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Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech
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Newman Library, Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, Virginia 24061
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The collection is open for research.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following information: [identification of item], [box], [folder], Carl George Krieger Papers, Ms1982-013, Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Va.
Source of Acquisition
The Carl George Krieger Papers were donated to the University Libraries in September 1982.
Processing Information
The Carl George Krieger Papers are in their original order. The initial 43 boxes were condensed to 19 boxes and moved to off-site storage. A box-level inventory and collection description were created after the materials were donated. The finding aid was created from this inventory in January 2011.
Biographical Note
Carl George Krieger, Jr. (1905-1979) was a gas engine specialist and a pioneer in the development of the high-compression tractor. Krieger worked in the management structure of Ethyl Gasoline Corporation (1927-1969); was director of the Farm Equipment and Machinery Division of the War Production Board (WPB); was a special assistant to the WPB's chairman during World War II; and served as chairman of the Agricultural Development Committee of the American Petroleum Institute in the post-war years.
A native of Portsmouth, Virginia, Krieger was born to Carl George and Belle Hunter (Brooks) Krieger on April 3, 1905. he was the first agricultural engineering graduate at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1926. He married his second wife, Millicent M. Roberts, on December 15, 1945, in Pennsylvania.
External sources:
U.S. Federal Census, 1910, 1930, 1950
"Carl Krieger" in the US Social Security Death Index, MyTrees.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/34479780:3693 , accessed April 22, 2024.
"Carl G., Jr. Krieger" in the Pennsylvania, U.S., Marriages, 1852-1968, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/2564456:61381 , accessed April 22, 2024.
George Krieger obituary, Newsday (Suffolk Edition), Sept. 27, 1979, in the U.S., Newspapers.com™ Obituary Index, 1800s-current, Ancestry.com, https://www.ancestrylibrary.com/discoveryui-content/view/926542719:61843 , accessed April 22, 2024.
Scope and Content
The Carl George Krieger Papers include correspondence, speeches, notebooks, photographs, audio and video recordings, a scrapbook, and clippings and magazine articles on topics related to agriculture, gas, oil, tractors, air and water pollution, waste treatment, and public relations.
Arrangement
The Carl George Krieger Papers are in their original order. Boxes 1-2 contains biographical information and correspondence. Boxes 2-10 contain subject files. Boxes 11-13 include materials relating to Krieger's tenure at Ethyl Gasoline Corporation. Boxes 14-16 contain publications. Boxes 17-19 include training films and video recordings relating to farm topics.
Subjects and Indexing Terms
- Science and Technology
- Students and alumni
- University History
- Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College and Polytechnic Institute (1896-1944)
- Virginia Polytechnic Institute (1944-1970)
Rights Statement for Archival Description
The guide to the Carl George Krieger Papers by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).
Container List
- box 1
Biographical and Personal Materials; Scrapbook, 1933-1947; Correspondence, 1950-1954, 1954-1958
- box 2
Correspondence, 1959-1964, 1964-1967
- box 2
Tractors
- box 3
Tractors; Gasoline; Fuels and engines; Dauberman Day (July 31, 1941, the 7th anniversary of the modern high-compression tractor); Farm market study; Liquid feeds; Pesticides; Farm advertising; Cotton; Farm program; Farm market data; American Agricultural Editor's Association
- box 4
American Petroleum Institute Committee on Agriculture; Milk Industry Foundation reports; Agricultural Relations Committee; "Brainpower Plus Horsepower;" Food for America (book published in 1960); Farm Book; "Food Business of the Future," 1958; "Food for Our Future" typescript; Letter re: Food for America book, 1960
- box 5
Letter re: Food for America book from the files of Charles H. Zeanah, Ethyl Corporation's Manager of Community Relations; Special edition of book; Agricultural publications
- box 6
U.S. Senate Subcommittee on Air and Water Pollution, 1960s; Proposed corn alcohol program; "Conservation of Air Resources"; American Petroleum Institute Committee on Air and Water Pollution; Air pollution legislation; APCA directory; "Freedom to Breathe"-NYC Mayor's Task Force; "Approach a Problem"; Pamphlets and kits
- box 7
Babylon, NY; Dr. George F. Kirkby's speech on air pollution control (1968) manuscript; 3 kits on the oil industry and air pollution; Four notebooks (Gasoline and engine emissions, c.1940; training for air pollution control, c. 1943; position papers on lead, c.1950; API Comittee for Air and Water Conservation, c.1948); Testimony before governmental investigative bodies; Technical papers on motor vehicles: emissions, lung disease, public policy
- box 8 box 9
Publications on air pollution
- box 10
Water pollution; U.S. Public Health statement on water pollution; Waste treatment of lead
- box 14 box 15 box 16
Publications