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Scope and Contents From the Collection: The Papers of Robert and Daphne Illeman consists of documents dated 1938 to 1968, with the bulk falling from 1948 to 1950. There are few personal papers or details of the Illemans' specific work present. The collection consists primarily of materials related to what became the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project. These materials mostly refer to the "Gunnison-Arkansas Project," so called because the Bureau of Reclamation's initial plans for the project, developed in the 1940s, entailed moving water...