Lauren R. Donaldson papers, 1906-1994

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Donaldson, Lauren R. (Lauren Russell), 1903-1998
Title
Lauren R. Donaldson papers
Dates
1906-1994 (inclusive)
1940-1990 (bulk)
Quantity
29 cubic feet (42 boxes)
Collection Number
(Accession No. 2932-007)
Summary
Papers of a professor of fisheries at the University of Washington
Repository
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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Languages
English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Lauren R. Donaldson was a professor of fisheries and director of the Applied Fisheries Laboratory and its successors at the University of Washington. Donaldson was born near Tracy, Minnesota in 1903 and received his B.A. degree in 1926 from Intermountain Union College in Helena, Montana. After arriving in Seattle in 1930, he earned his M.S. degree (1931) and Ph.D. degree (1939) in Fisheries at the University of Washington. Donaldson joined the University of Washington faculty in 1932 as an assistant instructor and launched a program to improve the size, growth rate, and spawning capacity of rainbow trout. Donaldson was well-known for his selective breeding experiments that produced five species of hatchery-raised salmon and a super-strain of rainbow trout, known as the Donaldson trout, which came to be raised world-wide. He also secured funding for a hatchery on the campus and, through that project, demonstrated that salmon can be reared to return to their point of release, establishing a salmon run which brings 5,000 to 7,000 fish back to the University campus each year.

Another significant aspect of Donaldson's career was his involvement in radiobiological studies in both field and laboratory settings between 1946 and 1973. In 1943, the Applied Fisheries Laboratory was established at the University of Washington under the authority of the Manhattan District of the Army Corps of Engineers. The initial purpose of the laboratory was to study the effects of radiation on aquatic organisms. Lauren Donaldson was chosen to direct the laboratory, and did so until 1958 when he headed its successor, the Laboratory of Radiation Biology (renamed the Laboratory of Radiation Ecology in 1966).

In 1946, Donaldson, his Applied Fisheries Laboratory colleague Arthur D. Welander, and Washington State Game Department biologist Clarence F. Pautzke, were selected to serve as radiation monitors for Operation Crossroads, the first atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. They also performed sampling and analysis of specimens as part of the unofficial "Division of Radiobiology" that formed within the expedition's Radiological Safety Section in response to growing interest, on the part of the scientists present, in the disposition of radioactive material through biological systems. Altogether the Bikini and Eniwetok Atolls were the subject of seven separate series of atmospheric nuclear bomb tests between 1946 and 1958, and Donaldson planned or led the radiobiological activities for surveys and resurveys of Bikini and Eniwetok in 1947, 1948 (Operation Sandstone), 1949, 1952 (Operation Ivy, the first hydrogen bomb test), 1954 (Operation Castle), 1956 and 1964 to determine the effects of radiation on the islands' flora and fauna, and to assess the extent of recovery from exposure with the passage of time. In June 1954, some months after the crew of the Japanese fishing vessel Fukuryu Maru were exposed to radioactive fallout from the Operation Castle tests at Bikini, Donaldson participated in a joint Japanese-American scientific conference, which permitted American scientists to share their knowledge of radiation and its effects with their Japanese counterparts, significantly easing tensions arising from the incident.

Another significant aspect of the Applied Fisheries Laboratory's work with the Atomic Energy Commission was the Fern Lake Mineral Metabolism Program, which examined, through the use of radioactively tagged minerals, the absorption of nutrients by the relatively impoverished ecosystem of Fern Lake in Kitsap County, Washington. Donaldson also served as consultant and observer for tests in Nevada in the spring of 1951, acted as consultant to the Atomic Energy Commission on the Hanford Engineering Works, and drafted a plan for the biological study of the area designated for Project Chariot (a never-implemented plan to create a harbor on the coast of northwest Alaska).

Donaldson lent his expertise to the planning of the Seattle Aquarium, serving on the Aquarium Committee of the Washington Oceanographic Commission.

Donaldson retired from the faculty in 1973; however, he continued to work on campus as professor emeritus, meeting with researchers, faculty, and students. Professor Donaldson received numerous awards, including the Shinkishi Hatai Medal from the Japanese government in 1975 and the University of Washington's Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus award in 1987. He died on November 22, 1998.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The particular strength of the Donaldon papers is the extensive collection of project files on radiation projects carried out in the University of Washington's Applied Fisheries Laboratory, as well as logbooks, reports, notes, photo albums, scrapbooks and other materials from the radiological resurveys of Bikini Atoll and nearby islands after atomic and hydrogen bomb tests in the 1940s and 1950s. Project files on other trout and salmon research are also present. Correspondence makes up approximately one third of the accession and includes both intradepartmental correspondence within the University of Washington College of Fisheries and correspondence with Donaldson's colleagues outside the University.

Also included are Donaldson's papers from his service on the Washington State Oceanographic Commission, particularly concerning planning for the Seattle Aquarium. The papers also contain a substantial number of Donaldson's speeches and writings, his Shinkishi Hatai Medal as well as award plaques and commemorative pins and coins. A small group of family records round out he collection, including many photographs taken on family vacations.

Major correspondents include

  • Atkinson, Clinton E.
  • Chapman, Wilbert McLeod, 1910-1970
  • Haydon, John M. (John Morse), 1920-
  • Hines, Neal O.
  • Seymour, Allyn Henry, 1913-
  • American Fisheries Society
  • Seattle Aquarium
  • United States Atomic Energy Commission, Division of Biology and Medicine
  • United States Fish and Wildlife Service
  • United States Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife
  • Washington (State) Department of Fisheries
  • Washington (State) Department of Game

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

Preferred Citation

Lauren R. Donaldson papers, Special Collections Division, University of Washington Libraries.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Arranged into:

  • Personal papers, 1906-1994
  • Fourteen subgroups,1931-1994

Preservation Note

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Acquisition Information

Source: Lauren R. Donaldson, 1981-1988; Jack Donaldson, 1999; Robert Goff, 2004.

Processing Note

Processed by Eric Anderson and Janet Polata in 2005-2007.

Separated Materials

Five Metskers and United States Geological Survey maps were transferred to the University of Washington Libraries Map Collection January 13, 2006.

Bibliography

Neal O. Hines. Proving Ground: An Account of Radiobiological Studies in the Pacific, 1946-1961. (Seattle, University of Washington Press, 1962).

