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Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:
American Conifer Society Records
The American Conifer Society Records include correspondence, ACS Bulletin materials, Board of Directors' meeting minutes, audiotapes of Board of Directors' meetings, financial records, incorporation documents, by-laws and policies, contracts, ACS national meetings materials, members' plant inventories, materials related to the slide program "A Brief Look at Garden Conifers," ACS Central Region meeting files, locations of ACS national meetings (1983-2001), and membership directories.
Collection of U.S. Forest Service Slide Presentations and Lassie Memorabilia
Franklin Benjamin Hough Papers
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.
Jean Pablo Collection of Rudolph Wendelin Artwork Images
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.
Photographs from 100 Years of Federal Forestry, Agriculture Information Bulletin no. 402
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.
Photographs of Gifford Pinchot
The Photographs of Gifford Pinchot contain approximately 30 glass negatives. The images include some of Pinchot operating a movie projector, fishing, working at his desk, and participating in a ceremony for the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Negatives are numbered. They are undated, but may be from approximately 1923 to 1935.
Photographs of U.S. Forest Service Leaders
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.
Rolla Kent Beattie Photograph Collection
The Rolla Kent Beattie Photograph Collection consists of negatives that relate to trips to Colorado, California, Hawaii, Florida, the District of Columbia, Japan, Formosa (Taiwan), Hong Kong, Indochina, Cambodia, Malaya, China, France, and England, where he visited shrines, temples, pagodas, gardens, parks, graves, exhibits, and tourist areas. The images document cultural and scenic aspects of the trips.
Romeyn Beck Hough Papers
The Romeyn Beck Hough Papers include Hough's journals from 1882 to 1887, 1890 to 1894, and 1898 to 1900. There is also a July 6, 1908, letter to Hough from Melvil Dewey requesting a copy of Hough's book, Handbook of the Trees of the Northern States and Canada, along with an undated statement from Dewey, as president of the American Library Institute, commending Hough's book at a meeting of the Virginia State Library Association.
U.S. Forest Service History Collection
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.