Raymond H. Fogler Library
Special Collections: Guide to the Corydon P. Cronk Papers
Arranged and described by Brenda Howitson Steeves
Raymond H. Fogler Library Special Collections Department
March 2004
Introduction and Summary Information
Collection Title: Corydon P. Cronk Papers.
Dates of the Collection: 1812-1967 (inclusive); 1910-1946 (bulk).
Provenance: The Cronk papers came to the Special Collections Department as a gift from Corydon and Gertrude Cronk in 1968.
Collection Number: MS 117.
Box Numbers: 1-17 (formerly Boxes 1-14a).
Size and Arrangement: The collection consists of 14 archival record cartons and three document boxes of material (15 cubic feet).
Conservation Note: The collection has been re-housed in acid-free folders and boxes. Documents have been surface cleaned as needed and metal fasteners removed. Photographs have been housed in polypropylene sleeves and remain with the relevant documents.
Preferred Citation: Corydon P. Cronk Papers, Special Collections, Raymond H. Fogler Library, University of Maine.
Restrictions on Access and Use: Kept at Fogler Library's offsite storage facility. One week's notice required for retrieval.
Biography
The collection contains the personal papers and business records of Corydon P. Cronk of Wellesley, Massachusetts. Mr. Cronk had a varied career in forestry, working both for private concerns and for the government. As a young man, he worked in the woods, gaining much practical experience before moving into numerous administrative positions. After his retirement, he remained active in various trade groups and maintained a life-long interest in the subject of forestry.
Corydon P. Cronk was born in 1887 in Washington, D.C. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1912 with a master’s degree in forestry. During his time in Michigan he worked in the summers in the state’s northern woods. After his graduation, he worked in the West, spending over a year as a forest ranger with the U.S. Forest Service in Portland, Oregon, and then working for two private companies, James D. Lacey & Co. of Seattle, and the Miami Corporation of Chicago. He was in charge of a tract of over 10,000 acres of timber near Vancouver, B.C. He also worked for the Portland Lumber Company of Portland, Oregon.
During World War I, Cronk served as a 2nd lieutenant in the Air Service. As office manager of the Lumber Branch Inspection Section, he oversaw inspection of rough lumber at its arrival at airplane plants, its care in handling and manufacture, reduction of waste, and sale of rejected lumber. After the war, he was involved in the Salvage Section Finance Division which oversaw the disposition of all lumber, veneers and plywood on hand at airplane and woodworking plants.
Cronk next worked for a short time for Thomas A. Edison, Inc., especially with a subsidiary, Wisconsin Cabinet and Panel Company, New London, Wisconsin, a manufacturer of phonograph cabinets. He then spent six years in various capacities promoting the sale of lumber, principally Pacific Coast wood, covering all parts of New York State. He next worked in New England, managing forest industries including woods properties, a sawmill, a wooden rake factory, a woodworking plant, a retail lumberyard, and a toy factory, South Tamworth Industries. He also did market studies, research and consultation for the State Forester of New Hampshire, market studies for forest products of the Yale University Demonstration Forest, and logging and mill time studies for the U.S. Forest Products Laboratory. He later spent two years as a trade promotion representative in New England for the West Coast Lumbermen’s Association.
Following the 1938 hurricane in New England, Cronk worked in the marketing section of the Northeastern Timber Salvage Administration, based in Boston. This federal agency was formed after the hurricane to salvage the hurricane-felled timber, reduce fire hazards in the forests, and rehabilitate the forestlands. During and after World War II he worked for the U.S. Office of Price Administration as a regional lumber price specialist. This agency had been established in 1941 to prevent wartime inflation, set price ceilings for most commodities and ration scarce consumer goods.
Cronk finished his career as president of the M.D. Greene Lumber Company of Auburn, New York, retiring in 1951. After his retirement, he kept an active interest in many aspects of forestry, maintaining memberships in trade and industry organizations and corresponding with colleagues from his long and varied career. As Cronk stated in a member information form of the Wood Collectors Society, “Inasmuch as war and depressions have bumped me into almost every phase of the lumber industry and allied forest utilization, I am interested in most everything that has to do with wood, from silviculture and forest management to the most advanced uses of wood fiber.”
Corydon Cronk died in 1972.
Scope and Content Note
The collection contains correspondence, job-related documents, photographs, subject files, and publications relating to Corydon Cronk’s long and varied career in forestry. The materials were re-foldered sometime after their arrival at Fogler Library; folder headings have been transcribed for the most part as they were found. Mr. Cronk, in preparing his papers for transfer, provided notes outlining their arrangement, and this outline has been followed as best it could be determined.
The collection is arranged in two series: work-related materials and family papers. The first series is divided into several sub-series: biographical/personal, correspondence, jobs, subject files, and publications.
Biographical/personal materials include a chronological record of Mr. Cronk’s work, provided by him, copies of tests taken, speeches, and reports.
Correspondence contains a small group of business letters arranged chronologically, followed by correspondence arranged by subject. Subjects include reminiscences of Cronk’s work in the Michigan woods, comments on forest practices and machinery, and use of woods for various projects.