Neal O. Hines. Fish of Rare Breeding: Salmon and Trout of the Donaldson Strain. (Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press, 1976).

Robert R. Stickney. Flagship: A History of Fisheries at the University of Washington. (Dubuque, Iowa, Kendall/Hunt Publishing Company, 1989).

Related Materials

University of Washington Laboratory of Radiation Biology Records, Accession #00-065.

University of Washington Laboratory of Radiation Ecology Records, Accession #90-60

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

 

Personal Papers, 1906-1994Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
1/1
Biographical Features
1962, undated
Outgoing Letters
Box/Folder
1/2-3
of Donaldson and William K. Hershberger
Dr. Hershberger took over maintenance of the Donaldson strain of rainbow trout after Donaldson's retirement.
1987-1989
General Correspondence
Box/Folder
1/4
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
1957-1975, 1980
1/5
Alaska Department of Fisheries
1951-1957
1/6
Allen, George H.
1956-1970
1/7
Alpena Community College
1967-1977
1/8-10
American Fisheries Society
1934-1939, 1954-1991, undated
1/11
American Institute of Biological Sciences
1967
1/12
American Society of Limnology and Oceanography
1972
1/13
AmFac, Inc.
1973
1/14
Atlantic Monthly Press
1960, 1967
1/15
Bardach, John E.
1966-1968
1/16
Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories
1968-1989
1/17
Bill, Alexander
Includes photographs of a visit by Donaldson to Cypress Island circa 1990, including pictures of fish and fish traps.
1980-1992
1/18
California Academy of Sciences
1955-1969
1/19
California Department of Fish and Game
1935, 1939, 1950-1970
1/20
Canada (governmental departments and agencies)
1969-1971
1/21
Canada Department of Fisheries
1950-1954, 1965-1969, 1981
1/22-23
Canada Fisheries Research Board
1937-1939, 1950-1972
1/24
Chapman, Wilbert McLeod
1947-1950
1/25
Chelan County Public Utility District No.1
1960-1974
1/26
Chow, Ti
1953-1986
1/27
Colorado (state agencies and departments)
1937-1939, 1952-1965
1/28-29
Crown Zellerbach Corporation
Contains photographs of the overflow structure of a Crown Zellerbach facility, inluding the structure, the channel, and the overflow meeting the Elwha River.
1966-1978
1/30
Donaldson, John R.
1951, 1965-1984
1/31
Ellis, James N.
1951-1952, 1967-1974
1/32
Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations
1950-1972
1/33
Foster, Fred J.
1932-1939
1/34
Fullerton, James
Includes photographs of the pump house, office/hatchery building and ponds at Fullerton's Crescent Fish Farms on the Nicomekl River in British Columbia.
1957-1968
1/35-40
General Mills
1959-1973
1/41
Germany (governmental departments and agencies)
1967-1973
1/42
Grotto Foundation
1983-1989
1/43
Gudjonsson, Thor
1959-1983
1/44
Gunstrom, Gary
1967-1973
1/45
Halme, Erkki
1954-1969, undated
1/46
Hastings, Waldon H.
1972-1973
2/1-3
Haydon, John M.
1969-1974
2/4
Hill, Louis W.
1973-1989
2/5-6
Hines, Neal O.
1968-1977, undated
2/7
Hiyama, Yoshio
1954-1967
2/8
Idaho Department of Fish and Game
1935-1954, 1965
2/9
Idaho Power Company
1978
2/10
India, Ministry of Community Development and Cooperation
1960-1962, 1964
2/11
International Pacific Salmon Fisheries Commission
Includes a photo of Donaldson circa 1941.
1941-1958, 1969-1973
2/12
Japan (governmental departments and agencies)
1957-1977, undated
2/13
Japan (universities and companies)
The "Report to Japan Society for the Promotion of Science" includes photographs of Donaldson's visit to Tokyo University of Fisheries in September/October 1973.
1957-1977, undated
2/14
Japan Marine Products Photo Materials Association
1971-1973, undated
2/15-16
Japan Salmon Resources Preservation Association
1968-1970
2/17
Joseph Johnston & Sons, Ltd.
1966-1976
2/18
Katz, Max
1950-1958
2/19
Kim, Myung Hee
1990-1992
2/20
King County Prosecutor's Office
1963-1964
2/21
Kittelsen, Arne H.
1967-1970
2/22
Lowman, Frank G.
1969-1979
2/23
Magnuson, Warren G.
1963-1968
2/24
Marine Digest Publishing Company
1965-1967
2/25
Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries
1954, 1960, 1972-1973
2/26
Menasveta, Deb
1962-1979
2/27
Michigan Department of Conservation
1955-1968
2/28
Minnesota: governmental departments and agencies
Includes a photograph of Dennis Anderson holding a 19.5-pound Donaldson rainbow trout.
1968-1981
2/29
Montana Department of Fish and Game
1935-1971
2/30
Moore, Milo
Includes photographs of the harbor at Piraeus, Greece, and Greek fishing vessels (purse seines, trawlers) and a Greek marine research vessel.
1951-1972
2/31
Moore-Clark Company
1972-1973
2/32
Morrison-Woodsworth-Crosby, Inc.
1965-1967
2/33
Naidu, Janakiram R.
1965-1968, 1992
2/34
National Science Foundation
1960-1970
2/35
New York Department of Environmental Conservation
1936, 1955-1977
2/36
New Zealand (governmental departments and agencies)
1970
2/37
New Zealand Conservator of Wildlife
1967-1973
2/38
Northwest Pulp And Paper Association
1960-1966, 1977
2/39
Norway Directorate of Fisheries
1950, 1966-1979
2/40
Ocean Systems, Inc.
1970-1971, undated
2/41
Oceanic Institute (Makapuu Point, Waimanalo, Hawaii)
1966-1969
2/42
Okada, Yaichiro
1954-1967
2/43
Oregon (various departments)
1963, 1970-1979
2/44
Oregon Aqua-Foods, Inc.
1973-1984
2/45-46
Oregon Fish Commission
1935, 1945-1973
2/47
Oregon State Game Commission
1948- 1968
2/48-49
Oregon State University
1951-1974
2/50
Pacific Fishery Biologists
1938-1939, 1955-1971
3/1-3
Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission
1953-1956, 1968-1974
3/4
Pautzke, Clarence F.
1961-1971
3/5
Pennsylvania Fish Commission
1958-1959
3/6
Pritchard, Joel
Correspondence regarding United States Congress Fisheries Coordinating Council
1973-1976
3/7
Public Utility District No. 1 of Franklin County
1961-1965
3/8
Puget Sound Power & Light Company
