive): 1900-1942
Collection Number: WRCA 055
Creator:
Mead, Elwood, 1858-1936
Extent:
1.67 linear feet
(4 boxes)
Repository:
Rivera Library. Special Collections Department.
Riverside, CA 92517-5900
Abstract: The collection consists of correspondence, addresses, reports, and press releases on land settlement and irrigation projects
in the Western States, Australia, and Mexico.
Languages: The collection is in English.
The collection is open for research.
Copyright has not been assigned to the University of California, Riverside Libraries, Special Collections & University Archives.
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[identification of item], [date if possible]. Elwood Mead papers (WRCA 055). Water Resources Collections and Archives. Special
Collections & University Archives, University of California, Riverside.
Provenance unknown
Processed by Water Resources Collections and Archives staff, 1999.
Collection number updated February 2019. Legacy collection number was MEAD. This change was part of a project in 2018/2019
to update the collection numbers for collections in the Water Resources Collections and Archives.
Professor of Rural Institute; born Switzerland County, Ind, January 16, 1858; son of Daniel and Lucinda (Davis) Mead; B.S.
Purdue University, 1882; C.E. Iowa State College, 1883; Doctor of Engineering Purdue University, 1904. Assistant Engineer,
U.S. Army, 1882; Professor Irrigation Engineering, Colorado Agricultural College. 1883; State Engineer, Wyoming, 1888; Chief
of Irrigation & Drainage Investigations, U.S.D.A., 1898; Chairman State Rivers & Water Supply Commission, Australia, 1907;
Professor of Rural Institutions, University of California, 1915, U S. Commissioner of Reclamation, April 1924 to date. Author:
Irrigation Institutions,
Helping Men Own Farms.
Reports on Irrigation (U.S.D.A.). Member American Society of Civil Engineers, member British Institution, Engineers.
Who's Who in Engineering,1925. p. 1414
The collection consists of correspondence, addresses, reports, and press releases on land settlement and irrigation projects
in the Western States, Australia, and Mexico.
The collection is arranged into two series as follows:
- Series 1. Documents, 1900-1973
- Series 2. Correspondence, 1912-1921
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the
library's online public access catalog.
United States. Bureau of Reclamation
Yuma Project (U.S.)
Agricultural colonies -- West (U.S.)
Irrigation -- Australia
Irrigation -- Mexico
Irrigation -- West (U.S.)
Land settlement -- Australia
Land settlement -- West (U.S.)
Correspondence
Documents
Reports