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Donald Leslie Masson Papers, 1911-1969

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Masson, Donald Leslie
Title
Donald Leslie Masson Papers
Dates
1911-1969 (inclusive)
Quantity
3 containers., (1.5 linear feet of shelf space.), (250 items.)
Collection Number
Cage 322
Summary
Mining consultation reports and drafts of articles, technical bulletins and an unfinished book, all concerned with hard-rock mining.
Repository
Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research use.

Languages
English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Historical Note

Donald Leslie Masson was born in 1903 and educated as a mining engineer in Oregon schools during the 1920s. The early part of his adult life was spent as a mining engineer in Mexico. In 1946, he became an engineering professor at Washington State University, assuming most of the responsibility for instruction in the mining curriculum until his retirement in 1969. He died in 1971.

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Content Description

Donald L. Masson's papers consist of consultation reports and drafts of articles, bulletins, and an unfinished book, all relating to mining engineering. Most mining reports are relative to mineral examinations in the inland Northwest. The writings stress metallurgical and "hard rock" mining; these were composed during the years Masson was at Washington State University.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

[Item Description]. Cage 322, Donald Leslie Masson Papers. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The papers are arranged in two series: one of consultation reports, and the other of drafts of various writings.

Acquisition Information

The papers of Donald Leslie Masson (1903-1971) were donated to the Washington State University Library in March, 1976, by his son, D. Bruce Masson of the WSU College of Engineering

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Detailed Description of the Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

  • Series 1: Consultations and Reports

  • Series 2: Writings

    • Description: Precision Mine Surveying, M. E. Thesis, notes and draft
      20 items.
      Dates: 1947
      Container: Box 1, Folder 12
      Location: Series 2: Writings
    • Description: How to Draw the Line Between Ore and Waste, draft
      2 items.
      Dates: 1954
      Container: Box 1, Folder 13
      Location: Series 2: Writings
    • Description: Limiting Grade Calculation for Mine Control of Ore Grade. Drafts, employing several different titles
      6 items.
      Dates: ca. 1953-1956
      Container: Box 1, Folder 14
      Location: Series 2: Writings
    • Description: Annual Mining Summary of Inland Empire. Series of articles written for the annual Progress Edition of the Spokane Spokesman-Review
      40 items.
      Dates: ca. 1955-1969
      Container: Box 1, Folder 15
      Location: Series 2: Writings
    • Description:
      Dates:
      Container: Box 2, Folder 16-22
      Location: Series 2: Writings
    • Description: Book: [Various titles: Fundamentals of Hard Rock Mining, Fundamentals of Applied Geomechanics and Fundamentals of Geomechanics.] Drafts of unfinished textbook on mining engineering
      40 items.
      Dates: ca. 1959-1960
      Container: Box 3, Folder 23-27
      Location: Series 2: Writings
    • Description: Extension Bulletins: Notes and drafts of several technical bulletins published by Washington State University
      40 items.
      Dates: ca. 1948-1965
      Container: Box 3, Folder 28
      Location: Series 2: Writings
    • Description: Instructional and teaching notes. Notes and drafts
      40 items.
      Dates: ca. 1946-1965
      Container: Box 3, Folder 29
      Location: Series 2: Writings
    • Description: Profiles in Mineral Industry Education: Washington State University, draft
      2 items.
      Dates: 1965
      Container: Box 3, Folder 30
      Location: Series 2: Writings
    • Description: Relationship of Humanities to Engineering Education at State College of Washington, draft
      1 item.
      Dates: ca. 1950
      Container: Box 3, Folder 31
      Location: Series 2: Writings
    • Description: Correspondence, photographs, souvenirs
      25 items.
      Dates: ca. 1935-1960
      Container: Box 3, Folder 32
      Location: Series 2: Writings

    • Mining reports collected by Masson

      3 items.

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Subject Terms

  • Mines and mineral resources--Northwest, Pacific
  • Mining engineering--Handbooks, manuals, etc.

Personal Names

  • Masson, D. Bruce. waps
  • Masson, Donald L. --Archives (creator)

Finding aid prepared by Lawrence Stark
2012

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