1961, 1973-1979
3/9
Radiation Research
1967-1971
3/10
Ralston Purina Company
1955-1968
3/11
Rocky Mountain College
1955-1958, 1966
3/12
Rollefson, Gunnar
1953-1971
3/13
Salmon Research Trust of Ireland
1960-1976
3/14
Satia, Benedict P. (Ben)
1975-1992
3/15-22
Sea Pool Fisheries, Ltd.
1967-1971
3/23
Seattle City Light
1960-1965
3/24
Seattle Milk Fund
1969-1978
3/25
Seversun, Richard F.
1988
3/26
Sigma Xi, University of Washington Chapter
1950-1951, 1968-1976
3/27
Sømme, Sven
1952-1961
3/28
Stanford University
1935, 1939, 1950, 1954, 1966-1977
3/29
State College of Washington
1951-1957
3/30
Stevenson, William Alfred
Includes photographs of Stevenson, his family, friends, boat and a fish he caught.
1961-1970
3/31
Sunkist Growers
1971-1975
3/32
Svärdson, Gunnar
1959-1968
3/33
Tacoma Poggie Club
1952-1962
3/34
Thailand (governmental departments and agencies)
1955-1971
3/35
Thompson, Fred A.
1938, 1950-1951
3/36
Tokyo University of Fisheries, Laboratory of Fish-Culture
1973
3/37
Tomiyana, Tetuo
1964-1983
3/38
Universitet I Oslo
1952, 1963-1972
3/39
United States (various agencies and departments)
1965-1972
3/40
United States Atomic Energy Commission
1954-1971
3/41
United States Atomic Energy Commission Division of Biology and Medicine
1953, 1967-1969
3/42
United States Atomic Energy Commission Division of Biomedical and Environmental Research
1970-1972
3/43
United States Atomic Energy Commission Richland Operations Office
1967-1968
3/44
United States Bonneville Power Administration
1968-1970
3/45-49
United States Embassy, Tokyo (Clinton E. Atkinson, Fishery Attaché)
Folder #46 includes photographs of a Japanese aquaculture facility and of fish samples.
1966- 1973
3/50
United States Environmental Protection Agency
1973
3/51
United States Federal Power Commission
1962
3/52-57
United States Fish and Wildlife Service
1940-1977
4/1-5
United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Portland
1951-1977
4/6
United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Seattle
1957-1969, 1992
4/7
United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Western Fish Disease Laboratory
1969-1975
4/8
United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Western Fish Nutrition Laboratory
1957-1969
4/9
United States Bureau of Fisheries
1935-1939
4/10
United States Department of the Interior
1937-1939, 1969, 1971
4/11
United States National Fisheries Center and Aquarium
Includes a photograph of the National Fisheries Center and Aquarium Advisory Consultants taken April 29 or 30, 1965, in Washington, D.C.
1965-1966, undated
4/12
United States National Marine Fisheries Service
1970-1989
4/13
United States National Marine Fisheries Service (Portland)
1970-1976
4/14
United States National Marine Fisheries Service (Seattle)
1970-1986
4/15-16
United States National Sea Grant Program
1970-1976
4/17
United States Department of the Navy (James Forrestal)
undated (circa 1946)
4/18
United States Public Health Service
1953-1958, 1970
4/19
United States Senate Committee on Commerce
1968
4/20
United States Senate Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce (Magnuson, Warren G.; Moore, Milo)
1955-1961
4/21
United States Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands
1955-1956
4/22
University of Alaska
1982-1984
4/23
University of California
1950-1978
4/24
University of Michigan, School of Natural Resources
1954-1973
4/25
University of Rhode Island
1970-1973
4/26
University of Wisconsin Zoology Department
1950-1966
4/27
Washington (various state agencies and departments)
1935-1937, 1951-1953, 1964, 1977, 1979, undated
4/28
Washington, Office of the Attorney General
1964-1975
4/29-37
Washington, Department of Fisheries
1937-1938-1985
4/38-40
Washington Department of Game
Includes Fishery Management Divison
1936, 1948-1964
5/1-2
Washington Department of Game
Includes Fishery Management Divison
1965-1979
5/3
Washington Public Utility Districts' Association
1960-1967
5/4
Washington State Sportsmen's Council
1950, 1959, 1973
5/5
Washington State Trout Grower's Association
1953-1956
5/6
Williams, Hill
1967-1971
5/7
Winther, John K.
1957-1960
5/8
Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources
1968-1969
5/9
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution
1972-1979
5/10
Wright, James E.
1970-1971
5/11-28
Miscellaneous correspondents A-I
Go-Gw (folder #25): A letter from Harold Goodwin dated July 28, 1977, includes a photo of an unidentified geographical feature (referred to in the letter as a mountain in the making) Hen-Hu (folder #27): A letter from Dr. Karl Herde includes a photo of Dr. Herde and his wife Edna in Alaska in 1986.
ca. 1940s-1990s
6/1-26
Miscellaneous correspondents J-War
L (folder #4): A letter from Charles Lee contains a 1988 photo of Lee with his wife and son. Mi-My (folder #7): A letter from Sigeru Motoda includes a 1983 photograph of Donaldson, Motoda and others at a snack bar in Shimizu, Japan. Se-Si (folder #19): Includes photos of Jeff Silverstein, his wife and son.
ca. 1940s-1990s
7/1-4
Miscellaneous correspondents Was-Z
ca. 1940s-1990s
General Correspondence Regarding
Box/Folder
7/5
Unidentified
1931-1970, undated
7/6-7
Articles on Salmon and Trout ( Harper's and Reader's Digest)
1966-1967
7/8
Articles on Salmon and Trout ( Look and Popular Mechanics)
1961-1964
7/9
Articles on Salmon and Trout ( Nutrition Today)
1966-1967
7/10
Articles on Salmon and Trout ( Sea Frontiers)
1967-1968
7/11-12
Egg Shipments to Japanese Governmental Entities, Universities, and Companies
1971-1977
7/13
Fisheries Reprints
1960-1968
7/14
Hanford Litigation
1993-1994, undated
7/15
McConahy Estate
1961-1968
7/16
Mossbacks
Contains correspondence regarding, and copies of, " " Fish Hatchery Memoirs," " an informal newsletter for retired federal fish hatchery workers.
1978-1979
