MS 42 Donald W.

Taylor

Donald W. Taylor Papers MS 42 Personal Papers

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Donald Wood Taylor was born December 2, 1900 in Worcester. He graduated from North High School in Worcester in 1918, and from WPI in 1922 with a
Bachelor of Science Degree in Civil Engineering. He then worked for the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Los Angeles Bureau of Power and Light,
Edward F. Miner Building Co. in Worcester, and New England Power Co.

In 1931, he began graduate study at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and became a research assistant in the Civil and Sanitary Engineering Department in
1932. He began consulting work while working at MIT in 1934. He was in charge of the Soil Engineering Division beginning about 1936. In 1938 he became
Assistant Professor of Soil Mechanics. He received his Master's Degree from MIT in 1942, and was appointed Associate Professor of Soil Mechanics in 1944.

In a typewritten compilation of his education and experience written in September 1954, Professor Taylor summarized his major work as a consultant, citing
specifically many projects for Fay, Spofford & Thorndike, Engineers; Corps of Engineers, U. S. Army; Nepsco Services, Augusta, Maine for work on the Union
Falls Dam; Southern California Edison Company for work on their Vermillion Project; and New England Electric System for work on their Littleton Dam.

Professor Taylor was active in several professional societies. He was a member of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers. He chaired the Committee on Subsoils
of Boston from 1943 to 1955. He was an associate member of the American Society of Civil Engineers, and chaired their Sub-Committee on Design of Earth
Dams and their Foundations from
1947 to 1951, and served as a member of the Administrative Committee on Earth Dams from 1951-1955. He was also a member of the International Society of
Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering, serving as International Secretary from 1948 to 1953. He participated in three international conferences.

Professor Taylor published many articles and research reports, and the textbook Fundamentals of Soil Mechanics. He received the Desmond Fitzgerald Award
for his paper "Stability of Earth Slopes," published in 1937.

In 1928, Taylor married Beulah Nyman of Marlboro. They lived in Arlington. He died after a brief illness on December 24, 1955.

SCOPE AND CONTENT

The materials in this collection span the years 1934 through 1955. There is a biographical note and letter to Mrs. Taylor from 1969, and there is also one folder
of letters from former graduate assistants, written in 1979. The largest amount of material is from Professor Taylor's consulting work in the late 1940s through
most of 1955.

All of the materials in the collection relate to Donald Taylor's professional life. Approximately one document case contains biographical information about
Professor Taylor, papers written by him, and discussions by him of the work of others in the soil mechanics field. There is also a folder of correspondence and
reports of the Subsoil Committee of the Boston Society of Civil Engineers, which Taylor chaired.

The rest of the collection is comprised of Taylor's consulting work. For much of this work, he used the laboratory facilities at MIT and for at least some of the
major projects, including Taylor's work with the Waterways Experiment Station, MIT received the funding and graduate students did some of the work.

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 There are many photographs in this collection. In most cases if photographs were found with a particular project, they were kept with the project. At the end of
the collection are folders of prints, negatives and slides which either were not identified or related to conferences or to other lab work or projects not found in
the consulting files.

Materials have been re-arranged from the order when we received them. All the consulting files were in alphabetical order by project title. It is assumed that
this was for Professor Taylor's convenience, in looking up or adding materials. The Archivist made the decision to group materials by consulting group (in the
case of several projects for a specific company) and in date order within that. In the case of companies or municipalities for which there is one project, materials
are in date order. This ordering of materials takes some of its direction from Professor Taylor's own summary of major projects he worked on. In writing of his
consulting work in 1954, he listed the following, as roughly 80% of his recent work and the most important work:
Projects for Fay, Spofford & Thorndike, including Fore River Bridge in Portland, Maine, Boston Expressway, and Army Base Retaining Wall projects.
Corps of Engineers, U.S. Army: on boards of consultants since 1944, majority of projects for the Office of the Chief of Engineers, Washington, D.C., the
Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi, and the Ohio River Division Laboratories. Included work on Full Scale Model Flood Wall, Flexible
Pavement, Pressure Distribution and Polomology Programs, as well as work on three classified project associated with the atomic blast programs.
Nepsco Services Inc., Augusta, Maine - construction of Union Falls Dam [see Central
Maine Power Company, Skelton Station]
Southern California Edison Company, conducting special tests and stability analyses for their Vermilion Project.
New England Electric System, soil engineering consultant on Littleton Dam.

