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J.M. Hill papers, 1910-2005

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Hill, J. M. (John Marshall)
Title
J.M. Hill papers
Dates
1910-2005 (inclusive)
Quantity
13.90 cubic ft. (17 boxes)
Collection Number
400063
Summary
Papers of a University of Wyoming, College of Engineering professor who was interested in power resources development and an antinuclear activist.
Repository
American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming
American Heritage Center
University of Wyoming
1000 E. University Ave.
Dept. 3924
Laramie, WY
82071
Telephone: 3077663756
ahcref@uwyo.edu
Access Restrictions

There are no access restrictions on the materials for research purposes, and the collection is open to the public.

Languages
English
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Historical Note

John Marshall Hill was an engineering professor at the College of Engineering, University of Wyoming, 1946-1982. He was born in Laramie, Wyoming, to John A. Hill and Evelyn Corthell Hill. After service in World War II he became a surveyor and consulting engineer, as well as joining the faculty of the University of Wyoming. He was active in the Nuclear Freeze Campaign and was a surveyor for Habitat for Humanity.

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Content Description

The collection contains correspondence, blueprints, technical drawings, and other material concerned with the University of Wyoming, College of Engineering, and with the development of the campus. There are also aerial photographs of the campus and of Laramie (circa 1940-1950); information about water and wind resources in Albany County, Wyoming; and literature and audio visual materials regarding anti-nuclear movements.

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Use of the Collection

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Copyright Information

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Restrictions on Use

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Preferred Citation

Item Description, Box Number, Folder Number, Collection Name, Collection Number, American Heritage Center, University of Wyoming.

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Administrative Information

Related Materials

There are no known other archival collections created by J.M. Hill at the date of processing.

Acquisition Information

This material was received from Robin Hill from 2013-2025 and Ann Boelter in 2018.

Processing Note

This collection was processed by Jamie J. Greene in February 2016 and updated in April 2017, June 2020, and June 2025.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

    • Description: A World Beyond War
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Albany County Energy Council and Wyoming Energy Council
      Dates: 1991-2000
      Container: Box 11
    • Description: Alternative energy
      Dates: 1972-1980
      Container: Box 10
    • Description: American Society of Civil Engineers
      Dates: 1950-1988
      Container: Box 1-4
    • Audio visual:

      • Description: "The Arms Race" (cassette tape)
        Dates: 1979
        Container: Box 7
      • Description: Edited music (reel to reel)
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 7
      • Description: Lincoln Christmas (cassette tape)
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 7
      • Description: Miscellaneous cassette tapes
        Dates: 1950-1988
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: Miscellaneous video (VHS)
        Dates: 1950-1988
        Container: Box 2
      • Description: "National Security: Not for Experts Only" (cassette tape)
        Dates: 1983
        Container: Box 7
      • Description: Project st film strip in slide box
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 7
    • Description: ASCE (American Society of Civil Engineers) and student chapter
      Dates: 1959-1981
      Container: Box 8
    • Description: Aviation airplane structures
      Dates: 1965-1977
      Container: Box 8
    • Description: Beyond War
      Dates: 1984-1985
      Container: Box 17
    • Description: Blueprints and technical drawings
      Dates: 1950-1988
      Container: Box 1-4
    • Description: Book: "Peace Pilgrim"
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Book: "The Hundredth Monkey" by Ken Keyes Jr.
      Dates: 1983
      Container: Box 5
    • Book journals (text books with notes, newspaper clippings, and photographs pasted inside like a scrapbook):

    • Description: Carbon County Coalition
      Dates: 1992
      Container: Box 17, Folder
    • Description: Certificates
      Dates: 1906-1938
      Container: Box 14, Folder
    • Description: Christian-Nuclear research
      Dates: 1982-1991
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Class work - JMH School
      Dates: 1921-1923
      Container: Box 12
    • Class notebooks - University:

