Bernard Alfred Etcheverry specifications
Scope and Contents
This collection includes advertisements, proposals, and specifications of projects conducted within the United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Reclamation Service. The projects held in this collection were within the western United States from 1904 until 1915.
The projects are numbered and arranged by their number. This collection is comprised of projects 1-298. There are some of these projects not included within this manuscript collection, specifically: 2-47, 53, 55, 103, 105, 114-115, 154, 156-157, 159, 161-164, 166-168, 170, 172, 174, 178-181, 183-188, 190-191, 195, 198-200, 202, 206, 210-213, 217-219, 235-238, 244-245, 247, 250-258, 267-268, 270-274, 276-279, 292, 294, and 297. Photographs were removed to photo collection P0104.
Dates
- 1904-1915
Language of Materials
Collection materials are in English.
Restrictions
Open to public research.
Copyright
It is the responsibility of the user to obtain permission to publish from the owner of the copyright (the institution, the creator of the record, the author or his/her transferees, heirs, legates, or literary executors). The user agrees to indemnify and hold harmless the Utah State University Libraries, its officers, employees, and agents from and against all claims made by any person asserting that he or she is an owner of copyright.
Permission to publish material from the Bernard Alfred Etcheverry specifications must be obtained from the Special Collections Manuscript Curator and/or the Special Collections Department Head.
Historical Note
Bernard Alfred Etcheverry (1881-1954) was an instructor of civil engineering at the University of California from 1902 - 1903, and associate professor of irrigation engineering from 1917 until his retirement. He was also an associate professor of civil engineering at the University of Nevada from 1903 to 1905, and an associate professor of irrigation engineering from 1905 to 1917. Additionally, Etcheverry was a consulting engineer for various projects in British Columbia, Washington, and California.
This collection of specifications and blueprints for water reclamation in the western United States was used as source material for Etcheverry's three volume book Irrigation Practice and Engineering, published by McGraw-Hill from 1915 to 1916. Photographs removed to photo collection P0104 were used to illustrate this publication.
Extent
8 boxes (4 linear ft.)
Abstract
This collection includes advertisements, proposals, and specifications of projects conducted within the United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Reclamation Service. The projects held in this collection were within the western United States from 1904 until 1915.
Arrangement
Arranged numerically by project number.
Immediate Source of Acquisition
Purchased by U.S.U. Special Collections and Archives in 1993.
- Title
- Guide to the Bernard Alfred Etcheverry specifications 1904-1915
- Author
- Finding aid created by Special Collections and Archives.
- Date
- ©2008
- Description rules
- Finding Aid Based On Dacs (Describing Archives: A Content Standard)
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
- Language of description note
- Finding guide is in English in Latin script.
- Sponsor
- Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008
Revision Statements
- September 3, 2008.: Template information was updated to reflect Utah Manuscript Association best practices.
- 2009: Template information was updated to reflect Archives West best practice guidelines.
Repository Details
Part of the Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives Repository
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Logan Utah 84322-3000 United States
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