7/17
National Sea Grant College Award
Donaldson was the first recipient of this award.
1971
7/18
Power Plants
1975-1976
7/19-21
Rainbow Trout
1959-1967
7/22-24
Rainbow Trout Egg Requests
1959-1972
7/25-33
Salmon and Trout (General)
1965-1974
7/34
" The Salmonid Fishes as a Natural Livestock"
1983
Seattle Aquarium
See also material from the Washington Oceanographic Commission and Seattle Aquarium Director Screening Committee, in boxes and folders 38/22-28, 40/21, 41/2-6 .
Box/Folder
7/35
Seattle City Council
1969-1972
7/36
Seattle Department of Community Development
1970
7/37
Seattle Mayor's Office
1968-1970
7/38
Tuai, Liem E. (City Council member)
1970-1972
7/39
Miscellaneous Correspondents
1968-1972
Box/Folder
7/40
Tag Returns
1972-1973
8/1-2
University of Washington Fisheries Holding Pond
1960-1962
8/3
University of Washington Fisheries Holding Pond Contributions
1961-1964
8/4
"Visit of China Guests"
1989, undated
8/5
Washington Department of Commerce and Economic Development
1966-1970
8/6
Winton Gift
1968
Interdepartmental Correspondence
Box/Folder
8/7
University of Washington Assistant Comptroller for Sponsored Research (Treibel, Wallace C.)
1964-1965
8/8-12
University of Washington Graduate School
1950-1972
8/13
University of Washington Grant and Contract Services
1967-1968
University of Washington President's Office
Box/Folder
8/14-15
Miscellaneous Correspondence
1946-1969, 1990
39/1
Correspondence regarding School of Fisheries Dean
Restricted
Includes correspondence from Presidents Odegaard and Schmitz.
1958
Box/Folder
8/16
University of Washington Quinault Resource Development Advisory Panel
1970-1971
8/17
University of Washington Radiological Sciences
1970-1972, undated
8/18-22
Washington Sea Grant Program
1970-1990
8/23-36
Miscellaneous A-Z
1940s-1980s
Intradepartmental Correspondence
University of Washington School of Fisheries
1935-1958
Box/Folder
39/2
Applicant Information
Restricted
1947
39/3
Student Evaluations
Restricted
1953-1954
Box/Folder
8/37-46
University of Washington College of Fisheries
1959-1969
9/1-9
University of Washington College of Fisheries
1970-1992
9/10
University of Washington College of Fisheries, Fisheries Institute
1961-1991, undated
9/11
University of Washington College of Fisheries On-Campus Facilities Committee
1969-1973
Radiation Projects
These files are arranged according to Donaldson's project numbers and project section numbers.
See also the project scrapbooks in boxes 20 through 24, and the slides in boxes 27 and 31.
Box/Folder
9/12
Monthly Reports; Summary of Operations
1943-1947
9/13
Chronology Charts, Project List and Summary
1946-1948, undated
9/14-17
Logbooks, Office of Scientific Research and Development Projects
1944-1950
9/18
Project I Telephone Transcript and Contract Draft
1943
Project I: Basic Studies of the Effect of X-rays upon Fish in Various States of Development
Box/Folder
9/19-20
Log Book
1944, 1948, undated
box-folder:oversize
40/1
Project Chronology Charts
1944
Section I (Chinook salmon adults from Green River) and Section II (Chinook salmon eggs from Section I)
Box/Folder
9/21
Office of Scientific Research and Development Original Papers, Chinook A and B Series.
1943-1944, undated
box-folder:oversize
40/2
Chinook X-Ray Statistical Summary
1944, undated
Box/Folder
9/22
Chinook Salmon from Green River, Markings, etc.
1943-1944, undated
9/23
Chinook Salmon from Soos Creek Egg Mortality Per Week
1943, undated
9/24
Egg Mortalities and Abnormalities
1943-1947, undated
9/25
Statistical Analysis. Seymour, A. H.
1947, undated
9/26
Mortality Analysis, Egg and Fry (Revised)
undated
9/27
Recovery of Chinook Salmon, Samish River
Includes photographs of fish.
1946-1947, undated
9/28
Scale Samples Mortality
1946-1947, undated
9/29
Rochester Statistical Group Report
1945, undated
9/30
Samish River Returns
1947-1949, undated
9/31
Samish Chinook Report. Rough Draft of Report Number UWFL 13. Appendix to UWFL 6
Report contains a photograph of a magnified salmon scale.
1948
9/32
Chinook X-Ray Statistical Summary (write-up started by K. Bonham)
1946-1947, undated
Section III: Mature sockeye salmon adults from Cultus Lake, British Columbia, and Section IV: Sockeye salmon eggs from Section III
Box/Folder
9/33
Sockeye Log Book: Return to Cultus Lake
undated
9/34
Sockeye Log Book II: Eggs from Section III
undated
9/35
Sockeye Log Book II: Adults
1943
9/36-37
Statistical Analysis of Sockeye Mortalities
1944, undated
box-folder:oversize
40/3
Statistical Analysis of Sockeye Mortalities
1944, undated
Box/Folder
9/38
Weight Measurements, Miscellaneous including Sockeye
1945, undated
Box/Folder
10/1
Section V: Steelhead Trout Adults from Columbia River; Miscellaneous Data
1942-1947, undated
10/2
Section V and Section XV: Steelhead Trout Adults from Columbia River (Leavenworth); Steelhead Log Book III
undated
Sections VI and VII: Chinook Salmon Eyed Eggs from Green River
Box/Folder
10/3
Original of Published Report Number UWFL 8 (X-Ray Effects on Chinook Embryos and Larvae)
1948, undated
10/4
Chinook Salmon Eggs from Green River, Log Book II
1944
10/5
Chinook Salmon Eggs from Green River, Log Book III
1944
10/6
Chinook Salmon Irradiated in Eyed-Egg Stages, Lot Numbers 1A to 21A, Welander, A.D.
1944, undated
box-folder:oversize
40/4
Oversize Tables: Fish Measurements and Cell Counts
1944
Section XII and Section XIII: Male Silver Salmon
Box/Folder
10/7
Chinook Salmon Work Sheets: Egg Mortalities and Rough Draft
1944, undated
10/8
Original Papers Chinook, including "B"
1944-1945, undated
10/9
Write-Up and Table Figures: Chinook Salmon from Columbia River
undated
10/10
Log Book: Chinook Salmon Adults
1944
10/11
Log Book: Chinook Salmon Eggs from Section XII
1944
Section VIII
Box/Folder
10/12-20
