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Armco Culvert Manufacturers Association was a trade association comprised of road materials manufacturers and distributors from every state that focused on drainage and sewage. It was headquartered in Middletown, Ohio. This item is a typescript that provides a highly technical and detailed instructional guide to the field application of the Armco Jacking Method, a system of trenchless culvert installation developed by the Armco Culvert Manufacturers Association. Contents include a series of reports on completed jobs in a variety of locations.

The Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education, which was founded in 1893 and became part of the American Society for Engineering Education in 1946, was a professional society of engineering school deans, professors, practicing engineers, and industry executives. During the 1930s and 1940s, Dugald C. Jackson (1865-1951), Professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT, served as executive director. MIT president Karl Compton (1887-1954) and Gerard Swope (1872-1957) from the General Electric Company were active members. This collection of correspondence consists largely of letters between Jackson, Swope, and Compton, which document their efforts to shape the curriculum at major engineering schools.