Within projects, folders are in the same order in which they came to the Archives. While materials have been transferred to new folders, materials within folders
have been kept together as they were originally.

Container List
Container Folder Date Title
None

Series I - Biographical materials MS 42_01 Personal Papers

Container List
Container Folder Date Title
Box 01 Folder 01 1954 & 1955 Personal, professional and academic record of Donald W. Taylor

Box 01 Folder 02 1955 Memoir of Donald Wood Taylor, 1900-1955

tribute and breif biography
Box 01 Folder 03 1955 Copy of Biographical note an Correspondence
Copy of biographical note on D. W. Taylor and correspondence with Mrs. Taylor from MIT Professor Bob
Whitman. Biographical note is in Soil Mechanics by T. William Lamb and Mr. Whitman

Box 01 Folder 04 1979 Copries of letters written by D.W. Taylor's former research assistants
re. Waterways Experiment Station work

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 Series II - Paper and notes by Donald W. Taylor MS 42_02 Personal Papers
Container List
Container Folder Date Title
Box 01 Folder 05 December 1929 Paper for talk given
"Factors of Safety and Usable Values" to Highway Research Board meeting
Box 01 Folder 06 May 1937 Draft, notes and sketches for paper "Stability of Earth Slopes"

Box 01 Folder 07 1937, 1938 Manuscript and printed paper

"Stability of Earth Slopes," Journal of Boston Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. XXIV No. 3 July 1937, plus reprint
by MIT and BSCE Award letter, May 1937, February 1938

Box 01 Folder 08 May 6. 1938 Transcript of radio broadcast

"Chemistry of Today" - includes "Plastic Clay as a Foundation Material" seperate transcript of program, and news
article on broadcast

Box 01 Folder 09 June 1938 Paper

"Cylindrical Compression Apparatus for Testing Shearing Properties of Soils not being developed at MIT" -
presented at Army Engineers Soil Conference, Boston

Box 01 Folder 10 November 28, 1938 Paper

"The Stability Analysis of a Foundation Dailure," and draft of paper, presented at Soil Mechanics Departmental
Section, Highway Research Board Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C.

Box 01 Folder 11 June 1939 Abstract of Paper

"A Comparison of Results of Direct Shear & Cylindrical Compression Tests," to be presented at Annual Meeting of
American Society for Testing Materials

Box 01 Folder 12 November 28, 1939 Remarks re. shear in clays, to Highway Research Board

Box 01 Folder 13 July 1940 Paper by D.W. Taylor & Wilfred Merchant
"Theory of Clay Consolidation accounting for Secondary Compressions," reprinted from Journal of Mathematics
and Physics, Vol. XIX, No. 3, July 1940

Box 01 Folder 14 1934, 1935, n.d. Draft of paper or part of M.S. Thesis
Stress-strain relationships in Granular Materials, also charts, graphs, tests
Box 01 Folder 15 1942 Label for thesis "Laboratory Investigation of Stress-Strain Relationships in Granular Soils"

Box 01 Folder 16 August 1942 Publication (Serial 82)

Research on Consolidation of Clays, publication From Department of Civil & Sanitary Engineering, MIT
Box 01 Folder 17 October 1944 Paper
"An Unusual Foundation Problem: The Alumni Pool Building," Reprinted from October 1944 issue of Journal of
Boston Society of Civil Engineers, October 1944

Box 01 Folder 18 1951 Paper

"A Triaxial Shear Investigation on a Partially Saturated Soil," Triaxial Testing of Soils & Botuminous Materials
Special Publication 106, Reprint

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 Box 01 Folder 19 1953 Paper
"A Direct Shear Test with Drainage Control," from Symposium on Direct Shear Testing of Soils, A.S.T.M.
Box 01 Folder 20 n.d., after 1948 Paper
"Shearing Strength Determinations by undrained cylindrical Compression tests with Pore Pressure Measurements"
Box 01 Folder 21 n.d. Paper
"Shearing Properties of Ottawa Standard Sand as determined by the MIT Strain-Control Direct Shearing
Machine," by D.W. Taylor and Thomas M. Leps [includes graphs and photograph]

Box 01 Folder 22 n.d. Paper

"Limit Design of Foundations and Embankments"
Box 01 Folder 23 n.d. Designs and Graphs
Proposed pure shear machine and tests

