Accelerated Public Works on the National Forests
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. 1960s. Album: 30 pages with 10 black and white photographs, 2 color prints, and 13 tables.
Report was prepared by the USDA Forest Service in cooperation with the Area Redevelopment Administration of the United States Department of Commerce. Addresses the accomplishments of the Accelerated Public Works Program of the early 1960s in the National Forests of the United States. 13 tables detail the results by state of public works program.
Ainsworth, John H. (b.1909)
Papers. 1955-1961. 1.6 cubic feet.
Papers include journal and newspaper articles, correspondence, magazines and pamphlets, bound and unbound reports, reel-to-reel magnetic tapes, film strip series with accompanying record albums, and a copy of Ainsworth's book Paper...The Fifth Wonder (Kaukauna, Wis.: Thomas Publishing Co., 1958). Papers reflect various papermaking processes. Ainsworth worked for a number of paper mills in both the United States and Canada throughout his career.
American Forest
Council
Records. 1935, 1940-1975. 107.2 cubic feet.
Formerly called American Forest Products Industries and the American
Forest Institute. Merged in 1992 with the American Paper Institute and
the National Forest Products Association to become the American Forest
& Paper Association. The American Forest Council (AFC) is an educational
organization designed to supplement the lobbying activities of the National
Forest Products Association. The records contain minutes, mailings,
memoranda, and other materials of the Board of Trustees; general correspondence;
reading files, press releases, mailings; and other materials of various
divisions and committees; reading files of Charles Alton Gillett (b.
1904), Managing Director (1947-1967); publicity materials and reports
of the National 4-H Forestry Program; also includes photographs, AFC
publications, phonograph records, motion picture films, and miscellaneous
educational and public relations material. Additional accessions are
expected.
American Forestry
Association
Records. 1875-1984. 115.4 cubic feet.
Correspondence, articles, manuscript surveys and reports on forestry,
newspaper clippings, and published material relating to the Association.
Includes studies and investigations (61 boxes), awards (21 boxes), directors'
minutes (8 boxes), directors' correspondence (16 boxes), annual meetings
(6 boxes), annual reports (12 boxes), elections (6 boxes), miscellaneous
(25 boxes), Redwood National Park (13 boxes), and miscellaneous administration
(25 boxes). There are few materials dating before 1900; the bulk of
the collection dates from the 1930s-1960s. Among the prominent correspondents
are William B. Greeley, Ovid Butler, Gifford Pinchot, and Samuel T.
Dana. Additional accessions are expected.
American Pulpwood
Association
Records. 1948-1979. 4.8 cubic feet.
Materials include minutes of meetings, technical releases, and technical
papers from the Appalachian, Lake States, Northeastern, Southeastern,
Southwestern, and Western Technical Divisions of the American Pulpwood
Association. Also included are memoranda, meeting agendas and programs,
organization directories and by-laws, and various annual, weekly, and
monthly technical bulletins and reports. The records are filed in four
cartons.
Association
of Consulting Foresters of America
Records. 1954-2001 (bulk 1971-1992). 16 cubic feet.
The collection consists of ACF records largely concerning the organization
and its operations. The collection is divided into six series, including
files on financial and tax documents; office policies and procedures;
advertising and promotion; staff and members; individual ACF chapters,
focusing largely on the Alabama chapter; and correspondence and interaction
with organizations such as the Practicing Foresters Institute of Trust
(PFIT), the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), and other independent
organizations such as the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the
Society of American Foresters (SAF). Also included in these series are
files on ACF committees, meetings, ethical and legislative concerns,
and history of the ACF; a bound volume of Historical Perspective,
the Early Years provides a brief history of the organization, its
leaders, and its accomplishments.
This collection
contains a large number of records and correspondence pertaining to
influential people who shaped ACF history, including John Bradley, Jr.
(President of ACF 1974 - 1976; Chairman of Resource Management Services
Inc., Chairman of Alabama Chapter ACF), Harry Murphy (ACF member, President
of Resource Operations Inc., Executive Vice President of Resource Management
Services Inc.), and L. Keville Larson (ACF President 1982 - 1984). The
collection also contains reference to other significant people including
Arthur Ennis; Colin Bagwell; Robert Fiske; Frank Bennett; John T. Clark;
Harvey Striplin, Jr.; and William Banzhaf.
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Babcock, Thorpe
(b. 1885?)
Papers. 1885-1979. 0.4 cubic feet.
Babcock is the author of Broke at Forty Five: A Letter to His Grandchildren
(Los Angeles, Calif.: Fashion Pr., 1967). He was secretary of the West
Coast Lumbermen's Association (and its predecessor organizations) from
1911 to 1917. Subsequently he managed the North Western Lumber Company
in Hoquiam Washington. After going "broke at forty-five", he made a
new career in Pasadena in real estate and property management, working
for the Stimson family and Mr. and Mrs. Harold A. Miller. During his
last years he lived in Pacific Grove, California, near Monterey. Papers
include correspondence primarily; also some annual reports, correspondence
and newspaper clippings pertaining to North Western Lumber Company.
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. ca. 1909-1920. Photograph album: 25 black and white photographs; 1 loose black and white photo.
Album contains photographs with captions of the sawmill and other facilities of the North Western Lumber Company of Eau Claire, Wisconsin during the second decade of the twentieth century. Individual portrait is a captioned photograph showing by name the lumbermen in attendance at the 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition held at Seattle, Washington.
Barkbeetle Enemies of American Forests
1935. Report; 28 pages with 25 colorized photographs and text.
Report prepared by the Bureau of Entomology and Plant Quarantine of the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 1935; describes the problem of infestation of barkbeetles in California forests.
Battle of the Beetles, The
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. 1950. Pictorial Report: 50 pages with 29 black and white photographs.
Report from the USDA Forest Service pictorially documenting an insect control campaign against the Engelmann Spruce Bark Beetle infestation at several national forests in 1950. It contains 29 black and white photographs taken by Lee Prater of USDA Forest Service.
Biltmore Forest
School Alumni Reunion, 1950
Publication. 1 volume (30 cm): [Biltmore Reunion Committee], Flowers
for the Living (S.l.: [Biltmore Reunion Committee, 1950]), [31]
pp.
This collection consists of a single item, a thirty-one-page booklet
titled Flowers for the Living that was apparently published by
the Biltmore Reunion Committee in 1950 to commemorate the reunion of
the alumni of the Biltmore Forest School held 28 - 31 May 1950 at the
George Vanderbilt Hotel in Asheville, North Carolina. Former teachers
and students attended the reunion, where they reminisced about their
experiences at the Biltmore Forest School and about the school's founder
and director, Dr. Carl Alwin Schenck. Flowers for the Living
documents the activities and events held at the reunion and includes
such items as a written review of the reunion, copies of speeches and
presentations made there, old photographs taken when the alumni were
students, new photographs snapped during reunion events, an alumni roster,
and a listing of deceased graduates and lecturers. The finding aid for
this collection includes a digital facsimile reproduction of the publication.
Biltmore Forest
School Images
Photographs. ca. 1890s-ca. 1988. 22 photographs in 1 file folder; ca.
1 inch.
Collection of twenty-two black-and-white and color images of the Biltmore
Forest School, the first forestry school in the United States. Dr. Carl
Alwin Schenck (1868 - 1955), manager of forests on George Vanderbilt's
(1862 - 1914) Biltmore Estate in Asheville, North Carolina, founded
the school in 1898 and served as its sole director until the school
closed in 1913. The collection includes images dating from the 1890s
to the late 1980s, as well as some undated images. The earliest photographs
depict school activities; buildings and structures associated with the
school; a 1908 forest fair organized by Schenck and held on the Biltmore
Estate; Biltmore Forest School students and alumni; and Carl Schenck.
More recent photographs depict the establishment and development of
the Cradle of Forestry in America historic site in Pisgah National Forest
near Asheville, North Carolina, which commemorates the history of the
Biltmore Forest School and the origins of forest conservation in the
state of North Carolina.
Biltmore Forestry
Fair
Collection (Trade Journal Articles). 1908-1909. 7 articles (17 pages
total); less than one linear inch.
Collection of seven articles published in American Lumberman
magazine from September 1908 to January 1909 reporting on the Forest
Festival held 26 - 29 November 1908 at the Biltmore Estate in Asheville,
North Carolina. The festival was hosted by Estate forester and Biltmore
Forest School founder Carl Alwin Schenck (1868 - 1955), who invited
industry representatives, foresters, and lay persons interested in forestry
from across the southern United States to attend the festivities. Tours
of plantations, herbaria, experimental plots, and nurseries on the Estate
highlighted thinning operations, reforestation and logging activities,
and conservation measures in use by foresters on the Estate. Schenck
explained scientific forestry techniques to guests on the tours and
provided entertainment in the form of a possum hunt, luncheons, and
dinners. An event organized to celebrate twenty years of professional
forest management and ten years of operating the Biltmore Forest School
on George Vanderbilt's Biltmore Estate, the 1908 Forest Festival helped
spread the notion of scientific forestry across the southern United
States in the first decade of the twentieth century.
