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Papers of Raymond L. Anderson

 Collection
Identifier: WRLA
Abstract

Natural resource economist Raymond L. Anderson (1927-2018) spent nearly three decades working jointly for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) Economic Research Service and Colorado State University (CSU). He focused on irrigated agriculture and the associated organizations and issues arising in modern contexts. The collection contains biographical material, correspondence, publications, and data.

Dates: 1950-2008; Majority of material found within 1961-1984

Papers of Richard D. MacRavey

 Collection
Identifier: WRDM
Abstract Richard D. "Dick" MacRavey (1931-2011) served the Colorado Water Congress for 26 years, after becoming the organization's executive director in 1979. He greatly influenced state water politics throughout his career, championing certain initiatives while working to defeat those with which he disagreed. MacRavey was involved in legislation affecting a range of Colorado water issues, including water quality, storage, administration, and municipal supply. This collection consists of...
Dates: 1968-2011

Papers of Robert A. Longenbaugh

 Collection
Identifier: WRAL
Abstract Robert A. Longenbaugh (1935-2020) made numerous contributions to groundwater research, education, and legislation. The collection documents Longenbaugh's career working on Colorado groundwater issues as a Colorado State University engineering professor, assistant state engineer, and consultant, as well as his continued activities during retirement. Main subjects documented include groundwater resources, modeling, recharge, law, education, wells, and irrigation pump efficiency, as well as...
Dates: 1935-2020; Majority of material found in 1960-2020

Papers of Robert A. Young

 Collection
Identifier: WRAY
Abstract

Agricultural economist Robert A. Young (1931-2013) was a professor at Colorado State University (CSU) who offered insightful analysis related to water management and policy. He published extensively about economics as related especially to water issues in Colorado, the western United States, and the world. The collection consists mainly of his research, publications, and presentations.

Dates: 1965-2009; Majority of material found within 1978-1996

Papers of Robert and Daphne Illeman

 Collection
Identifier: WIFP
Abstract Daphne Illeman (1921-2016) and Robert Illeman (1917-2003), a married couple, worked as civil engineers for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation on multiple projects, including what became the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project in Colorado. The collection includes two sets of reports produced by the Bureau for the Fryingpan-Arkansas Project, a transmountain diversion, along with other reports, maps, and drawings related to water resources development projects and research. The collection also includes...
Dates: 1938-1968; Majority of material found in 1948-1950

Papers of Robert C. Ward

 Collection
Identifier: WRCW
Abstract A professor and administrator at Colorado State University for 35 years, Robert Ward focused his career on water quality monitoring. He conducted theoretical and applied research to develop information about water quality monitoring systems and management, teach the concepts, and influence application and policy. His collection documents his research and teaching, with limited files documenting his service activities and his administrative role. Material types include personnel files,...
Dates: 1950-2019; Majority of material found within 1970-2010

Papers of Robert E. Glover

 Collection
Identifier: WREG
Abstract A civil engineer with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Geological Survey, and Colorado State University, Robert Glover (1896-1984) conducted significant research on concrete cooling, dam construction, groundwater flow, and more. The focus of the collection is on the extensive work he did on these subjects. A smaller portion of the collection reflects Glover's personal life in terms of family activities and hobbies, including birding, photography, and environmentalism. Predominant...
Dates: 1896-2000; Majority of material found within 1922-1984

Papers of Robert K. Davis

 Collection
Identifier: WRKD
Abstract Robert K. Davis, now retired from the University of Colorado-Boulder's Environment and Behavior Program, Institute of Behavioral Science, has focused his research on the economics of natural resource management, with emphasis on water resources, hunting, wildlife and wildlife management. Over the years he worked for a number of institutions, including serving as assistant director for economics at the Office of Policy Analysis, U.S. Department of Interior (1976-1985), and as Senior Associate...
Dates: 1926-2000; Majority of material found within 1980-1999

Papers of Robert N. Cavarra

 Collection
Identifier: UCAV
Abstract Robert N. Cavarra was an organist, musicologist, and published composer who taught from 1963 to 2000 as faculty for Colorado State University's Department of Music, Theater and Dance. During his time at CSU, he facilitated bringing a Wurlitzer theater organ to the Student Center Theater. The collection contains correspondence, documents, research, journals, papers, memorabilia, newspaper clippings, drawings, blueprints, posters, programs, sheet music, books, photographs, cassette tapes,...
Dates: 1940-2008; Majority of material found within 1965-2008

Papers of Robert R. Owen

 Collection
Identifier: ARRO
Abstract

Robert R. Owen served as president of Great Western Sugar Company (GWS) from 1968 to 1975. He was instrumental in the formation of the cooperative which tried to buy out the company in the mid-1970s. The collection includes personal and working papers, daily desk notes, scrapbooks, numerous publications related to sugar production, photographs, and artifacts from Owen's personal life and his time with GWS.

