Collection context
Summary
- Title:
- William Hammond Hall Collection,
- Dates:
- 1817-1915
- Creators:
- Hall, Wm. Hammond (William Hammond)
- Language:
- English.
- Preferred citation:
-
[Identification of item], William Hammond Hall Collection, California State Library.
Background
- Scope and content:
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Correspondence, business and personal papers, notebooks, scrapbooks.
- Biographical / historical:
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Hall was born in 1846 and died in 1934. He was a field engineer, draftsman, and hydrographer during the Civil War. His surveys of dunes in San Francisco led to his appointment as city engineer and first superintendent of Golden Gate Park in 1870.
In 1878, Hall was appointed the first State Engineer and was given responsibility for determining the extent of hydraulic mining debris damage. His efforts produced the earliest overall survey of California's hydrologic system. Hall left the office of State Engineer in 1888.
Hall remained in private practice until his death in 1934. He worked on the Bear Valley Irrigation Project, as a consulting engineer for the mines of South Africa 1890 to 1898, and in 1899 did a series of reports for the transcaucasus of Russia.
- Physical description:
- 11 boxes
Indexed terms
About this collection guide
- Date Prepared:
- © 1999
- Date Encoded:
- Machine-readable finding aid derived from WordPerfect.
Access and use
- Restrictions:
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Unrestricted.
- Terms of access:
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Please credit California State Library.
Copyright has not been assigned to California State Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts 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], William Hammond Hall Collection, California State Library.
- 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