Boerker, Richard
Hans Douai (b. 1887)
Papers. 1910-1957. 2.4 cubic feet.
The papers consist of correspondence, manuscript materials, newspaper
clippings, journal articles, and four volumes of research notes on such
forestry topics as silviculture, mensuration, forest utilization, botany,
timber preservation, forest management, and forest regions of the United
States. Also included are silvicultural reports on Lassen National Forest
written by Boerker when he was a Forest Assistant for the U.S. Forest
Service (1910s). Some correspondence with publishers of his two works
Our National Forests: A Short Popular Account of the Work of the
United States Forest Service on the National Forests (New York:
Macmillan, 1918) and Behold Our Green Mansions (Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press, 1945).
Brockman, C. Frank
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. ca. 1920s-1950s. 46 color slides, 30 negatives.
Color slides, negatives and a few black and white photographs taken by C. Frank Brockman, a retired forester from the University of Washington and naturalist at Mt. Rainier National Park. Professor Brockman took pictures from his early career as a seasonal forester with the U. S. Forest Service and his later experiences spraying for budworms in Oregon. There also logging pictures from the middle 1950s. The collection includes a typewritten description of the items included with hand written remarks by Professor Brockman.
Buell, Jesse
H.
Papers. 1926-1956. 0.4 cubic feet.
Jesse H. Buell began working for the U.S. Forest Service in July of
1926. He started as a junior forester at the Appalachian Forest Experiment
Station in Asheville, North Carolina, working under E. H. Frothingham.
He continued there doing research in silviculture of mountain hardwoods
through the 1930s and early 1940s and moved to the Washington Office
Division of Forest Management Research in 1945. During the mid-1950s
he served as chief of Forest Management Research at the Rocky Mountain
Forest Experiment Station in Fort Collins, Colorado. Buell retired from
the U.S.F.S. in 1956. The collection consists of Forest Service work
diaries dating from 1926 to 1956 detailing Buell's projects and assignments
throughout his career, several handwritten sheets of highlights from
Buell's career from 1926 to 1929 written after 1980 (by Buell?), and
a "Certificate of Graduation" prepared by staff of the USFS Washington
Office for Buell's retirement.
Burkholder,
Kenneth A.
Papers. 1936-1960. 0.8 cubic feet.
Papers contain mostly articles and reports but also conference materials,
diaries, and photographs collected, generated, or received by Kenneth
A. Burkholder, a district forester employed by the U.S. Bureau of Land
Management in the Bend District of Region 1 in Oregon during the mid-twentieth
century. Subjects covered in the papers include forest and land management
issues pertaining to public lands in Oregon, with a number of items
specifically addressing the Oregon and California revested lands (O
& C lands). An album of color photographs documenting the impacts of
fire on Oregon forests--specifically the 1951 Vincient Creek fire and
the 1968 Oxbow fire--is filed in the Auxiliary Collections section of
the Forest History Society Photograph Collection.
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California National Forests
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. 1940s-1950s. Black & white photos & negatives.
Represents a cross-section of miscellaneous U.S. Forest Service photographs and negatives from California National Forests dating ca. 1940s-1950s. Most are accompanied by minimal description.
Carson, William H.
Collection (mostly photographs). 1954-1968; 1981-1991. 1.2 cubic feet.
Collection consists of articles, correspondence, and numerous photographs concerning early log hauling equipment. Mostly photographs of Linn, Lombard, Phoenix, and other log haulers used to transport cut logs to the landing site in the forest. Also photographs of the lumber operations of the Homestake Mining Company of South Dakota.
Cary, Austin (1865-1936)
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. 1918-1924. 39 loose black-and-white photographs.
Collection of 39 black-and-white photographs, most of which were taken by pioneer forester Austin Cary (1865-1936) between 1918 and 1924 during his early years with the U.S. Forest Service. The photographs document forestry and turpentining practices in the pine forests of the southeastern United States, with the majority from the area of Waycross, Cogdell, and Homerville, Georgia, near the Okefenokee Swamp. Most have Cary's original hand-written captions on the back. At least one photo was taken by Cary's associate and forest researcher Dr. Eloise Gerry.
Cedarville State Forest Pine Thinning Study
1930s-1940s. 104 black & white photographs with descriptions.
Consists of 104 photographs with descriptions of a Virginia Pine Thinning Study conducted at the Cedarville State Forest in Maryland during the late 1930s and 1940s.
Champion International
Corporation Image Collection
Photographs,
slides, negatives. 1950s-1970s. Ca. 1700 items.
Collection of black-and-white
prints, negatives, and color and black-and-white slides documenting
forestry activities and sawmill operations carried out by Champion International
Corporation and its business partners, primarily in the southern Appalachian
Mountain region of the United States, ca. 1950s-1970s. Most photos were
produced or collected in the Canton, North Carolina office of Champion.
Images include scenes of land clearing, tree planting, hardwood management,
tree harvesting, logging and sawmill equipment, sawmill operations,
vocational training, scenic views, and tree identification.
Cheek, George C. Public Opinion Slides
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. 1978. 31 35mm color slides.
Series of color slides from 1978 containing tables of quantitative information about public opinion on forests and forestry in the United States.
Clark, Lawrence
S.
Papers. 1941-1971. 1.2 cubic feet.
Material relating to the U.S. Office of Price Administration's control
of the lumber industry, including regulations, minutes of the Hardwood
Distribution Yards Advisory Committee, and financial reports (1942-1946);
material relating to the Wood Ply Research Foundation, including balance
sheets, correspondence, lists of members, reports, and news releases
(ca. 1941-1947); and miscellaneous correspondence and reports relating
to lumber grading and standards, and the wholesale lumber industry.
Clawson, Marion
(1905-1998)
Papers. 1927-1994 (bulk, 1950-1990). 14 cubic feet.
Agricultural economist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (1929-1946);
Director, Bureau of Land Management (1948-1953); and consultant and
Senior Fellow Emeritus, Resources for the Future, Inc. (1955-1990s).
Papers comprise Clawson's own files, largely regarding his research
and writing. The papers include correspondence, notes, outlines, edited
drafts, review correspondence, source materials, and reprints regarding
his research, writing, and publication of book, chapter, article publications;
drafts of unpublished papers; manuscript reviews by Clawson; correspondence
and materials relating to the papers presented at conferences and workshops;
teaching notes and syllabi; economic advisory reports about Israel's
natural resources (1953-1954); as well as writings resulting from his
other consulting and advising endeavors. Also included are statements
that Clawson made before the U.S. House of Representatives and Senate
committee hearings, files from his tenure as Acting President and Vice
President of Resources for the Future, paperwork regarding two of his
awards, and biographical material that includes two family histories
written by Clawson. Bound volumes of his published work (1927-1968)
are housed at the end of the collection and include Clawson's M.S. thesis
(1929) and his Ph.D. dissertation (1945). Although Clawson authored
and edited a very large number of publications, this collection documents
only six of his books (1977-1989).
Clemson University
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. ca. 1900s-1910s. 159 35mm slides; 62 glass slides; b/w prints and negatives; 1 Postcard.
Miscellaneous collection of glass slides and 35mm slides made from the glass slides. The subjects are varied and range from early twentieth century logging equipment and methods to pictures of early twentieth century Clemson University Forestry School classes and pictures of forestry products. Many of the slides have descriptions written on them.
Cliff, Edward
Parley (1909-1987)
Papers. 1931-1985. 3.6 cubic feet.
Forester; Chief, U.S. Forest Service (1962-1972). Nine looseleaf binders
contain Xerox copies and typescripts of speeches, articles, statements,
press releases, and photographs documenting Cliff's career in the U.S.
Forest Service. One carton and one manuscript box contain materials
accumulated by Cliff during his post-Forest Service career as an international
forestry consultant; contents include reading files, reports, and papers
on such topics as the 1978 Food and Agriculture Organization's mission
to Nigeria, agroforestry and soil conservation in Jamaica, and tropical
forestry in Africa.
Cochran, H.
Dean
Papers. 1950-1958. 0.8 cubic feet.
H. Dean Cochran was a forester with the U.S. Forest Service from the
early 1920s until his retirement in the late 1950s. These papers document
Cochran's involvement with a forestry project in Taiwan during the 1950s,
when he served as an American adviser to Taiwan for the International
Cooperation Administration. The papers include a small number of maps
and photographs, including some photographs of Cochran, Elwood L. Demmon,
and Tom Gill; numerous reports and technical bulletins (some in Chinese)
on such topics as forest management, forest policy, fuelwood consumption,
economic development, Taiwan's pulp and paper industry, and forestry
research at the Taiwan Forestry Research Institute; and correspondence
with various colleagues after Cochran's departure from Taiwan regarding
the implementation of his recommendations.
Collingwood,
George Harris (1890-1958)
Papers. 1889-1958. 4 cubic feet.
