Title: Harry C. Brockel Papers
Inclusive Dates: 1954-1968

Creator:

• Brockel, Harry C., 1908-1985

Call Number: Milwaukee Mss CZ

Quantity: 3.6 c.f. (9 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 Harry Brockel, director of the port of Milwaukee and secretary of the Milwaukee Harbor Commission, concerning his activities on the advisory board of the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation; including corporation minutes and reports, news releases, financial reports and estimates, clippings, and correspondence files.

Language: English

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Harry C. Brockel, director of the port of Milwaukee and secretary of the Milwaukee Harbor Commission, has been connected with port activities since leaving high school. He was born in Chicago, Illinois, September 18, 1908, the son of Thomas J. and Margaret (Strachan) Brockel, was educated in the public schools of Milwaukee, and graduated from Lincoln High School in 1926. Since that time, he has worked with the harbor commission. After acting as a junior clerk and office boy, he was promoted in 1928 to assistant to the traffic director, and in 1936 he was made secretary to the commission. In September 1942, he was appointed municipal director of the port of Milwaukee, a position whose duties included the construction of dock facilities, dredging, transportation, and planning public port improvements.

Mr. Brockel is well known in port circles and has been the secretary of the Great Lakes Harbors Association and a director of the American Association of Port Authorities. He is a member of the Milwaukee Traffic Club, the Chicago Traffic Club, the Municipal Engineers' Association, the American Society of Military Engineers, and the Milwaukee Government Service League of which he has been a director. Mr. Brockel has also been vice chairman of the Wisconsin Deep Waterways Commission from 1945, a member of the Great Lakes Commission from 1954, and chairman of the governor's committee of the St. Lawrence Seaway Project from 1952. In addition, he has been a member of the advisory board of the Great Lakes Pilotage Administration, a federal port controller for the Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Seaway ports, a member of the export expansion council of the Department of Commerce and also of the Advisory Council on Naval Affairs of the World Affairs Council. Mr. Brockel has been a member and past director of the National Rivers and Harbors Congress, the U.S. Coast Guard League and the Coast Guard Auxiliary, the Navy League, the American Society for Public Administration and past president of the Milwaukee chapter, the Milwaukee Athletic Club, the Masons, and the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

In 1954, the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation was created by Congress to construct the seaway and Brockel was appointed by President Eisenhower as a member of the corporation's five man advisory board. In 1968, he retired from the corporation.

Mr. Brockel has been the recipient of many awards, among them the Good Government Award of the Milwaukee Junior Chamber of Commerce for 1957, the Distinguished Public Service Award of the Milwaukee Association of Commerce for 1954, the National Public Service Award of the Fraternal Order of Eagles for 1954, the Pere Marquette Award of Marquette University in 1956, the Distinguished Engineering Service Award of the University of Wisconsin in 1958 and the award of the Cosmopolitan Club in 1959. Mr. Brockel is presently affiliated with the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

These Harry C. Brockel Papers relate to the St. Lawrence Development Seaway Corporation, 1954-1968, and include his general files, financial reports, subject files, and clippings. The general files contain the correspondence of H. C. Brockel while he was a member of the St. Lawrence Seaway Advisory Committee between 1954 and 1968. The files, arranged in chronological order, contain Brockel biographical material, correspondence with Midwestern politicians such as U.S. Senator Alexander Wiley, reports to Congress concerning the Seaway, and papers concerning the routine matters of the corporation. The financial records consist of scattered annual reports, audit reports, and budget estimates of the St. Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation between 1955-1967. The subject files, 1957-1968, consist of printed board minutes and reports, printed articles, news releases, and general reports of the St. Lawrence Seaway Development corporation. The remainder of the collection is made up of clippings concerning the corporation, 1960-1968.

Other collections in Archives custody which are associated with Mr. Brockel are the records of the Great Lakes Commission (Milwaukee Mss CX) and records of the Great Lakes Harbors Association (Milwaukee Mss CW).

Acquisition Information

Presented by H. C. Brockel of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 1972. Accession Number: M72-351

Processing Information

Processed by P.D./P.R., December 10, 1972.

	Series: General Files, 1954-1968
Box   1	1954 June 16-1958 Apr 30
Box   2	1958 May 1-1960 Sep 28
Box   3	1960 Sep 1- 1963 July 31
Box   4 Folder   1-3	1963 Aug 1-1968 Feb 8
	Series: Financial Records, 1955	⇧
Box   4 Folder   4	Annual Reports, 1961, 1967
Box   4 Folder   5	Audit Reports, 1955 June 30-1964 July 1
Box   5 Folder   1	Audit Reports, Answers to Criticisms, 1960-1962
Box   5 Folder   2	Budget Estimates, 1959-1961
Box   5 Folder   3-4	Financial Reports, General, 1956-1964
	Series: Subject Files, 1957-1968	⇧
Box   6 Folder   1	Advisory Board Minutes, 1958 July 14-1965 July 31
Box   6 Folder   2	Advisory Board Reports, 1961-1964
Box   6 Folder   3	Engineering Reports, 1957-1958
Box   6 Folder   4	History (“Billion Dollar Story,” 1958)
Box   6 Folder   5	Legal: Seaway Corps vs U.S. Corps of Engineers, 1956-1958
	News Releases
Box   6 Folder   6-8	1954 Sep-1957 June
Box   7 Folder   1-6	1957 July-1968
Box   7 Folder   7	Progress Reports, 1957-1963
Box   8 Folder   1	Rules and Regulations, 1958-1959
	Toll Studies
Box   8 Folder   2	Committee Reports, 1961-1963
Box   8 Folder   3	Conferences, Tolls and Cargoes, 1957
Box   8 Folder   4-5	Hearings, Tolls and Cargoes, 1958 Aug 6-7
Box   9 Folder   1	Studies and Calculators, undated
	Series: Clippings, 1960-1968	⇧