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Civil engineering

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 7 Collections and/or Records:

Allen Hazen papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC-0430
Scope and Contents The papers of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) civil engineering graduate Allen Hazen contain records of his career as a consulting engineer, specializing in water supply and purification. The typescript by Dennis Sebian of his Hazen biography "Pioneer Engineering" in box 26 of the collection provides a detailed analysis of Hazen's importance in the discipline of water engineering in the early twentieth century. Allen Hazen advised a large number of cities and towns in...
Dates: 1883 - 1974

Donald R. Harleman papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0670
Scope and Contents

The majority of the papers of Donald R. F. Harleman consist of correspondence, notes, reports, drafts, conference materials, lecture transcripts, and articles related to Donald Harleman's consulting work involving the prevention of tidal flooding in Venice, Italy. Some reports and publications are in Italian. Also included are several folders related to Harleman's consulting work for Qatar Vinyl Company Ltd. involving its wastewater treatment plant.

Dates: 1981 - 2005

Eiichiro Honma papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC-0721
Scope and Contents

This collection contains materials produced by Honma both during and following his time as a student at MIT.

Dates: circa 1868 to 1930

John Ripley Freeman papers

 Collection
Identifier: MC-0051
Abstract The collection documents the activities of John Ripley Freeman, a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and later a member of the MIT Corporation. Freeman worked as a consulting engineer for almost sixty years, 1876-1932. Project files containing correspondence, photographs, drafts and published reports, maps, diaries, computation and data, clippings, reprints and transcripts of testimony record his work on over 100 projects in the United States, Canada, Mexico, and...
Dates: Bulk, 1876-1932 1827-1952; Majority of material found within 1876 - 1932

Loammi Baldwin papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0069
Abstract Loammi Baldwin, 1780-1838, was a civil engineer whose projects included canal construction and harbor improvement, railroads, water power projects, and city water supplies. The collection includes correspondence, reports, tide tables, cost estimates, drawings, notes, computations, and court records describing Baldwin's design and construction of dry docks for the United States Navy at Charlestown, Massachusetts, and Gosport (Norfolk), Virginia. Project materials date from between 1827 and...
Dates: 1824 - 1916; Majority of material found within 1827 - 1833

William Otis Crosby papers

 Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MC-0068
Scope and Contents of the Collection The bulk of the collection of the papers of William O. Crosby consists of correspondence and geological research as well as reports of consulting projects on sites in Boston, New England, Long Island, Colorado, Alaska, western United States mines, and other US locations, maps of the Massachusetts area by Crosby, bibliographies, reports, reprints, and printed material. Plans and maps of the "New Technology," the new campus for the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, made by...
Dates: 1873 - 1931

William T. Pierce travel diary and photograph album

 Collection — Box 1: [Barcode: 39080008714500]
Identifier: MC-0047
Scope and Contents of the Collection William T. Pierce, a civil engineer in Boston, Massachusetts, traveled from Boston to Europe in 1902. On the trip he kept a diary and took photographs of views and gardens and important buildings, bridges, and other engineering structures in various locations in Europe. He recorded his observations in the diary which also includes descriptions of the photographs he took. The photographs are organized in an album. The black and white photographs in the album are numbered and most...
Dates: 1902