    • Description: College of Engineering
      Dates: 1950-2005
      Container: Box 8
    • Description: College of Engineering: teaching and course files (lecture notes, quizzes and tests, grade books, and student papers)
      Dates: 1946-1981
      Container: Box 9
    • Description: Colorado River and dams
      Dates: 1953-1960
      Container: Box 8
    • Description: Common Cause pins
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Conflict management
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Correspondence
      Dates: 1929-1988
      Container: Box 1,3, and 14
    • Description: Correspondence - From notable people
      Dates: 1925-1957
      Container: Box 14
    • Description: Course notes
      Dates: 1950-1988
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: Course outlines and quizzes
      Dates: 1950-1988
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Creative engineering
      Dates: 1950-1988
      Container: Box 1
    • Description: Creativity by students
      Dates: 1950-1988
      Container: Box 4
    • Description: Dynamics
      Dates: 1967-1974
      Container: Box 8
    • Description: Dynamics of driving - roads, transport engineering
      Dates: 1937-1976
      Container: Box 8
    • Description: Economic notes
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Engineering and education
      Dates: 1950-1988
      Container: Box 3-4
    • Description: Engineering - sea water desalinization
      Dates: 1948-1952
      Container: Box 8
    • Description: Engineering economics, management, specifications, contracts
      Dates: 1962-1990
      Container: Box 8
    • Description: Engineering education - engineering and surveying
      Dates: 1953-1980
      Container: Box 8
    • Description: Engineering societies and profession
      Dates: 1959-1996
      Container: Box 8
    • Description: Fallout shelter guides
      Dates: 1960
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Freeze directories and notes
      Dates: 1985-1992
      Container: Box 5
    • Genealogy:

      • Description: Census - Nellis Eugene Corthell, Scipio and Cayuga, NY Cty.
        Dates: 1800-1810
        Container: Box 14, Folder
      • Description: "Corthell Genealogy" by Mary Margaret Corthell
        Dates: 1981
        Container: Box 14, Folder
      • Description: Historic, not letters (post cards, photographs, clippings)
        Dates: 1897-1928
        Container: Box 14, Folder
    • Description: Hydrology - fluid mechanics
      Dates: 1939-1963
      Container: Box 8
    • Description: Ledger: Corporation records - Laramie Stock Yards Co.
      Dates: 1914-1937
      Container: Box 14, Folder
    • Description: Legal documents: By-laws of the reorganized Silver King Divide Mining Company
      Dates: 1921
      Container: Box 14, Folder
    • Description: Maps: Albany County relief maps - JAH school project
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 17, Folder
    • Description: Materials construction
      Dates: 1944-1981
      Container: Box 8
    • Description: Miscellaneous
      Dates: 1960-1976
      Container: Box 11
    • Description: Newsletter: "Peace Plans"
      Dates: 1984-1993
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Newspaper clippings
      Dates: 1950-1988
      Container: Box 1-4
    • Description: Newspaper clippings: Nuclear
      Dates: 1984-1985
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Nuclear arms race
      Dates: 1950-1988
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: Nuclear physics and atom-bomb wardens
      Dates: 1954-1958
      Container: Box 17
    • Description: Nuclear research
      Dates: 1982-1990
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Peace Research Conference
      Dates: 1962
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Peacemaking (research, audio and video, notes, correspondence, publications)
      Dates: 1950-1993
      Container: Box 2-3 and 17
    • Description: Peacemaking: John M. Hill, "Tough Issues in Church, 200 Years of Presbyt."
      Dates: 1988
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Peacemaking notebooks
      Dates: 1983-1988
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Peacemaking research
      Dates: 1970-1988
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: "Peripatetics Paper" by W.E. Hitchcock
      Dates: May 9, 1991
      Container: Box 14
    • Description: Photogrammetry
      Dates: 1950-1988
      Container: Box 1
    • Photographs:

      • Description: Black and white prints
        Dates: 1950-1988
        Container: Box 1-2 and 15-16
      • Description: Color prints
        Dates: 1970-1979
        Container: Box 5
      • Description: Group portraits (rolled oversize panoramas)
        Dates: 1909-1925
        Container: Box 15
      • Negatives:
      • Slides:
        • Description: 1st Advisory committee meeting (empty slide box)
          Dates: undated
          Container: Box 7
        • Description: Artwork
          Dates: undated
          Container: Box 7
        • Description: Billy
          Dates: 1977
          Container: Box 7
        • Description: Billy and Mum birthdays
          Dates: 1975
          Container: Box 7
        • Description: Classroom
          Dates: 1971, 1975
          Container: Box 7
        • Description: Family
          Dates: 1971, 1974
          Container: Box 7
        • Description: Family (Ana, Susie, Billy,)
          Dates: 1975
          Container: Box 7
        • Description: Family party
          Dates: 1977
          Container: Box 7
        • Description: House
          Dates: undated
          Container: Box 7
        • Description: Lander
          Dates: 1970
          Container: Box 7
        • Description: Madison and miscellaneous
          Dates: 1975
          Container: Box 7
        • Description: Mama's paintings
          Dates: undated
          Container: Box 7
        • Description: Mesa Verde
          Dates: 1975
          Container: Box 7
        • Description: Miscellaneous project
          Dates: 1975
          Container: Box 7
        • Description: Nebraska farms
          Dates: 1975
          Container: Box 7
        • Description: Patterns
          Dates: 1975
          Container: Box 7
        • Description: Possible slide show on project
          Dates: 1975
          Container: Box 7
        • Description: Project
          Dates: undated and 1975
          Container: Box 7
        • Description: Student work, Junior High
          Dates: 1969
          Container: Box 7
        • Description: Unidentified color slides
          Dates: 1950-1988
          Container: Box 2
        • Description: Unidentified slides
          Dates: 1970-1979
          Container: Box 5, 7
      • Description: Slide show and notes: "Peace Program"
        Dates: undated
        Container: Box 6
    • Description: "The Plan"
      Dates: 1946
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Playbills
      Dates: 1934-1938
      Container: Box 14
    • Description: Publications
      Dates: 1906-1995
      Container: Box 5 and 14
    • Description: Publication: "Military Plutonium from Commercial Spent Nuclear Fuel"
      Dates: 1981
      Container: Box 5
    • Description: Report: "Book of Deed and Plats Showing the Properties of the L. & R.C. Ry., State Line to Coalmont" compiled in the Office of Chief Engineer
      Dates: June 1912
      Container: Box 14, Folder
    • Description: Report: "Laramie, Wyoming: Inventory and Appraisal of the Property of the Western Public Service Company"
      Dates: May 1942
      Container: Box 14, Folder
    • Description: Robertson-McConnell
      Dates: undated
      Container: Box 8
    • Description: Scrapbook: The College Girls' Record - Miss Merle Kissick at the University of Wyoming
      Dates: 1908-1914
      Container: Box 14, Folder
    • Description: Solar power
      Dates: 1950-1988
      Container: Box 3 and 8
    • Description: Solar power: Passive solar conference, Laramie
      Dates: 1980
      Container: Box 8
    • Description: Strength of materials
      Dates: 1960-1971
      Container: Box 8
    • Description: Stresses and structures
      Dates: 1964-1976
      Container: Box 8
    • Description: Structure materials lab
      Dates: 1960-1974
      Container: Box 8
    • Description: Surveying
      Dates: 1949-1978
      Container: Box 8
    • Description: UN Association
      Dates: 1997
      Container: Box 17
    • Description: University future
      Dates: 1950-1988
      Container: Box 3
    • Description: University of Wyoming (UWYO)
      Dates: 1925-1990
      Container: Box 8,10, and 15, Folder
    • Description: University of Wyoming, College of Engineering
      Dates: 1928-1992
      Container: Box 10-11, Folder
    • Description: University of Wyoming - Courses taken - JMH
      Dates: 1971-1993
      Container: Box 17, Folder
    • Description: University of Wyoming - Courses taught - JMH
      Dates: 1980-1993
      Container: Box 17, Folder
    • Description: University of Wyoming - Programs
      Dates: 1935-1973
      Container: Box 15, Folder
    • Description: University of Wyoming - Science Camp
      Dates: 1962-1966
      Container: Box 15, Folder
    • Description: Water - projects, politics
      Dates: 1953-1999
      Container: Box 8
    • Description: Wind power
      Dates: 1950-1988
      Container: Box 3 and 10
    • Description: Workshop on recreation and beautification engineering
      Dates: 1967
      Container: Box 8
    • Description: Wyoming Board of Professional Engineers
      Dates: 1950-1988
      Container: Box 1-4
    • Description: Wyoming Energy Council, Inc.
      Dates: 1992-2003
      Container: Box 17
    • Description: Wyoming ENGINEWS
      Dates: 1950-1988
      Container: Box 1-4
    • Description: Wyoming Surveyors Conference
      Dates: 1950-1988
      Container: Box 1 and 4

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Subject Terms

  • Antinuclear movement -- Wyoming
  • Engineering -- Study and teaching (Higher)
  • Solar energy
  • Water resources development -- Wyoming
  • Wind power -- Wyoming

Corporate Names

  • University of Wyoming -- Faculty
  • University of Wyoming. College of Engineering

Geographical Names

  • Albany County (Wyo.)
  • Laramie (Wyo.)
  • Wyoming -- History -- 1919-1945
  • Wyoming -- History -- 1946-1999

Form or Genre Terms

  • Aerial photographs
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