Includes professional and family papers, diaries, forestry course notes,
photographs, clippings, mementos, manuscripts, drafts of articles, and
correspondence relating to Collingwood's work as Ranger on the Apache
National Forest, Arizona (1914-1915); the U.S. Bureau of Aircraft Production;
the National Lumber Manufacturers Association (1940-1946); the Society
of American Foresters; the American Forestry Association (1928-1940);
the Cornell University Forestry Extension (1916-1923); the U.S. Legislative
Reference Service (1952-1958); and the U.S. Forest Service.
Colorado Ranger School Photograph
1909. 1 black & white photograph.
One photograph taken in 1909 of the Ranger School at Colorado College. Names of a few of the class members and where they are located in the picture listed on the back.
Compton, Wilson
Martindale (1890-1967)
Papers. 1918-1966. 0.8 cubic feet.
Dr. Wilson Martindale Compton was general manager of the National Lumber
Manufacturers Association from 1918 to 1944. His papers consist of speeches
and addresses; correspondence; magazine and newspaper articles; minutes
of meetings, articles of incorporation, and by-laws of such organizations
as Timber Engineering Company (TECO), American Forestry Association
(AFA), and American Forest Products Industries, Inc. (AFPI). Papers
also contain a manuscript entitled "The Southern Pine Case" and some
correspondence concerning taxation and the lumber industry. The papers
also include a number of photographs of Compton, John Kirby, W. M. Ritter,
and Frank George Wisner that are cross-referenced and filed in the Forest
History Society Photograph Collection.
Conklin, Robert P.
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. late 1920s-early 1940s. 176 black and white photographs and 52 envelopes of negatives.
Collection of a logging engineer at a Weyerhaeuser Timber Company operation in Washington State, containing photographs depicting life in a lumber camp, loggers, logging practices, logging equipment and railroads during the period from the late 1920s through the early 1940s. The photographs have been numbered and some contain descriptions on the back.
Conway, Emett
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. 1977. 123 35mm black & white slides.
Consists of 123 black and white slides of pages from a German proposal for a forest history museum in the Black Forest at Freiburg, West Germany. There are also copies of pages from various books pertaining to forest history. The entire text is written in German. These pages were copied by Emett Conway in 1977.
Cooper, Arthur
W.
Papers. 1967-1987, n.d. (bulk 1976-1979). 4.7 cubic feet (4 cartons,
2 manuscript boxes).
The National Forest Management Act (NFMA) of 1976 called for the establishment
of a committee that would council and advise the secretary of agriculture
during the development of national forest management planning regulations,
as required by the NFMA. In April 1977 Secretary of Agriculture Earl
Butz appointed a number of forestry professors and government researchers
to the USDA Committee of Scientists (COS). Arthur W. Cooper, a professor
of forest resource policy and administration at North Carolina State
University, chaired the committee. Other members of the COS included
Thadis Box, R. Rodney Foil, Ronald W. Stark, Lucille F. Stickel, Dennis
E. Teeguarden, William Webb, and Earl L. Stone, Jr.
From 1977 to 1979 the COS
held a number of meetings and drafted a series of proposed regulations
for multiple-use management of U.S. national forests. The committee'
final recommendations were approved and went into effect in October
1979. The Reagan administration briefly reconvened the members of the
committee as a panel of experts in the early 1980s for the purpose of
reviewing and possibly limiting national forest management regulations,
but the panel urged that the regulations written by the COS remain in
effect, and no changes were made to the NFMA regulations.
The Cooper Papers are comprised
of materials that the Committee of Scientists either consulted or generated
in its review of national forest management planning regulations, primarily
during the period from 1977 to 1979. The papers include correspondence,
minutes of COS meetings, copies of testimony presented at congressional
hearings, preliminary and draft versions of the COS final report, and
public comments about proposed regulations.
Cornell Forestry
School Field Trips
Photograph Collection. 1908-1909. 2 photograph albums; ca. 2 linear
inches.
Collection of 174 black-and-white photographs taken or collected by
American forester Arthur Bernard Recknagel (1883 - 1962) while he was
a professor of forestry at Cornell University in New York. The images
document field trips taken by Cornell University forestry students to
South Carolina during the years 1928 to 1934. Scenes of students observing
logging practices and practicing forestry field work dominate the collection,
although a Florida tie treating plant and several South Carolina tourist
sites are also depicted. The images are housed in two photograph albums
that comprise part of the A. B. Recknagel Auxiliary Photograph Collection
in the Forest History Society Archives.
Crutchfield,
Douglas
Papers. 1972-1992. 8.4 cubic feet.
Papers include correspondence, meeting agendas, minutes of meetings,
reports, and other materials collected by Douglas Crutchfield, an employee
at the Summerville, South Carolina, office of Westvaco, a forest products
company. Materials primarily relate to conferences and meetings organized
by the American Forest Council, the American Forest & Paper Association,
the International Union of Forestry Research Organizations, the National
Forest Products Association, the Southern Industrial Forestry Research
Council, and the Southern and Southeastern forest experiment stations
of the U.S. Forest Service. Topics covered include forest management,
forest soils, forestry research, silviculture, and tree nutrition in
the United States, especially the South, during the late twentieth century.
Cunningham,
Alfred
Papers. 1910, 1931-1937, n.d. 7 items in 1 file folder; less than 1
inch.
Papers generated and collected by Alfred "Charlie" Cunningham, an American
printer originally from Cadillac, Michigan, who attended the Biltmore
Forest School in Asheville, North Carolina, in 1910. Includes correspondence
from Cunningham to his sister while he was on a Biltmore Forest School
field trip to Europe in 1910; correspondence written in the 1930s from
German forester and former Biltmore Forest School director Carl Alwin
Schenck (1868 - 1955) to Alfred Cunningham; an undated death announcement
for Carl Schenck's first wife Adele; and a marriage announcement for
Schenck and his second wife Marie-Louise printed in 1932.
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Davenport, Peters (view online exhibit)
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. ca. 1906. 2 Photograph Albums (Album 1: 10 black and white photographs with captions; Album 2: 6 black and white photographs).
Album 1 contains 10 black and white photographs with text pertaining to the San Francisco earthquake and fire of 1906. It depicts the effect of the fire on buildings constructed of redwood. Records of the damage done by the 1906 fire and of the effectiveness of redwood as a fire retardant. Album 2 consists of 6 black and white photographs of the John McMaster Shingle Company, Seattle, Washington. The photos are not described. It is estimated that these pictures were taken during the early twentieth century.
Development of Forestry in the Southern United States
Oral History Interview Collection. 1958-1976. 41 file folders, 42 stenorette tapes, 3 reel-to-reel tapes, and 30 cassette tapes; ca. 4 linear feet, 4.5 inches.
Oral history interviews with: Clinton Huxley Coulter (d. 1987), Walter Julius Damtoft (1890-1976), Edward Leonard Demmon (1892-1981), Marc Leonard Fleishel (1875-1961), Evan Worth Hadley (b. 1898), James Hart, Frank Heyward (b. 1905), Stanley Fitzgerald Horn (1889-1980), James Huston Jones, Herbert L. Kayton, Brooks Lambert, Joseph E. McCaffrey (1896-1975), Earl Mason McGowin (1901-1992), N. Floyd McGowin (1900-1981), Edward McMillan, Earl Porter (b. 1898), Arthur Bernhard Recknagel (1883-1962), and G. P. Shingler. Forest History Society executive director Elwood R. Maunder, University of Florida Ph.D. candidate Roy R. White, Joseph A. Miller, and Charles Crawford conducted the interviews during the period from 1958 to 1976. Persons interviewed include foresters working for federal or state government agencies; loggers and land managers employed by private companies; lumbermen; a turpentine factor; a forest industry journalist; and paper industry executives. The interviews collectively provide insight into early efforts to implement scientific forestry practices and conservation measures in the southern United States during the first part of the twentieth century. Topics discussed include: forest conservation; fire protection; naval stores; prominent American foresters; lumber, paper, and timber company operations across the South; educational outreach by the U.S. Forest Service; and the positive influence of logging engineer Austin Cary (1865 - 1936) and chemist Eloise Gerry (b. 1885) on turpentining and logging practices in the southern United States.
Dickerman,
Murlyn Bennet (1912-2000)
Papers. 1924; 1976-1983. 1.2 cubic feet.
Papers contain correspondence, itineraries, reports, papers, and articles
concerning forestry in China and a 1980 trip of a United States Forestry
Team (led by Dickerman) to the People's Republic of China. In 1979,
when the United States granted official diplomatic recognition to China,
the two governments agreed to exchange ideas, information, scholars,
and students in order to promote increased knowledge in the fields of
science and technology. Forestry teams from both countries studied breeding
and cultivation of improved tree varieties, reforestation, lumber practices,
erosion control, and forestry education practices of the other country.
Dickerman was a representative of the Society of American Foresters
in 1980.
Drake, George
Lincoln (1889-1979)
Papers. Ca. 1935-1951. 0.4 cubic feet.
Material relating to the Pacific Logging Congress (1935, 1951); a speech
given at the 50th Anniversary Intermountain Logging Conference; and
other miscellaneous materials.
