Harold E. Weeks Diaries, 1925-1932. 3 document boxes, 1.35 cubic feet.
ArMs 1985.039
Harold Eastman Weeks (1886 - 1960) worked as the Coordinating Engineer in the Electrical Systems Bureau of the Brooklyn Edison Company, one of the major participants in Brooklyn’s electrification. He was a relative of John Wingate Weeks, a Republican Senator and the 48th U.S. Secretary of War (1921-1925). Aside from his regular job duties at the Brooklyn Edison Company, Mr. Weeks took on several other responsibilities, serving as public utility instructor (a position he also held at the New York Edison Company), and holding membership in both the Technical Advisory Committee and the Brooklyn Edison Club (by which he coordinated company social events). He was also an active member of several professional organizations. Mr. Weeks resided at 20 Willow Street, Brooklyn, and was married to Dr. Virginia Travell Weeks, a Brooklyn pediatrician and sister of Dr. Janet Davidson Travell, President John F. Kennedy’s Personal Physician. He died in Lake Placid, New York, in 1960.
The Harold E. Weeks Diaries consist of seven diaries from the period 1925-1932 (a diary does not exist for 1928) and are arranged chronologically. Each diary documents the day-to-day operations of the Electrical System Bureau of the Brooklyn Edison Company. They also contain references-in the form of numerous enclosures-to local, national and international news events; public utilities; city planning and infrastructure; population estimates; the banking industry; the commodities markets; aeronautics; and the private life of Mr. Weeks.
Access Points:
Personal names
Weeks, Harold Eastman, 1886-1960
Travell, Janet G., 1901-1997
Weeks, John W. (John Wingate), 1860-1926
Corporate names
Brooklyn Edison Company
New York Edison Company
Subjects
Electric power systems
Electrification
Electric power distribution New York (State)
Aeronautics, Military
Chronological subject
20th-century America
Geographic subject
Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.)
Occupations subject
Engineers