Collection context
Summary
- Creators:
- Hiller family
- Language:
- English.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Business and personal papers of Stanley Hiller, Sr. The collection includes some of Stanley Hiller, Jr.'s papers concerning two of his inventions: a new type of die-casting process and the first practical coaxial helicopter. A separate key to the arrangement of the collection and subject index to the key have been compiled by California State Library staff. The key details the contents of the collection as organized down to the folder level. No separate lists of correspondents have been compiled.
- Biographical / historical:
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Born in Alameda, California, September 3, 1888, Stanley Hiller, Sr. was an inventor, and manufacturer of machinery and plants for processing food by-products, including the first seagoing fish processing plants (1927); a California land developer (1930-1955); commercial fisheries lobbyist (1934-1938); and early aviator. He died in Oakland, August 8, 1968.
- Physical description:
- 145 boxes
Indexed terms
- Subjects:
- Airplanes
Canned fruit industry--California
Charcoal--California
Fish-meal--California
Fishing--California
Fishing--Pacific Coast
Fishing--Newfoundland
Fishing--Norway
Fisheries--By-products
Fishery law and legislation--California
Fishes--California
Food processing by-products industry--California
Food processing machinery
Helicopters
Labor laws and legislation
Marine resources conservation
Merchant mariners
Oils and fats
Real estate development--California--Alameda Co.
Urban transportation
Wankel engine
Waste products as feed
Waste products as fuel - Names:
- Hiller, Stanley, 1888-1968.
Hiller, Stanley
Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944
Access and use
- Location of this collection:
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900 N Street, Room 200, P.O. Box 942837Sacramento, CA 94237-0001, US
- Contact:
- (916) 654-0176