Thomas Clark Shedd Papers

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Administrative Information

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Biographical Data

Correspondence

Notebooks

Photographs and Prints

Publications

Oversize Material



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Collection Overview

Title: Thomas Clark Shedd Papers, 1909-68, 1982Add to your cart.View associated digital content.

ID: 11/5/40

Primary Creator: Shedd, Thomas Clark (1890-1959)

Extent: 2.37 cubic feet

Arrangement: By subject, chronological thereunder.

Date Acquired: 02/14/2013. More info below under Accruals.

Subjects: Civil Engineering, Civil Engineering Department, Engineering, College of, Faculty Papers, Hydraulics Research, Structural Engineering

Formats/Genres: Papers

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

Papers of Thomas Clark Shedd (1890-1959), Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois (1925-1958), concerning his career as a faculty member and his research on hydraulics and bridge and railway design, contain correspondence with colleagues, especially Hardy Cross, Head of the Department of Civil Engineering at Yale University at the time; a field notebook (1928-1930); oral history interviews with T. C. Shedd and Milton C. Shedd; publications, such as Bulletins of the Engineering Experiment Station and reprints from Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers; a report The Failure of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (1941), and Manual of Standard Practice for Detailing Reinforced Concrete Structures (1957); a photograph of Hardy Cross; essays and copyright applications; a blueprint of observations of piers over the Illinois River near Henry, Illinois; a list of drawings of "Bridge No. 212" over Arthur Kill, Arlington, N.Y. (1955); and an U of I Architectural Engineering course notebook belonging to Milton C. Shedd, son of T. C. Shedd (1947-1948).

Subject/Index Terms

Civil Engineering
Civil Engineering Department
Engineering, College of
Faculty Papers
Hydraulics Research
Structural Engineering

Administrative Information

Repository: University of Illinois Archives

Accruals: 03/10/2013; 07/26/2013; 02/05/2014

Access Restrictions: None.

Related Materials: Hardy Cross Papers, 1927-1959 For more information please see http://archives.library.illinois.edu/archon/index.php?p=collections/controlcard&id=2965.


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[Series 1: Biographical Data, 1953-1959],
[Series 2: Correspondence, 1914-1958],
[Series 3: Notebooks, 1928-1948],
[Series 4: Photographs and Prints, ca. 1940-1960],
[Series 5: Publications, 1909-1968],
[Series 6: Oversize Material, 1927, 1955],
[All]

