Woodlawn Plywood company was located in Hoquiam, WA. The collection contains ledgers and journals, cash, sales, account, and stock information, correspondence, deeds and leases, contracts and mortgages, and ledgers of the Northern Timber company.

Bx 189

Guide to the Woodlawn Plywood Co. and the Northern Timber Co. Records

Henry E. Haefner was a forester. The collection contains a copy of his recollections of working in Oregon as a forester from 1908 to 1953, including sixteen years in the Siskiyou National Forest.

Call number: CB H118a

Guide to the Henry E. Haefner Papers

Gertrude Jewett was the wife of William Buckhout Greeley, a forester and conservationist who worked during the first half of the twentieth century. Mrs. Greeley worked closely with her husband. The collection contains an oral interview of Gertrude Jewett from 1960 regarding her husband’s career.

Call number: CB G819

Guide to the Gertrude Jewett Greeley oral history

John W. Blodgett, Jr. (1901-1987) was active in the timber industry, serving as president, chairman, director and secretary of several timber companies including his family’s company, Blodgett Company Ltd. The collection contains timber/lumber related organization files, subject files, maps and photographs.

Call number: Coll 223

Guide to the John W. Blodgett Papers

William J. Smith (dates unknown) grew up in Detroit, Oregon, at the turn of the century, and went into the family timber business. The Smith & Smith Mill processed timber in the Macky Place area. The collection consists of 69 photographs documenting the mill, the original town of Detroit, and landscape, and include several shots of the transportation of a donkey engine across a river and up a steep slope in 1911.

Call number: PH025

Guide to the William J. Smith photographs

In Oregon, artists and crafts people worked on Work Projects Administration (WPA) projects for schools, universities, hospitals, and the Forest Service. This collection includes photographs of paintings and murals that were installed in Oregon public schools, University of Oregon and Doernbecher Memorial Hospital for Children, Portland, Oregon. Of interest to the researcher is the collection of photographs of woodwork, art, and paintings for Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood, Oregon.

Call number: Coll 238

Guide to the Work Projects Administration Oregon Federal Art Project Collection

Arnold Arneson was a forest ranger in the state of Washington’s Tieton district. The collection comprises diaries from the 1920s and 1940s that describe his daily activities as a ranger, as well as miscellaneous papers from the 1920s regarding ranger duties.

Call number: Ax 105

Guide to the Arnold Arneson Papers

Fred Elijah Ames was a forester in Oregon. The collection contains his diaries, photographs, and reports.

Call number: Ax 104

Guide to the Fred Elijah Ames Papers

June D. Drake was a commercial photographer in Silverton, Oregon, from 1904-1960. He used his photographs of Silver Falls in an active and successful campaign to establish Silver Falls State Park in 1931. The collection consists of 28 vintage prints in studio mounts, documenting landscape and events in the Silverton area. One series shows railroad construction.

Call number: PH031

Guide to the June D. Drake and Drake Brothers photographs

William A. Langille (1869-1956) came with his family to Hood River, Oregon in 1882. The Langille family operated the Cloud Cap Inn on Mt. Hood. Langille was a prospector in the Klondyke gold fields and Alaska state forester; eventually he was appointed forest manager for the Oregon State Parks Department. This collection contains correspondence, short stories, articles and reports that focus on his time in Alaska; Sao Paulo, Brazil; and Oregon.

Call number: Ax 635

Guide to the William A. Langille Papers