The jobs sub-series is arranged chronologically and begins with a diary written in 1908 about Cronk’s early work in the Michigan woods. A large section follows covering his work in the West; this section contains many photographs of logging operations. Photo captions have been added to the list as they were given by Mr. Cronk. Also included are files from his service with the Bureau of Aircraft Production in World War I, his work with Edison Industries, and with various companies and endeavors in New Hampshire. Files from his work as the eastern representative of the West Coast Lumbermen’s Association follow, as well as those from his tenure with the Northeastern Timber Salvage Administration and the Office of Price Administration.
Mr. Cronk also maintained subject files on many aspects of forestry; these are arranged alphabetically by subject. The files contain reports, notes, memos, meeting notices, conference programs, etc. Mr. Cronk also collected many publications, periodicals and reports on forestry which are arranged alphabetically by title or subject as the last sub-series in the collection.
The second series, family papers, contains early records of the More, Mitchell, Millard and Smith families.
Box List
Box 1
Folder
Series I: Work-related materials
Sub-series 1: Biographical/personal
1 Chronological record of experience
2 Miscellaneous notes
3 U.S. Civil Service Commission exams, etc.
4 M.I.T. Testing Materials Laboratory: report of test taken, 1938
5 A brief bibliography on production control and supervision, 1942
6 Forest history: a speech by C.P. Cronk, 1965[?]
Sub-series 2: Correspondence
7 Business letters, 1918-1919
8 Business letters, 1919-1920
9 Correspondence, 1933-1950
10 Business letters, 1934-1935
11 Correspondence to Michigan Forestry Club, 1911
12 Correspondence from West Oregon Lumber Co., 1925
13 Correspondence re job possibilities, etc., 1947
14 Correspondence re Siuslaw, 1953
15 Correspondence re logging in Grayling, Michigan, 1964
16 Correspondence, personal
17 American Forest Products Industries correspondence, 1944-1965
18-20 American Forest Products Industries publications
21-22 American Forest Products Industries reports, memoranda, 1956-1967
23 American Forest Products Industries teacher’s guide
24 Correspondence re building codes, Boston, Wellesley, etc., 1930’s
25 Federal Housing Administration correspondence, 1936-1937
26 Correspondence re forest practices, etc., 1940’s
27 Forest Products Research Society correspondence, etc., 1950’s
28 Arthur A. Hood, letters, etc., 1950
29 Hurricane in New England, correspondence, etc., 1938
30 Correspondence re machines for lumbering, 1929-1930
31 Markets in New Hampshire for forest products, 1928-1936
32 Massachusetts Forest & Park Assoc., Reynolds era, letters, bulletins, etc., 1930’s, 1956
Sub-series 2: Correspondence cont.
Box 1 cont.
Folder
33 Millwork, correspondence, reports, 1946
34 Morgan Machine Co., Rochester, N.Y.: Box-making machinery correspondence, 1919-1920
Box 2
1 National Retail Lumber Dealers Assoc. letters, miscellaneous material, 1948, 1951
2 New England Forestry Foundation correspondence, pamphlets, etc., 1950-1953
3 Correspondence re New Hampshire state planning and development, 1930’s
4 Correspondence re study on New Hampshire markets, 1930’s
5 New York State College of Forestry at Syracuse, letters, etc., 1949-1951
6 Northeastern Forest Experiment Station correspondence, etc., 1930’s
7 Northeastern Lumber Service miscellaneous material, correspondence, 1937-1939
8 Roth, Filbert, correspondence, etc., 1907-1920’s, 1960’s
9 Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests, correspondence, 1933-1835
10 Correspondence re South American cedar, 1965-1966
11 Correspondence re tropical woods, 1946
12 Union Fibre Co. correspondence, publications, etc., 1924
13 U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, correspondence, 1933-1936
14 U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service, Forest Products Laboratory, correspondence, 1935-1938
15 U.S. Dept. of Commerce letters, etc., 1932
16 Correspondence, etc., re water tanks made of wood, 1936-1937
17 Wood Collector’s Society correspondence, etc., 1949
18 Correspondence re wood utilization, 1927
19 Correspondence, etc., re markets for products of Yale Forest, 1933
Sub-series 3: Jobs
20 Diary, 1908-1909 [work in Michigan woods, life in Ann Arbor]
21 Winter logging of hemlock and hardwoods in Michigan, 1910
22 Cost of planting and nursery work on the Barnes Farm of the Washtenaw Light & Power Co.,
Geddes, Mich., by C.P. Cronk, 1910
23 Advertising poster for Raymond Log Loader Co., Escanaba, Mich.
Sub-series 3: Jobs cont.
Box 2 cont.