Draft of A.D. Welander's doctoral thesis, Studies of the Effects of Roentgen Rays on the Growth and Development of the Embryos and Larvae of the Chinook Salmon (oncorhynchus tschawysha)
Includes photographs (photomicrographs) of salmon larvae, embryos, skin, and internal organs.
1945
10/21
Silver Salmon Log Book: Males Only
1944, undated
box-folder:oversize
40/5
Photograph
Oversize photograph (several prints taped together) of salmon skull and skin.
undated
Section IX: Rainbow trout yearlings from University of Washington stock
Box/Folder
10/22
Rainbow Trout Log Book I, Adults (Closed Out)
undated
10/23
Miscellaneous Data, Rainbow Adults (Section Discarded 1944)
1944-1945, undated
Box/Folder
10/24
Section XV: Steelhead trout adults from Columbia River (Leavenworth), and XVI: Steelhead trout eggs from Section XV
undated
10/25
Section XVIII: Original Papers: Goldfish
undated
Project III: Bikini Experiments of 1946 ("Operation Crossroads")
Box/Folder
10/26
Expense Statements, Equipment Lists, Photo Logs
1946, undated
10/27
Donaldson's log book
1946
10/28
"Bikini Log Notes - LRD"
Typed transcript of Donaldson's 1946 Bikini log, with a subsequently-written introduction describing the events leading up to his participation in the project.
1946-1951
10/29
Notes
1946
10/30
Yearbook - U.S.S. Bairoko
undated, but presumably 1946 or 1947
Project IV: Bikini Experiments of 1947 ("Bikini Resurvey Project")
Box/Folder
10/31
Log
1947
10/32
Personnel
1947
10/33
Counting Room Log
undated
10/34
Equipment
1946-1947, undated
10/35
Miscellaneous Notes
1943, 1947, undated
10/36
Report Maps
1947, undated
10/37
Log of Jesse P. Pflueger
1947
10/38
Orders to Duty of Resurvey Staff from United States Navy
1947, undated
11/1-6
Bikini Scientific Resurvey Technical Report
1947
Box/Folder
11/7
Project VIII: Cooperation Project with the Hanford Engineering Works; Rainbow Trout Eggs from Hanford
Primarily fish mortality records.
1951-1953
11/8
Project IX: Operation Sandstone (Eniwetok); Donaldson's log of the hydrogen bomb test at Eniwetok Atoll
1948
11/9
Project X: Bikini Resurvey of 1948; Donaldson's Log
1948
11/10
Project XI: Bikini Resurvey of 1949
Donaldson's Log
1949
11/11-12
"Operation Ivy." First Hydrogen Bomb Test
Includes logs of Lauren Donaldson (which includes his identification badges) and Allyn H. Seymour from the hydrogen bomb test at Eniwetok Atoll
1952
11/13
"Operation Castle" Eniwetok Atoll
Donaldson's notes
1954
11/14
Bikini-Eniwetok-Rongelap Field Survey
Typed and bound summary of scientific staff's daily logs.
1964
Low-level Chronic Irradiation of Salmon
This project was supported by the United States Atomic Energy Commission, which later became the Energy Research and Development Administration.
Box/Folder
11/15
General Correspondence
1969-1976
11/16-18
Project Proposals
1967-1970
11/19
Project Summaries
1968-1969
11/20
Equipment, Expenditures, Budget
1967-1969
11/21
Data
1968-1973
11/22-30
Progress Reports
Reports for 1970, 1971, 1973 and 1974 include photographs of fish, fish gonads, and deformed fingerlings (immature fish).
1968-1976
11/31
Papers based on irradiation research
By Donaldson and others; the paper for the Eleventh Pacific Science Conference includes a photo of the radiation facility.
1964-1967
Project Files
Box/Folder
11/32
Adams River Fingerling Experiment
1943
Eagle Creek (Oregon) Selective Breeding Program
A joint research program of the College of Fisheries and the Fish and Wildlife Service at the Eagle Creek National Fish Hatchery in Oregon, intended to develop techniques of selective breeding applicable to fish culture operations on the Columbia River and to improve the quality and survival of silver salmon and steelhead trout runs.
Box/Folder
11/33
Project Description
1968
General Correspondence.
Box/Folder
11/34
United States Fish and Wildlife Service
1964-1972
11/35
Roley, Dennis D.
1972-1973
Box/Folder
11/36
General Information
1966, 1972, undated
11/37-38
National Fish Hatcheries Management Charts
1967-1971
11/39
United States Fish and Wildlife Service Conference Reports
1962-1969
11/40
Genetic Selection
undated
11/41-42
Pete Castle Workshops
1966-1967, undated
11/43-48
Coho Salmon
Includes project data, notes, and summaries of releases and returns for brood years 1961-1972.
1961-1972, undated
box-folder:oversize
40/6
Coho Salmon
1972, undated
Box/Folder
12/1-28
Silver Salmon
Includes files on production stock, genetic improvement, spawning, survival, releases and returns for brood years 1961-1971, although not all data types are present for all brood years
1961-1971
box-folder:oversize
40/7
Silver Salmon
undated
Box/Folder
12/29-46
Steelhead Trout
Includes general information as well as information on genetic improvement, spawning and survival.
1962-1970
12/47-48
Steelhead/Rainbow cross
Mostly size data.
1967-1978
12/49-51
Miscellaneous
1972-1978, undated
box-folder:oversize
40/8
Miscellaneous
1978
Fern Lake Mineral Metabolism Program
Box/Folder
12/52
General Correspondence: United States Atomic Energy Commission
1968-1971
12/53-56
United States Atomic Energy Commission Proposals
1967-1970
12/57
Contract
1972
Reports
Box/Folder
12/58
Budget and Project Report (fiscal year)
1968
12/59
Research summary
1969
12/60
Fern Lake Geologic Study (Palmer)
1957 or 1979
13/1
Cladocera and Copepoda manuscript
By Rufus Kiser, with Donaldson's review comments. Report includes three photographs showing Fern Lake and rushes and sedge growing there.
1970
13/2-6
Miscellaneous Reports
Progress reports and other papers by researchers associated with the project, as well as one report published by the University of Washington. "Fern Lake Trace Mineral Metabolism Program" includes photographs of Fern Lake and researchers.
1958-1972
Box/Folder
13/7
"Fern Lake Misc."
Notes and accident report.
1969-1970, undated
13/8-13
Photographs
