Lloyd Layman Papers regarding Firefighting
Collection
Collection Number: A&M 4228
Papers of influential fire engineer Lloyd Layman (1898-1968). Includes correspondence, reports, clippings and articles, photographs, books by Layman, scrapbook, and other material. This collection is minimally processed.
No special access restriction applies.
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Lloyd Layman (1898-1968), a native of Fairmont, West Virginia, served as a law officer and later as a fire chief in Parkersburg. After conducting research in Parkersburg, and later in the Coast Guard Firefighting School, which he commanded during World War II (WWII), he published books in the field of fire engineering which have set standards in theory and practice, and that have been translated into several languages. He innovated practices of "fog" and "indirect application" which have revolutionized fire fighting.
1 Linear Feet (11 1/2 in. (2 document cases, 5 in. each); (1 flat storage box, 1 1/2 in.); (1 small sculpture))
English
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The book "Parkersburg Fire Department, Past and Present, 1897-1950" was forwarded to the rare book librarian for cataloging, and for shelving in the reading room of the West Virginia and Regional History Center.
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