Title: Raleigh W. Gamble Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1946-1962

Creator:

• Gamble, Raleigh W., 1892-1962

Call Number: Milwaukee Mss CS

Quantity: 0.8 c.f. (2 archives boxes)

Repository:

Housed at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries’ Archives Department / Milwaukee Area Research Center; owned by the Wisconsin Historical Society, Division of Library, Archives, and Museum Collections

Archival Locations:

COLLECTION MAY BE STORED OFF-SITE: see catalog entry to request materials and for additional information.

UW-Milwaukee Libraries, Archives / Milwaukee Area Research Ctr. (Map)

Abstract:

Papers of Gamble, a Milwaukee superintendent of the Bureau of Street Construction, most dating 1946-1954 during construction of Milwaukee's expressway system. Primarily scrapbooks on expressways and highway planning, the papers also include a small amount of personal correspondence and biographical materials, and a study of Milwaukee's traffic flow (1946).

Language: English

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Raleigh W. Gamble, son of William Elliot Gamble and Clara Bixby, was born in Chicago, Illinois, on November 8, 1892. He graduated from Crane Technical Institute in Chicago in 1911 and enrolled in the University of Wisconsin in September 1911. He received a B.S. degree from the University of Wisconsin in Civil Engineering in June 1916. After graduation he worked as a street construction inspector for the City of Milwaukee from July 8, 1916 to August 1, 1916 at which time he transferred to the Milwaukee Sewerage Commission where he was employed until September 30, 1923. For a short time he worked for the Wenzel and Henoch Company but returned to the City of Milwaukee on June 1, 1924 as Superintendent of the Bureau of Street Construction and Repairs, which position he held until his retirement on July 9, 1954. In 1950 he was named Director of Expressways in addition to his other function, a position he held until April 1954 when the control of the expressways was transferred to the county. After retirement he was District Engineer for the Asphalt Institute in Chicago from 1954 to 1957. From 1957 to his death in 1962, he held a part-time lectureship in Civil Engineering at Marquette University and in 1962 was named director of its engineering institutes. In 1917 he married Gladys J. Bautz in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There were two children: a daughter, Marian Gamble, now Mrs. W. Ward Smith, and a son, Richard C. Gamble.

The Raleigh W. Gamble Papers cover that portion of his career involved with the construction of an expressway system for the City of Milwaukee, roughly from 1946 to Gamble's retirement in 1954. They consist primarily of newspaper clippings on expressways and highway planning for the years 1946, 1949, and 1951 and to his retirement in 1954 and a folder of unsorted clippings covering 1951 through 1953. The papers include a set of illustrative photographs of expressways, a 1946 article by Gamble entitled “Milwaukee's Street Inventory,” and two articles by William A. Norris on expressways that appeared in the Milwaukee Sentinel in August 1952. Included with the material on expressways is a 1946 study by the State Highway Commission of origin-destination traffic flow in the Milwaukee metropolitan area and the preliminary plans for the Milwaukee expressways by Ammann and Whitney, the consulting engineers.

The collection also contains a small amount of personal correspondence arranged chronologically from 1954 to 1963, newspaper articles and articles in professional journals about Gamble, a brief biography prepared by the America Society of Civil Engineers, and miscellaneous memorabilia.

Acquisition Information

Presented by Mrs. Gladys J. Gamble, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, May 17, 1966.

Processing Information

Processed by L. Holichek, March 5, 1970.

Box   1 Folder   1	Correspondence, 1954-1963
Box   1 Folder   2	Biography
Box   1 Folder   3	Articles on R.W. Gamble
Box   1 Folder   4	Article by R.W. Gamble
Box   1 Folder   5	Memorabilia
Box   1 Folder   6	Origin - Destination Survey, 1946
Box   1 Folder   7	Preliminary plans for Milwaukee Expressway
Box   1 Folder   8	Expressway photographs
	Newspaper clippings on expressways
Box   1 Folder   9-14	1946, 1949, 1951 Jan. - 1952 June
Box   2 Folder   1-9	1952 July - 1954 March
Box   2 Folder   10	Unsorted newspaper clippings, 1951-1953
Box   2 Folder   11	William Norris articles, 1952