Duke University School of Forestry Lantern Slide Collection
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. ca. 1910s-1960s. 900 3 1/4" x 4" glass slides; 6 2" x 2" glass slides; 3.4 linear feet.
Collection of approximately 900 lantern slides probably collected by the first Dean of the Duke University School of Forestry, Clarence F. Korstian, used in forestry education lectures during his tenure from 1930 to 1959 (and possibly after). Images date from the 1910s through the 1960s, with the bulk from the 1920s-30s, although many are uncaptioned and could date earlier. The majority depict forestry practices throughout the United States and probably reflect Korstian's early career with the U.S. Forest Service, including his stationing in 1921 at the Appalachian Forest Experiment Station in Asheville, NC; some are from Europe (Germany, Belgium, England, and Switzerland) and document a trip taken by Korstian in 1932, in part to visit forester Carl Schenck. Most slides are hand-colored and matted/mounted.
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Early Forestry Education in North Carolina
Oral History Interview Collection. 1959. 7 file folders, 22 stenorette tapes, and 12 cassette tapes; ca. 2 linear feet.
The Early Forestry Education in North Carolina Oral History Interview Collection documents the origins and early development of professional forestry in North Carolina during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. The collection consists of interviews with four foresters -- Inman Fowler "Cap" Eldredge (1883-1963), Clarence F. Korstian (1889-1968), Reuben B. Robertson (1879-1972), and George H. Wirt (1880-1961) -- who reminisce about their forestry careers. Specific topics discussed include the foresters' experiences at the Biltmore Forest School in North Carolina and their impressions of the school's founder and director, German forester Carl Alwin Schenck. The Forest History Society conducted the interviews in 1959. The reminiscences span the years 1880 to 1959.
Eclipse Lumber Company
Records. 1900-1941, bulk 1900-1903. 0.4 cubic feet.
Collection contains bills of sale, certificates of forest products brand registration, and a mortgage deed. Records pertain primarily to the Eclipse Lumber Company, but also to the Eclipse Mill Company, the Everett Land Company, and the Everett Improvement Company, all in Snohomish County, Washington. The names of F. W. Keen, Gene C. Gould, and J. A. Gould, as owners of 3/4 stock in the Eclipse Lumber Company, appear on some of the deeds.
Edgar, Bob
Papers. 1940s-1970s. 8.4 cubic feet.
Papers of logging engineer Bob Edgar pertaining to industrial forestry in the southern United States from the 1940s through the 1970s. The collection contains mostly reports and technical releases but also includes articles, blueprints, copies of bills relating to forestry, product catalogs, and statistical data. Subjects covered include cruising methods, fire control, forest entomology, forest legislation, government regulations, logging equipment and machinery, and wood technology. The general focus is on machinery used to log, haul, load, and mill pulpwood.
Esser, Jonathan Keith (1893-1963)
Collection. 1899-1920. 4 photograph albums, 1 envelope of photographs, and 1 file folder of correspondence; ca. 6.5 linear feet.
The Jonathan Keith Esser Collection contains letters written by and photographs taken or collected by Jonathan Keith Esser (1893 - 1963), a Pennsylvania forester and coal industry worker who graduated from the Biltmore Forest School in 1911. The materials date from 1899 to 1920 (bulk 1910 - 1911) and primarily document Esser's training while a forestry student under the tutleage of Biltmore Forest School director Carl Alwin Schenck (1868 - 1955). Esser's correspondence consists of five letters he wrote to his family while on Biltmore Forest School field trips to various forested regions of the United States and Europe in 1910 and 1911. Photographs in the collection document the training Esser received while on said field trips; his work while a member of a U.S. Forest Service reconnaissance team that surveyed forest conditions in the southern Appalachian Mountains region of the United States during 1912; and his experiences while serving in the U.S. Army during the World War I era.
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Flint, Howard
Papers. 1900s-1930s. 1.2 cubic feet.
Collection consists primarily of Flint's research notes on such topics as forest management, national forestry organizations, silviculture, utilization, general forestry, biology, ecology, wildlife, forest industries, and taxation, among others. Includes notes from Carl Schenck lectures, 1926. Flint was a forester for the United States Forest Service. His life's work is depicted in Mrs. Elizabeth Canfield Flint's fictional work The Pine Tree Shield. A Novel Based on the Life of a Forester (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Doran & Co., Inc., 1943). Research notes are recorded on notecards and are a good bibliographical source on early works on forestry.
Food and Agriculture Organization, North American Forestry Commission
Records. 1961-1978. 3.6 cubic feet.
Records include agendas, correspondence, papers, and reports of North American Forestry Commission study groups and committee meetings.
Forest History Society Manuscript Collection
Collection. Ca. 1880-ca. 1995. 40 cubic feet.
Correspondence, drafts of articles, speeches, reports, handbooks, clippings, memoirs, surveyors' notebooks, miscellaneous booklets and other printed items, relating to the lumber industry and to forestry and conservation in the United States, Canada, and the world. Includes some editorial material relating to the Journal of Forest History, but is largely small lots of material collected from various sources. Catalog cards for each manuscript are filed in the Forest History Society's main library catalog.
Forest History Society Oral History Interview Collection
Oral history interviews. 1940s-present. Transcripts: Ca. 15 cubic feet. Tapes: Ca. 46 linear feet.
The Forest History Society Oral History Interview Collection contains over 250 interviews conducted with individuals important to the history of North American forests and forestry. Persons interviewed include chiefs of the U.S. Forest Service, employees of other government agencies charged with land management, officers of forest products companies, conservationists, and forestry educators. Many of these people began their careers before the turn of the 20th century; their first-hand accounts of momentous events and critical policy changes provide often detailed historical insight that goes beyond what is recorded in traditional written records. An Annotated Guide to the Oral History Collection of the Forest History Society provides brief descriptions of the interviews.
Forest
History Society Photograph Collection
Collection of photographs. Late 19th-20th centuries. Ca. 164 cubic feet.
Black and white photographic prints originating with the U.S. Forest
Service, the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, and the American Forest Institute
that document the work of these organizations in a broad range of activities.
Also photographs donated by other forest products companies, conservation
organizations, and individuals, as well as photographs collected for
the editorial purposes of the Forest History Society's quarterly Journal
of Forest History. The bulk of the collection is post-1940, but there
are a number of earlier images and a few portraits of prominent lumbermen
and foresters dating from the late nineteenth century. Some negatives
are included. The Auxiliary Collections section includes lantern slides
used by forestry professors in South Carolina, Arkansas, and Nebraska
to illustrate their class lectures (ca. 1910-1930) and photo albums
created by several individuals that illustrate various aspects of forestry,
the forest products industry, and conservation work. An FHS
Photo Collection Guide (Adobe Acrobat .pdf file) lists folder headings
and provides brief descriptions of the Auxiliary Collections. Some images have been digitized and are searchable in an online database.
Forest Industry Magazine
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. ca. 1957-1965. Photographs and Negatives (1073 envelopes).
Company photograph files of Forest Industry magazine and some photos from The Lumberman magazine primarily from the late 1950s to the mid-1960s. There are 1073 envelopes covering 537 topics (see finding aid in repository). The collection focuses on the facilities and equipment of individual companies. Each company has one or more envelopes with photos and/or negatives. There are several envelopes pertaining to industry organizations and individuals in the forest industry and a few envelopes on general topics. Some envelopes contain indexes with the captions of the pictures.
"Forest Practices Throughout the United States"
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. ca. 1938. Photograph Album: 14 pages with 11 black & white photos.
Series of Forest Service photographs showing "good" versus "bad" examples of forest practices including logging and lumbering. Album includes a copy of a letter from President Franklin D. Roosevelt to the House of Representatives on March 14, 1938 regarding the problem of diminishing forest resources in the United States, as well as a memo from W. W. Bergoffen detailing the cost of preparing the album. Album was probably prepared for the use of congressional committee members to supplement President Roosevelt's message to congress and proposed legislation.
Forests and Farms
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. 1935. 1 Photograph album (approx. 23 black and white photographs, 1 map).
Photographic/textual presentation of social and economic services of California National Forests, prepared by California Region, Forest Service, United States Department of Agriculture, for the 69th National Grange Convention in Sacramento, November 13-21, 1935.
Forsling, Clarence Luther (1893-1981)
Papers. 1911-1980, n.d. 18 archival boxes; 7.5 linear feet.
The Clarence Luther Forsling Papers are comprised mainly of materials documenting Forsling's (1893-1981) professional career with the U. S. Forest Service, the U. S. Department of the Interior, and the Charles Lathrop Pack Forestry Foundation. The collection consists of such items as: correspondence, memoranda, photographs, field diaries, reports, research notes, drafts for a presumably unpublished manuscript authored by Forsling on water supply in the arid Southwest, and copies of more than fifty articles and speeches delivered by Forsling. Some biographical records and records pertaining to his interests unrelated to forestry are also included. The materials are divided into six series and fill eighteen manuscript boxes.
Funderburke, Kenney P.
Papers. 1910-1995. 6 file folders; ca. 2 linear inches.