Series 1: Biographical Data, 1953-1959Add to your cart.
Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Biographical Statements, 1953, 1959Add to your cart.
Folder 2: Memorials and Obituaries, 1959Add to your cart.
Folder 3: Oral History Interviews with Thomas Clark Shedd and Milton C. Shedd, 1941, 1982Add to your cart.
One audiocassette and one CD containing interviesws with Thomas Clark Shedd and Milton C. Shedd.
Series 2: Correspondence, 1914-1958Add to your cart.
Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 4: Hardy Cross, 1937-1938Add to your cart.
Folder 5: Hardy Cross, 1939-1944Add to your cart.
Folder 6: Hardy Cross, 1948-1953Add to your cart.
Folder 7: General Correspondence, 1914-1925Add to your cart.
Folder 8: General Correspondence, 1934-1958Add to your cart.
Folder 9: General Correspondence, 1959Add to your cart.
Folder 10: Correspondence regarding "Observations of Piers over Illinois River near Henry, Illinois", 1930Add to your cart.
Series 3: Notebooks, 1928-1948Add to your cart.
Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 11: Field Notebook, 1928-1930Add to your cart.
Folder 12: Architectural Engineering Notebook, 1947-1948Add to your cart.
Belonged to Milton C. Shedd, student at the University of Illinois and son of T. C. Shedd
Series 4: Photographs and Prints, ca. 1940-1960Add to your cart.
Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 13: Photograph of Hardy Cross, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 14: Miscellaneous Photographs, undatedAdd to your cart.
Folder 15: Print of Engineering Hall, ca. 1940s-1960sAdd to your cart.
by Emil Carl Olson
Folder 16: Design for First Congregational Church, 1960Add to your cart.
Champaign, IL
Series 5: Publications, 1909-1968Add to your cart.
Box 1Add to your cart.
Folder 17: Publisher Advertisement for Theory of Simple Structures and Structural Design in Steel, ca. 1941Add to your cart.
Folder 18: "Academic versus Practical Structures", 1938Add to your cart.
Folder 19: Journal Articles and Reports, 1 of 2, 1909-1957Add to your cart.
Item 1: "The Illinois Structural Engineering Act", 1957Add to your cart.
Item 2: The Failure of the Tacoma Bridge, 1941Add to your cart.
Item 3: "Manual of Standard Practice for Detailing Reinforced Concrete Design", 1957Add to your cart.
Item 4: "General Specifications for Steel Highway and Electric Street Railway Bridges and Viaducts", 1909Add to your cart.
Item 5: "The Strength of I-Beams in Flexure," in Bulletin of the Engineering Experiment Station, 1913Add to your cart.
Item 6: "Strength of Webs of I-Beams and Girders," in Bulletin of the Engineering Experiment Station , 1916Add to your cart.
Item 7: "Locomotive Loadings for Railway Bridges," in American Society for Railway Engineers, 1923Add to your cart.
Item 8: Fifty Years of Progress in Bridge Engineering, 1929Add to your cart.
Item 9: "Continuity as a Factor in Reinforced Concrete Design," in Proceedings of the American Concrete Institute, 1929Add to your cart.
Item 10: "The Column Analogy," in Bulletin of the Engineering Experiment Station, 1930Add to your cart.
Item 11: "Strength of Light I Beams," in Bulletin of the Engineering Experiment Station, 1932Add to your cart.
Item 12: "Analysis of Continuous Frames by Distributing Fixed-end Moments," in American Society of Civil Engineers, 1932Add to your cart.
Folder 20: Journal Articles and Reports, 2 of 2, 1915-1968Add to your cart.
Item 13: "The Relation of Analysis to Structural Design," in American Society of Civil Engineers, 1936Add to your cart.
Item 14: "Fatigue Tests of Riveted Joints," in Bulletin of the Engineering Experiment Station, 1938Add to your cart.
Item 15: "Stress, Strain, and Structural Damage," in Bulletin of the Engineering Experiment Station, 1939Add to your cart.
Item 16: "Impact on Railway Bridges," in Bulletin of the Engineering Experiment Station, 1944Add to your cart.
Item 17: "Flexural Fatigue Strength of Steel Beams," in Bulletin of the Engineering Experiment Station, 1948Add to your cart.
Item 18: "Fatigue Strength of Fillet-weld, Plug-weld, and Slot-weld Joints Connecting Steel Structural Members," in Bulletin of the Engineering Experiment Station, 1949Add to your cart.
Item 19: "Fatigue Strength of Various Details Used for the Repair of Bridge Members," in Bulletin of the Engineering Experiment Station, 1949Add to your cart.
Item 20: "Lectures on Foundation Engineering," in Bulletin of the Engineering Experiment Station , 1949Add to your cart.
Item 21: "Lateral Wind on Side Spans of Suspension Bridges," in Journal of the Structural Division, Proceedings of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 1968Add to your cart.
Item 22: Proceedings for the Promotion of Engineering Education, 1915Add to your cart.
Item 23: "Old/New Brooklyn Bridge" Souvenir Program, 1954Add to your cart.
Folder 21: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 1909-1910Add to your cart.
Folder 22: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 1914-1915Add to your cart.
Folder 23: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 1919-1920Add to your cart.
Folder 24: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, 1921Add to your cart.
Box 2Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, continued, 1922-1935Add to your cart.
Contains volumes for 1922-1935
Box 3Add to your cart.
Folder 1: Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, continued, 1936-1943Add to your cart.
Contains volumes for 1936-1943
Series 6: Oversize Material, 1927, 1955Add to your cart.
Folder 1: "Measurements of Piers of Bridge over Illinois River" blueprint, 1927Add to your cart.

From Box 1, Folder 9: "Correspondence regarding "Observations of Piers over Illinois River near Henry, Illinois," 1930

Located in UAR, UA Ref. Room, Range 49, Drawer 8.

Folder 2: Drawings of Bridge No. 212, Arlington, N.Y., 1955Add to your cart.
Located in oversize box OS-33, 43-3

Browse by Series:

[Series 1: Biographical Data, 1953-1959],
[Series 2: Correspondence, 1914-1958],
[Series 3: Notebooks, 1928-1948],
[Series 4: Photographs and Prints, ca. 1940-1960],
[Series 5: Publications, 1909-1968],
[Series 6: Oversize Material, 1927, 1955],
[All]

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