Box 8
Container
Contains 1 Result:
Thomas H. MacDonald, Chief, Bureau of Roads, Washington, D.C, he shepherded in National Federal highway system, including New Mexico. Kammer's material copied from the Thomas H. MacDonald Collection, at Texas A and M University Archives. Includes a biography of MacDonald and request for his 1919 national job appointment. There are several of his position papers on American roads: Our National Highway Problems, 1921 address before the Good Roads Convention of American Road Builders, Chicago. Charts, statistics for 1921, each Western state, including New Mexico on public land, Indian reservation land and National Forest Land, lands through which highways will pass, etc. Address in Connection With the Highway Short Course, University of Illinois, 1922, for training more engineers to build the American highways; also deals with highway building in California, funding. Report of 1922 Conference, San Francisco, California, of Western atate highway officials, Bureau of Public Roads Engineers, Western Region, including New Mexico, discussion of Federal Highway Act, Federal Government aid funding and standards for state road building, joining the roads in various states, connections, extensions, expense will vary, of the width of the highways, surfacing, paving, bridges, traffic conditions, railroad crossings, funds from the railroads, consistent markings, signs for the roads, re routing highways, impact of leaving communities off the roads, etc. Letter to MacDonald, July 19, 1922, from L. A. Gillette, New Mexico Highway Engineer, Santa Fe, in behalf of the Committee of Western States Highway Association, comments about the highway standards required by the Federal Government for funding to states, some states could not comply, like New Mexico, and letter from MacDonald to Gillette, on ways to work out the differences. Roads and Education, 1922 paper for the Yearbook of the Far Western Travellers Association, 1911-1922
File — Box: 8, Folder: 80
Scope and Content
From the Collection:
“Research and Nominations" documents the bulk of David Kammer’s professional work surveying cultural landscapes and preparing State and National Register nominations. Properties he examined range from vernacular buildings of northern New Mexico to road sections and commercial buildings along Route 66. Kammer conducted the first statewide study of New Deal public works architecture and landscape projects in New Mexico. He surveyed historic acequias, bridges, theaters, neon, neighborhoods,...
Dates:
1911-1922