Folder
24 Log book, Vol. 2, 1909 [summer work in the West]
25 Photographs, notes, etc., re: Montana, summer, 1909
26 Commercial importance of Umpqua harbor as a lumber-shipping seaport, by C.P. Cronk, 1910
27 Daily diary, 1910-1911; homestead claims, 1910; memo book, U.S. Forest Service, Eugene, Oregon
28 Siuslaw National Forest: notes, descriptive material, maps, 1910
29 Siuslaw National Forest: logging in the Coast Range of Oregon by C.P. Cronk, 1911
30 Notes on Port Orford cedar near Bandon, Ore., by C.P. Cronk, 1911
31 Map of Lease W, New Westminster, Dist., B.C., James T. Lacey & Co.
32 Daily log, May-Dec., 1912, Port Haney, B.C.
33 Photographs: Lease W, Port Haney, B.C. (James T. Lacey Co.) & negatives
34 Map: Lease W, New Westminster District, B.C.
34a Glass plate negatives of Lease W [located physically in Box 15]
35 Fire protection map of a portion of the British Columbia Railway Belt, 1912
36 Daily log, Dec., 1912-Oct., 1913
37 Logging camp records, etc., 1913-1915
38 Logging notes, Oregon and Washington, 1915
39 Notes, diaries, etc., 1912, 1916, 1917
40 St. Paul & Tacoma Lumber Co., Emerson Co.: documents, reports, 1916
41 C.P. Cronk’s notes re work in the West, undated
42 Photographs: 1911, 1912, 1915, undated
43 Photographs: British Columbia, 1914
44 Photographs: Lumber work, 1914-1915
45 Photographs: Lumber work in Washington & B.C., 1914, 1916
46 Photographs: Neverstil, Oregon, 1916
47 Photographs: Lumber work in Oregon, 1916
Box 3
1 Photographs: Oregon Lumber & Timber Co., 1916
2 Photographs: Oregon logging, undated
3 Notes, reports for Miami Corp., 1917
4 Bentley Townsite Agency letterhead
5 Photographs: Stave River cedar stump, B.C., 1917
6 Photographs: Montana, railroad wreck, 1917-1918
7 Photographs: Kapowsin, Wash., 1918
Sub-series 3: Jobs cont.
Box 3 cont.
Folder
8 One dozen photographs of logging operations on the West Coast
9 Seattle Photographs: Roll #35
35-1: Looking upunder same bridge
35-2: Close view showing slim fray(?) hued(?) with DF; D-Fir – 3x12 decking on walkway, 2x6 on pedestrian walk
35-3: Side view another bridge across?
35-4: 3x6 #1, 15% 2 F decking on bridge
35-5: Looking toward bridge in 8 above parkway
35-6: Side view bridge 1x4 VG, D fl – fl – 4x9 top, 4x6 rounded top rail
35-7&8: Another bridge
35-9: Bridge to Administration Bldgs; Roof 1x4 VG D-fir fl; Rail 2x8 VG fir; 3 side p(?); top rail pine rounded
35-10: Front view of bridge to Admin Bldg
35-11&12: Fir timbers and farming Waldo Fair P.O.
9a Negatives: “C” films: Portland; Larch Mtn. trip; Prince Rupert; Wash., 1917; Grand Trunk
10 Photographs: miscellaneous logging
10a Photograph: Redwoods on the lands of the C. & C. Lumber Co. in Del Norte County, Calif., 1917
11 Bucking (lumbering) notes, 1913-1914
12 Columbia River logging, etc., 1916
13 Cruising, topography, drafting, 1912, 1916
14 Fires, 1911
15 Flumes, notes, undated
16 Hanzlik, E.J. A key to the western abies, 1913
17 Mushrooms: miscellaneous material
18 Oregon resources, 1920’s, 1930’s
19 Oregon Lumber Manufacturers Assoc. Grading rules for fir, spruce, etc.
20 Railroad equipment, correspondence, notes, 1913
21 Railroads, general and construction information, notes, reports, etc., 1913
22 Seattle Cedar Lumber Manufacturing Co.: Orders, mill output, 1923
23 Seed dry kiln, reports, etc., 1910, 1911
24 U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Bureau of Public Roads, Portland, Ore. Standard timber culverts and cattle pass, 1933
25-26 University of Washington lectures on forestry, 1911
27 Yarding (lumbering) notes, etc., 1914
28 U.S. Bureau of Aircraft Production. Specifications for airplanes, 1918
29 E.P. McConnell & Lawrence Ottingen. Plywood inspection, aircraft, 1918
30 W.H. Webber. Mahoganies of commerce, 1918
31 Airplane lumber information, reports, etc., 1918, 1920
Sub-series 3: Jobs cont.
Box 3 cont.
Folder
32 Bureau of Aircraft Production. Plywood, 1919
33 Reports done for Thomas A. Edison interests, 1920’s
34 Edison Industries forest products plans, 1921
35 Edison and music, 1919
36 Wisconsin Cabinet & Panel Co.: Notes, reports, etc., 1919-1920
37 Wisconsin Cabinet & Panel Co. Processes in manufacturing H-19 cabinets by C.P. Cronk, 08/02/20
38 Photographs accompanying report in Folder 37
39 Processes in manufacturing H-19 cabinets by C.P. Cronk, Aug. 9, 1920
40 Wisconsin Cabinet & Panel Co. Machines and special equipment, C.P. Cronk, 12/1/1920
41 Wisconsin Cabinet & Panel Co. plans for yard
42-43 Wisconsin Cabinet & Panel Co. description of jigs and equipment
Box 4
1 Wisconsin Cabinet & Panel Co. drawings and diagrams, 1920
2 Outline for planning logging operation, 1921
3 Photographs: Emporium Forestry Co., N.Y., 1923
4 Photographs: Model houses, N.Y., 1925-1926
5 Photographs: Model house in Albany, N.Y.
6 Photographs: Roll #33 – Seattle, then Huntington, L.I.
33-28: Seattle, New Frasers shad frame 35x90; all of D-fir parts with 2x4 WCH rafters. Note straightness and length of pces
33-29: Huntington, Ward Lumber Co. yard of Nassau-Suffolk Lumber Co.
