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William F. Sollars Papers, 1946-1974

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Sollars,William F.
Title
William F. Sollars Papers
Dates
1946-1974 (inclusive)
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.
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Biographical Note

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.

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Content Description

The records cover the period from 1946 to 1974.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

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

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Administrative Information

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).

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Detailed Description of the Collection

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

  • Series 1: Manuscripts

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

  • Series 2: Conferences

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

  • Series 3: Reports

    • Description: Wheat Flour Fractionation (Work at three laboratories)
      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box 2, Folder 1
      Location: Series 3: Reports
    • Description: Pentosans
      Dates: 1955
      Container: Box 2, Folder 2
      Location: Series 3: Reports
    • Description: Viscosity
      Dates: 1968
      Container: Box 2, Folder 3
      Location: Series 3: Reports
    • Description: Investigation
      Dates: 1969
      Container: Box 2, Folder 4
      Location: Series 3: Reports

  • Series 4: Strategy

    • Description: Tailing subfraction
      Dates: 1963-1967
      Container: Box 2, Folder 5
      Location: Series 4: Strategy
    • Description: Phenol - H(2)SO(4) Method for Carbohydrates
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box 2, Folder 6
      Location: Series 4: Strategy

  • Series 5: Graphs

  • Series 6: Reprints

    • Description: Soybean and Its Processings
      Dates: 1941-1946
      Container: Box 2, Folder 10
      Location: Series 6: Reprints
    • Description: Studies of Soybean Protein
      Dates: 1949
      Container: Box 2, Folder 11
      Location: Series 6: Reprints
    • Description: Miscellaneous Material
      Dates: 1952-1964
      Container: Box 2, Folder 12
      Location: Series 6: Reprints
    • Description: Viscosity Project
      Dates: 1953-1959
      Container: Box 2, Folder 13
      Location: Series 6: Reprints
    • Description: Interlaboratory Testing Programs
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box 2, Folder 14
      Location: Series 6: Reprints
    • Description: Chlorine Bleaching Effect on Prime Starch
      Dates: 1959-1962
      Container: Box 2, Folder 15
      Location: Series 6: Reprints
    • Description: Chromatography of Sugar
      Dates: 1960-1962
      Container: Box 2, Folder 16
      Location: Series 6: Reprints
    • Description: Chlorine
      Dates: 1961-1962
      Container: Box 2, Folder 17
      Location: Series 6: Reprints
    • Description: Chlorine Bleaching Effect
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 2, Folder 18
      Location: Series 6: Reprints
    • Description: Cookie Baking Quality Project
      Dates: 1962-1964
      Container: Box 2, Folder 19
      Location: Series 6: Reprints
    • Description: Miscellaneous Materials
      Dates: 1962-1965
      Container: Box 2, Folder 20
      Location: Series 6: Reprints
    • Description: Improved Paper on Flour Bleacher
      Dates: 1965-1966
      Container: Box 2, Folder 21
      Location: Series 6: Reprints
    • Description: Effect of the Subfraction of Starch Tailings on Cookie Diameter
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box 2, Folder 22
      Location: Series 6: Reprints
    • Description: Redirection
      Container: Box 2, Folder 23
      Location: Series 6: Reprints

  • Series 7: Travel Records

  • Series 8: Notes

    • Description: Chloride Determination by Mecury Thiocyante Displacement
      Dates: 1958
      Container: Box 2, Folder 30
      Location: Series 8: Notes
    • Description: Chloride Project - Studies on Methods
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 2, Folder 31
      Location: Series 8: Notes
    • Description: Combustion and Potentiometer
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 2, Folder 32
      Location: Series 8: Notes
    • Description: Untitled
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 2, Folder 33
      Location: Series 8: Notes
    • Description: Potentiometric Titration
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box 2, Folder 34
      Location: Series 8: Notes
    • Description: Chloride Results
      Dates: 1959
      Container: Box 2, Folder 35
      Location: Series 8: Notes
    • Description: Chloride Ashing with K(2)CO(3) Potentiometric Petr.
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 2, Folder 36
      Location: Series 8: Notes
    • Description: Chloride Ashing with K(2)CO(3) Potentiometric Petr.
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 2, Folder 37
      Location: Series 8: Notes
    • Description: Viebork Method for Chlorine
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 2, Folder 38
      Location: Series 8: Notes
    • Description: Chlorine Bleaching
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box 2, Folder 39
      Location: Series 8: Notes
    • Description: Cookie Flour Tailings
      Dates: 1961
      Container: Box 2, Folder 40
      Location: Series 8: Notes
    • Description: Bromate Effect
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 2, Folder 41
      Location: Series 8: Notes
    • Description: Chromatography
      Dates: 1962-1963
      Container: Box 2, Folder 42
      Location: Series 8: Notes
    • Description: On Fraction and Reconstruction, Chloride Project
      Dates: 1966
      Container: Box 2, Folder 43
      Location: Series 8: Notes
    • Description: Mechanically Kneaded Fractionations
      Container: Box 2, Folder 44
      Location: Series 8: Notes
    • Description: Gluten Sub-fractionation
      Container: Box 2, Folder 45
      Location: Series 8: Notes
    • Description: Fractionation of Water Soluables
      Container: Box 2, Folder 46
      Location: Series 8: Notes
    • Description: Series 9: Papers
      Location: Series 8: Notes

  • Effect of Subfractions on Starch Tailings on Cookie Diameter, 1959-1966

    Container: Box 2, Folder 47

  • Series 10: Miscellaneous Items

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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

Finding aid prepared by Ling Jinqi
2012

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