James D. Caldwell Collection
Scope and Contents
Scrapbooks from Caldwell's foreign service with memorabilia, photos and clippings. Also contains vitae, transcripts, reference letters, personal documents, photos, reports, pamphlets, certificates, medals and tools. Some documents in Spanish.
Dates
- 1929-1964
Conditions Governing Access
Open
Biographical / Historical
James D. Caldwell was born in Union Springs, Alabama on 1 November 1906. He attended Union Springs High School, Washington and Lee University and Alabama Polytechnic Institute where he recieved a Bachelor of Science degree in engineering in 1929. He recieved his M.S. in Engineering in 1938 from Harvard. He served as a public sanitation engineer in Haiti and the Dominican Republic in the 40s, 50s and 60s.
Extent
0.8 Cubic Feet (1 shoe box 1 doc box 1 OS envelope)
Language of Materials
English
Physical Location
Oversized folder is missing. Is listed as being on 14-D-Top but is not there.
- Title
- Guide to the James D. Caldwell Papers
- Author
- Processed by: Michael Morris Digitized by: Noah Biblis
- Date
- 1991-12-12; 2020-10-11
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Auburn University Special Collections and Archives Repository
Auburn University
Ralph Brown Draughon Library
231 Mell Street
Auburn Alabama 36849
334-844-1732
archives@auburn.edu