33-30: House cor. Merriton Rd., Warlaigh[?], L.I.
33-31: No Label
33-32: Anderson House Freeport Oaks
33-33: Office of Freeport Acres
33-34: Test House New England Village
33-35&36: Boxed front 4x6 admin No.1 Cam GM by Mill 101
33-37: Side view
33-38 to 41: Concrete block building of Ryerson Motors Inc., Buick Agency at Huntington L.I.; note that when dug cellar hole next, wall dropped 8 or 10’ and much came to pieces, note debris – Wooden roof intact except for where support dropped
Sub-series 3: Jobs cont.
Box 4 cont.
Folder
7 Photographs: Roll #34 – New York
34-1a,1b&1c to 5: “The First Presbyterian Church of Huntington, organized & first building erected 1665. Second building erected on this site 1715, occupied by the British as a barracks 1777. Torn down & materials used to erect Fort Golgotha on Burying Ground Hill, by order of Count Rumford 1782. Present building erected 1784. Note how shingles are nailed at bottom ridge of part.
34-6&7: 6x8 st. 24’ & 30’ long, back end lying square. Note twist from vertical on front ends.
34-12: House corner Park St. to Low Ave, bdg painted 2 yrs ago
34-17: On May 31, 1819 there was born in this house by the side of this old thoroughfare before Cross Long Island, Walt Whitman. Note the fireplaces, which came together apparently above the window but (?) Chimney – apparently in 2 different rooms, 1 Chimney
34-18&19: Panorama, “The Devereux Job”, Wood hard in the modern manner on lightest point & near ht. pt. of Long Island
34-21&22: Art up shed and D-fir being used by Poirer-McLane, Lynbrook
34-23: Same job forms and parts ready for use; 2x6 & 2x8 Fir & Fir, plywood farle(?); A few new 9m No.1 new shortleaf pine
34-24: In spite of its age and condition, this old house on the Bellvue Hicksville Rd. still has charm and usefulness as a toolshed; Just about 1 min. S of Jerusalem(?) Ave.
34-25: Another brainstorm in fabricated steel (resting on wooden partition). On Jerusalem Road & Sterling St. Hicksville(?)
34-36: D-Fir piling at N.Y. Fair Grounds
8 Photograph: Dog sled in Tamworth, N.H., for 1928 Byrd expedition
9 Aerial photograph: New England Wood Preserving Co., Nashua, N.H., 1930
10 Photographs: Nashua, N.H., Chamber of Commerce information building
11 Photographs: New Hampshire (some labeled Seabrook)
12 Photographs: Roll #40 – Portsmouth, N.H.
40-1: (Ocean view)
40-2: (Ocean view)
40-3: C
40-4&5: Richard Jackson House Portsmouth N.H., 1664; Siding doesn’t look like original
40-6: C1 & C2 at Ft McClary, used War 1812
Roll #41 – Probably also Portsmouth, N.H.
Sub-series 3: Jobs cont.
Box 4 cont.
Folder
13 Photographs: Mill 1 (N.H.?)
14 Photographs: Mill 3 (N.H.?)
15 South Tamworth Industries material, 1927-1930’s
16 Photographs: South Tamworth Industries toys
17 Toys and novelties buying guide, 1931
18 Wood samples and shapes, one from Saco Mfg. Co., Saco, Me. [located physically in Boxes 16 and 17]
19 Sketch map of New England showing lumberyards
20 Firms in western New York called on by C.P. Cronk, 1926
21 U.S. Forest Products Laboratory correspondence, etc., 1918, 1934
22 Memorandum: Cooperation in white pine logging and milling study, 1934
23-24 U.S. Forest Products Laboratory study of logging and milling eastern white pine in New England, 1934?
25 Log grading rules for northern white pine in New England, 1934
26 Photographs: Covered bridge at Conway, N.H.; N.H. Forest Industries, 1934
27-28 West Coast Lumbermen’s Assoc. correspondence, reports, etc.
29 West Coast Lumbermen’s Assoc. correspondence, pamphlets, etc., 1937-1938
30 M.I.T. correspondence, 1930’s
31 Central Vermont Railway and other railroads, letters, etc., 1937
32 Western Pine Assoc. correspondence, 1937, 1940
33 Massachusetts Retail Lumber Dealers Assoc. Conference, letters, programs, etc., 1937, 1938
34 West Coast Lumbermen’s Assoc. correspondence re red cedar shingles, 1937-1938
35 West Coast Lumbermen’s Assoc. correspondence re: Boston subway extension, 1938
36 C.P. Cronk working notebook, 1937-1938
37-38 West Coast Lumbermen’s Assoc. convention, retail show reports
Box 5
1 West Coast Lumbermen’s Assoc. convention reports, 1938
2 A report on evidence of home building by C.P. Cronk, 1937
3 Lumber grading practice for Douglas fir, T.J. Hartman and H.W. Murphy, compilers
4 Retail yard survey of New England, 1938
5-11 West Coast Lumbermen’s Assoc. miscellaneous material
Sub-series 3: Jobs cont.
Box 5 cont.