Papers comprise materials collected by and given to Funderburke relating to forestry and lumbering in Tres Barras in the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil, primarily during the early 20th century. Funderburke worked in Tres Barras from 1961-1966 as Manager of Forestry Activities for Westvaco, helping set up the Rigesa, S.A. Limitada operation (a Westvaco subsidiary). The materials pertain largely to the timber operations of the Southern Brazil Lumber and Colonization Company, founded in about 1900 and managed beginning in 1910 by three brothers from Eureka, California James, Ernest, and Sherman Bishop. A group of copy photographs made from original glass plates dating from 1910-1915 depict SBL&C Co. employees, logging and log transportation by water and locomotive, skidding, and mill activities. Supporting documentation provided by Funderburke details some history of the Bishop family and of the Contestado, a land war in the Tres Barras region fought between rebel civilians and the Brazilian state's federal police and military forces between 1912 and 1916; the SBL&C Co. was involved in the Contestado due to the dispossession of native Brazilians' land and the company's use European immigrant labor. Also included are two ca. 1915 cigarette wrappers that show SBL&C Co. scenes, and photographs from the 1974 opening of the Rigesa, S.A. Limitada mill at Tres Barras.
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Gill, Thomas Harvey (1891-1972)
Papers. 1912-1972. 4 cubic feet.
Forester with the U.S. Forest Service (1915-1925), the Charles Lathrop
Pack Forestry Foundation (1926-1960), and the Food and Agriculture Organization;
a founder of the International Society of Tropical Foresters. The papers
include personal and professional correspondence; published and draft
articles; photographs; printed materials, including books; excerpts from
travel diaries (1924-1929); directors' minutes of the Charles Lathrop
Pack Forest Education Board (1930-1940). Among the prominent correspondents
are Ralph S. Hosmer, Adalbert Ebner, Randolph G. Pack, Arthur N. Pack,
the Tropical Plant Research Foundation, Gifford Pinchot, Carl Alwin Schenck,
and Ferdinand A. Silcox.
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. 1936 and n.d. 120 35mm color slides; 1 Photograph Album: 211 black and white photographs with captions.
Contains 120 color 35mm slides of Formosa (Taiwan), Malay, India, Ceylon (Sri Lanka), Kyoko, and Thailand. General slides with several pictures of logging practices in those countries. 1936 World Forestry Congress Album: collection of 211 photographs taken by Gill on his trip to the World Forestry Congress in Budapest, Hungary in 1936. The album includes photos taken on his side trips to Germany and Austria, including good views of prewar Hungary, Germany and Austria and photos of European officials in uniform.
Goodwin, James L.
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. 1907-1911. Photograph album (138 black and white photos in album and 7 loose photos)--photocopies only.
Album contains 138 black and white photographs and includes 7 loose photographs taken during the period of 1907 to 1911. Includes pictures of the field trips taken by the Yale Forest School to camps in Pennsylvania and Louisiana, as well as pictures taken in South Carolina, New York and Vermont, several of which show logging and lumbering practices from the early twentieth century. FHS holds photocopies only.
Gryczan, Edward
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. ca. 1949. 44 black and white photographs (3" x 4 1/2").
Photographs of the Troy Ranger Station, Troy, Montana and surrounding area, ca. 1949, taken by Edward Gryczan. List of captions in repository.
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Hansen, Chris S.
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. 1951-1968. Photo Album: 61 color prints, 2 black & white prints .
Album contains photographs depicting timber damage sustained during several forest fires in Oregon; appears to have been prepared by a forester named Chris S. Hansen in August 1968. The album consists of 15 filler sheets each containing four 5" x 5" color prints of the Oxbow Oregon forest fire of August 20, 1966. An additional filler sheet contains five smaller prints of the same fire. There is also one filler sheet containing two black and white prints of the August 16, 1951 Vincent Creek fire. With the exception of pocket # 10, all photos are accompanied by a detailed description.
Hart, Harold V. (1902- )
Photograph Collection. 1928-1956 and n.d. 70 black-and-white prints.
Harold V. "Pete" Hart (1902-) graduated in 1922 from Syracuse University with a B.S. in forestry and worked forty years as an industrial forester for St. Regis Paper Co., primarily in the Province of Quebec, Canada, until his retirement in 1964. This is a collection of approximately seventy images documenting his life and work that were apparently donated to the Society to supplement a 1976 oral history interview conducted by Elwood R. Maunder (final transcript in repository). The images (1928-1956 and n.d.) depict log drives, log shipping/transportation, logging railroads, logging camps, hunting, camping, timber cruising, and scenic views mostly in the areas of Godbout and Oskelaneo, Quebec.
Hauberg, John H.
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. ca. 1920s-1941. Photograph Album: 105 black and white photos with text.
Album entitled "Trees: 1941" compiled by tree enthusiast John H. Hauberg for his family for Christmas 1941, containing 105 black and white photographs of unique trees located predominantly in the Midwestern United States. There are also pictures of trees located in various parts of the world and the United States including a section on trees located in the Middle East and trees associated with American Presidents. Each photograph is accompanied by a detailed description of the tree featured in the picture and its significance.
Hempsted Manufacturing Company
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. undated. 22 Negatives.
Consists of 16 numbered envelopes with individual negatives and 6 loose negatives showing scenes from the Hempstead Manufacturing Company mill and yards in Hope, Arkansas; undated.
Hodgson, Allen
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. 1929-1932. Four illustrated reports.
Hodgson was a forester with the U. S. Forest Service who prepared a series of four reports on the utilization of logging waste by logging companies and sawmills in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
Hough, Ashbel F.
Collection. 1920s-1940s. 17.6 cubic feet.
Collection contains materials collected by Ashbel F. Hough throughout his career as a research forester at the U.S. Forest Service's Northeastern Forest Experiment Station from the late 1920s to the mid-1960s. Materials include bibliographies, dictionaries, biographies, bulletins, circulars, research monographs, reports, and other miscellaneous items pertaining to the following topics: forest botany, forest ecology, forest economics, forest engineering, forest fire protection, forest law and legislation, forest management, forest policy, forest technology, forest utilization, forestry education, forestry research, lumbering, and silviculture. Many of the items are U.S. Forest Service publications. The materials are arranged according to subject.
Hough, Franklin Benjamin (1822-1885)
Diaries. 1873-1883. 1 box.
Partial copies on paper from microfilm of originals held by New York State Library. Hough was a forester, employed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture to compile the "Report Upon Forestry", and later was Chief of the Division of Forestry in the USDA.
Huss Lumber Company
Records. 1933-1971. 1 carton.
Records of the Huss Lumber Company and its successor companies, Huss Ontonagon Pulp and Paper Company; Hoerner Boxes, Inc.; and Hoerner Waldorf Corporation. The collection is comprised primarily of financial summary reports, stock certificates, minutes of meetings, articles of incorporation, by-laws, balance sheets, and other corporate records. The records document the history of the Huss Lumber Company throughout all phases of its existence under the executive leadership of Alvin J. Huss (1904-1998), who served as either president, vice chairman, or chairman of the board for the company during the era from the early 1930s to the early 1970s. Most of the documents are in bound volumes, and all materials fill a single records center storage carton.
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"Illustrated Summary of Stuart Forest Practice and Research"
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. ca. 1935. Report: 175 pages with 100 photographs.
Report of the activities at the Stuart Forest Nursery, Pollock, Louisiana (in the Kisatchie National Forest), prepared by M. A. Huberman, Junior Forester at the Stuart Forest Nursery around 1935. The Stuart nursery was staffed mainly by Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) workers. The report was published by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service and contains a description of the nursery and its operations.
Images from "The Dawn of Private Forestry in America, Recollections of a Forester Covering the Years 1895 to 1914", a Manuscript by Carl Alwin Schenck (1868-1955)
Photographs. 1954? 1 bound manuscript, 1 file folder, .3 linear feet.
Carl Alwin Schenck (1868 - 1955) was a German-born forester who greatly impacted the development of the fledgling forestry profession in the United States during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. While employed as the forester in charge of managing the woodlands on George W. Vanderbilt's estate in Asheville, North Carolina, Schenck implemented scientific forestry practices and founded the first forestry school in the United States, the Biltmore Forest School. Late in his life Dr. Schenck recorded his memoirs in a manuscript he titled "The Dawn of Private Forestry in America, Recollections of a Forester Covering the Years 1895 to 1914". Numerous black-and-white photographic images dating from the 1890s to the 1910s supplement the text and form the basis of this collection. The images document the reminiscences revealed in the text. Significant topics include: Schenck's impressions of the years when he, Gifford Pinchot, and Bernhard Eduard Fernow were the only trained foresters working in the United States; life and work on the Biltmore Estate; the founding, development, and closing of the Biltmore Forest School; and the various professional and community contacts Schenck made while working for George W. Vanderbilt. Schenck's illustrated memoir offers a unique glimpse into the views, thoughts, and actions of one of the first practicing foresters in the United States.
International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, Inc.
Records. 1892-1972. 1.1 cubic feet.
