Archives West Finding Aid
Table of Contents
- Overview of the Collection
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Biographical Note
- Content Description
- Use of the Collection
- Administrative Information
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Detailed Description of the Collection
- U.S. Forest Service Personnel and Forestry Training
- U.S. Forest Service Ranger Training Camp, Columbia National Forest, Wind River, Washington
- U.S. Forest Service Project
- Ranger Stations
- Lookout Towers
- Logging and mining operations and camps
- Mt. Baker, Washington
- Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood, Oregon
- Cascade Mountains, Washington
- Names and Subjects
Harold E.D. Brown photograph collection, approximately 1920-1950
Overview of the Collection
- Collector
- Brown, Harold E. D. (Harold Elbert Dempsey), 1895-1983
- Title
- Harold E.D. Brown photograph collection
- Dates
- approximately 1920-1950 (inclusive)19201950
- Quantity
- 74 photographic prints (1 box and 1 folder) ; sizes vary
- Collection Number
- PH0083
- Summary
- Photographs of U.S. Forest Service forest rangers, lookout and ranger stations, logging, camping, mining and fishing scenes, Mt. Baker and vicinity, and the Timberline Lodge.
- Repository
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University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
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Selected images can be viewed on the Libraries' Digital Collections website. Permission of Visual Materials curator is required to view originals. Contact Special Collections for more information.
- Languages
- English
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Harold Elbert Dempsey Brown, a longtime employee of the U.S. Forest Service, was born in Plessis, New York on March 31, 1895 to Ulysses E. Brown and Sarah Dempsey. During World War I, he served with the 2nd Battalion Canadian Machine Gun Corps of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, earning a Distinguished Conduct Medal. He began his career with the U.S. Forest Service in 1911, first working at the Deschutes National Forest in southern Oregon. Later, he worked in the Umpqua National Forest, also in southern Oregon. In 1931, he became the the first U.S. Forest Ranger to serve at the Koma Kulshan Ranger Station in the Mt. Baker Ranger District of the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest. In this position, he was directly responsible for the planning and supervision of all the buildings and activities, the work being done by Civilian Conservation Corps personnel.
On July 6, 1933, he married Miss Margaret H. Chapin in Concrete, Washington and they moved into the Koma Kulshan Ranger Station. He served as the U.S. Forest Ranger in the Koma Kulshan area until 1935, when he transferred to the U.S. Forest Service office in Bellingham, Washington. Mr. Brown worked for the Forest Service for 31 years. After a break service, he retired in 1965 from the Mt. Baker National Forest as a Forestry. He died on May 18, 1983 in Olympia, Washington.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Photographs of U.S. Forest Service forest rangers, lookout and ranger and stations; logging, camping, mining and fishing scenes, Mt. Baker and vicinity, and Timberline Lodge.
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Alternative Forms Available
View selections from the collection in digital format
Restrictions on Use
Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.
Preferred Citation
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
U.S. Forest Service Personnel and Forestry TrainingReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/1 | 1 | February 1924 | |
1/1 | 2 | 1934 | |
1/1 | 3a-b |
U.S. Forest Service personnel in front of a building
with the sign "U.S. Forest Service"
On item 83.3a, the names of people in the photograph are written
on the verso, including their position and the U.S. Forest Service forest they
are working in
|
1920? |
1/1 | 4 | 1933? |
U.S. Forest Service Ranger Training Camp, Columbia National Forest, Wind River, WashingtonReturn to Top
On June 15, 1949 the Columbia National Forest was renamed Gifford Pinchot National Forest.
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
---|---|---|---|
Box/Folder | item | ||
1/2 | 5 | Group of the thirty-two forest rangers and seven
instructors at the training camp
The names of all the instructors and students with the forest
they are assigned to are written on the verso
|
between October and November 1931 |
1/2 | 6 |
Group of the thirty-two forest rangers and the seven
instructors at the training camp, with their signatures on the borders of the
photograph
This is the same image as item 5, but includes names written on
photograph.
|
between October and November 1931 |
1/2 | 7 | between October and November 1931 | |
1/2 | 8 | between October and November 1931 | |
1/2 | 9 | between October and November 1931 | |
1/2 | 10a-b | Tents used for housing the participants at the Ranger
training camp |
between October and November 1931 |
1/2 | 11-12 | between October and November 1931 | |
1/2 | 13 | between October and November 1931 | |
1/2 | 14 | View from a hillside overlooking the Wind River Valley
showing the Wind River Nursery and associated structures below |
between October and November 1931 |
U.S. Forest Service ProjectReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/3 | 15a-b | 1933? | |
1/3 | 16a-c | 1933? |
Ranger StationsReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/4 | 17a | June 25, 1925 | |
1/4 | 17b-c | Silverton Ranger Station in Snohomish County,
Washington |
1925? |
1/4 | 18 |
A freestanding device that was possibly used to measure
precipitation at the Silverton Ranger Station in Snohomish County,
Washington
Written on verso: The weather "pen"
|
1925? |
1/4 | 19 |
Ed Huff and man sitting in front of a cabin at Mt.