Two folders of captioned photographs originally stored together in a binder, showing the estuary of Rocky Creek; the cabin where researchers stayed; views of Fern Lake from the eastern and western shores; researchers including Rufus Kiser, James Olson and Paul Olson; equipment and facilities including the outlet structure, a recording rain gauge, a recording pyrheliometer, water level and water temperature gauges, an electric directional fish counter and equipment for studying movement of elements within a Douglas fir ecosystem; a female crayfish with eggs; a steelhead trout; a lecture for high school teachers enrolled in a summer radiation biology institute. Two folders of miscellaneous photographs of Fern Lake and the surrounding vegetation, the researchers and their equipment.
ca1969-1970
Box/Folder
13/14-15
Matamek
Correspondence and reports about the salmon-related research project at the Matamek Research Station (property of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute) on the Matamek River in Quebec Province, Canada, on which Donaldson was asked to advise.
1977-1979
Quesnal District (British Columbia)
A project to investigate possibilities for the rehabilitation of depleted fish runs.
Box/Folder
13/16
General Correspondence
1941-1943
13/17
Summary of Activities
1941-1943
13/18
Reports
Includes photographs of the Quesnel, Horsefly and Mitchell Rivers, and a dam on the South Fork of the Quesnel.
1941-1943
13/19
Log Books
1942
box-folder:oversize
40/9
Maps
undated
Box/Folder
13/20
Horsefly Lake Temperature
1941-1942
13/21
General Notes from Commission Files
1947, undated
13/22
Sockeye Temperature Experiment
1941
Box/Folder
13/23-34
River Water; Bacteriological Analysis
1944-1950
Salmon Selective Breeding Program
This ongoing research project was funded first by the United States Fish and Wildlife Service and then by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service.
Box/Folder
14/1-8
Project Proposals
1966-1973
14/9-11
Contracts
1961-1968
Box/Folder
14/12-17
Weyerhaeuser / Ore-Aqua Foods
1975-1988
box-folder:oversize
40/22
Weyerhaeuser / Ore-Aqua Foods; Drawing of Cooker
undated
Subject Files
Box/Folder
14/18
American Samoa
1906, undated
14/19-22
"China Visit"
Donaldson's folder title has been retained; this material includes correspondence regarding a visit the Donaldsons made to China in 1983 as well as correspondence on egg shipments and other matters with Chinese academics and former students. Includes a contact sheet with photographs of the Dalian Aquatic Products Bureau delegation and their University of Washington hosts.
1982-1986
14/23
Donaldson, Lauren R. Personal to 1959
Includes Donaldson's student record book, appointment letters, an application for federal employment, and material regarding his high school graduating class.
1930-1959
14/24
Fish Nutrition
Includes unidentified (possibly 1950s) photograph of three young fish.
1952, 1962, 1973, undated
box-folder:oversize
40/10
Fish Nutrition
One oversize chart.
undated
Box/Folder
14/25
Habits and Propogation of Freshwater Fish
Includes a photograph captioned "Equipment used for transporting bass to the Yakima river."
1940-1951
14/26
Home Aquaria
1924-1938
14/27
Iceland
1974-1981
14/28
International Biological Program
1967-1968, undated
14/29
Japan [Trip]
Includes 10 photographs, primarily of Donaldson.
1953-1963, undated
14/30
Korea
undated
14/31
Lummi Aquaculture Development
1944-1952
14/32
Marine Hatchery Methods
1932-1938
14/33
Mineral Composition of Salmon Diets
1979-1987
14/34
Native American Aquaculture Projects
1976
14/35
Norway, Scotland and England Trip
Includes a photograph of Donaldson with some of his British hosts.
1977
14/36-37
Norwegian Fish Meal
1987, undated
14/38
Ocean Ranching
1976
15/1-4
Professional Leave
Folder #4 includes an unidentified aerial photograph.
1959, 1967
15/5
Protan Laboraties
1986
15/6
Research Proposals and Program Outlines
1954, undated
15/7
Salmon (Chinook)
1968-1984
15/8
Salmon Data
1936, 1981-1983
15/9
Salmon Returns
1972-1977, 1983
15/10
Salmon Stock Improvement, Northwest Pulp and Paper Association
1964-1969
15/11
Salmon Summaries and Returns
1973-1974, undated
15/12
Samples, Invertebrates
1952-1958
15/13
Siberia
1977
15/14
Skagit Nuclear Power Project
undated
15/15
Sweden
1975-1981
15/16-18
Toledo-Edison Hearings
1959, undated
15/19
Trout
1970-1972, undated
15/20
Trout and Lakes
Includes a photograph of two fish-possibly the photo of two different trout strains referred to in a letter to Maynard Reece.
1939-1962
15/21
United States Atomic Energy Commission, Bio-Medical Program Directors
1952, 1956
15/22-29
University of Washington College of Fisheries Hatchery Records
Includes work logs, temperature records and other material.
1928-1968, 1978, 1986-1997, undated
15/30
University of Washington College of Fisheries Holding Pond Records
Includes logbook and budget report.
1946-1950, 1967-1968
15/31
University of Washington Graduate School Hybridization Studies (Initiative 171)
1952-1961
15/32-36
Visitors and Tours
Includes photograph of Donaldson.
1959-1977
16/1
Washington State Department of Fisheries
1963-1971
Reports
Box/Folder
16/2
Elwha River
1973
16/3
Evergreen State College Site
1968
16/4
National Marine Fisheries Service
1975
16/5
Preliminary Biological Survey of the Skagit and Stillaguamish Rivers
1921
16/6
Puget Sound Power and Light Company
1974
16/7
Research in Fisheries
1966-1976
16/8
Miscellaneous
1937, 1961, 1974
16/9-10
University of Washington College of Fisheries; Summary of Activities
1956-1980
Box/Folder
16/11
Fish Counts and Statistics
1936, 1943, 1962-1970, undated
Speeches and Writings
Box/Folder
16/12-21
Of Others
1920s-1980s
16/22-28
Chronological
The paper on cymatogaster aggregatus in folder #22 (1930s) includes photographs of cymatogaster specimens and scales.
1930s-1977
17/1-4
Chronological