Folder
12 Photographs: Arlmont Village model homes construction, undated
13 Photographs: Worcester, Mass., 1938
14 Photographs: Structure of wood fibers, 1938
15 Photographs: Roll #36 – Massachusetts/Connecticut
36-20: #2 Lola(?) St., Shrewsbury; first demonstration home of Diamond Match Co.
36-21: 2x8 #1 D-fir used for sheet puling(?) to hold back earth in trenches at Framingham
36-22: House built 1796 on W. Natick Road to Framingham, corner Mill St.
36-23: On Mill St., Natick-Framingham Rd; “In this little shop Henry Wilson, 20th VP of U.S., learned to make shoes; he was known as the “Natick cobbler”
36-26,25&24: Fence in front of Hathaway House Bookshop by Fuller; D-fir posts, WCH rails, W.R. cedar pickets
36-27: G. Fuller & Son Lumber Co., Brighton
36-28: Lean-to roofs, Newton, after painting
36-29: D-Fir derrick on top of M.I.T. Architectural Bldg.
36-30: Stockade House, Milford, Conn., built 1659
36-31: Perry Homestead, Stafford, Conn., built about 1700, West Broad St. off Main St.
36-32: Redfield House built by Augustus Jennings in 1760; saved by Lucretia Redfield who put out 4 fires set by British
36-33,35: Organized 1733, Congregational Church, New Canaan, Conn. on Park St.
36-34: St. Martin Church, New Canaan, Conn.; corner Main & Park Sts.
16 Photographs: Roll #29
29-1b&1c: Second hard Douglas fir in building scaffolding (protection)
29-25: 112-31 207th St. house next to ave., took photo of last year 4 houses and of 15 this side of block new covered with asbestos shingles
No # - (Church)
No # - (Church)
17 Photographs: Unidentified construction project
18 Photographs: Miscellaneous unidentified houses and neighborhoods
19 Photographs: Miscellaneous unidentified
20 C.P. Cronk’s notes re photographs
21 West Coast Lumbermen’s Assoc. lumber samples [Located physically in Box 17]
22-24 Northeastern Timber Salvage Administration correspondence, memos, clippings, 1939
Sub-series 3: Jobs cont.
Box 5 cont.
Folder
25 NETSA correspondence, memos, 1943
26 NETSA: Hurricane in New England, 1938; speeches by C.P. Cronk & others
27 NETSA: Memos, speeches, etc., 1939
28-29 NETSA procedures and policies
30 Northeastern Timber Marketing Assoc. organization material and agreements with NETSA
31 NETSA log storage sites and timber salvage information, forms, etc., 1939
Box 6
1 New England Box Co. agreement to purchase timber, 1939
2 O’Neil reports: inspection of New England sites, 1939
3 NETSA: pulpwood, 1939
4 NETSA sales: Railroad ties
5 NETSA net sales notes, plans, prices, 1939
6 NETSA sales of logs and lumber, 1939-1940
7 NETSA sawing and milling specifications and information, 1939
8 NETSA scaling manual by W.J. O’Neil, 1939
9 NETSA: Telford reports, 1939; inspection of mills and storage sites
10 Weekly reports of lumber movement, clippings, etc., 1939
11 Federal Housing Authority: How to benefit from the national modernization program, 1939
12 U.S. Office of Price Administration correspondence, notes, 1940’s
13 OPA notes, memoranda, 1945-1946
14 OPA area and community pricing: notes, etc.,1940’s
15 OPA area pricing program
16 OPA: C.P. Cronk’s notes on retention of records on district and regional levels
17 OPA memoranda, 1945
18 OPA: C.P. Cronk’s notes and memoranda on regulations, 1945-1946
19 OPA: C.P. Cronk’s notes on enforcement references for lumber specialist
20 OPA Advisory Committee listings
21 OPA compliance checklist and reports
22 OPA: C.P. Cronk’s notes and memos, 1945-1946, re: reconversion pricing program
23 OPA memos, meeting notes, etc., re: used lumber, 1945-1946
24 OPA correspondence, memos, etc., re New England cooperage study, 1945-1946
Sub-series 3: Jobs cont.
Box 6 cont.
