Scope and Contents The collection contains oral history and written material related to work done for a history class project completed at Clemson University by graduate student Laura Benjamin. Benjamin interviewed Dr. Douglas W. Bradbury, Clemson Class of 1940 and a member of the engineering faculty at Clemson University. There are two audiocassettes of an interview with Professor Bradbury in which he discusses his time at Clemson as a student and an instructor, the differences in the engineering departments,...

Abstract

Writer and professional consultant Joseph C. Ellers conducted a series of research interviews in the mid 1980s for his book "Getting To Know Clemson University Is Quite An Education: Determination Makes Dreams Come True."

The interviews focus on key events that shaped the progress and development of Clemson University during the presidency of Robert C. Edwards (1958-1979).

Abstract The Poe Family Papers document the lives of H. T. (Harris Tinker, or "Hal") Poe; his son, Harry Tinker Poe, Jr.; and his daughter, Isadora R. Poe. H. T. Poe (1856-1931) played an important role in the development of Greenville, SC because of his involvement in the city's public utilities, such as the Paris Mountain Water Company, the Greenville Gas and Electric Light and Power Company, and the Greenville Traction Company (the city's first street railway). The material relating to Harry T....

Scope and Contents The collection consists of a notebook and a photocopy of a letter. The notebook describes engineering experiments undertaken by Clemson College student J.E. Redden and his "squad" for Mechanical Laboratory courses 214 and 215 from September 26, 1910-May 15, 1911. Some pages of the notebook are missing. The July 11, 1977, letter is from J.W. Gordon Gourlay, Director of the Clemson University Libraries to the donor, Russell S. Wolfe II; it includes notes regarding the attribution of the...