Saville Engineering collection

The earlier album is titled, "Thorndike Saville, Hanover, N.H., 1914-15." It is filled with black and white photographs, some dark, blurry, and oxidizing, some fading, but many with sufficient clarity to illustrate the subjects in some detail. Most are labeled with site locations. The majority of photographs in the album are images of dams and waterworks in the greater Hanover area, as well as around Boston, and Hartford, Connecticut. His Hanover-area subjects include the Wilder Paper Mills Dam, Mink Brook Bridge, Thompson's Falls, and nearby sand and gravel sources. From Connecticut there are the Phelps Brook Dam and Nepaug Dam and from near Boston he added images of Brockton's water treatment facility. Finally, this album includes a selection of snapshots of labs and apparatus at Dartmouth, men surveying the countryside, also his friends, his Dartmouth housing, some social life, early x-rays of a hand, hip, and "normal wrist with bullet," and a few earlier, residential and family snapshots from the American Panama Canal Zone. (Thorndike Saville's father, Caleb Mills Saville, also a civil engineer, was involved with the construction of the Panama Canal.) The second album is undated and untitled and filled with more than 300 black and white, somewhat faded, numbered and labeled photographs documenting what I sense was an immediately post World-War-I tour of English and French port, river, and water treatment subjects of professional interest to him. A handwritten table of contents roughly identifies the route of his tour.