Marshall, Col. Robert Bradford 867-1949 - Welcome to Adobe GoLive 4 Page 1 of 2 08 WATE News Online Special Edition DWR News Home Page SWP THE Past Present Raue 718.5 A Visionary-Colonel Robert Bradford Marshall William Hammond Hall-First A Visionary-Colonel Robert State Engineer Early Delta Salinity Bradford Marshall Investigations SWP Planning Passes Evaluation He called his proposal "only a Big Job," knowing interviewed Stanley Barnes (he many would doubt its engineering and economic has approved 5/17/00) possibilities. But Colonel R. Bradford Marshall was Department of Water Resources dedicated to the vision of a statewide water system DWR Staffs Up that would irrigate California's millions of acres Davis -Dolwig Act lying unused. Central Valley Project By the time he left the U.S. Geological Survey after How the State Reserved Water Rights for the SWP 30 years of service, Colonel Marshall knew Bulletin 200 series: A History of California intimately. He came to California in 1891 SWP Construction as a surveyor and rose through the ranks rapidly to Colonel R. How Governor Edmund G. eventually be assigned responsibility for all Western Bradford Brown, Sr., Won states. And as he gathered data all over California, Financing Approval for the SWP Marshall Colonel Marshall wondered why its residents did Engineering Challenges not use its abundant water supplies to irrigate Project Awards acreage that could increase its population and its economy and produce "billions" of dollars worth of crops, making it "the world's greatest garden." = Colonel Marshall was known as a man who would not propose a plan for construction until he knew all the facts. He wrote in his report that "we have BACK TO THE PAST all the field data necessary to begin this work and could start construction tomorrow." 11 Specific facilities were described such as a diversion dam across the upper Sacramento River above and near Redding with water flowing down two grand canals, one down each side of the Sacramento Valley. He justified the project's costs, which would probably run in the "billions," " with the jobs it would provide and the food it would produce to feed the hungry. Water user costs and hydroelectric sales http://www.news.water.ca.gov/2000.sedition/pstsdbr1.html 2/17/2003 Welcome to Adobe GoLive 4 Page 2 of 2 would repay the expenses and provide for operations and maintenance. When his proposal was unveiled in 1919 however, very few people took it seriously and had no interest in studying his maps in detail-although the press had reported on it favorably. So Colonel Marshall retired to his farm in Patterson, knowing someday his plan would be recognized. TABLE OFFINTENTS http://www.news.water.ca.gov/2000.sedition/pstsdbr1.html 2/17/2003 OAC: Marshall (Robert B.) Papers Page 1 of 1 OACHER RO ONLINE ARCHIVE OF CALIFORNIA DAC Home 2 About CARD Search ww Site Finding Aids > Browse > UC Berkeley > Bancroft Library > Marshall (Robert B.) Papers Marshall (Robert B.) Papers View options: Descriptive Summary Standard Title: Entire finding aid (46K Robert Bradford Marshall Papers, 1898-1949 bytes) Collection number: BANC MSS C-B 511 Contents: Creator: Descriptive Marshall, Robert Bradford, 1867-1949 Summary Administrative Extent: Information Number of containers: 23 boxes, 4 scrapbooks, 1 Biography portfolio, 1 volume Scope and Content Linear feet: 12 Key to Arrangement List of important Repository: correspondents, in The Bancroft Library. Boxes III - V: Berkeley, California 947206000 Material Cataloged Separately Shelf location: For current information on the location of these materials, please consult the Library's online catalog. Abstract: Correspondence, notes, manuscripts of his writings, speeches, memoranda, clippings and scrapbooks, mainly relating to the Marshall Plan for water development, conservation, Hetch-Hetchy, roads, Yosemite National Park and other parks. Family correspondence and personal papers also included. To access these materials, please contact the contributing institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library Comments? Questions? I Copyright Statement & Conditions of Use CDL The Online Archive of California (OAC) is an initiative of the California Digital Library © 2003 by The Regents of The University of California http://findaid.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5n39n82d 2/17/2003 OAC: Marshall (Robert B.) Papers Page 1 of 1 OACH ONLINE ARCHIVE OF CALIFORNIA DAC Home AND About Search Site Finding Aids > Browse > UC Berkeley > Bancroft Library > Marshall (Robert B.) Papers Marshall (Robert B.) Papers View options: Administrative Information Standard Access Entire finding aid (46K bytes) Collection is open for research. Publication Rights Contents: Descriptive Summary Copyright has not been assigned to The Bancroft Administrative Library. All requests for permission to publish or quote Information from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Head of Public Services. Permission for publication is Biography given on behalf of The Bancroft Library as the owner of Scope and Content the physical items and is not intended to include or Key to Arrangement imply permission of the copyright holder, which must List of important also be obtained by the reader. correspondents, in Boxes III - V: Preferred Citation Material Cataloged Separately [Identification of item], Robert Bradford Marshall papers, BANC MSS C-B 511, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. To access these materials, please contact the contributing institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library Comments? Questions? I Copyright Statement & Conditions of Use CDL The Online Archive of California (OAC) is an initiative of the California Digital Library © 2003 by The Regents of The University of California http://findaid.