A collection of U.S. Department of the Interior & Congressional Reports & other published material. Examples are: 1 copy of H.R. 577 . . . March 9, 1948 – Mr. Fletcher A Bill To strengthen national security and the common defense by authorizing the construction and operation of demonstration plant to produce potable water from sea water or other liquids . . . . 87th Cong., 2nd Sess. – the appropriation not to exceed the sum of $30 million; copies of 2 promotional brochures—“Badger Water distillation equipment flash – vapor compression – centrifugal compression,” & “bmc Serving the Process Industries,” Badger Manufacturing Co. (n.d., 8 pp. each); 2 copies of the Second Annual Report of the Secretary of the Interior on Saline Water Conversion, January 1954; 1 folder containing C.K. Sencebaugh, Fresh Water From the Sea - Minerals From the Sea, 1957-1958 (10 pp.); 1 “committee print” of Saline Water Conversion Program Memorandum of the Chairman of the Subcommittee On Irrigation and Reclamation, U.S. Govt. Printing Office, 1958, 12 pp.; 1 copy of U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Saline Water Conversion Report For 1958, January, 1959 (42 pp.); 1 copy of U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Saline Water Conversion Report For 1959, January, 1960 (108 pp.).