William F. Sollars Papers

William F. Sollars Papers, 1946-1974

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Sollars,William F.
Title: William F. Sollars Papers
Dates: 1946-1974 (inclusive)
19461974
Quantity: 2 containers., (4 linear feet of shelf space.), (102 items.)
Collection Number: Cage 552
Summary: Correspondence, reports, draft essays, and administrative records concerning experimental work with the chemistry of wheat, flours, and baked products, and of involvement in professional societies.
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.

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Mr. William F. Sollars was a cereal chemist. Born on December 1, 1913, he graduated from the University of Illinois as B.S. in 1941 and from Purdue University as M.S. in 1949. From 1945 to 1947 he worked as a chemist at Northern Regional Research Lab, Peoria, Illinois. He became a research chemist at Purdue Agricultural Experiment Station in 1947 and stayed there until 1949. From 1949 to 1974 he served as a chemist in the Western Wheat Quality Labratory, Agricultural Experiment Station, Washington State University. Mr. Sollars was a devoted researcher, a prolific paper contributor and an active professional among his colleagues throughout the the United States. His academic endeavors are largely reflected in his papers. Mr. Sollars died in 1974.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The records cover the period from 1946 to 1974.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Preferred Citation

[Item Description]. Cage 552, William F. Sollars Papers. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

They are arranged in ten series, with all ten series contained in two cartons. Box 1 contains Series 1 and Series 2, while Box 2 contains the remainder.

While all the series are arranged according to catagories with general headings, the folders in each series are in chronological order. Series One is composed of manuscripts. Series Two deals with conferences that Sollars attended. Series Three is Reports, while Series Four holds materials under the title of Strategy. Series Five contains graphs, mostly related to experimental work. Series Six includes reprints. Series Seven consists of travel records. Series Eight is Notes, with Series Nine another sequence of Reports. The last series contains miscellaneous items. Some of the papers are undated or foldered without headings because they were found in that form and there was a lack of information that would properly identify the materials. Some three to four hundred cards containing information on hobbies and recreational activities, chiefly notes about articles in outdoor recreation magazines, were discarded from the records.

Acquisition Information

Records of Mr. William F. Sollars' experiences as a wheat quality lab chemist from 1945 to 1974 were donated to the Washington State University Libraries in 1982 (Accession Number MS82-15).

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

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

Series 1: ManuscriptsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
1	1	Untitled	1951-1952
1	2	Cake Flour Reconstruction	1956-1957
1	3	Untitled	1957
1	4	Untitled	1957-1959
1	5	Chloride Content of Cake Flours and Flour Fractions	1960
1	6	Stepwise Bleaching of XSD Chloride	1960
1	7	Untitled	1960
1	8	Chloride Content of Flours and Flour Fractions	1960-61
1	9	Present Status of Flour Bleaching Chemistry	1961
1	10	Chloride Content of Cake Flours and Flour Fractions	1961
1	11	Present Status of Flour Bleaching Chemistry	1961
1	12	Data Vault	1961-1962
1	13	By Uchino and Whistler	1961-1962
1	14	Miscellaneous Items	1961-1962
1	15	Edited and approved for publication	1962
1	16	Revised Draft	1963
1	17	Soft Wheat Flour Evaluation at the Western Wheat Quality Laboratory	1963-1964
1	18	Received by North Dakota State University	1965
1	19	Pentosans [?] of the Tailings Fraction	1965-1967
1	20	Untitled	1971-1973
1	21	Water - Retention Properties of Wheat Flours	1972
1	22	Flour Fractions Effect of Varietal Diffs in Farino Absorption	1973
1	23	Noodle Work,	[1973?]
1	24	Flour Fractions Affecting ...	[1973?]
1	25	Farinograph Absorption
1	26	Statistical Data Sheet	1973
1	27	Data Vault	1973
1	28	Noodle Study	1974
1	29	Cole and Penic	undated
1	30	Revised Draft	undated

