University of Wyoming
George Henry Ellis (1884- ) served as an engineer with the U.S. Reclamation Service from 1907-1920 and from 1920-1925 with the Montana State Engineer's Office. He worked as a hydrological engineer with the Middle West Utilities Company from 1923-1929 before returning to the U.S. Reclamation Service in 1930. Ellis worked on the Shoshone Project in Wyoming and the Sun River Project in Montana while with the Reclamation Service from 1908-1915.
Collection contains correspondence, mostly letters to U.S. Congressional members regarding taxes and anti-communism (1936-1967); newspaper clippings (1921-1929); 6 photograph albums of Ellis and water reclamation projects in North Dakota, Wyoming and Montana (1908-1959); blueprints and drawings of the Shoshone Project, Wyoming (1909-1912) and the Sun River Project, Montana (1913-1915); and a scrapbook with poems written by Ellis (1944-1962).
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There are no known other archival collections created by George Henry Ellis at the date of processing.
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