Series III - Discussions/remarks by Donald W. Taylor MS 42_03 Personal Papers

Container List
Container Folder Date Title
Box 01 Folder 24 April 1937 Discussion of paper by D.P. Krynine: "Pressures beneath a Spread Footing," at A.S.C.E. Proceedings

Box 01 Folder 25 June 29, 1937 Comments: "Discussion of Teaching Methods in Soil Mechanics," - S.P.E.E. Annual Meeting

Box 01 Folder 26 October 1937 Typed remarks on a paper by Dr. Casagrande

re. dependability of estimates of settlements of buildings underlaid by clay deposits. Remarks made at A.S.C.E.
meeting in Boston

Box 01 Folder 27 February 1939 Discussion of paper by J.A. Van de Broek

"Theory of Limit Design," Emphasizing importance of conditions of strain
Box 01 Folder 28 Januray 18, 1940 Discussion of paper by Dr. Casagrande
"The Design of Building Foundations as influenced by developments in soil mechanics," A.S.C.E. Soil Mechanics &
Foundations Division

Box 01 Folder 29 July 1940 Discussion of paper by R.E. Glover & F.E. Cornwell
"A New Procedure For Estimating Stability of Granular Soils," A.S.C.E. Convention, Denver, July 1940
Box 01 Folder 30 September 1940 Discussion on Soil Mechanics courses
S.P.E.E.Conference on Soil Mechanics, Purdue, September 1940
Box 01 Folder 31 January 22, 1942 Discussion on Soil Sampling and Soil Testing Session - A.S.C.E. Meeting

Box 01 Folder 32 Janurary 1947 Discussion of Tschebotarioff's paper: "Lateral Earth Pressures on Flexible Retaining Walls"
A.S.C.E. Annual Meeting

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 Series IV: Committee and consulting work, news MS 42_04 Personal Papers
articles, MIT list of art.
Container List
Container Folder Date Title
Box 02 Folder 01 1943-1954 Correspondence/reports - Boston Society of Civil Engineers Subsoil Committee
Donald E. Taylor Chair
Box 02 Folder 02 1952-1953 List of consulting work for the year from D. W. Taylor

Box 02 Folder 03 1940s Newspaper articles - Mud hardening chemical, Frost effects laboratory

Box 02 Folder 04 1926-1953 List of reprinted articles on Soil mechanics subjects

from Department of Civil & Sanitary Engineering, MIT

Series V: Consulting work for Fay, Spofford & MS 42_05 Personal Papers
Thorndike, 1936-1950
Container List
Container Folder Date Title
Box 02 Folder 05 1936 Huntington Ave. overpass cave-in/settlement -- Boston/Brookline, MA

Box 02 Folder 06 August 1937 Gloucester Project -- soil samples/shearing strength

Box 02 Folder 07 1941 Stephenville Airport, Newfoundland -- soil sample testing

Box 02 Folder 08 Oct. 1941 U.S. Navy Yard, South Boston, Dry Dock No. 4 -- shearing strength

Box 02 Folder 09 1941-1942 U.S. Navy Yard, South Boston, Dry Dock No.4, Piers 5&6 - Blueprints - Borings, Depth of Sheet Piling

Box 02 Folder 10 1941-1942 US Navy Yard, South Boston-Specifications/Borings for Proposed Dry Dock No. 4
report on stability/movement of wharf extension
Box 02 Folder 11 1941-1942 Hartford, CT riverfront dike collapse - investigation and report

Box 02 Folder 12 1943 Optimist Runway - report re. frost heaving and slide danger

Box 02 Folder 13 1944 Portland, Maine - stability studies, plans, correspondence re. wharf

Box 02 Folder 14 1946 Pocahontas Bulkhead, Brooklyn, N.Y. - soil/pressure

Box 02 Folder 15 December 1949, January 1950 East Boston Pier 1 - Tests

Box 02 Folder 16 December 1949, January 1950 East Boston Pier 1 - Test Data

Box 03 Folder 01 December 1949, January 1950 East Boston Pier 1 - Consolidation Test Data

Box 03 Folder 02 December 1949, January 1950 East Boston Pier 1 - Outline of testing program & summary of test results

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 Box 03 Folder 03 1950 East Boston Pier 1 - Blueprints