Series 2: ConferencesReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
1	31	Chlorine Bleaching of Cake Flour Amalgamation Behavior of PWW Starches
1	32	Pullman	1955
1	33	Northwest Regional A.C.S and A.I.Ch.E Meetings Seattle	1965
1	34	Annual Meeting, Pacific Northwest Section, American Association of Cereal Chemists, Bozeman	1960
1	35	2nd Annual Ingredient Symposium, Peoria, Ill.	1961
1	36	Review of Manuscripts	1963-1966
1	37	47th Amnual Meeting of AACC	1963
1	38	50th Annual Meeting of AACC, Kansas & Missouri	1965
1	39	Manhattan, [Kan.]	1965
1	40	Property of AACC	1967
1	41	AACC-AOCS Joint Meeting, Washington-Hilton	1968
1	42	52nd Annual Meeting of AACC, Los Angeles, Cal.	1969
1	43	54th Annual Meeting of AACC, Chicago, Ill.	1969
1	44	55th Annual Meeting of AACC, Minneapolis, Minn.	1970

Series 3: ReportsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
2	1	Wheat Flour Fractionation (Work at three laboratories)	1949
2	2	Pentosans	1955
2	3	Viscosity	1968
2	4	Investigation	1969

Series 4: StrategyReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
2	5	Tailing subfraction	1963-1967
2	6	Phenol - H(2)SO(4) Method for Carbohydrates	1966

Series 5: GraphsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Dates
Box	Folder
2	7	1967
2	8	1972
2	9	1973

Series 6: ReprintsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
2	10	Soybean and Its Processings	1941-1946
2	11	Studies of Soybean Protein	1949
2	12	Miscellaneous Material	1952-1964
2	13	Viscosity Project	1953-1959
2	14	Interlaboratory Testing Programs	1959
2	15	Chlorine Bleaching Effect on Prime Starch	1959-1962
2	16	Chromatography of Sugar	1960-1962
2	17	Chlorine	1961-1962
2	18	Chlorine Bleaching Effect	1962
2	19	Cookie Baking Quality Project	1962-1964
2	20	Miscellaneous Materials	1962-1965
2	21	Improved Paper on Flour Bleacher	1965-1966
2	22	Effect of the Subfraction of Starch Tailings on Cookie Diameter	1966
2	23	Redirection

Series 7: Travel RecordsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
2	24	Ohio	1946-1949
2	25	St. Louis	1955
2	26	Northwest Regional Meeting, Portland, Ore.	1958
2	27	Seattle	1959
2	28	Ohio	1959
2	29	Toronto, Ont., Canada	1964

Series 8: NotesReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
2	30	Chloride Determination by Mecury Thiocyante Displacement	1958
2	31	Chloride Project - Studies on Methods	1960
2	32	Combustion and Potentiometer	1960
2	33	Untitled	1960
2	34	Potentiometric Titration	1959
2	35	Chloride Results	1959
2	36	Chloride Ashing with K(2)CO(3) Potentiometric Petr.	1960
2	37	Chloride Ashing with K(2)CO(3) Potentiometric Petr.	1960
2	38	Viebork Method for Chlorine	1960
2	39	Chlorine Bleaching	1961
2	40	Cookie Flour Tailings	1961
2	41	Bromate Effect	1962
2	42	Chromatography	1962-1963
2	43	On Fraction and Reconstruction, Chloride Project	1966
2	44	Mechanically Kneaded Fractionations
2	45	Gluten Sub-fractionation
2	46	Fractionation of Water Soluables
		Series 9: Papers

Effect of Subfractions on Starch Tailings on Cookie Diameter, 1959-1966Return to Top

Container(s): Box 2, Folder 47

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
2	48	The Effect of Chlorine on Bleaching Starch	1964
2	49	Present Status of Flour Bleaching Industry

Series 10: Miscellaneous ItemsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
2	50	Bakery and Reconstruction	1956-1961
2	51	Bakery and Reconstruction	1960-1964
2	52	Course Instruction	1956
2	53	Lists of Past and Present Research Students of the Dept. of Biochemistry at Purdue University
2	54	Photos: Farino
2	55	Photos: Laboratory Tests
2	56	Chlorine Bleaching Project: Strategy & Manuscript Outlines	1957-1966
2	57	T. P. Project	1962-1967
2	58	Correspondence	1958-1961

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

Baked products--Standards
Flour as food--20th century--Research--Archives

Personal Names

Sollars, William F., 1913-1974--Archives (creator)

Occupations

Chemists--Washington (State)--Correspondence

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