Pilchuch in Snohomish County, Washington
Ed Huff was a U.S. Forest Service Ranger in the 1920's and a
friend of Harold E.D. Brown. He is on the right in the photograph.
|
1923 |
1/4 | 20 | 1923 | |
1/4 | 21 | 1923 | |
1/4 | 22 | 1923 | |
1/4 | 23 | 1923 | |
1/4 | 24 |
Headquarters Cabin at Goat Lake near Big Four Inn in
the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest in Washington
John Juleen, Edmonds, WA
(photographer)
|
between 1920-1930? |
1/4 | 25 | October 1928 | |
1/4 | 26 | 1930? | |
1/4 | 27a-b | 1932 |
Lookout TowersReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/5 | 28 |
Fairview Peak Lookout Station located in the Umpqua
National Forest in southwest Oregon
Written on verso: Fairview Look Out. 1940 Murland (?) Johnson
(Packer)
|
1940 |
1/5 | 29 |
Mount Pilchuck Lookout in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie
National Forest, Washington
Written on verso: The Lookout on Pilchuck Mt.
|
between 1931-1935? |
1/5 | 30 | between 1920-1965? | |
1/5 | 31 | August 24, 1931 | |
1/5 | 32 |
Mountain lookout probably in the Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie
National Forest, Washington
Stamped on verso: Our Own Photo Finishers, Concrete,
Washington
|
between 1930-1935? |
Logging and mining operations and campsReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/6 | 33 | June 29, 1937 | |
1/6 | 34 |
Sauk River Lumber Camp scaler's shack
Written on verso: Scaler's Shack Sauk Sale?
|
June 29, 1937 |
1/6 | 35a-b | 1931 | |
1/6 | 36a-b | 1931 | |
1/6 | 37 | between 1940 and 1950 | |
1/6 | 38 | Man standing in a burnt-out tree trunk |
between 1940 and 1950 |
1/6 | 39 | between 1940 and 1950 | |
1/6 | 40 | Man examining a tree |
between 1940 and 1950 |
1/6 | 41 | between 1930 and 1935 | |
1/6 | 42 | between 1930 and 1935 | |
1/6 | 43 | between 1930 and 1935 | |
1/6 | 44a-c | between 1930 and 1935 | |
1/6 | 45a-b | 1930 | |
1/6 | 46 |
Tree stumps possibly being blown up using borax and
dynamite
Documentation from the U.S. National Archives & Records
Administration states "Blowing [text illegible] borax and dynamite"
|
October 1931? |
1/6 | 47 |
Aerial view of the Musick Mine in the western Cascade
Mountains of Oregon
Written on verso: Musick Mine - about 1894 in Bohemia Mining
area in Umpqua National Forest.
|
1894? |
Mt. Baker, WashingtonReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/7 | 48a-b | 1930? | |
1/7 | 49a-b | 1930? | |
1/7 | 50 | 1930? | |
1/7 | 51 | 1930? | |
1/7 | 52 | 1930? | |
1/7 | 53 | 1930? | |
1/7 | 54 | 1930? | |
1/7 | 55 |
Aerial view of the Baker River Valley looking east from
Loomis Mountain, with Bacon Peak and Welker Peak on the other side of the
valley
Baker Lake eventually expanded into this section of the Baker
River Valley after 1959.
|
1930? |
Timberline Lodge, Mt. Hood, OregonReturn to Top
The Timberline Lodge, built between 1936-1938, is on the south side of Mt. Hood near Government Camp in Clackamas County, Oregon
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box/Folder | item | ||
1/8 | 56 |
Main Lounge in the Timberline Lodge
Sawyers
(Photographer)
|
between 1938 and 1942 |
1/8 | 57 |
Ski Lounge in the Timberline Lodge
Sawyers
(Photographer)
|
between 1938 and 1942 |
1/8 | 58 |
Dormitory room in the Timberline Lodge
Sawyers
(Photographer)
|
between 1938 and 1942 |
1/8 | 59 |
Single bed bedroom in the Timberline Lodge
Sawyers
(Photographer)
|
between 1938 and 1942? |
Cascade Mountains, WashingtonReturn to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates | |
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Box | item | ||
OS1 | 60 | Between 1930-1965? |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Fire lookout stations--Washington (State)--Photographs
- Ranger stations--Washington (State)--Photographs
- Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)
Corporate Names
- Timberline Lodge (Mount Hood, Or.)--Photographs
- United States. Forest Service
- University of Washington. School of Forestry--Faculty
- University of Washington. School of Forestry--Students
Geographical Names
- Cascade Range--Photographs
Other Creators
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Personal Names
- Kinsey, Darius, 1869-1945 (photographer)