Dates: 1952-2009; Majority of material found within 1970-1976

Papers of Ronald K. Blatchley

 Collection
Identifier: WRKB
Abstract Ronald K. Blatchley (b. 1929) was a water consultant in Colorado from the early 1960s into the 2000s. He worked at two firms, Tipton and Kalmbach, and W. W. Wheeler and Associates, before starting his own consulting firms Blatchley Associates, North Fork Associates, and Mountain Mutual Reservoir Company. Consisting mainly of reports from his firms, the collection includes augmentation plans, water rights evaluations, and groundwater studies. Blatchley's clients were mostly located in the...
Dates: 1938, 1963-2007; Majority of material found within 1974-1995

Papers of Roy C. and Ardyce L. Johnson

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Identifier: WRAJ
Abstract

Roy and Ardyce Johnson owned and operated a family farm near Wiggins, Colorado, between 1960 and 1986. The collection documents the struggles to keep the irrigated farm afloat, including financing with the Federal Land Bank and legal issues related to the use of groundwater. Additionally, the collection covers irrigation systems, the 1980s Farmers' Crisis, and the proposed Narrows Dam. Materials include financial reports, legal documents, letters, maps, and clippings.

Dates: 1960-2015; Majority of material found in 1974-1986

Papers of Royce J. Tipton

 Collection
Identifier: WRJT
Abstract During his fifty-year career, Colorado civil engineer Royce J. Tipton (1893-1967) designed numerous large water infrastructure projects in the U.S. West and around the world. As an accomplished and respected consultant, he helped negotiate several interstate water compacts and international treaties. Materials in the collection concern water planning projects conducted by Tipton in the United States, South America, the Middle East, and South Asia. Materials are almost entirely reports...
Dates: 1915-1969; Majority of material found within 1932-1969

Papers of Scott Hummer

 Collection
Identifier: WBRB
Abstract Scott Hummer (b. 1959) worked in Colorado water resources administration and management for more than 30 years, with his longest position being as the first full-time water commissioner for the Blue River Basin (Water District 36). This collection primarily documents that work, emphasizing visual depictions of the Blue River, a tributary of the Colorado River. The collection includes photographs of the river and tributaries, reservoirs and tarns, headgates, diversion systems, high-water...
Dates: 1885-2023; Majority of material found within 1990 - 2011

Papers of Theodosia G. Ammons

 Collection
Identifier: UAMM
Abstract Theodosia G. Ammons (c. 1862-1907) co-established Colorado State University's Department of Domestic Economy in 1895. She was the first faculty member of the department and first female dean at the school. Routine correspondence related to her department responsibilities comprises the bulk of the collection. Her activities as a suffragette are represented as well. The collection includes advertisements, announcements, correspondence, invitations, newspaper clippings, photographs, and...
Dates: c. 1870-1914

Papers of Timothy J. McNary

 Collection
Identifier: UTJM
Content Description

Collection contains McNary's diaries, letters, postcards and other materials while in Niger as a Peace Corps volunteer. He self-published the diaries and letters with his spouse Cathy McNary in 2020, titled An African Journal. Some of the letters concern his specimen collecting while in Africa with the Carnegie Museum of Natural History. The collection also contains three 3 1/4' floppy discs related to his book.

Dates: 1975 - 2000; Majority of material found within 1982 - 1986

Papers of Tom Pitts

 Collection
Identifier: WTPP
Abstract Tom Pitts worked with local, state, and federal organizations to find solutions for water usage and environmental regulatory issues. His efforts on endangered species issues resulted in multiple long-term programs benefiting both water users and endangered fish in river basins within and beyond Colorado. The collection thoroughly documents Pitts' work on the Colorado Water Congress Special Project on Threatened and Endangered Species, including work specific to the four endangered fish...
Dates: 1974-2014; Majority of material found within 1984-2000

Papers of W. D. Farr

 Collection
Identifier: WWDF
Abstract William Daven "W.D." Farr (1910-2007) was a water leader, cattleman, and businessman in northern Colorado. He was extensively involved in many local and national water and agricultural organizations, including the Northern Colorado Water Conservancy District, the Greeley Water and Sewer Board, and the American National Cattlemen's Association. Materials document little of Farr's professional life but more of his service activities and personal life. Beyond Farr and his family, the...
Dates: 1890-2010; Majority of material found within 1980-2005

Papers of Whitney M. Borland

 Collection
Identifier: WWMB
Abstract As a civil engineer with a long and distinguished career, Whitney McNair Borland (1905-2001) focused his research on sedimentation, hydraulics, avalanches and other aspects of hydrology. He was employed by the United States Bureau of Reclamation for over forty years, spending some of that time conducting model sedimentation studies in Fort Collins, working in the Colorado State University engineering lab designed by Ralph Parshall. The collection consists of documents either collected or...
Dates: 1828-1997; Majority of material found within 1930-1979

Papers of Will Hobbs

 Collection
Identifier: MWJH
Abstract

Will Hobbs is an award-winning author of books for children and young adults, focusing on outdoor adventures. The collection contains manuscripts and ephemera for four titles, Beardance, Bearstone, Downriver, and River Thunder, as well as ephemera for Beardream.

