H. L. Marvin papers
Overview
H. (Hiram?) L. Marvin was a railroad engineer in the late 19th-early 20th centuries. The collection contains professional correspondence regarding railorad construction and some personal correspondence, as well as photographs of various bridges and railways in Kansas during the late 1800s and early part of the 1900s.
Dates
- Creation: 1875 - 1920
Creator
- Marvin, H. L. (Compiler, Person)
Conditions Governing Access
No access restrictions.
Conditions Governing Use
Spencer Library staff may determine use restrictions dependent on the physical condition of manuscript materials.
Biography of H. L. Marvin
H. L. Marvin served as chief engineer for the Kansas Southern Railroad, amongst other inter-related railroads. His nephew, Frank O. Marvin, was for a while a bridge eningeer before becoming the first Dean of the University of Kansas' School of Engineering in 1891, after several years of teaching mathematics, physics, and civil engineering classes at KU.
Extent
.5 Linear Feet (2 document cases)
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
RH MS 447
Physical Location
RH MS-P 447
- Title
- Guide to the H. L. Marvin Collection
- Subtitle
- H. L. Marvin papers
- Author
- Finding aid prepared by rh, 2007; revised by cl, 2010; revised by tmw, 2017.
- Date
- 2007
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- Finding aid written in<language encodinganalog="language">English.</language>
- Finding aid permalink
- http://hdl.handle.net/10407/9829351590
- Preferred citation
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H. L. Marvin papers, Kansas Collection, RH MS 447, Kenneth Spencer Research Library, University of Kansas
Repository Details
Part of the University of Kansas. Kenneth Spencer Research Library Repository