- Collection Overview
- Collection Description & Creator Information
- Access & Use
- Collection History
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Collection Overview
- Creator:
- Derrom, Donald L
- Title:
- Donald L. Derrom Papers
- Repository:
- Manuscripts Division
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/st74cq529
- Dates:
- 1941-1952
- Size:
- 2 boxes and 0.8 linear feet
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (rcpxm): Box 1-2
- Language:
- English
Abstract
Consists of selected papers of American engineer, Donald L. Derrom; the bulk of which deals with the building of a rock crushing plant for the Rock Products Corp., Ltd., of Tel Aviv, Israel.
Collection Description & Creator Information
- Description:
The collection consists of papers of Derrom, including correspondence, notes, a diary (1952), legal documents, notebooks, a commonplace book, a reading log, photographs, maps, and printed matter. The bulk of the collection deals with the building of a rock crushing plant for the Rock Products Corp., Ltd., of Tel Aviv, Israel, and includes correspondence with and reports to Derrom's firm, Kennedy Van Saun Mfg. and Eng. Corp., in New York City, especially to M. Maurice Shafer. In addition, there are notes regarding a cement manufacturing plant near Sultan Hamud, Kenya.
- Arrangement
Unprocessed.
- Collection Creator Biography:
Derrom, Donald L
Donald L. Derrom was a twentieth-century American engineer.
Collection History
- Processing Information
Folder inventory added by Feng Zhu '14 in 2013.
Access & Use
- Conditions Governing Access
The collection is open for research.
- Conditions Governing Use
Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. No further photoduplication of copies of material in the collection can be made when Princeton University Library does not own the original. Inquiries regarding publishing material from the collection should be directed to RBSC Public Services staff through the Ask Us! form. The library has no information on the status of literary rights in the collection and researchers are responsible for determining any questions of copyright.
- Credit this material:
Donald L. Derrom Papers; Manuscripts Division, Department of Special Collections, Princeton University Library
- Permanent URL:
- http://arks.princeton.edu/ark:/88435/st74cq529
- Location:
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Firestone LibraryOne Washington RoadPrinceton, NJ 08544, USA
- Storage Note:
- ReCAP (rcpxm): Box 1-2
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- Subject Terms:
- Cement plants -- Kenya -- 20th century.
Crushed stone industry -- Israel -- 20th century.
Engineers -- Israel -- 20th century. - Genre Terms:
- Commonplace books -- 20th century.
Diaries -- 20th century. - Names:
- Shafer, M. Maurice
- Places:
- Israel -- Industries -- 20th century.
Kenya -- Industries -- 20th century.
