Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Guide to the United States Forest Service Range Management Photographs
1915-1922
PC 37
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections
- Creator
- United States. Forest Service.
- Title
- United States Forest Service Range Management Photographs
- ID
- PC 37
- Date [inclusive]
- 1915-1922
- Extent
- 1 box, 0.5 Linear feet of shelf space, 67 images
- Language
- Collection materials are in English.
- Abstract
- 67 black-and-white photographs of range management in the western United States from 1915-1922.
Preferred Citation
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Biography/History
The roots of the U.S. Forest Service date back to 1876 and the position of Special Agent in the Department of Agriculture. After a period of growth and transition in names and responsibilities, the U.S. Forest Service was officially created in 1905. The department's primary responsibility it eh management of the country's forest reserves.
Scope and Content
67 mounted photographs showing range utilization in Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, and Nevada. Each photograph is labeled on the back with a glued information card including location, subject, date, photographer, and negative number. Additionally, all images are stickered as GS - Period Slides, GS - Carrying Capacity, or, in just one case, GS - Seasons of Grazing. Photographers include Milo H. Deming, Lawrence J. Palmer, Theodore B. Nichols, James O. Stewart, Mark Anderson, D. A. Shoemaker, Harry E. Malmsten, Bryant S. Martineau, James T. Jardine, W. B. Miller, Herbert W. Johnston, and F. T. Crowmiller. All photographs were produced during the photographers' employment with the Forest Service, within the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Arrangement
The photographs are organized by negative number.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2016
http://www.libraries.wsu.edu/masc/
Terrell Library
P.O. Box 645610
Pullman, WA, 99164-5610 USA
509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Restrictions on Access
This collection is open and available for research use.
Acquisition Information
Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) holds no information on the provenance of this collection, though it most likely came to MASC prior to the late 1970s.
Related Materials
Related Material
Copies of these and tens of thousands of other photographs in these series should exist in the archives of the U.S. Forest Service, at the National Archives.
Names and Subjects
Corporate Name(s)
Subject(s) :
- United States. Forest Service -- Photographs.
Subject(s)
- Range management -- West (U.S.) -- Photographs.
- Rangelands -- West (U.S.) -- Photographs.
- Photographs
- Ranching