Edward Bartow Papers, 1870-1959 | University of Illinois Archives

Description: Papers of Edward Bartow (1870-1958), professor of chemistry (1905-20) and director and chief of the State Water Survey (1905-20), including correspondence (1888-1957) relating to teaching and research at the Universities of Kansas (1897-1905) and Iowa (1920-40) and World War I service in the American Expeditionary Forces' Sanitary Corps in charge of Water Analysis Laboratories and water supplies and sewage treatment in France (1917-19); Williams College notes (1890-92) and scrapbooks (1888-93); crystallography, mineralogy and organic chemistry course notes from Professors Otto Wallach and Theodor Liebisch at the University of Gottingen (1894-95); 320 page autobiography (1947-49); Kansas mine explosions investigation (1903-05); correspondence with Gilbert J. Fowler about sewage purification and the activated sludge process (1914-20); financial records of Charles E. Bartow (1888-1911); manuscripts on water supplies and sanitation chemistry (1920-48); newspaper clippings during Bartow's presidency of the American Chemical Society (1935-37); photographs of water and sewage treatment facilities, family, travel, study and meetings in Germany, France, Switzerland, England, Scandinavia and the United States; publications (1898, 1900-43); reports of scientific meetings (1906-38); speech notes (1920-53); students' theses (1915-37); troopship newspaper (1919); University of London Centenary material (1936); and obituaries (1958-59).