Guide to the Stanley Hiller, Sr. Collection, 1922-1962
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Xiuzhi Zhou
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California State Library. All rights reserved.
Guide to the Stanley Hiller, Sr. Collection, 1922-1962
California State Library
Sacramento, California
Contact Information:
- California History Room
- California State Library
- Library and Courts Building II
- 900 N. Street, Room 200
- P.O. Box 942837
- Sacramento, California 94237-0001
- Phone: (916) 654-0176
- Fax: (916) 654-8777
- Email: cslcal@library.ca.gov
- URL: http://www.library.ca.gov/
- Processed by:
- The California State Library staff
- Encoded by:
- Xiuzhi Zhou
© 1999 California State Library. All rights reserved.
Descriptive Summary
Title: Stanley Hiller, Sr. Collection,
Date (inclusive): 1922-1962
Box Number: 501-644
Creator:
Hiller family
Extent: 145 boxes
Repository:
California State Library
Language:
English.
Administrative Information
Access
Unrestricted.
Conditions of Use
Please credit California State Library.
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must be submitted in writing. Permission for publication is given on behalf of California State Library as the owner of the
physical items and is not intended to include or imply permission of the copyright holder, which must also be obtained by
the reader.
Preferred Citation
[Identification of item], Stanley Hiller, Sr. Collection, California State Library.
Access Points
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
Hiller, Stanley, 1888-1968.
Hiller, Stanley
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
Willkie, Wendell L. (Wendell Lewis), 1892-1944
Contents
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.
Biography
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.
Correspondents
-
Hiller, Stanley, 1888-1968
Material Transferred from the Collection
- Books and printed materials, blueprints and maps (larger than 8½ x 11"), photographs (identified as California), and scrapbooks
The papers are organized in the original order of Mr. Hiller's files.
Box 501-565
1920-1930 Business Papers
Box 602-603
San Francisco Bay Bridge 1948-1952
Box 613-619
Santa Cruz Oil Corporation
Box 620-626
North American Herring Sales
Box 643-644
Miscellaneous publications
