Cage 552 Guide to the William F. Sollars Papers 1946-1974 Sollars (William F) Papers Finding aid prepared by Ling Jinqi Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2012
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Finding aid encoded by Mark O'English 2004 Finding aid written in English. Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
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Cage 552 Sollars,William F. William F. Sollars Papers 1946-1974 2 containers. 4 linear feet of shelf space. 102 items. 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. Collection materials are in English.

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.

The records cover the period from 1946 to 1974.

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.

This collection is open for research use.

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

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).

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Sollars, William F., 1913-1974--Archives Baked products--Standards Flour as food--20th century--Research--Archives Chemists--Washington (State)--Correspondence Agriculture Washington (State)

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

Series 1: Manuscripts 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: Conferences 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: Reports 2 1 Wheat Flour Fractionation (Work at three laboratories) 1949 2 2 Pentosans 1955 2 3 Viscosity 1968 2 4 Investigation 1969 Series 4: Strategy 2 5 Tailing subfraction 1963-1967 2 6 Phenol - H(2)SO(4) Method for Carbohydrates 1966 Series 5: Graphs 2 7 1967 2 8 1972 2 9 1973 Series 6: Reprints 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 Records 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: Notes 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 2 47 Effect of Subfractions on Starch Tailings on Cookie Diameter 1959-1966 2 48 The Effect of Chlorine on Bleaching Starch 1964 2 49 Present Status of Flour Bleaching Industry Series 10: Miscellaneous Items 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