Dates: 1980-2012; Majority of material found in 1988-1997

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Colorado State University 32
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United States. Bureau of Reclamation 7
Colorado Agricultural Experiment Station 6
Denver (Colo.). Board of Water Commissioners 5
Colorado A & M College 4
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Great Western Sugar Company 4
North Poudre Irrigation Company 4
Water Supply and Storage Company 4
Colorado Agricultural College. Department of Civil and Irrigation Engineering 3
Colorado State University. College of Engineering 3
Colorado State University. Cooperative Extension Service 3
Colorado State University. Extension 3
Colorado Water Congress 3
Colorado Water Resources Research Institute 3
Fryingpan-Arkansas Project (U.S.) 3
Geological Survey (U.S.) 3
Glover, Robert E. (Robert Ellsworth), 1896- 3
Longenbaugh, R. A. (Robert A.) 3
United States. Department of the Interior 3
Ward, Robert C. 3
American Historical Society of Germans from Russia. Northern Colorado Chapter 2
Arkansas Valley Sugar Beet and Irrigated Land Company 2
Carpenter family 2
Carpenter, Delph 2
Carpenter, L. G. (Louis George), 1861-1935 2
Carpenter, Leroy S., 1843-1927 2
Central Colorado Water Conservancy District (Colo.) 2
Code, W. E. (William E.), 1891- 2
Colorado Beekeepers Association 2
Colorado River Commission 2
Colorado Springs (Colo.). Department of Public Utilities 2
Colorado State College (Fort Collins, Colo.) 2
Colorado State Grange 2
Colorado State University. Germans from Russia in Colorado Study Project 2
Colorado State University. Graduate School 2
Colorado. Department of Natural Resources 2
Colorado. Division of Water Resources 2
Colorado. Office of the State Engineer 2
Colorado. Supreme Court 2
Evans, Harold G. 2
Evans, Norman A. 2
Farr, W. D. (William Daven), 1910-2007 2
Fort Collins (Colo.). Utilities 2
Heitman, Sidney 2
Johnson, Harvey G. 2
Ogilvie, James L. 2
Recovery Program for Endangered Fish of the Upper Colorado River Basin 2
Robbins, David W. 2
United States. National Park Service 2
United States. Soil Conservation Service 2
United States. Supreme Court 2
Upper Colorado River Endangered Fish Recovery Program 2
Working, D. W. (Daniel Webster), 1862-1944 2
Wright, Kenneth R. 2
American Guild of Organists 1
American Historical Society of Germans from Russia 1
American Public Works Association. Colorado Chapter 1
Ammons, Theodosia Grace 1
Anderson Ditch Company 1
Anderson, Brett 1
Anderson, Raymond Lloyd, 1927- 1
Aspinall, Wayne N. 1
Axtell, Mildred T. 1
Barry, Hamlet J., III, 1944-2010 1
Bauer, Ron 1
Bernath, Elemer 1
Bittinger, Morton W. 1
Blatchley Associates 1
Blatchley, Ronald K. 1
Bolen, Kenneth R. (Kenneth Ray), 1940- 1
Borland, Whitney McNair 1
Boy Scouts of America 1
Boyle Engineering Corporation 1
Braiden, William A. 1
Bridges to the Future Planning Committee 1
Broadhurst, Betty P. 1
Broderick, Jim 1
Brower, David Ross, 1912-2000 1
Calkins, Kramer, Grimshaw & Harring 1
Carhart, Arthur Hawthorne, 1892-1978 1
Carpenter, Donald A. 1
Cavarra, Barbara 1
Cavarra, Robert 1
Cermak, J. E. (Jack E.) 1
Chadwick, Don K. 1
Chamberlain, A. R. (Adrian Ramond) 1
Chapman, Oscar L. (Oscar Littleton), 1896-1978 1
Chavez-Ramirez, Felipe, 1965- 1
City and County of Denver Municipal Airport System 1
Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.) 1
Coal Ridge Ditch Company 1
Colorado 4-H 1
Colorado Association of Soil Conservation Districts 1
Colorado Cattle Feeders Association 1
Colorado Cattlemen's Association 1
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