Box 03 Folder 04 1950 East Boston Pier 1 - Preliminary Plots and Figures, Tables

Box 03 Folder 05 1950 East Boston Pier 1 - Stability Analysis

Box 03 Folder 06 1950 East Boston Pier 1 - Preliminary Report and Blueprints

Box 03 Folder 07 1949/1950 East Boston Pier 1 - Photographs

Box 03 Folder 08 1949/1950 East Boston Pier 1 - Photographs

Box 03 Folder 09 1950 New Jersey Turnpike - plans, boring tests

Box 03 Folder 10 1950 New Jersey Turnpike - photographs

Box 03 Folder 11 1951 Boston Central Artery - Boring and Sampling, Warren Bridge

Box 04 Folder 01 1951 Boston Central Artery - Blueprints, Warren St. Bridge/Boston Connection

Box 04 Folder 02 1951 Hollingsworth & Whitney Co. - new bleach plant, Mobile, Alabama - Soil/shear tests

Box 04 Folder 03 1951-1953 Brunwick, Maine Airport, Mare Brook Region

Box 04 Folder 04 October-December 1953 P.O.L. Wharf, Goose Bay, Labrador - Soil Test

Box 04 Folder 05 December 1953 Army Base, South Boston - Report on Rehabilitation of Wharves and Piers

Box 04 Folder 06 1952 & 1953 Boston Naval Shipyard, report on foundation for forging hammer

Box 04 Folder 07 1952-1954 Fore River Bridge, Portland, Maine - tests

Box 04 Folder 08 1952-1954 Fore River Bridge, Portland, Maine - Shear strength plots

Box 04 Folder 09 1952 Fore River Bridge, Portland, Maine - miscellaneous

Box 04 Folder 10 May 28, 1951 Fore River Bridge, Portland, Maine -
Report on Subsurface Investigations at Calvary pond by Hamilton Gray, Soils Engineer
Box 04 Folder 11 1954 Fore River Bridge, Portland, Maine - Draft of Report

Box 04 Folder 12 1952 - 1954 Fore River Bridge, Portland, Maine - Tests/Stability

Box 05 Folder 01 1954 Waterville, Maine Tanks - soil/shear tests - correspondence, test data

Box 05 Folder 02 1953 - 1955 landslides on West Virginia turnpike - correspondence, drawings, slope stability tests

Box 05 Folder 03 1954-1955 Taunton, MA Reservoir Project - soil investigattions - boring data, Correspondence

Box 05 Folder 04 june 30, 1955 Boston Central Artery - Soil Test Data

Series VI: Consulting for US Engineer Office, US Army MS 42_06 Personal Papers
Corps of Engineers
Container List
Container Folder Date Title

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Box 05 Folder 05 1934 Cape Cod Canal - Sieve Analysis on Soil Samples

Box 05 Folder 06 February 1936 Eastport, Maine - Passamaquoddy Project - report on soil testing

Box 05 Folder 07 1939 Ithaca, NY - Almond Dam - Soil density

Box 05 Folder 08 1940-1941 Portland Oregon - Dams - Embankment Slopes Stability Analysis - correspondence, drawings
Embankment Slopes analyzed for stability following rapid drawdown
Box 05 Folder 09 1946 Portland, Oregon - Report by D.W. Taylor - Part 1 Triaxial Tests
Report Name: "Special Pore Pressure Tests on Clay and Rock Talus Formation at Lookout Point-Meridian
Damsite"

Box 05 Folder 10 1945 Mariemont, Cincinnati, Ohio - Floodwall Studies - Sample Floodwall analysis
Exhibits A and B and computations
Box 05 Folder 11 1945-1952 Mariemont, Cincinnati, Ohio - Floodwall Studies - article, correspondence, analysis

Box 05 Folder 12 1952-1953 Mariemont, Cincinnati, Ohio - Floodwall Studies - correspondence, sketches, Army Corps report
Army Corps report with photograph
Box 05 Folder 13 1953-1954 Mariemont, Cincinnati, Ohio - Floodwall Studise - correspondence, notes
Corps of Engineers' report and contract included
Box 06 Folder 01 October 30, 1950 Mairemont, Cincinnati, Ohio - Floodwall Studies - Stability Tests
Brief Summary of activities and results
Box 06 Folder 02 March 1952 Mairemont, Cincinnati, Ohio - Floodwall Studies
"First Interin report of Full-Sized Flood Wall Stability tests" - Ohio River Divistion Laboratories
Box 06 Folder 03 June 1950 Mairemont, Cincinnati, Ohio - Floodwall Studies
Full-Sized Flood Wall Stability tests - Test Data and results for Conference
Box 06 Folder 04 April 17-20, 1948, June 1948 Waterways Experiment Station, Vicksburg, Mississippi - Minutes of Pressure Cell Conference