Folder
25 OPA: Dealers’ meetings, 1945-1946
26 Photographs: Exhibit in N.Y. just about at the end of OPA
27 OPA: Hard building materials, a survey, 1946
28 OPA list: Wood Turner Service Bureau members, 1942
29 OPA list: Massachusetts new lumber yards, a listing
30 OPA list: List of lumber dealers servicing contractors, Portland, Me.
31 OPA list: Massachusetts building contractors, a listing
32 OPA list: New Hampshire: a list of firm names
33 OPA list: Sawmills: a listing for Maine and New England
34 OPA: Talks given
35 Chester Bowles: Renewal of the Price Control Act, 1944
36 Arthur Clifford: Testimony before Senate Banking and Currency Committee on extension of Emergency Price
Control Act of 1942 [after Mar., 1946]
37 Roland C. Hamlin: Study of costs, prices, and operations of custom millers of lumber in N.H., 1944
38 National War Labor Board telegram to Region I members, 1944
39 Canadian war taxes memo
40 Gray Iron Founders’ Society: ABC’s of maximum price regulation no. 244
41 OPA Dept. of Information: The Beacon, Oct., 1945; Dec., 1946
Sub-series 4: Subject files
42 An adaptation of aerial logging
43
44 American Institute of Architects: C.P. Cronk’s report on 1937 convention
45 Blueprint: Gymnasium, Winchendon
46 Bureau of Labor Statistics notes, 1945
47 California notes, 1954
48 The Commercial Bulletin, Apr. 20, 1963 + notes
49 Conference on the History of Forest Products Industries, 1966
Box 7
1 Dry kiln blueprints and instructions
2 Empire State Forest Products Assoc. meeting, 1926
3 Empire State Forest Products Assoc. list of members, undated
4-5 Fair Labor Standard Act of 1938 publications
6 Labor, wages, price controls: clippings, etc., 1945-1951
7 Finger Lakes Lumber Dealers Assoc. information, 1948-1950
Sub-series 4: Subject files cont.
Box 7 cont.
Folder
8 Forestry: general information, 1914
9 Report: Fitting band saws to cut frozen timber, 1928
10 Georgia lumber trade
11 Report: Fuel wood
12 Heineberg bridge (Vt.) historical information
13 Wm. E. Hill & Co. specifications and blueprints for Harris Bros. and Cole Co., Columbia, Tenn., 1907
14 Housing: clippings, etc., 1936, 1952
15 Clipping: Use of wood in the Lindbergh kidnapping case
16 Logging: C.P. Cronk’s notes and miscellaneous material, 1915, 1920
17 Lumber Code Authority bulletin, 1933, 1934
18 Listing of lumber companies, 1944
19 Clippings from “The Lumber Cooperator,” 1925-1935
20 Clippings from “The Lumber Cooperator,” 1938
21 Clippings from “The Lumber Cooperator,” 1938, 1945
22 Lumber price lists, mostly West Coast companies, 1925
23 Lumber price lists, 1926
24 Maine Central Railroad: list of manufacturers and shippers of hard and soft lumber, 1940
25 Maine Hardwood Assoc.: list of manufacturers, 1934
26 Miscellaneous maps
27 National American Wholesale Lumber Assoc.: directories, etc.
28 National Lumber Manufacturers Assoc.: Reports, correspondence, etc., 1920’s-1930’s
29-30 National Lumber Manufacturers Assoc.: Reports, correspondence, etc., 1930’s
31 National Lumber Manufacturers Assoc.: Pamphlets, correspondence, etc., 1930’s
Box 8
1 National Lumber Manufacturers Assoc. report: Test tube potentials, 1950
2 National Retail Lumber Dealers Assoc. lecture outlines
3 National Retail Lumber Dealers Assoc. merchandising institute, 1938
4 New England Council pamphlets, etc.
5 New Hampshire Lumbermen’s Assoc. constitution, bylaws, 1928
6 New Hampshire Lumbermen’s Assoc. reports, correspondence, etc., 1930’s
7 New York City firm names
8 New York State map of lumber orders, 1922
Sub-series 4: Subject files cont.
Box 8 cont.
Folder
9 N.Y. Lumber Trade Journal: clippings and notes, 1951
10 Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers’ Assoc. purpose, program, membership directory
11 Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers’ Assoc.: letters, meetings, reports, etc., 1930’s
12 Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers’ Assoc.: Reports, publications, etc., 1930’s
13-14 Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers’ Assoc. correspondence, 1928-1961
15 Northeastern Lumber Manufacturers’ Assoc. Educational Committee: Correspondence, etc., 1940’s-1950’s
16 Northeastern Retail Lumbermens Assoc. Retail Lumber Training Institute, 1950
17 Northeastern Retail Lumber Training Institute: Correspondence re: wallboard, 1950
18 Northeastern Retail Lumbermens Assoc. directories, 1920’s-1950’s
19 Northeastern Retail Lumbermens Assoc. publications, 1930’s-1940’s
20 Northeastern Retail Lumbermens Assoc. bulletins, 1941 + other publications
21-22 Northeastern Retail Lumbermens Assoc. bulletins, 1942
23 Northeastern Retail Lumbermens Assoc. bulletins, 1943 + other publications
24 Northeastern Retail Lumbermens Assoc. bulletins, 1943
25 Northeastern Retail Lumbermens Assoc. bulletins, 1943-1944
26 Northeastern Retail Lumbermens Assoc. bulletins, 1944-1945
Box 9
1 Northeastern Retail Lumbermens Assoc. bulletins, 1945-1946
2 Northeastern Retail Lumbermens Assoc.: The Lumber Cooperator, 1963-1964
3 Northeastern Retail Lumbermens Assoc. convention program, 1947
4 Northeastern Retail Lumbermens Assoc. convention notes, 1948, 1951
5 Northeastern Retail Lumbermens Assoc. convention notes, etc., 1952
6 Pamphlets, brochures re: forestry
7 Photographs of sawn lumber
8 Photographs of unidentified mill
9 Poetry re: logging
10 Pulp manufacturers in N.Y., 1917
11 Railroad – logging – earthwork
12 Reports re: forests in conservation, 1910, 1934
Sub-series 4: Subject files cont.
Box 9 cont.
