urn:taro:utexas.cah.01372 A Guide to the Brown and Root, Inc. Photographs, 1968-1978 Original EAD encoding by Lauren Algee according to TARO 2 EAD 2002 Editing Instructions. November 2009 Finding aid written in English. Descriptive Summary Brown and Root, Inc. Brown and Root, Inc. Photographs 1968-1978 Materials are written in English. 84-25 16 color prints. Dolph Briscoe Center for American History,The University of Texas at Austin Photographs are of Brown and Root, Inc., construction projects and operations in the 1960s and 1970s. Historical Note

Brothers-in-law Dan Root and Herman Brown founded Brown and Root, Inc. in 1919 as a road-building company by brothers-in-law Dan Root and Herman Brown. In the following decades the company expanded into larger industrial construction projects including offshore oil platforms and dams. In the 1960s Brown and Root, Inc. was purchased by the Haliburton Company. Haliburton merged Brown and Root with the M.W. Kellogg Company in the 1990s to form Kellogg, Brown & Root (KBR). KBR became a stand-alone company in April 2007.

 Scope and Contents

Photographs are of Brown and Root, Inc., construction projects and operations in the 1960s and 1970s. Subjects include power plants, chemical plants, dams, oil rigs and tugboats.

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Unrestricted access.

 Index Terms Subjects (Organizations) Brown and Root, Inc. Subjects Chemical industry—Texas Construction and development Dams—Texas Petroleum industry--Texas Shipping--Texas. Places Bay City (Tex.) Houston (Tex.) Savoy (Tex.) Preferred Citation

Brown and Root, Inc. Photographs, 1968-1978, Dolph Briscoe Center for American History, The University of Texas at Austin.

 Processing Information

Basic processing and cataloging of this collection was supported with funds from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC) for the Briscoe Center’s History Revealed: Bringing Collections to Light project, 2009-2011.

 Detailed Description of the Papers Photographs: 3S29 Texas Power and Light Commpany – Valley Steam Electric Statino No. 2, Savoy, Texas 3S29 Parrish Power Plant 3S29 Dart Chemical Plant 3S29 Celanese Plant, Bay City, Texas 3S29 Armco Steel 3S29 Brown and Root, Inc. Greens Bayou Fabricating Yard 3S29 Brown and Root, Inc. Headquarters, Houston, Texas 3S29 Mansfield Dam 3S29 Marble Falls Dam 3S29 Tugboats [2] 3S29 Oil Drilling Rigs

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 [2] 3S29 Pipeline