Box 06 Folder 05 1948 - 1949 Waterways Experiment Station - Cooperative Program

comparison of firect shear and triaxial compression test results - correspondence, reports
Box 06 Folder 06 1951-1952/correspondence 1951 Waterways Experiment Station - Flexible Pavement Studies Conference/Prposed program of
Triaxial Reserch
Box 06 Folder 07 1951 & 1952 Waterways Experiment Station - Flexible Airfield Pavements - correspondence

Box 06 Folder 08 1951 & January 1952 Waterways Experiment Station - Stress Distribution studies
correspondence, reports, shear cell drawings
Box 06 Folder 09 1950-1953 Waterways Experiment Station - Triaxial Sheer Research, Cell Tests - Correspondence, reports

Box 06 Folder 10 1952 Waterways Experiment Station - Report by WES

"INvestigations of Pressures & deflections for Flexible Pavements, Report No. 3 Theoretical Stresses induced by
Uniform Circular Loads"

Box 06 Folder 11 October 7, 1952 Waterways Experiment Station - Stress Distribution correspondence, from WES

Box 06 Folder 12 correspondence 1952 & 1953 Waterways Experiment Station - Flexible Pavement program

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 Box 07 Folder 01 June 11-12, 1953 Waterways Experiment Station - Draft - Minutes on Conference on Stress

Box 07 Folder 02 June 11-12, 1953 Waterways Experiment Station - Conference on Stress Distribution - minutes,

Box 07 Folder 03 June & July 1954 Waterways Experiment Station - Stress/Pressure Distribution
correspondence, D.W. Taylor comments
Box 07 Folder 04 1955 Waterways Experiment Station - Review of Research on Shearing Strength of Clay
MIT 1948-1953 by D.W. Taylor
Box 07 Folder 05 April 1945 Waterways Experiment Station - - Report by D. W. Taylor:
"Review of Pressure Distribution Theories, Earth Pressure Cell Investigations and Pressure Distribution Data,"
Box 07 Folder 06 1947-1950 Waterways Experiment Station - - Stress Distribution studies - correspondence, reports, tests

Box 07 Folder 07 December 1949 Waterways Experiment Station - Minutes of Conference on Stress Distribution Investigation
Draft, Agenda, participants
Box 07 Folder 08 June 1940-July 1942 Waterways Experiment Station - Shear Research, Quarterly Reports, No. 1-8

Series VII: Consulting - other large projects: Central MS 42_07 Personal Papers
Maine Power Company
Container List
Container Folder Date Title
Box 08 Folder 01 November 10, 1948 Skelton Station - Dam site topography, 1947 - data for D.W. Taylor

Box 08 Folder 02 1949 Skelton Station - Concrete Dam & Powerhouse Drain Pipe Flow Readings, Earth Dam Piezometer
& well point
Box 08 Folder 03 1949 Skelton Station-Concrete Dam & Powerhouse Drain Pipe Flow Readings, Piezometer & Well Point Readings

Box 08 Folder 05 1949 Skelton Station-Concrete Dam & Powerhouse Drain Pipe Flow Readings, Piezometer & Well Point Readings

Box 08 Folder 04 1949 Skelton Station-Concrete Dam & Powerhouse Drain Pipe Flow Readings, Piezometer & Well Point Readings

Box 08 Folder 06 December 6, 1949 Skelton Station - Plan by D.W. Taylor showing proposed additional fill on Westerly
downstream portion of dam
Box 09 Folder 01 January 3, 1953-September 9, 1953Skelton Station - Earth Dam Piezometer & Well Point Readings

Series VIII: Consulting - other large projects: Ebasco MS 42_08 Personal Papers
Services
Container List
Container Folder Date Title
Box 09 Folder 02 1953 Littleton Development - soil, clay/shear tests/reports

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 Box 09 Folder 03 1953 - 1954 Littleton Development - soil testing

Box 09 Folder 04 1953 Littleton Development - soil testing, maps, plans, reports

Box 10 Folder 01 1955 Littleton Development - piezometer readings, density tests - Littleton Dam