1978-1991, undated
17/5
Alumni Program Short Course, "Salmon and Trout and their Management."
1977
17/6-7
Untitled Book Draft
Draft of a book about Donaldson's work with breeding of salmonid fishes.
1973
17/8
Chronic Irradiation Studies
1975, undated
17/9
Coho Return: Paper Notes
undated
17/10
Development of Rainbow Trout Breed Stock by Selective Breeding, Donaldson and Olson
1955
17/11-13
Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series Notes
1977
17/14
Environmental Paper on American Samoa
undated
17/15
Interracial Hybridization of Cutthroat Trout and its Use in Fisheries Management; Donaldson, Hansler, and Buckridge
1956
17/16-17
Nutrition
Includes photomicrographs of fish tissues.
1935-1942
17/18
The Pond
1986
17/19
Problems in Feeding Food Concentrates to Hatchery Fish, Parts I and II, Donaldson and Foster
undated
17/20-22
Radiation Biology
1948-1964
17/23
The Return of the Silver Salmon, Oncorhynchus Kisuch (Walbaum) to the Point of Release, Donaldson and Allen
1957
17/24
A Review of the Salmon Hatcheries of the Republic of Korea
1973
17/25
Salmon Ranching in Washington State by John E. Thorpe
1978-1979
17/26
" The Salmonid Fishes: Aquatic Livestock of the Future"
Includes captioned photos used in the article (credits in parentheses where given): two of the School of Fisheries showing the pond; a spawning salmon scaling the fish ladder (James O. Sneddon); Norwegian salmon and trout cages; comparing salmon sizes (R. Whitney); a fish wheel on the Chitose River in Hokkaido, Japan (Timothy Joyner); a "private salmon hatchery on the Oregon coast" (Oregon Aqua-Foods); coho salmon that had homed to the University of Washington's fish ladder; salmon returning to a weir on the Kalinin River, Sakhalin Island, U.S.S.R. (J.N.Halle)
1983
17/27
Salmonid Feed Studies
Includes Donaldson's thesis
1930s
17/28
Selective Breeding of Chinook Salmon
1960
18/1
Skagit River Surveys
1973-1979
18/2
Trout Feed Studies
1932
Box/Folder
18/3-10
Publications
Miscellaneous magazines, brochures and books collected by Donaldson, primarily on fish-related topics.
1951-1975, 1988-1989, undated
Conference and Convention Files
Box/Folder
18/11
Alaska Aquaculture Conference
1982
18/12
29th Alaska Science Conference
1978
18/13
American Fisheries Society / International Association of Game, Fish and Conservation Commissioners
1937-1940, 1953-1959
18/14
First International Conference on the Biology of the Pacific Salmon (U.S.S.R.)
Includes a photograph of Donaldson speaking.
1978-1979
18/15-16
Thomas Alva Edison Foundation 14th Education Conference
1 sound tape reel
Recording of Donaldson's talk.
1969
18/17
Food and Agriculture Committee (United Nations) Ad Hoc Working Party on Genetic Selection
1971
18/18
Joint Center for Graduate Studies Science Seminar, Richland, Washington
1978
18/19
Marine Technology Society, Washington, D. C.
1971
18/20
North Pacific Aquaculture Symposium
Includes seven color photographs of Donaldson and other attendees of the 1980 symposium.
1980, 1983
18/21-22
Northwest Fish Culture Conference
1967-1978
18/23
Pacific Fisheries Biologists
Includes photo of 1948 conference participants taken at Lake Quinault Lodge, with list of names; one earlier undated conference photo; one later undated conference photo (possibly 1965 in Harrison, British Columbia)
1948-1969, undated
18/24
Pacific Science Congress (Japan)
Includes photographs from the 1966 event; some are of Donaldson.
1966
19/1-4
Pacific Science Congress (Japan)
Includes photographs from the 1966 event; some are of Donaldson.
1966-1975
box-folder:oversize
40/11
Pacific Science Congress (Japan)
Map and conference brochure.
1966
Box/Folder
19/5
Salmonid Reproduction, International Symposium
1983
19/6
Sea Grant Conference
1971
19/7
Western Association of State Game and Fish Commissioners
1939-1965
19/8-13
Miscellaneous conferences
1940-1981
Curriculum Materials
Box/Folder
39/4
Class Records
Restricted
1934-1964
19/14
Fisheries 301, 451
Includes a photograph of an 18-month-old rainbow trout.
1972, 1966, undated
19/15
Fisheries 452
1959-1971, undated
19/16-17
Fisheries 453
1939, 1951-1967, undated
19/18
Unidentified
1955, 1964, 1983, undated
Exam Questions
Box/Folder
19/19-20
Fisheries 152, 153, 156, 157, 450, 453, 461
1936-1971, undated
19/21
Fisheries 451
1950-1972, undated
19/22
Fisheries 452
1950-1973, undated
19/23
Graduate Student Exam Questions
1949, 1965-1966, undated
box:oversize
40/12
Maps
Crown Zellerbach Corporation
1965, 1968, undated
Box/Folder
19/24
Proposals: Metropolitan Seattle Sewage Utilization Study
1973
Plans
box-folder:oversize
40/13
Sea Pool Fisheries, Ltd.
1970, undated
40/14
University of Washington Fisheries Center Floor Plans and Pumping Station Alterations
1968-1969
40/15
United States National Fisheries Center and Aquarium Floor Plans
1965
Box/Folder
19/25
Miscellaneous Plans
Includes a plan for the University of Washington's South Campus, a spawning bed located near the Baker Reservoir and two unidentified, undated drawings.
1961, 1993, undated
Box/Folder
19/26
Bibliography: Donaldson's Writings
1931-1986
Scrapbooks
See also the project files for the radiological surveys in boxes 10 and 11.
Box/Folder
20/1-21
Radiological Survey of Bikini, Eniwetok and Likiep Atolls, Marshall Islands, Laboratory of Radiation Biology
81 pages. Photographs and narrative captions. Includes photographs of the crew and officers of the LSI 1091, "the laboratory-headquarters vessel supplied by the Navy for the use of the AEC Donaldson Expedition," as well as pictures of the boat itself. Includes many photographs of the scientists at work and a few of the scientists at rest. There are many aerial photographs of Bikini Atoll, some of which show oil slicks in the water. Some photographs depict the survey party landing on Bikini beaches using rubber life rafts. Mutated plants on Eniwetok Atoll are seen in some of the photographs. Aso includes photographs of native dwellings, persons and fish traps on Likiep Atoll. Individuals pictured include Spencer W. Tinker, Neal O. Hines, Harold St. John, Dr. Allyn H. Seymour, Paul Kellogg, George B. Greer, Dr. Ralph Palumbo, Dr. Kelshaw Bonham, Dr. Lauren R. Donaldson, Dr. Arthur Welander, Frank Lowman, Dr. Orlin Biddulph, Father Francis J. Feeney, Anton DeBrum and Cappelle DeBrum.
