RS 4/8/6 Field Books

Descriptive summary

creator:	Iowa State University, Vice President for Business and Finance, Facilities Planning and Management, Buildings and Grounds Division
title:	Field Books
dates:	1875 - 1923
extent:	3.36 linear feet
collection number:	RS 4/8/6
repository:	University Archives, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University.

Administrative information

access:	Open for research
publication rights:	Consult Head, Special Collections Department
preferred citation:	Iowa State University Facilities Planning and Management, Utilities Division, Field Books, RS 4/8/6, Special Collections Department, Iowa State University Library.

Historical note

The Vice President for Business and Finance manages the fiscal operations of the University and is responsible for the general supervision of the business operations of all University activities. The Office was established in 1958 as a replacement for the Business Manager position. The Vice President for Business and Finance oversees the operation of the Facilities Planning and Management Department.

In 1987 the name of the Physical Plant was changed to the Facilities Planning and Management Department. The Facilities Planning and Management Department is responsible for the maintenance of the campus grounds and buildings, the campus utilities system, and campus planning.

Collection Description

The field books comprising this collection document facilities work across the Iowa State campus during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. They were notebooks compiled by college faculty and staff serving as surveyors and engineers for construction and maintenance of college buildings and grounds. College faculty and staff such as Anson Marston, Ole Davidson, J.B. Ryan, V. V. Makom, R. V. Newcomb, L. E. Carter, G. C. Petersen, R. W. Grum, C. S. Nichols, O. H. Kumler, H. S. Doty, F. A. Hagen, and W. F. Reed recorded entries in these notebooks. Railroad survey data is also recorded in these journals. Campus farms, sewer systems, general campus surveys, depression measurements, squad surveys, railroad surveying, dimensions of halls and houses, the President's house, bridge surveys, Main Hall, Agricultural Hall, the Engineering Annex, water supply improvement surveys, athletic fields, and several other projects and campus areas are documented in these early field books.sity.

Container list

Box/File Date

1/1 Gorn Transition 1875

Level Notes 1924

1/2 Notes of Survey of Field 1891 - 94

I.S.C. Farm Survey

1/3 Levels for Preliminary. Server Line 1892

No. 1 Plumbing and Lighting

1/4 A. Marston's Survey Journal 1892, 1896

1/5 ISC Campus 1892

1/6 Party No. 9 - J B Ryan Captain 1892

B.M. Measurement 1895

1/7 H. R. Surveying 1893 - 94

No. 93 1921

2/1 I.A.C. Sewers 1893

B & B Transit

2/2 No. 91 - Ring and Ball Method (V.V. Makom) (n.d.)

R. V. Newcomb - Civil Engineering Dept. 1921

2/3 Measurement in Mason City (n.d.)

No. 99 - Sewer Notes 1922

2/4 Final Survey of 18" Sewer 1893 - 1894

R. R. Surveying - Office Notes

2/5 R. R. Surveying - Level Notes 1893 - 1894

Angle Measurement 1892

3/1 Squad Surveys 1895

1896

3/2 Stadia Survey 1896

Depression Measurement 1898

3/3 Level Book from Spring Term 1901 1897 - 1907

3/4 Professor A. Marston's Journal 1897

Rail Road Surveying 1895

3/5 Bills, Measurement, and Journal 1898

Sewer Survey - L.E. Carter 1983

4/1 Records of ISC Sewage Tank 1898 - 1903

Mahlon J. Hammer's Record 1898

4/2 Measurement of Bench Marks 1899

Dimensions of Halls and Houses

4/3 Civil Engineering Department - IAC 1899 - 1902

Evinger Douglass Adamson's Measurement 1905

4/4 Azimuth Measurement 1900

Hydraulic Lab Sewer

4/5 Level Measurements 1900

Journal of Campus Drawings 1915

4/6 Readings on Weir in Packing House Sewer 1900

No. 94 Journal - Mathews

5/1 Final Estimates on President's House 1901

Notes on Engineering Hall 1901 - 1902

5/2 Sewage Plant 1903

Extension of Ames & College Railways

Culvert Site Surveys

5/3 Line Calculations 1903

Re - Survey of Line A&C Railway

Journal

5/4 G.C. Petersen 1903

Tests on Bridge 1913

5/5 YMCA & Alumni Hall 1904 - 1907

Monthly Estimates for Ag. Hall

5/6 Monthly Estimates for Central Building 1904

No 36 - Campus Survey - Location of 1904, 1915

Sewers, Drains, Water Pipes

6/1 Ag. Hall Surveys 1905 - 09

Ag. Hall - Force Acct.

6/2 No 5. - R. W. Grum's Journal 1905

No. 43 - ISC Campus - C.S. Nichols 1916

6/3 New Ag. Hall - Quantities 1907

Quantities for Engineering Annex and Check1907

of Steel Section - New Ag. Hall

6/4 ISC Water Supply Improvement 1908

Materials - Ag Hall

6/5 Quantities for Auditorium Annex 1909

Athletic Field - O.H. Kumler

6/6 Elevation measures 1909

New Agr. Hall Gradings

Borrow Pit - H. S. Doty

7/1 No. 29 - ISC Campus - F. A. Hagen 1911 - 1912

Campus Records

Campus Survey

7/2 No. 40 - ISC Campus 1913 - 1914

No. 31 - ISC Campus - W. F. Reed

7/3 Ole Davidson's Journal 1914

Campus Surveys

7/4 No. 32 - Dimensions and Location of 1914 - 1915

Campus Building

No. 33 - Coordinates

7/5 No. 35 - ISC Campus 1915

No. 39 - ISC Campus

7/6 Campus Map and Diary 1915

No. 37 - ISC Campus

8/1 Dairy Farm ISC 1916

No. 41 - ISC Campus

8/2 Level Measurements 1921

8/3 No. 92 - Utility Survey : Water and Sewers 1922

No. 95 - Transit and Level Notes

8/4 No. 96 - Measurements of ISC Buildings 1923

No. 97 - Measurements of ISC Halls

8/5 No. 98 - Tunnel Book 1923

R. R. Notes 1897

8/6 Maurice Paving (n.d.)

Topographical Survey of North Farm