Box 10 Folder 02 1953 - 1955 Littleton Development - soil tests, reports, correspondence

Box 10 Folder 04 June-November 1954 Littleton Development - John Pietz reports #3-#17, letter September 30, 1954 on pits,
plots of density data by DRC and DWT
Box 10 Folder 05 1953-1955 Littleton Development - Littleton Dam - Penstock Fill, earth fill densities

Box 10 Folder 06 June 1953 Littleton Development - Report on soil testing for the Littleton Development by D. W. Taylor

Series IX: Consulting for companies with multiple MS 42_09 Personal Papers
projects
Container List
Container Folder Date Title
Box 10 Folder 07 1939 Cleverdon, Varney & Pike/Boston Housing Authority - Charlestown Housing Project
bearing capacity of footings
Box 10 Folder 08 1941 Cleverdon, Varney & Pike - Woolworth Building site, Worcester - soil Inspection

Box 10 Folder 09 1947 Cleverdon, Varney & Pike - Foundation proposed, Lynn City Hall - Conference summary

Box 10 Folder 10 1951 & 1952 Cleverdon, Varney & Pike - Vermont State Hospital/Waterbury Dormitory - Soil problem
borings, correspondence, analysis
Box 10 Folder 11 1952 Cleverdon, Varney & Pike - Beverly High School -- foundation conditions

Box 10 Folder 12 October 9, 1953 Cleverdon, Varney & Pike - Off-street parking facility in Boston - settlement of soils

Box 10 Folder 13 1951-1952 Camp, Dresser & McKee - Rutland, VT Reservoir

Water Supply Project Soil samples, sieve analysis, plans, correspondence
Box 10 Folder 15 1953 Camp, Dresser & McKee - Lebanon, NH reservoir - compaction tests,

Box 10 Folder 16 1953 Camp, Dresser & McKee - City of Cambridge, MA - Cambridge water main break

Box 10 Folder 14 1953 Camp, Dresser & McKee - Gardner, MA dam - soil analysis

Box 11 Folder 01 1937 Aluminum Company of America (ALCOA)-Nantahala, NC rock-fill dam-Soil studies-figures, correspondence

Box 11 Folder 02 1937, 1940 Aluminum Company of America - Nantahala, NC rock-fill dam
Report of D.W. Taylor to Aluminum Company, correspondence
Box 11 Folder 03 1940 Aluminum Company of America - Glenville Dam project, Glenville, NC -Soil investigations

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 Series X: Consulting Projects, in chronological order MS 42_10 Personal Papers
Container List
Container Folder Date Title
Box 11 Folder 04 1934 Wellington Bridge Foundation
tests, figures
Box 11 Folder 05 December 1935 T. Stuart & Sons - South Boston Army Base
sand testing
Box 11 Folder 06 1937 Prof. H. K. Barrows - Sucker Brook Dam, Vermont and Ell Pons, Melrose
Soil samples, analysis, correspondence
Box 11 Folder 07 1938 American Gas & Electric - Claytor Dam, Radford, VA
cutoff trench
Box 11 Folder 08 1938 Frank A. Barbour - East Branch Dam, Akron, OH
cutoff trench
Box 11 Folder 09 June 3, 1938 U.S. Maritime Commission - Army Base,South Boston
Sand testing, dredging
Box 11 Folder 10 1938 American Stell & Wire, Worcester
Foundaton studies for proposed addition
Box 11 Folder 11 1939 U.S. Smelting Refining & Mining Co./Dr. W.J. Mead of MIT
Fairbanks, Alaska project re. shearing strength, embankment soils, stability
Box 11 Folder 12 1941 City of Cabridge/Portland Cement
Cambridge, MA cemetery road surfacing - soil sampling
Box 11 Folder 13 1941 Benjamin Foster Company - Winsor Dam
soil tests, correspondence
Box 11 Folder 14 1942 C.J. Maney Company - Castle Island, South Boston
stability of wharf and bulkhead
Box 11 Folder 15 1943 Reynolds Mining Corporation, Stuckey Mine, Bauxite, Arkansas
Report an recommendations re. slope failures
Box 12 Folder 01 1943 National Defense Research Committee, Princeton UNiversity Station
Bullet penetration into soils - correspondence
Box 12 Folder 02 1945 Crandall Dry Dock Engineers, Inc. - Railway Dry Dock, Sydney, Nova Scotia - Subsoil investigations
correspondence, reports, plans, notes, calculations, test data
Box 12 Folder 03 1946 Cluett, Peabody & Co. - Buildings in North Grosvenor - Dale, CT
bearing capacity - correspondence, plans, notes
Box 12 Folder 04 1946 & 1947 Jackson & Moreland - Cambridge, MA Supersonic Laboratory Building (proposed)
effect of pumping on settlement