Correspondence of Lawrence S. Clark concerning Hoo-Hoo meetings, conventions, membership, budget, and other matters. Fifty-three rolls of microfilm of: the HOO-HOO magazine, now titled Log and Tally, (7 rolls); applications for degrees (43 rolls); and applications for membership (3 rolls). The organization was originally called the Fraternal Order of Lumbermen.
International Society of Tropical Foresters
Records. 1926-1994, bulk 1951-1994. 12 cubic feet.
Records document the activities of the International Society of Tropical Foresters (ISTF), an association of professional tropical foresters established in 1950 that endeavors to ensure the prompt transfer of technical knowledge to those concerned with the management, protection, and wise use of tropical forests. Correspondence concerning membership and ISTF publications comprises the majority of the collection, though records containing information on meetings, honorary vice presidents, and general business matters are also included. ISTF directors Tom Gill and Charles C. Larson are the primary correspondents from the 1950s through the 1970s. Major correspondents represented in records from the 1980s and 1990s include presidents Warren Doolittle and David B. Thorud as well as volunteer consultants Richard Bossi, Murlyn Dickerman, Gordon Fox, John Muench, Robert Potter, and Clifford Schopmeyer. Photographs of Tom Gill and of the Mexican Institute for Renewable Natural Resources Yucatan Project were removed to the Forest History Society Photograph Collection.
International Union of Societies of Foresters
Records. 1961-1995. 6.7 cubic feet.
Records contain correspondence, financial documents, annual reports, minutes of meetings, agendas for various world forestry conferences and congresses, and copies of IUSF newsletters and miscellaneous committee reports.
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Jordan, Richard N.
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. ca. 1910s. 8 items.
Photographs depicting early 1900s Wisconsin logging scenes, kept by James Jordan (1886-1951), Richard Jordan’s father. Jim Jordan grew up on a farm in Stanley, Wisconsin, and worked seasonally as a logger in the Chippewa Valley area in the early 20th century (ca. 1910s). He later moved to Washington State and worked for the Long-Bell Lumber Company of Longview, WA until his death in 1951.
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Kephart, George S. (1895?-1986)
Papers. 1700s-1983. 2.8 cubic feet.
Papers consist of correspondence, reports, photographs, pamphlets, and financial documents pertaining to forest management on Indian reservations. Kephart was Forester for the Lincoln Pulpwood Company in Bangor, Maine (1919-1920); Forester for the Orono Pulp and Paper Company in Bangor, Maine (1920-1929); Forest Engineer for the Bureau of Indian Affairs (1934-1936); Forest Supervisor for the Klamath Indian Agency in Oregon (1937-1943); and Forester and Chief of Branch of Forestry, Bureau of Indian Affairs (1944-1964).
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. ca. 1910s-1941. Photograph album: 67 black and white photos, 5 negatives; Manuscript: 35 black and white photographs; Klamath Agency Reports and Photograph Albums: 2 Reports and 3 Photograph Albums.
Album 1 consists of 62 black and white photos, most of which have captions, and 5 loose black and white photos with negatives, taken in the Maine woods and at the Trout Brook Nursery of the Lincoln Pulpwood Company near Grand Lake, Maine, August 7-11, 1922. The manuscript is a draft of a published book by Kephart entitled Campfires Rekindled which covers recollections of his early career as a forester in the Maine woods during the late 1910s-early 1920s, and includes 35 black and white photographs and a hand-drawn map of the Maine woods (a copy of the book is in the archives of the Forest History Society). The photographs are primarily of camping and logging in this area. The Klamath Agency material consists of two reports and 3 photograph albums compiled during Kephart's time as Forest Supervisor at the Klamath Indian Reservation, 1938-1941. Depicts logging and grazing activities on the Reservation. Includes Annual Report FYE 6-30-39 (30 black and white photos); Annual Report FYE 6-30-41 (52 black and white photos); Photo Album No. 2 (229 black and white photographs); Photo album No. 3 (248 black and white photographs); Photo Album No. 4 (191 black and white photographs).
Kinsey, Clark
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. 1900s-1930s. 6 black and white photographs; 95 microfiche sheets containing 5520 photographs and 150 pages of descriptions.
Consists primarily of microfiche copies of the photographs in the Clark Kinsey Photograph Collection at the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington. Kinsey, the brother of prominent logging photographer Darius Kinsey, photographed logging operations and camps in the Northwestern United States during the first four decades of the twentieth century, with the bulk of the photographs taken in the 1920s and 30s.
Kinsey, Darius
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. ca. 1890s-1930s. Photograph album (30 black and white photographs, 2 loose photographs) and supporting materials.
Collection centers around attempts to sell a major collection of photographs and negatives taken by Darius Kinsey, a prominent Washington photographer who specialized in logging photography in the late 19th century and first four decades of the twentieth century. The original owner of the collection, Jesse Ebert, sent the album of 30 photographs along with his offer to sell the complete collection to Yale University. The full collection was finally sold to Dave Bohn and Rodolpho Petschek in 1971, who published a two-volume book of Kinsey photographs and in 1974 gave the collection to the Whatcom Museum of History and Art in Bellingham, Washington where it currently resides.
Kleiner, Leon J. (b. 1894)
Photograph Collection. 1914-1920. 1 scrapbook with 60 black-and-white prints.
Scrapbook containing approximately 60 photographs compiled by lumberman Leon J. Kleiner (b. 1894), a Polish immigrant to Canada, documenting the history of the lumbering industry in British Columbia between 1914 and 1920. Images depict logging and milling operations of the Riverside Lumber Company at White Sulpher and McGillivray, including pictures of loggers, log transportation, logging crews and camps, sawmilling, lumber yards, yarding, etc. Many of the images were used to supplement the text of an oral history interview with Leon’s brother, Moritz "Morris" Kleiner (1889-1985), titled Recollections of Family, Community, and Business: Poland, Canada, and Tacoma, Washington, 1889-1974 (Berkeley, Calif: The Bancroft Library, 1974).
Kneipp, Leon Frederick (1880-1966)
Papers. 1915-1966. 0.8 cubic feet.
U.S. Forest Service official. The collection chiefly contains printed matter, but there is a small amount of miscellaneous correspondence, diaries, and notebooks (1915-1946, ca. 37 items). Forestry in the United States, especially national forests and public land use, is the primary topic.
Kohlmeyer, Fred W.
Papers. 1848-1952. 2.4 cubic feet.
Papers consist of manuscripts, notes, and general source materials of a Weyerhaeuser history project researching Weyerhaeuser operations in Wisconsin and Minnesota. There are also a number of manuscripts, notes, and source materials pertaining to Chippewa Indian claims cases in northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. Also included are materials on general topics related to the forest industry as well as miscellaneous papers on the lumber history of northern Minnesota. A number of photographs and negatives of Cloquet, Minnesota, were removed to the Forest History Society Photograph Collection.
Korb, John W.
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. September 24, 1963. 26 color slides, 19 black-and-white prints (all reproductions).
26 color slides and 19 black-and-white photographs taken by John Korb at President John F. Kennedy's September 24, 1963 dedication of the Pinchot Institute for Conservation at Grey Towers National Historic Landmark in Milford, Pennsylvania. Korb was employed at the time with the USDA Forest Service as Recreation & Fire Staff Assistant at the George Washington National Forest; on the day of the dedication, he was assigned as a representative to the Secret Service. The images depict President Kennedy's arrival and departure via Air Force 1, the dedication ceremony, and the Grey Towers grounds.
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Lacey, James D., Company
Records. 1898-1958. 27.2 cubic feet.
Records of firm engaged in timberland acquisition and management in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Central and South America, and to a lesser extent in the Philippines and other parts of the world. Included are correspondence between the Lacey Company and many lumber and forest products corporations and private timberland purchasers; personal and household papers of J. W. McCurdy, which contain business correspondence of the Lacey Company after 1935 (14 boxes). Also ledgers, journals, and other financial records of the company (1898-1958, 6 cartons).
Laughead, William B. (1882-1958)
Papers. 1897-1958. 1.6 cubic feet.
Papers include photographs of the manufacture of California white pine and sugar pine lumber by the Red River Lumber Company in California; and correspondence, articles, drawings, sketches, clippings, and printed materials, much of it relating to Paul Bunyan stories (Laughead incorporated his knowledge of the folk hero in an advertising campaign for the Red River Lumber Company's Westwood, California, mill from the 1910s to the 1940s).
Laughlin, Kendall
Papers. 1941-1962. 1 cubic foot.
Correspondence, writings, and photographs of Kendall Laughlin, a tree enthusiast from Chicago, IL who was one of the most active early participants in the American Forestry Association's (now American Forests) National Register of Big Trees project, begun in 1940. Collection consists largely of correspondence, 1941-1962, between Laughlin and various staff members at the AFA including Erle Kauffman, A. G. Hall, Fred Hornaday, and Dorothy Dixon, regarding his numerous nominations for the Register as well as his suggestions, corrections, and critiques of the organization's publications and editorial practices. The 230 photographs, taken and captioned by Laughlin, document his nominated tree specimens, all located in midwestern states, mostly Illinois; about half of the 230 are photo "collages," where he would place multiple photographs of various parts of an individual tree and paste them together on backing board to show a complete view of the specimen. Also included are a few foliage cuttings collected in the 1940s-1950s; copies of a 1954 article from the Kansas City Star about Laughlin and his big tree hobby; and copies of a few articles written by Laughlin in the 1940s-1950s about the trees of the midwest.
