Content Description The Collection of U.S. Forest Service Slide Presentations and Lassie Memorabilia contains informational presentations and promotional materials. The Forest Service presentation materials contain slides with accompanying audio recordings on cassettes and reel tapes. Topics of the presentations include environmental programs, the eruption of the Mount Saint Helens volcano in 1980, and the Resource Planning Act (RPA). The Lassie portion of the collection includes materials promoting forest...

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The Franklin Benjamin Hough Papers consist of handwritten correspondence, agreements, and memoranda. Much of the correspondence deals with forestry matters and Hough’s paper, titled "The Duty of Governments in the Preservation of Forests," which he presented to the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 1873.

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The Jean Pablo Collection of Rudolph Wendelin Artwork Images contains two binders of photographs and copies of artwork. One binder contains photographs of prepublication artwork for the book A Walk in the Woods with Smokey. The second binder contains written reflections and photographs of Rudy Wendelin, along with color photocopies of 30 of Wendelin's watercolor paintings, chiefly landscapes in U.S. National Forests.

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This collection contains the original photographs for the Agriculture Information Bulletin No. 402, titled 100 Years of Federal Forestry, published in 1976. The book presents a pictorial history of the National Forest System and the United States' chief federal forestry agency, the U.S. Forest Service of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). Photograph proofs are mounted and captioned.

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The Photographs of U.S. Forest Service Leaders consist of 22 unframed black and white photographs of twentieth-century United States Forest Service officials. There are two photographs of Gifford Pinchot.

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The U.S. Forest Service History Collection contains forester field notes, photographs, negatives, slides, films, videos, audio cassettes, albums, manuals, speeches, t-shirts, pins, oral histories, and other files related to U.S. Forest Service history.

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This collection contains a single black and white photograph, circa 1910, of the U.S. Forest Service, Office of Geography, Drafting Department personnel. Four staff members, two women and two men, are shown at their drafting desks. The names of the individuals are listed on the back of the photograph, and include: Ernst Lubeck, Gilbert Reeder, Rosalie Holberg, and Clara Huggins. The location is not noted on the photograph, but is likely the Intermountain Regional Office in Ogden, Utah.

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The U.S. Forest Service Uniform is a uniform jacket from the 1960s. It belonged to Donald K. Morriss, former Head of Timber Inventory in the Washington Office, who retired in 1967 and moved to Port Charlotte, Florida.

Content Description The USDA Molecular Plant Pathology Laboratory Photograph Collection includes photographs, associated notes, and a record book on various U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) activities and personnel, dated between 1888 and 1968. The collection contains a series of photographs related to testing insecticide spraying apparatuses on different crops between 1912 and 1944. Much of the collection consists of photographs of employees from departments of Plant Industry and Plant Pathology, and...