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Biblioscope

An Archival Guide & Bibliography

Archival Materials

University of California, Berkeley The Bancroft Library Berkeley, CA 94720-6000 Ralph W. Baker Conservation Corps Collection 1929–1938 6 albums Include 3 photograph albums (v.1–3) of young men on hiking excursions in Marin County, Calif. between 1929 and 1931. Some views of trail maintenance work are present, and some are identified as "SCC" related. 2 additional albums (v.4–5), compiled on binder leaves with typescript captions, document Baker's service with the Civilian Conservation Corps at Camp Board Corral (Washoe Co., Nevada), Hilt (Shasta Co., Calif.), Likely (Modoc Co., Calif.), and Glenburn (Shasta Co.) These albums include typescript reports on camp activities as well as photographs of regional landscapes, camps, and workers' activities. The town of Alturas, Calif., is also pictured. A sixth album documents Camp Stockton, a transient laborers' camp of the State Relief Administration of California.
James Madison University Carrier Library MSC 1704 Harrisonburg, VA 22807 U.S. Forest Service. George Washington National Forest. Dry River District. 1917–1994 1 Hollinger box; 12 maps Collection consists of materials concerning the Dry River District of the George Washington National Forest, Virginia, which incorporates 227,000 acres on both sides of Shenandoah Mountain from state route 259 in the north to Lookout Mountain and state route 728 in the south, although locations in some other districts are mentioned. Most materials concern the fire-fighting activities undertaken by employees of Shenandoah National Forest, the predecessor of the George Washington National Forest. Fighting the forest arson that was prevalent during the first half of the twentieth century was at that time one of the U.S. Forest Service's foremost goals.
Kent State University Kent Campus Main Library 12th Floor Kent, OH 44242 Streator, George Jason (1846–1925) 1880–1924 1 carton George Jason Streator (1846–1925), a nurseryman, amateur naturalist lived much of his life in Garrettsville, Ohio. For additional information on Streator, see articles by Ralph W. Dexter in Sterkiana, nos. 5 and 12, and in The Biologist (December 1961). See also Vivian Pemberton's Kent State University Master's Thesis on Hart Crane, Chapter 3. This collection consists of 43 diaries kept by Streator, dating from 1880–88, 1894–1902, 1905–1916, and 1920–24. In these diaries, he describes the natural history of his home region and records his observations made on several trips in the United States. The collection also contains a photograph of Streator, and five photographs of old growth forests and sawmills taken by his son Sidney V. Streator while he was employed by the American Lumberman magazine ca. 1911. Also included is one letter from Streator to malacologist Victor Sterki and miscellaneous articles about Streator.
New York Botanical Garden Library 200th St. and Kazimiroff Blvd. Bronx, NY 10458 Prance, Ghillean T. (b. 1937) 1963–1988 19.2 linear feet Ghillean T. (Tolmie) Prance was born in Brandeston, England and received his Ph.D. in Forest Botany from the Commonwealth Forestry Institute, Oxford University in 1963. He was associated with the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) from 1963–1988. He served as a research associate (1963–1966), Associate Curator (1966–1968), B.A. Krukoff Curator of Amazonian Botany (1968–1975), Director of Botanical Research (1975), Vice-President of the NYBG (1977–1981), Senior Vice-President for Science (1981–1988). He was the first Director of the Institute of Economic Botany (1981–1988). He was Deputy Director and Executive Director of the Organization for Flora Neotropica and was U.S. Coordinator for the Project Flora Amazonica and the NYBG coordinator for the Flora of North America. He was an early advocate of using computer programs to organize botanical data. He left the NYBG to become Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. The collection documents Prance's association with the NYBG and the research and administrative work he performed as Director of the Institute for Tropical Botany and Senior Vice President for Science.
Oregon Historical Society Manuscripts Collection 1230 Southwest Park Avenue Portland, OR 97205 Young, Roy A. (b. 1921) 1913–1990 4.5 cubic feet Young was a plant pathologist; professor of plant pathology, department chair, dean of research, acting president, and vice president for research & graduate studies at Oregon State University; chancellor of University of Nebraska—Lincoln; head of Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research at Cornell University; and director of OSU's Office of Natural Resources Policy. The collection includes personal files created by Young in his capacity as a faculty member and administrator at Oregon State University and as an administrator at the University of Nebraska—Lincoln and Cornell University. Contains correspondence files, research project files, reports, reference files, professional organization files, publications, clippings, and photographs. Persons represented include N.E. Borlaug, Earl L. Butz, James H. Jensen, and Robert William MacVicar.
Oregon State University Archives Department 94 Kerr Administration Building Corvallis, OR 97331-2103 Risser, Paul F. 1986–2001 9.7 cubic feet Materials generated and collected by former OSU President Paul Risser, documenting his involvement in various professional organizations, advisory boards, and committees as an ecology researcher and policy analyst. The administrative bodies represented in these records include the Ecological Society of America, Committee on Research and Peer Review in EPA, the Scientific Committee on the Problems of the Environment (SCOPE), and the Oregon State of the Environment Report Science Panel. In addition to reprints of journal articles authored by Risser, the collection includes: correspondence, meeting minutes, photographs, publications, reports, and research data. The bulk of these records date from Risser's presidency of Miami University (1993–1996) where he also taught botany.
Tennessee State Library and Archives Division of Archives and Manuscripts 403 Seventh Avenue N. Nashville, TN 37219-5041 Tennessee. Department of Conservation Photograph Collection 1937–1976 11,000 photographs and 21,000 negatives Archive of the photographic unit of the department. Contains visual history of Tennessee from the 1930s to the 1970s. Includes images of prominent Tennesseans, mountain craftspeople at work, state parks, historical and cultural areas, wildlife, buildings and structures, and nature. The department was created in 1937, assuming the responsibilities of the Forestry Division, the Game and Fish Commission, the Geology Division, and the Hotel Inspection Division. New divisions for state parks and state information were added in 1939.
Texas Tech University Southwest Collection Special Collections Library 15th & Detroit Box 41041 Lubbock, Texas 79409-1041 Gillon, James Walter (1891–1971) 1915–1971 2 microfilm reels : negative Born Dec. 23, 1891, in Grenada, Mississippi, Gillon followed his older brother, Lee, a Baptist minister, to Plainview, Texas, in 1907. After completing college, Gillon worked as a salesman for Reese-Carriker Lumber Company. He settled on a farm near the Pleasant Hill Community in Crosby County. where he was active in both school and church affairs until his death in 1971. The film includes a copy of the journal Gillon kept as a traveling lumber salesman, and minutes of the Pleasant Hill School Board. Originals were retained by the donor.
University of Texas at El Paso C.L. Sonnichsen Special Collections Dept. University Library 500 West University Ave. El Paso TX 79968-0582 Cunningham, Jonathan R. (1913–1980) 1925–1983, bulk 1958–1978 10 boxes (4 linear ft., 2 in.) Cunningham was a city planner. Papers relate predominantly to urban planning for the City of El Paso, Texas, chiefly 1958–1978. Consists of correspondence, copies of speeches, and reports concerning areas such as city planning and zoning, the Chamizal, the El Paso International Airport, urban land use, community development, United States/Mexico border improvement and development, the environment, the Franklin Mountains Wilderness Park, Pueblo de la Ysleta del Sur, historic preservation, local history, population and housing trends, transportation and traffic projections, and international relations. Includes some coverage of areas outside of El Paso such as Ciudad Juárez, Mexico; Spokane County, and Walla Walla, Washington.

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