Donald Bennett Stafford Collection
Collection
Identifier: Mss-0166
The collection consists of 8"x10" and oversize aerial photographs of South Carolina between 1938 and 1975. The 8x10 photos are individual aerial photographs of specific areas in a county. There are several sets of photographs of the Clemson area of Pickens County and a series of views of Highway 11 that runs through the foothills of Oconee, Pickens, Greenville, Spartanburg and Cherokee counties from 1971. There are two types of oversize photographs: 20"x25" composite aerial photographs of South Carolina counties based upon splicing together a number of aerial photographs; and a 25"x25" series of individual aerial photographs for parts of Greenville and Spartanburg counties. The photographs are arranged by size and thereafter alphabetically by county and therein chronologically. Some photographs have been annotated.
Donald B. Stafford served as Clemson faculty member in the Civil Engineering Department 1968-1994. This collection of photographs reflects his continuing research interest in the use of aerial photography as a tool for engineers.
Stafford was born in Forsyth County, North Carolina to S. Ben and Lillie Teague Stafford, on October 30, 1938. He attended North Carolina State University where he received his bachelors (1961), masters (1963) and PhD (1968) all in Civil Engineering. During his career at Clemson, he focused upon the use of aerial photography to help solve a number of engineering problems ranging from the location and planning of highways to coastal erosion. He was a member of a number of professional associations including the American Society of Civil Engineers, American Society of Photogrammetry, and the Institute of Transportation Engineers and actively participated in these associations. Stafford taught a number of courses related to transportation and supervised thesis and dissertations mainly in this area. He was a member of a number of committees including the department and college curriculum committees, the Library Self Study Committee, and the University Traffic and Parking Committee.
27.75 Cubic Feet (including 41 boxes, 11 oversize boxes, and 10 oversize folders)
English
In 1995 the Civil Engineering Department of Clemson University transferred this collection from Professor Donald Stafford's laboratory to Special Collections which accessioned it as 95-131. Additional material was added in 2000. This collection also includes accession 03-59.
It was arranged and described by Michael Kohl with the help of the Project SHARE student Torrance Jackson and student assistants Vinay Kaza, Brian Martin, and Dana Murphy.
The conversion of this finding aid to Encoded Archival Description format was made possible with a grant from the South Carolina State Historical Records Advisory Board in 2009-2010. The finding aid was prepared for encoding by Jen Bingham.
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