Special Collections, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va.
Collection Number
Ms1982-013
Title
Carl George Krieger Papers, 1930-1967
Physical Charactertistics
15.0 cu. ft.
19 boxes
Creator
Krieger, Carl George
Location
Please note: This collection
is located in off-site storage and require 2-3 days notice for retrieval. Contact
Special Collections for more information.
Language
English
Abstract
The collection contains correspondence, speeches,
notebooks, photographs, recordings, and clippings relating to the areas of
agriculture, gas, oil, tractors, air and water pollution, waste treatment, and
public relations.
Permission to publish material from Carl George Krieger Papers must be obtained
from Special Collections, Virginia Tech.
Preferred Citation
Researchers wishing to cite this collection should include the following
information: Carl George Krieger Papers, Ms1982-013, Special Collections,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Va.
Acquisition Information
The Carl George Krieger Papers were donated to the University Libraries in August
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.
Carl George Krieger (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, hew as the first agricultural
engineering graduate at Virginia Polytechnic Institute in 1926.
The collection includes 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.
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.
Tractors; Gasoline; Fuels and engines; Dauberman Day (31 July
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
Publications on air pollution.
Box 9
Publications on air pollution.
Box 10
Water pollution; U.S. Public Health statement on water pollution;
Waste treatment of lead.
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