Lockwood, Milton
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. 1926-1927. Photograph album; 234 black and white photographs and postcards; Log book; Folio containing reports from Lockwood Expedition; Notebook with reports and correspondence.
Album contains 234 black and white photographs (including 11 loose photographs) and postcards taken in Mexico on an expedition to investigate the timber resources on the Isthmus of Tehuantepec in the Mexican states of Oaxaca and Chiapas, December 1926-January 1927, led by timber engineer Lockwood. Also includes a folio, log book and notebook.
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MacMillan Bloedel Products Company Auxiliary Photograph Collection
ca. 1960s. 79 negatives (numbered and with a list of the description of each picture).
Negatives depicting the operations and personnel at the MacMillan Bloedel Products Co., Pine Hill, Alabama, ca. 1960s. Negatives are numbered and there is a list of the pictures identifying each picture by number.
McGuire, John R.
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. 1970s-1980s. 3 Photograph Albums; 2 envelopes containing 17 photographs.
Collection of John R. McGuire (1916-2002), 10th Chief of the Forest Service from 1972-1979. Photographs document various parties and events during the 1970s-1980.
MeadWestvaco Records, Sidney E. Balch Collection
Collection of reports, maps, resource surveys, land inventories, and photographs. 1915-1983, n.d. 1 carton and 1 map tube, ca. 1 linear foot, 2 inches.
Collection contains archival materials documenting the forestry and paper milling operations of the formerly independent Oxford Paper Company of Maine, which Mead Corporation acquired in the mid-1990s prior to merging with Westvaco. The collection includes resource survey reports containing numerous charts of land inventory data with executive summaries conducted by the James W. Sewall Company for the Oxford Paper Company; records pertaining to Oxford Paper Company forestry operations in New Brunswick (Canada), Alaska, New Hampshire, Maine, and other northeastern states; statistical data on pulpwood production costs and wood usage; and topographical maps, most likely of company properties. The collection materials are housed in a single carton and in one map tube.
Mexico
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. 1920s. 104 Black and white photographs.
Contains 104 black and white photographs of rural Mexico in the 1920s, including many pictures of lumbering and forestry. More than half of the pictures have descriptions either in the margin or on the back.
Michigan Logging
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. ca. 1900. 4 photographs, 1 negative, and supporting correspondence.
Four photographs and a negative of a loggers in Michigan around 1900. Correspondence is included which describes the scene depicted in the photographs.
Midwestern Logging History
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. ca. 1890s. 37 black & white Photographs.
Consists of 37 black and white photographs depicting various aspects of late 19th-early 20th century logging in the Minnesota-Wisconsin area. Most images depict winter logging scenes showing period equipment and clothing, log yarding, and log hauling via sleds, horses, oxen, and locomotive; a few sawmill shots are included that show rafting, lumber storage, and logs in the water. Provenance is undocumented, but the best clues to their origins are the numbering sequence beginning with M (in lower-left corner of images), one image which shows Engine No. 281 of the Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha Railroad, and another showing a sled made in Eau Claire.
Mobile River Saw Mill Company
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. ca. 1960s. 17 Black and White Photos.
Consists of 17 8x10 black and white photograph of the facilities at the Mobile River Saw Mill Co. in Mount Vernon, Alabama, ca. 1960s.
Modern Methods of Loading Logs
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. ca. 1904. 4 black and white prints, photocopy of advertising brochure (58 pages).
Consists of a photocopy of an advertising brochure for American Hoist and Derrick Company and four prints of equipment illustrated in the brochure. The brochure was printed in 1904 and contains 58 pages of text and pictures.
Mustian, Alfred P., Jr.
Collection. 1907-1985. 1.2 cubic feet.
Alfred P. Mustian, Jr., was an employee of the U.S. Forest Service from 1949 until his retirement in 1981. Early in his career he worked in Alabama (1949-1951), Louisiana (1952-1955), Texas (1956-1957) and Florida (1955-1960). He was on the timber management staff for all of Region 8 during the early 1960s prior to his 1965 transfer to the Washington Office. Mustian worked in the Programs and Legislation division until 1972, when he joined the Timber Management Staff. He served as deputy director of that division from 1976 to 1981. Mustian compiled this collection during his research for the 1989 booklet he co-authored with Sharon S. Young, "Impacts of National Forests on the Forest Resources of the South" (Washington, D.C.: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service). Contains largely statistical information on twentieth-century forest management issues relating to national forests in the southern United States (Region 8 in the National Forest System). Much of the data is recorded in management plans for the various forests, but there are also a number of tables, papers, and reports containing statistical information, as well. Topics covered include: acreages; allowable cut and cutting methods; commercial and noncommercial forests; expenditures and investments; forest ownership; growth and yield rates; reforestation and regeneration; timber sales; timber stand improvement; timber supply and volume; and tree diseases and mortality rates.
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National Association of State Park Directors
Records. 1948-1979. 1.2 cubic feet.
General administrative information, copies of constitution and by-laws, committee reports, general correspondence, records concerning congressional matters, and reports of the activities and annual meetings of the Southeastern States division comprise the collection. The bulk of the material was generated in the 1970s.
National Community Christmas Tree
Records. 1923-1954. 0.4 cubic feet.
Brief history of the national community Christmas tree (1923-1941), which is decorated with lights each year in Washington, D.C., during the Christmas holiday season. Records include correspondence (1931-1945); programs, guest lists, reports on lighting and location, invitations, photographs, and clippings.
National Forest Products Association
Records. 1928-1983. 143.1 cubic feet.
Formerly called the National Lumber Manufacturers Association (NLMA). Merged in 1992 with the American Forest Council and the American Paper Institute to become the American Forest & Paper Association. Records of an organization concerned with lumber grade standardization, trade extension and promotion, economic and statistic surveys, and reporting on lumber industry conditions. Included are correspondence and reference files on federal forest legislation and regulation of forestry practices; taxation; soil and water resources conservation; American Forest Congresses; Forest Industries Council meetings; and many other forestry, lumber trade, and conservation associations, as well as lumber companies; national parks; the Civilian Conservation Corps; related activities of the U.S. Departments of the Interior, Agriculture, and Commerce; the U.S. Forest Service, particularly the Timber Resources Review (1952); the Society of American Foresters; activities of state forestry agencies; forest land acquisition; the Timber Conservation Board (1931-1933); lumber industry surveys; insect and disease problems; lumber supply; the regulation of the lumber industry during World War II and the Korean War periods; price controls by the Economic Stabilization Agency; Indian reservations; mining laws; national forest recreation values; the National Lumber Manufacturers Inter-Insurance Exchange; the Lumber and Timber Products War Committee; also articles and addresses; statistics on lumber production, shipments, orders, prices; NLMA and National Forest Products Association annual reports, press releases, publications, and other printed matter; obituaries; photographs; and other materials.
Natural Resources Council of America
Records. 1946-1981. 5.2 cubic feet.
These records are chiefly the files of Clinton Raymond Gutermuth (b. 1900), a founder, Secretary (1946-1957), and Chairman (1959-1961) of the Natural Resources Council. Included are correspondence, typed and processed reports, memoranda, printed and processed newsletters, lists of officers and members (1947-1965), bylaws, articles of incorporation, typed and mimeographed minutes (1946-1971), special conferences, meeting notices, ballots, dues notices, general correspondence, form letters, mailing lists, correspondence and memoranda relating to the organization of the Council and to conservation problems, committee files, correspondence and agreements relating to publications, and photographs of members (1948-1963).
Nelson, Arthur W.
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. ca. 1910s-1939. 199 negatives and 6 black and white photographs.
Consists of 104 negatives and 6 black and white photographs taken by A. W. Nelson, Jr. in 1938 and 1939 during Yale Forest School field trips to logging camps in the South and the Chippewa National Forest in Minnesota. A second batch of 95 negatives depicts the Goss and Richmond Lumber Co., Cass Lake, Minnesota, mill and timber acreage, loggers, and logging in the early 20th century. Some pictures depict clear cutting.
Nelson, Charles A.
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. 1910-1960s. 26 black and white photographs; 1 graph.
Original photographs used in Charles A. Nelson's 1977 book, History of the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory (1910-1963).
Nelson, DeWitt (1901-1996)
Papers. 1940-1976. 1.2 cubic feet.
Papers consist of ten bound volumes of speeches and papers by Nelson throughout his career as national forest supervisor, state forester, director of the California Department of Natural Resources, director of the California Department of Conservation, and university professor. Topics include silviculture, conservation, taxation, and management. Also contains miscellaneous documents about forestry legislation.
Nelson, Thomas C. (1923-1985)
Papers. 1945-1990. 1.2 cubic feet.
