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Start Over You searched for: Repository University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library ✖ Remove constraint Repository: University of Michigan Bentley Historical Library Creator Riggs, Henry Earle, 1865- ✖ Remove constraint Creator: Riggs, Henry Earle, 1865- Level Collection ✖ Remove constraint Level: Collection Subjects Railroads -- Michigan. ✖ Remove constraint Subjects: Railroads -- Michigan. Subjects World War, 1914-1918. ✖ Remove constraint Subjects: World War, 1914-1918. Date range 1931 ✖ Remove constraint Date range: <span class="single" data-blrl-single="1931">1931</span>
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Professor of civil engineering at University of Michigan. Railroad valuation and appraisal files; lectures and reports; personal materials.
The Henry Earle Riggs collection includes correspondence and documents, 1914-1924, relating to valuation of the Detroit United Railway. This includes correspondence removed from the files of Mortimer E. Cooley. There are also other materials relating to public utilities valuation, civil engineering, and public works, mainly lectures, addresses, articles, and testimony.
Of special note is a file of correspondence relating to University of Michigan Civil Engineering alumni killed in World War I, file on the history of the Ann Arbor Railroad, and a 1942 speech describing problems of the proposed Willow Run, Michigan, wartime housing development.
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