11/5/21 Guide to the Arthur N. Talbot Papers Arthur N. Talbot Papers Finding Aid Authors: Denise Rayman.

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Guide to the Arthur N. Talbot Papers 1874/1942 University of Illinois Archives Overview of the Collection Arthur N. Talbot Papers 1874-1919, 1921-34, 1937-38, 1941-42, 1993-2003 11/5/21 Talbot, Arthur Newell, 1857-1942 4.60 English University of Illinois Archives
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Access Terms

This Collection is indexed under the following controlled access subject terms.

Genre/Form of Material: Papers Topical Term: Alumni American Concrete Institute Chicago, Illinois Concrete Faculty Papers Literary Societies Materials Testing Municipal Engineering National Association of Cement Users Public Health Railway Engineering Railway Transition Curves Sanitary Engineering Sewage Treatment Sewers Student Life Student Notes Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Department University of Illinois Wabash River Water Purification World War I -- Agricultural and Industrial Production and Construction
Administrative Information Accruals:

September,1963; 3/10/1964; 3/3/1967; 5/26/1967; 6/25/1965,1980; 3/2/1982; 6/14/2005, 9/26/2012

Processing Information:

In box 10, folders "A. N. Talbot Portrait" - "Talbot, W. Phillips & Mildred Nomination of W. Phillips "Phil" Talbot for Lifetime Achievement Award" may be re-evaluated and incoportated into a new series pending the acquisition of W. Phillips Talbot (per note 4/9/2010). These papers were acquired by John Hoffman of the Illinois Historical Survey on June 14, 2005.

Arrangement of Materials:

Chronological

Scope and Contents

Papers of Arthur Newell Talbot 1881 (1857-1942), professor of engineering and mathematics (1885-90) & municipal & sanitary engineering (1890-1926), including correspondence with engineers, alumni, equipment manufacturers & public officials concerning railway engineering, sewage treatment & water purification plants, alumni reunions & plans, notes & specifications for public works; 80th birthday (1937) & Talbot Laboratory dedication (1938); oratorical society, class day, field day, literary society, fraternity, commencement & alumni reunion programs (1878-81); student notes (1877-81); documents relating to the military rebellion (1880); copies of literary society orations; copies of examination questions for mathematics drawing & railway & sanitary engineering (1885-94); reprints (1898-1926); manuscripts for talks & reports on Wabash River pollution (1894), sanitary science (1899), sanitation in town & country (1900), engineering college graduates (1900), sciences & health (1901), paving bricks (1905), "The Old Time Faculty at the University of Illinois" (1905), engineering & public health (1909), Chicago city hall investigation (1910), American Concrete Institute (1911-15); cement & concrete research & tests (1911-16); University baseball, 1879-81 (1922), "Engineers I Have Known" (1924) & the University of Illinois 50 Years Ago (1931). The papers (9/26/1877); requests for copies of "Railway Transition Curves" & comments on the work Alumni (1919); Herman S. Pepoon's University recollections of 1877-81 (1930); clippings about Talbot's service in reviewing army construction projects (1918) & a 50th anniversary album of the Class of 1888 (1938).

This series also includes the Talbot Family Papers (1994-2004).