Folder
13 Reports of sawed lumber on hand, 1930’s-1940
14 Retail Lumber Dealers Assoc. of Maine: Meeting programs, letters, etc.
15 Retail lumber dealers associations: a listing
16 Rubber silk screen procedure memo, 1928
17 Russian lumber, 1931, 1932
18 Salvage of New England timber, 1938
19 Sawmills in New England; photographs of Langdell Mill, Rumney, N.H.
20 Extract from M.A. Mattoon’s memo of Apr. 9, 1937 re scaling
21 Shingles for roofing: specifications, pamphlets, etc.
22 Society of American Foresters: Washington and Oregon forests and forestry
23 Society of American Foresters, New England Section: News quarterly and other publications
24 Society of American Foresters, New England Section: News quarterly, 1940
25 Society of American Foresters, New England Section: R.C. Bryant et al. Report of the Committee
on Stabilization, 1931
26 Society of American Foresters, New England Section, Markets Committee: correspondence,
reports, etc., 1920’s-1940’s
27 Society of American Foresters, Subsistence Homestead, Forestry Committee, report and
correspondence, 1934-1935
28-29 Speeches, articles, notes
30 Summary of recommendations presented by the Forest Service, Feb. 16, 1940, re a forest program for the U.S.
31 Survey of natural resources, town of Holden and vicinity, prepared by Conference on Land Economic Survey, 1930?
32 Timber conservation, 1929
33 Transportation of lumber by rail and trams: advertisements
34 Washington lumber trade price lists, 1926
35 White pine blister rust: reports, 1919, 1934
36 Wood preservation: report on New England Wood Preserving Co., Nashua, N.H.
37 Wooden box industry meeting lists, etc., 1945
38 John B. Woods, Report of forest resource appraisal
Sub-series 5: Publications
Box 9 cont.
Folder
39 American Assoc. for the Advancement of Science general program, 108th meeting, 1941
40 American Assoc. of State Highway Officials publications
41 American Builder, 1937
42 American Forest Products Industries: Government land acquisition, 1964?
Box 10
1 American Forest Products Industries: Population impact on water resources
2 American Forestry Assoc. Conservation, 1936
3 American Forests, 1947
4 American Forests, Dec., 1952
5 The American-German Review, Sept., 1934
6 American Lumberman, Jan. 30, 1937
7 American Lumberman’s cyclopedia of building terms
8 American Tree Assoc.: The Forestry News Digest, Jan., 1934
9 American Tree Farmer, 1950’s-1960’s
10 Architectural Exhibitor, June, 1930
11 The Atlantic Log, 1948-1952; Bruce Magazine, July-Aug., 1947
12 Basket willow culture in Maryland, 1919
13 Big Trees, 1920’s-1940’s; published by the West Coast Lumber Trade Extension Bureau
14 Boston Chamber of Commerce. Directory of the larger manufacturers, Boston industrial area, 1940
15 Boxes: codes, catalogs, etc.
16 Brindley, Willis. All about silos
17 Brown, Lewis E. The romance of Tennessee red cedar, 1926
18 Building materials used in construction, 1930’s
19 CCC clippings, 1933-1934
20 Timber of Canada
21 Certigrade handbook of red cedar shingles, 1937
22 Chamber of Commerce of the U.S. Forestry manual, 1949
23 Chocorua region, N.H. [map]
24 Christmas trees
25 Cline, A.C. Marketing of lumber in N.H., 1925
26-31 Clippings re trees, lumber, etc.
32 Coastal Wetland Action Committee pamphlet
33 Conservation: Farmers, forest industries and outdoor recreation, 1964
34 Convenient tables for quantity surveying, 1947
Sub-series 5: Publications cont.
Box 10 cont.
Folder
35 The Countryman, Winter, 1961
36 Dutch elm disease
37 Empire State Lumber Salesmen’s Assoc. buyer’s guide, 1931
38 Eugenics: pamphlets, etc.
Box 11
1-2 Factory: the magazine of management
3 Fences: pamphlets
4 Ferree, Miles J. A method of estimating timber volumes from aerial photographs, 1953
5 The 54 hour law and why you should vote against it [1915?]
6 Fire retardant paints
7 Forest history, 1962-1966
8 Forest history, 1967-1968
9 Forest Industries Committee on Timber Valuation and Taxation. Timber: the necessity for continuing present
tax treatment, 1963
10 Forestry in Massachusetts
11 Fox Forest notes, 1950’s
12 Harvard Forest, Petersham, Mass.
13 Hawley, Ralph C. Selection cuttings for the small forest owner, 1932
14 Hazard, James O. An example of woodlot forestry, 1912
15 Highway departments
16 Hill, A.B. Forest cover map; location map, Eli Whitney Forest
17 National Home Show, 1937
18 Home shows, 1938
19-20 Hoo-hoo: International Concatenated Order of Lumbermen
21 Hopkins, George M. Marketing forest products in New Hampshire, 1938
22 Indiana Lumber & Builders Supply Assoc. 1936 yearbook & buyer’s guide
23 Information for inspectors of airplane wood, 1918
24-25 Intercoastal Lumber Distributors Assoc. Bulletins, 1930’s
26 Investor’s reader: clippings
27 Johns-Manville pamphlets
28 Land grants to western railroads
29 Locomotive date, 1907
30 Log transportation
31 Long-Bell Lumber Corp. annual report, 1947
32 Lumber news, 1931
Sub-series 5: Publications cont.