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5n39n82d/admininfo/304747621 2/17/2003 OAC: Marshall (Robert B.) Papers Page 1 of 1 ONLINE ARCHIVE OF CALIFORNIA DAC Home AND About Search Site Finding Aids > Browse > UC Berkeley > Bancroft Library > Marshall (Robert B.) Papers Marshall (Robert B.) Papers View options: Biography Standard Robert Bradford Marshall, geographer and father of the Entire finding aid (46K Marshall Plan for irrigation and water conservation of bytes) the Central Valley in California, was born in Amelia County, Virginia in 1867. He entered the U.S. Geological Survey as a geographer in 1889, became Geographer of Contents: the Pacific Division in 1907 and was appointed Chief Geographer of the U.S. Geological Survey in 1910. This Descriptive Summary position he held until 1915 when he was appointed Administrative Superintendent of Parks. He resumed the position of Information Chief Geographer in 1917. In 1919 he resigned his Biography government post to devote himself fully to developing Scope and Content and publicizing his Marshall Plan of irrigation and water Key to Arrangement control of the Central Valley of California. Due in part to List of important his extensive and intensive schedule of speeches, he correspondents, in developed a severe throat irritation requiring the Boxes III - V: removal of his larynx in 1927. He thereby lost power of Material Cataloged speech and was able to converse only with the aid of an Separately artificial larynx. In 1928 he was appointed State Landscape Engineer in the California Division of Public Works where his duties related to highway beautification and safety. At this time he also did considerable research for the California State Planning Board concerning California and her natural resources. He retired at the age of 70 in 1937 and died in 1949 after several years of ill health, shortly before the completion of one of his dreams, the Shasta Dam. He married Myra Crow of California in 1896, and had two daughters, Evelyn Bradford Marshall (Mrs. Philip Maddox) and Virginia Mann Marshall. To access these materials, please contact the contributing institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library Comments? Questions? I Copyright Statement & Conditions of Use CDL The Online Archive of California (OAC) is an initiative of the California Digital Library © 2003 by The Regents of The University of California http://findaid.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5n39n82d/bioghist/304748442 2/17/2003 OAC: Marshall (Robert B.) Papers Page 1 of 2 OACH. ONLINE ARCHIVE OF CALIFORNIA DAC Home About Search Site Finding Aids > Browse > UC Berkeley > Bancroft Library > Marshall (Robert B.) Papers Marshall (Robert B.) Papers View options: Scope and Content Standard This collection, given to the Bancroft Library in 1953 by Entire finding aid (46K Virginia Mann Marshall, consists of 23 boxes, 4 bytes) scrapbooks, 1 portfolio, 1 volume and maps. Marshall's letters and writings show him as an Contents: enthusiastic supporter of state and national parks, intensely interested in all phases of conservation, acutely Descriptive Summary aware of natural beauty, a crusader for public good, and Administrative an ardent geographer. He was a man with vision and Information foresight -his Marshall Plan of 1919-1920 came to be the Biography basis of the Central Valley Project of the 1930's. He Scope and Content constantly fought for his plan and for flood control of the Key to Arrangement Mississippi River. List of important correspondents, in Letters to Marshall, from such conservationists as Boxes III - V: William Edward Colby, John Muir, John Frederic Badh, Material Cataloged John Nesbet Le Conte and James Grafton Rogers, form Separately an important part of the collection. Much of the correspondence from Hiram Martin Chittenden, Frank Bond, H. C. Benson and the U.S. Department of the Interior relates to the early history of Yosemite as a National Park. Letters from Charles Averil Barlow and Ed Fletcher, though chiefly concerned with private financial business, also reflect the early workings of California water projects. Letters from the California Council for Protection of Roadside Beauty show Marshall's interest in the beauty of highways and his battle against unsightly highway signs. Photocopies of letters from Rudolph Spreckels, letters from Annette (Abbott) Adams, Carter and Barrett, and Paul A. McCarthy deal with Marshall's suit against Spreckels. Many letters relate to national and state parks, the Marshall Plan, conservation, maps, and some pertain to routine business matters such as insurance, retirement, property in Virginia, etc. Letters to and from his family demonstrate an unusually devoted and harmonious domestic life. htp://findaid.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/tf5n39n82d/scopecontent/30475002 2/17/2003 OAC: Marshall (Robert B.) Papers Page 2 of 2 Part I contains general correspondence from Marshall, mostly typed copies, arranged chronologically, from 1898-1948; letters to Marshall, arranged alphabetically, A-Z; Marshall's writings, including notes, drafts and manuscripts; memoranda from and to Marshall; and assorted material related to his work. Part II consists mainly of letters from Marshall to his fiancee, Myra Crow, and to his wife, a few letters to his children and sister-in-law; letters from Mrs. Marshall to her husband, 1898-1948; letters from daughters Evelyn and Virginia to parents; from Evelyn (Crow) Simmons, to Mrs. Marshall; letters of condolence, tributes to R. B. Marshall, and miscellaneous personal papers. Material removed from the collection consists in: maps - approximately 300, quadrangles and miscellaneous with no annotations and no specific relationship to papers, dispersed, with source noted on each; maps, approximately 175, manuscripts and printed with manuscript notations, kept as unit; 7 photographs (Myra C. Marshall, C.C. Young and Newton B. Drury) to portrait collection; and 17 printed items, mainly pertaining to national parks and water conservation, for separate cataloguing. To access these materials, please contact the contributing institution: UC Berkeley, Bancroft Library Comments? Questions? 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