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Mss Eur F252/40
- Record Id:
- 040-002291259
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002291215
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001001.0x0000c8
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Mss Eur F252/40
- Title:
- Western America/Canada
- Scope & Content:
-
Diary includes:
- Folio 2 verso: photograph of ‘our’ Trans-Canada Skyliner passenger aircraft
- Folios 2a-2p: handwritten notes with the heading ‘Interim Committee, USA, June-July 1945’ describing daily activities [16 loose items]
- Folio 3 verso: photograph of a Greyhound coach at Florence, Oregon, on the Pacific Highway
- Folio 4 verso: photograph entitled “Howdy Folks” showing a seal in water with its head facing the camera (Oregon Coast Highway)
- Folio 8 verso: photograph of the Pacific Coast from the highway
- Folio 8 verso: untitled photograph of a rough track amid dense pine trees
- Folio 9 verso: photograph of natural Douglas Fir tree at Willaby CK
- Folio 10 verso: photograph of Burnt Hill Fire Look-Out (Quinault N.F., Mt. Olympus, Washington)
- Folio 11 verso: photograph of selection felling experimental area with Sitka Spruce and Western Hemlock and showing persons named ‘Leo Isaacs’ and ‘Worthington’ standing on a 9ft diameter tree stump
- Folio 12 verso: photograph showing an aerial view of Seattle
- Folio 13 verso: photograph of Beaco Rock, 900ft high, 16 acres at base, Columbia River Highway, Oregon, on the way up to Wind River Experimental Station
- Folio 14 verso: photograph a bridge named ‘The Bridge of the Gods’ (Columbia River Highway, Oregon)
- Folio 15 verso: photograph of Wind River Experimental Station Nursery showing drills and sprinkler
- Folio 16 verso: photograph of Douglas Fir Seed tree in logged area with burnt stand behind (Trout Creek near Wind River)
- Folio 17 verso: photograph showing an example of experimental thinning in Tsuga and Rcea, 8ft. pulpwood billets (Cascade Head, Washington)
- Folio 18 verso: photograph of spruce and hemlock near Cascade Head
- Folio 19 verso: untitled photograph showing a bed of ferns
- Folio 20 verso: untitled photograph of silver birch trees
- Folio 20 verso: photograph of the Eureka Inn
- Folio 21 verso: photograph of the Hammond Lumber Co.’s redwood logging (Eel River, California)
- Folio 22 verso: photograph of redwood trees of up to nearly 30ft G.B.H. in Pythian Park, Eureka
- Folio 23 verso: untitled photograph of redwood trees
- Folio 24 verso: untitled photograph of a motor jeep in an area of redwood trees
- Folio 25 verso: photograph of the Genetic Research Station, Placerville
- Folio 25 verso: untitled photograph showing a wide road with dense pine trees behind
- Folio 26 verso: two photographs showing (1) a view of the Sugar Loaf Mountain and (2) the Silver Fork coffee shop, 31 miles East of Placerville
- Folio 27 verso: photograph of Sugar Pine, Incense Cedar, and Abies concolar (white fir), on Eldorado N.F.
- Folio 28 verso: untitled photograph showing an area of conifer trees
- Folio 29 verso: photograph of Emerald Bay, Lake Tahoe, from Lake Cascade Ridge (and showing Jeffrey Pine trees)
- Folio 30 verso: photograph at Calaveras Big Tree Grove (with ‘W.E.H.’ standing between two large trees)
- Folio 31 verso: photograph of “the biggest standing Sugar Pine” of 120” D.B.H. (Dorrington, Calaveras Co.)
- Folio 32 verso: untitled photograph of a stream with conifer trees in the background
- Folio 33 verso: photograph at Calaveras Big Tree Grove showing ‘Duffield’ standing by one of the butts
- Folio 34 verso: photograph at Crown-Zellerbach Forests, Oregon, showing old burn (tree stumps) devoid of regeneration
- Folio 35 verso: photograph of Crown-Zellerbach operations showing the weighing of a big log
- Folio 36 verso: photograph of an old D.F. tree stump in a logged and burnt area now replanted (Crown-Zellerbach)
- Folio 37 verso: photograph at Crown-Zellerbach forests, Oregon, showing another logged and burnt area, but with adequate regrowth
- Folio 38 verso: photograph showing a group of transplanted totem poles (Victoria B.C.)