Box 11 cont.
Folder
33 Lumber inspection rules
34 McGraw-Edison Co. 1967 report to stockholders
35 Mahogany: The identification of true mahogany by Arthur Koehler
36 Manual: Inspection Dept. Bureau of Aircraft Production
Box 12
1 Maps: miscellaneous
2 Map: Sketch map of Billings est., Woodstock, Vt.
3 Mass. Annual report of the Commissioner of Conservation and State Forester, 1923
4 Mass. Report of Special Commission on Taxation of Forestland, Farm Land and Open Space Land, 1965?
5 Mass. Brief guide to the state forests and other state reservations
6 Mass. Federation of Taxpayers Assoc. Directory of Mass. Legislators, 1965-1966
7 Mass. Forest & Park Assoc. pamphlets, etc., re town forests
8 Mass. Forestry Assoc. Why Mass. needs town forests, 1921
9 Mass. Forestry Assoc. Its first 25 years, 1898-1922
10 Maughan, William. Control of the white pine weevil on the Eli Whitney Forest, 1930
11 Maybee, Rolland H. David Ward: pioneer timber king
12 Meldrum Motor Corp. pamphlets, etc.
13 Mensuration tables, 1912
14 Michigan State College Bulletin, 1935
15 Minnesota: new forestry law, 1911
16 Mississippi lumber trade: Leake & Goodlett Lumber Co. price list
17 National Assoc. of Manufacturers. Native land, 1955
18 National handbook of plan reading, 1947
19 National Lumber Manufacturers’ Assoc. Conservation news digest, 1938-1939
20 National Lumber Manufacturers’ Assoc. Lumber letter, 1938-1939
21 National Lumber Manufacturers’ Assoc. Lumber market, 1931
22 National lumber trade barometer
23 National Lumber Manufacturers Credit Corp. Pocket edition of blue book, 1961
24 Nature Conservancy pamphlets
25 New England Regional Planning Commission. Forestry organizations in New England, 1940
Sub-series 5: Publications cont.
Box 12 cont.
Folder
26 New England Wholesale Lumber Assoc. yearbooks, 1935, 1937
27 New Hampshire Office of Bureau of Labor 19th biennial report, 1932
28 New Hampshire Forestry Commission reports, 1920, 1923
29 New Hampshire Forestry Commission biennial report, 1930, 1941-1942
30 New Hampshire biennial report of the Forestry & Recreation Commission, 1937
31 New Hampshire Forests, Mar., 1930; Mar., 1932
32 New Hampshire register, 1932, 1934
33 New York: Forest policy of New York
34 New York Conservation Commission publications
35 New York World’s Fair, 1939
36 Pacific Logging Congress proceedings, 1910, 1911, 1915
37 Pacific Spruce Corp. [company history]
38-39 Pamphlets, etc., on forestry
40-41 Pamphlets, etc. on trees
Box 13
1-4 Pamphlets on wood and lumber
5 Phi Beta Kappa. The key reporter
6 Pinchot, Gifford. Articles about Roosevelt’s part in forestry
7 Playthings directory of the toy industry, 1931
8 Public health pamphlets
9 Rowley, Frank B.H. Condensation of moisture and its relation to building construction and operation, 1941
10 St. Paul and Tacoma Lumber Co. A story of the development
11 Scientific monthly, Apr., 1951
12 Sheep breeding
13 Skandinaviska kreditaktiebolaget quarterly report, 1929, 1930
14 Society of American Foresters publications, 1924
15 Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests publications
16 Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. Addresses at the dedication of Franconia Notch, 1928
17 Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. Notes, Nov., 1939 + other publications
18 Society for the Protection of New Hampshire Forests. Forest notes, 1940’s-1950’s
19 Southern lumberman, June 1, 1951
20 Southern Pine Assoc. pamphlets, etc.
21 The story of the Berkeley fire of Sept. 17, 1923
Sub-series 5: Publications cont.
Box 13 cont.
Folder
22 Syracuse University bulletins
23 Termites
24 Perpetual timber supply
25 The timberman, Sept., 1912
26 Tryon, Henry H. The Black Rock Forest, 1930
27 Uniform building code, 1937 ed.
28 University of Michigan: Assoc. of Michigan Foresters, notes and information
29 University of Michigan: Glimpses of Saginaw Forest
30 University of Michigan: Michigan alumnus
31 University of Michigan: The Michigan Forester, 1940, 1942
32 University of Michigan: Miscellaneous publications
Box 14
1 University of Michigan: Miscellaneous pamphlets and booklets
2 University of Michigan Foresters Assoc. publications
3-4 University of Michigan Foresters Assoc. newsletters
5 University of Michigan: clippings
6 University of Michigan publications, 1925-1961
7 Vermont yearbook, 1934
8-9 Weyerhauser news
10 What’s happening in forestry: a report to consulting foresters, 1951
11 Wood, Nov., 1951
12 Wood decay
13 Wood preserving news, 1946, 1951
14 A woodlot primer, 1957
15 The Yale demonstration and research forest, 1932
16 Yankee, July, 1941
Series II: Family papers
17 More and Mitchell family papers and photographs
18 Millard family papers
19-20 William Smith papers, 1812-1850’s
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