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Title: Walter Clay Lowdermilk Papers,
Date (inclusive): 1914-1968
Collection number: 70049
Creator:
Lowdermilk, Walter Clay, 1888-1974
Collection Size:
14 manuscript boxes, 3 envelopes
(6 linear feet)
Repository:
Hoover Institution Archives
Stanford, California 94305-6010
Abstract: Correspondence, writings, printed matter, and photographs, relating to land use and soil and water conservation, primarily
in China and Japan.
Physical Location: Hoover Institution Archives
Language:
English.
Collection open for research.
For copyright status, please contact the Hoover Institution Archives.
[Identification of item], Walter Clay Lowdermilk papers, [Box no.], Hoover Institution
Archives.
United States. Soil Conservation Service.
Agriculture--China.
Agriculture--Japan.
Soil conservation--China.
Soil conservation--Japan.
Water conservation--China.
Water conservation--Japan.
China.
Japan.
United States--Foreign relations.
| 1888, July 1 | Born, Liberty, North Carolina |
| 1914 | B.A., School of Geology, Oxford University |
| 1914-1915 | Served with the Commission for Relief in Belgium |
| 1917-1919 | Military service -Timber acquisition officer |
| 1919-1922 | Research officer in Region One of the United States Forest Service |
| 1922 | Master's Degree, Oxford University |
| 1922-1927 | Made five agricultural expeditions into Northwestern China |
| 1933 | Associate Chief of the Soil Conservation Service of the United States Department of Agriculture |
| 1937 | Chief of Research |
| 1939-1947 | Assistant Chief of the Soil Conservation Service |
| 1944 | Author, Palestine, Land of Promise |
| 1974 | Died |