- Folio 39 verso: photograph of Quinsam Nursery, Campbell River, Vancouver Island
- Folio 40 verso: photograph of logs on water ‘at the boom’ (Comox Logging Co., Ladysmith, Vancouver Island)
- Folio 41 verso: untitled photograph of trees and three unnamed persons beside a large area of water, possibly a lake
- Folio 41 verso: untitled photograph showing logs tipped to the ground beside a log carrier
- Folio 42 verso: photograph at Cathedral Grove, L. Cameron, showing Douglas Fir trees
- Folio 44 verso: untitled photograph of a vehicle carrying planks of wood
- Folio 47 verso: untitled photograph showing a stony bank by a stretch of water
- Folio 48 verso: untitled photograph of logs on an expanse of water
- Folio 50 verso: photograph of a typical silhouette of Sugar Pine (Duffield)
- Folio 51 verso: photograph of Multnomah Falls, Columbia R. Highway
- Folio 53 verso: photograph of the trunk of a large redwood tree on the Highway
- Folio 54 recto: photograph of the trunk of Bull Creek Tree, a tree measuring a height of 345ft., near Dyerville, Redwood Highway
- Folio 54 verso: photograph of ‘Logging in the Northwest’ showing a large log being transported on a motor vehicle
- Folio 55 verso: photograph of Battle Rock at Port Orford, a scene of Indian conflict (Oregon Coast Highway)
- Folio 56 verso: photograph of a drive through the Redwood Shrine Tree, Redwood Highway
- Folio 57 verso: two photographs showing (1) the plaque marker of the Founders Tree and (2) a view looking up at “364 feet, the world’s tallest tree,” the Founders Tree at Dyerville Flats
- Folio 58 recto: photograph of a view looking up 364 feet to the top of “world’s tallest tree” (Redwood Highway, California)
- Folio 59 recto: photograph of the Rogue River Bridge, Oregon Coast Highway
- Folio 59 verso: photograph with the words “So shall they live till ends our day” showing a road in a redwood forest (picture dedicated to the memory of Joseph B Strauss, author of the poem “The Redwoods” and builder of Golden Gate Bridge)
- Folio 60 recto: photograph of redwoods (Redwood Highway)
- Folio 62 recto: untitled photograph showing the inside of shed with machinery and sacks
- Folio 62 verso: untitled photograph showing the trunks of large pine trees
- Folio 63 verso: untitled photograph of the logging of a tree
- Folio 64 verso: untitled photograph showing part of a pine forest
- Folio 65 recto: untitled photograph showing logging work in progress in a pine forest
- Folio 65 verso: photograph of the logging of redwood
- Folio 66 recto: untitled photograph of tree clearance and logs on the ground in a wooded area
- Folio 66 verso: untitled photograph of a jeep in a wooded area
- Folio 67 recto: untitled photograph of two figures standing before the end of a large tree butt
- Folio 67 verso: untitled photograph of a group of trees alongside a road
- Folio 68 verso: untitled photograph of logs being transported on a motor vehicle
- Folio 68 verso: untitled photograph of a trailer hoisted above a motor vehicle
- Folio 69 recto: untitled photograph of a motor vehicle used for transporting logs
- Folio 69 verso: untitled photograph of an expanse of water with tall pine trees on the left bank
- Folio 70 recto: untitled photograph showing part of a pine forest
- Folio 70 verso: photograph of Calaveras Big Tree Grove showing “the tree that was felled 90 years ago (1853) by drilling, 31D, 304ft high”
- Folio 71 recto: untitled photograph showing part of a large felled tree
- Folio 71 verso: untitled photograph showing part of a large felled tree
- Folio 72 verso: photograph of a scene from Lewis-Clark river operations (Crown-Zellerbach Co.)
- Folio 73 recto: photograph of a scene from Lewis-Clark river operations showing the transfer of logs from truck to water
- Collection Area:
- India Office Records and Private Papers
- Project / Collection:
- India Office Private Papers
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002291215
036-002291216
040-002291259 - Is part of:
- Mss Eur F252 : Papers of Sir Harry Champion, Indian Forest Service 1912-40; Professor of Forestry, Oxford 1940-59
Mss Eur F252/1-80 : Diaries
Mss Eur F252/40 : Western America/Canada - Hierarchy:
- 032-002291215[0001]/036-002291216[0043]/040-002291259
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Mss Eur F252
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
1 volume and 79 photographs
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- English
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1945
- End Date:
- 1948
- Date Range:
- Jun 1945-Sep 1948
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
- Foliated: 73 folios
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)