Collection contains miscellaneous personal papers, an alphabetized bibliography of Nelson's works in the form of notecards, and copies of Thomas Nelson's numerous published materials. Nelson was a career forester and was Deputy Chief of the U.S. Forest Service from 1973 to 1980. His research covers numerous forestry subjects.
North American Wholesale Lumber Association, Inc.
Records. 1897-1967. 8.4 cubic feet.
Records of the national trade association in the United States of manufacturers, manufacturing wholesalers, and wholesalers in lumber, formed by the merger of the National Wholesale Lumber Dealers Association and the American Wholesale Lumber Association in 1923, and known as the National-American Wholesale Lumber Association, Inc., until 1972 when the present name was adopted. The records contain typed carbons, mimeographed, and other processed and printed material distributed to members and officers of the association, including reports of annual meetings (1955-1963), programs (1924-1926, 1951, 1960), annual reports (1924-1953), directors' minutes and circulars (1942-67), bulletins (1933-1965), executive committee minutes and circulars (1956-1965), bylaws, and publications of the New York, New York, and Portland, Oregon, offices. Also included are bulletins (1948-1960, incomplete) of the Southern Wholesale Lumber Association; annual reports (1897-1923), programs, certificate of incorporation, constitution and bylaws (1913) of the National Whole Lumber Dealers Association; and the secretary's weekly report of the Pacific Coast Shippers' Association (1921-1923). Additional accessions are anticipated.
North Carolina Christmas Tree Association
Records. 1960-1975, 1988-1997. 0.8 cubic feet.
Records include articles of incorporation, by-laws, charter, correspondence, membership lists, memos, minutes of meetings, newspaper clippings, photographs, Christmas tree buyers' guides and directories, "Limbs & Needles" newsletters (June 1988-Fall 1997), and miscellaneous Association publications. The organization unites Christmas tree growers and others interested in the industry in North Carolina.
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Ostrander Railway & Timber Company
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. ca. 1915. Photograph collection: 67 black and white photographs.
Collection consists of 67 black and white prints on the logging and lumbering practices in Hamilton and Essex counties in Upstate New York around 1915. Many of the photos were taken during the winter and illustrate logging practices at that time of year. Unsure if Ostrander is the name of an individual or if the photos are somehow related to the Ostrander Railway & Timber Company of Ostrander, Washington.
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Parkinson, Dana (b. 1885)
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. 1910s-1920s. 16 items.
Sixteen black-and-white photographs from forester Dana Parkinson's (b. 1885) early career with the U.S. Forest Service, 1910s-1920s, during which time he served as supervisor of the Boise, Salmon, Wyoming, and Wasatch National Forests in Idaho, Wyoming, and Utah. At least one photo appears to have been taken during Parkinson's days at the Yale Forestry School (from which he graduated in 1910). Some photos document camping, hiking, and riding, and may have been taken on vacation trips in the area; Parkinson's wife Lucy is pictured in several. One image depicts Parkinson's service in the 20th Engineers Corps and was probably taken at an officer's training camp at Pike, Arkansas in 1918. The FHS holds electronic copies only; donor maintains original images.
Peterson, Ralph Max (b. 1927)
Papers. 1970-1990. 1.2 cubic feet.
Papers pertain mostly to Peterson's career as Chief of the U.S. Forest Service (from 1979 to 1987). Materials include daily planners, budget records, copies of testimony before Congress concerning proposed forest management legislation, copies of speeches delivered by Peterson at various organizational gatherings, copies of U.S. Forest Service news releases, and miscellaneous reports, correspondence, and memos. Nine photographs of a tree planting ceremony held in January 1984 in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., were removed from these papers and placed in the Forest History Society Photograph Collection.
Pictorial Album of the Naval Stores Industry
Photograph album. Dec. 13, 1937 (photographs date 1903-1937). 1 album (89 black-and-white photographs).
"Prepared to fill a long-felt need for a manual which describes the gum naval-stores industry in pictorial form...to supplement the work done by schools, extension agencies, libraries, and the like." Album published 13 December 1937 by the U.S. Government Printing Office for the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Forest Service. The 47-page photo album containing 89 black-and-white photos has an introductory foreword, a table of contents, a 1-page "History of the Naval-Stores Industry," and accompanying captions. The publication contains actual print images that are affixed to pages with photo corners.
Price, Jay H.
Diaries. 1916, 1920-1954. 0.8 cubic feet.
Fifty-seven volumes of field diaries recorded by this U.S. Forest Service official who served as a logging engineer, Assistant Regional Forester for fire control, and Associate Regional Forester (1930s) in Region 5 (California); as Associate Director of the Prairie States Forestry Project at Lincoln, Nebraska, in Region 2 (Rocky Mountain Region); as Regional Forester in Region 9 (Eastern); and in other U.S. Forest Service offices.
Public Land Law Review Commission
Records. 1966-1970. 12 cubic feet.
Collection consists of records pertaining to the numerous issues shaping public land laws that were researched by the Commission between 1965 and 1969. Five cartons contain miscellaneous reports commissioned by the PLLRC. Four cartons contain numerous notebooks, in which are filed the correspondence, notes, memos, reports, minutes of meetings, and other general business paraphernalia issued to every member of the Commission. One carton contains looseleaf notebooks in which are filed drafts of the Commission's final report, as well as notes taken by Commission member Perry R. Hagenstein at the final meetings of the Commission during the winter of 1970. These materials were used when the Commissioners reached the decisions reflected in their 1970 report One Third of the Nation's Land (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office).
Public Lands Institute
Records. 1978-1984. 6.6 cubic feet.
State files compiled by William C. Patric concerning a study on trust land administration in the western states, materials concerning the Utah "BOLD" land exchange proposal, and materials pertaining to the surface mining act conferences conducted by the Public Lands Institute under contract with the Federal Office of Surface Mining in 1979 and 1980 comprise the collection. Also includes correspondence and reports concerning off-road vehicle data and regulations, the Reagan Administration's "asset management" effort, and the Sagebrush Rebellion.
Puget Sound Pulp and Timber Company
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. ca. 1930s-1940s and n.d. 2 Photograph Albums: Album No. 1, 13 black and white photos, Album No. 2, 27 black and white photos.
Album 1 contains 13 black and white photographs of the paper mill facilities of the Puget Sound Pulp & Timber Company in Bellingham, Washington; seems to be a public relations publication but contains only uncaptioned photographs of the company's facilities. Album 2 contains 27 black and white photographs of the logging camps of the company's operations at Clear Lake, Washington. The time period for this album is probably the late 1930s or early 1940s and is probably also a public relations publication.
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Quinault Indian Reservation
Collection. 1975-1977. 0.4 cubic feet.
Collection consists of miscellaneous materials, such as correspondence, memoranda, reports, and photographs, that were assembled by professional historians Dr. Harold K. Steen and Dr. Robert E. Ficken in order to historically document the forest management practices of the U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) on the 200,000-acre Quinault Indian Reservation in Washington State. The materials were compiled as evidence in the 1975 "Helen Mitchell, et al., v. United States" case filed by a group of Quinault Indians who alleged that, beginning in 1920, the BIA mismanaged forests on the Quinault Indian Reservation to the detriment of Native Americans. The Forest History Society generated the final report of Steen and Ficken, The Bureau of Indian Affairs and Forestry on the Quinault Indian Reservation: A History (1977), for the Department of Justice.
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Rasmussen, Boyd Lester (b. 1913)
Papers. 1963-1978. 2.4 cubic feet.
The bulk of the collection was generated during Rasmussen's tenure as Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) from 1966 to 1971. Papers include such materials as correspondence, news releases, minutes of meetings, newspaper clippings, copies of speeches, reports, and position papers. Papers cover such topics as the Alaska pipeline, the Arctic Environmental Council, Alaska fire suppression, classification of various public lands, the Taylor Grazing Act, grazing fees and other related issues, mining laws, BLM proposed allowable cut policies, timber clearcutting, and numerous other environmental concerns.
Red River Lumber Company
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. 1920s. Photograph Album: 67 black and white photos.
Album was produced by the Red River Lumber Company of Westwood, California and traces their production process from raw material to finished product. It consists of 67 black and white uncaptioned photographs from the mid-1920s.
Recknagel, Arthur Bernard
Auxiliary Photograph Collection. 1911-1947. 4 Photograph Albums: 257 photos, mostly black and white.
Collection of 257 largely black-and-white photographs (with a few color and photo postcards) taken or collected by American forester Arthur Bernard Recknagel (1883 - 1962). Album 1, entitled "European Forest Photographs, Oct. 1911 - Sept. 1912" documents the year Recknagel spent in Europe (France, Austria, Germany) traveling and attending German forest schools Eberswalde and Tharandt. Albums 2 and 3 are described separately as the "Cornell Forestry School Field Trips" Photograph Collection. Album 4 documents a 1947 consulting job Recknagel performed in southern British Columbia, Canada to determine differences between Engelmann and white spruce.
Richards, John F.
Collection. 1880-1980. 115.4 cubic feet.
Records of a long-term (1983-1994), multidisciplinary research initiative on the impact of tropical land use change on global atmospheric CO2