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Box 12 Folder 05 1947 F.P. Sheldon & Son - Storehouse building, Sprague Electric Co., North Adams, MA
inspection and report on bulging of wall
Box 12 Folder 06 1949-1951 E.I. DuPont de Nemours & Company - Belle Fly Ash Disposal
Soil Investigations
Box 12 Folder 07 January 1951 Morton C. Tuttle Co. - Bath, Maine Ironworks - Dock
correspondence, tests, plans
Box 12 Folder 08 1951 D'Orsi & Company - Medford, MA Housing Authority
review of boring data/site plan & drawings
Box 12 Folder 09 March-October 1952 Boston Housing Authority - Bromlet Park Project/Edouard Dube
Foundation conditions
Box 12 Folder 10 July 1952-February 1953 Braden Copper Co./Crosby Consulting Geologist - Comstock Site, Sapos Project, Chile
soil samples, correspondence
Box 12 Folder 11 1952-1953 Southern California Edison Company - proposed Vermilion Dam
soil tests, correspondence, report
Box 12 Folder 12 1953-1954 Southern California Edison Company - proposed Vermilion Dam
tests, correpondence, calculations, flow net, report - seepage and stability investigations
Box 12 Folder 13 1952-1954 Ely, Bartlett, Thompson & Brown - Orient Heights State Veterans housing Project, Boston
retaining wall collapse - correspondence, investigation
Box 12 Folder 14 1953 Sandia Corp. - Armed Forces Special Weapons - Nevada AFSWP
Soil Gauge INstallations/Cells at Mercury
Box 13 Folder 01 1953 Endesa - Laguna del Maule Dam, Chile
review of conduite and recommendations
Box 13 Folder 02 1953 Cram and Ferguson - General Electric Reality Corp. - Warehouse Foundations - Newton, MA
correspondence
Box 13 Folder 03 1953-1954 Charles A. Maguire/MDC - Foundation at Columbus Park Headworks
Allowable temporary loads on foundation - correspondence, plan
Box 13 Folder 04 August 10, 1954 Wes-Julian Construction Corp. - Bedford MA Airbase
gradation materials - correspondence
Box 13 Folder 05 1954 Hayden, Harding & Buchanan - Gloucester Housing Project
soil samples re. future building foundations
Box 13 Folder 06 1954 United Water Conservation District - Santa Felicia dam site, California
review of plans
Box 13 Folder 07 1954-1955 Lancaster Reservoir
test data
Box 13 Folder 08 June 10, 1955 Metropolitan District Commission, Sewerage Division - street settlements - Chelsea, MA
report, notes

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 Box 13 Folder 09 1955 Metcalf & Eddy
Chelsea sewer failure

Series XI: Photographs, negatives, slides MS 42_11 Photographs

Container List
Container Folder Date Title
Box 13 Folder 10 1929 & 1932 2 lantern slides and 1 print - say C.E. Dept. - Gilboy/Jurgeson, A. Casagrande

Box 13 Folder 11 June 1935 Photographs and Notes

Box 13 Folder 12 1948 Slides, with numbers and descriptions - Sweden, Denmark, Holland
D.W. Taylor attended conference
Box 13 Folder 13 June 1952 Glass Slides
Conference MIT [stab.? conf/]
Box 13 Folder 14 1953 Photograph of 4 men, with letter from Charles Foster
from Stress Distribution Conference
Box 13 Folder 15 October 19, 1954 Glass slides
ASCE (Soils) Meeting
Box 13 Folder 16 December 1954 4 Color slides and typed descriptions
Highway building along the Airline Highway, U.S. 190, between New Orleans and Baton Rouge - From Prof. W.P.
Wallace, Louisiana State University

Box 13 Folder 17 n.d. Photograph

no description
Box 13 Folder 18 n.d. Photographs
testing equipment?
Box 13 Folder 19 n.d. Photographs
testing machines?
Box 13 Folder 20 n.d. Photographs and negatives

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