1949
20/22-24
Operation Crossroads
Includes many newspaper articles, photographs, crayon illustrations, and programs from talks Donaldson gave. Although the scrapbook is entitled "Scrapbook of Operation Crossroads," a number of the newspaper articles concern Donaldson's other work. Individuals pictured include Lauren R. Donaldson, Arthur D. Welander, Clarence F. Pautzke, Enos Bradner, Raymond Allen, Mrs. Donaldson, David E. Lilienthal, John Koch, Spencer Tinker, Orlin Biddulph, Kelshaw Bonham, Paul Kellogg, Herb Mann and Richard Foster
1946
21/1-41
Bikini Atoll Radiological Survey, Laboratory of Radiation Biology, University of Washington
Approximately 85 pages. Includes an "Alphabetical directory of officers, scientists and technicians who participated in the Bikini scientific resurvey." Includes photographs of scientists at work; of scientists diving in the water to release poison; vehicles used; a drill rig; native persons and buildings, including a native church and a native cemetery; a Japanese monument,;numerous photographs of marine life including fish, clams, lobsters, crabs, and a turtle; a water collecting device made of galvanized metal; and a portrait of the University of Washington Radiobiology Group in the Bikini resurvey. Scientists pictured include Lauren Donaldson, Robert C. Meigs, Jesse P. Pflueger, Frederick H. Rodenbough, Sr., Frederick H. Rodenbough, Jr., Arthur D. Welander, Richard F. Foster, Richard H. Osborn, Lorence B. Marquiss, Allyn H. Seymour and Clarence Pautzke.
1947
box:oversize
22
Volume I: Radiological Survey of Bikini, Eniwetok and Rongelap Atolls, Laboratory of Radiation Biology, University of Washington
Approximately 70 pages. Includes a press release describing the resurvey; numerous newspaper articles including a Norwegian-language newspaper article; articles from Time magazine, October 30, 1964, U.S. News & World Report, November 2, 1964, Business Week, October 10, 1964, Think, January- February 1965; an undated article from French-language magazine Réalités and an English translation of the same article; a Newsweek article from February 22, 1965; and a humorous six-page account of the trip entitled "The Great Glass Ball Expedition of 1964." Also includes approximately eight pages of uncaptioned photographs of Donaldson and colleagues. Individuals pictured include Lauren R. Donaldson, Kelshaw Bonham, Arthur D. Welander, Ralph Palumbo and Frank Lowman
1964
Box/Folder
23/1-51
Volume II: Radiological Survey of Bikini, Eniwetok and Rongelap Atolls. Laboratory of Radiation Biology, University of Washington.
51 pages. Includes photographs, captions and narrative paragraphs. Subjects of photographs include: scientists at work; aerial view of the islands; the M-Boat which was used for transportation between the islands; a concrete blockhouse on Engebi Island; vegetation and animal life on the islands, the crew of Ran-Annim; and the wreck of a ship called the Nickajack Trail . Scientists pictured include Lauren Donaldson, Arthur D. Welander, Ralph F. Palumbo, Kelshaw Bonham, William Jackson, Richard Billings, Frank Lowman, Gary Lewis, Raul McClin, Robert Josephson, Steven March and Stanley P. Gessel. Others pictured include reporter Hill Williams, who served as the trip's historian, and James O. Sneddon, photographer.
1964
23/52-89, 24/1-9
Volume III: Radiological Survey of Bikini, Eniwetok and Rongelap Atolls, Laboratory of Radiation Biology, University of Washington.
47 pages. Includes photographs of scientists at work and photographs of the islands, photo captions, and narrative paragraphs. Subjects of photographs include vegetation (includingScaevola); Kelshaw Bonham taking radiation readings of a coconut crab; underwater photographs near Namu Island; inhabitants of Rongelap Island (both adults and children); and a Rongelap woman weaving a mat. Some photographs were taken from a 75-foot observation tower on Bikini Island. Scientists pictured include Lauren R. Donaldson, Kelshaw Bonham and Ralph F. Palumbo. Others pictured include Hill Williams and William Allen.
1964
Photo Albums
Box/Folder
24/10-11
Social Events
Approximately 20 pages. Includes photos of Donaldson's birthday party, the twenty-year celebration of the University of Washington Laboratory of Radiation Biology, several going-away parties and a lab Christmas party. Individuals pictured include Allyn H. Seymour, Ralph Palumbo, Lauren R. Donaldson, Solomon Katz, Neal O. Hines, President Charles E. Odegaard, Dean Joseph L. McCarthy, Mrs. Donaldson, Richard F. Foster, Carolyn Kinney, Stanley Gessel, George Lesko, Arthur Welander, Raul McClin, Dr. Tomiyana, Kichi Tomiyana, Sigurd Olsen, Clarence Pautzke and Mrs. Pautzke
1965-1966, undated
24/12
Untitled Photo Album I
Includes photographs of fish and fisheries facilities and operations at the University of Washington and elsewhere, probably from the 1970s (one possibly depicting Fisher Mills in Seattle); photographs of undated, unidentified social occasions; one photograph of Donaldson in Japan.
1973, undated
24/13-14
Untitled Photo Album II
Includes a note to Donaldson from Teri King, who was working with him on labeling the photographs in this album. Mostly undated and unidentified, but subjects include: historical views, including the Kalama River, Green River and Cowlitz Hatcheries; Pautzke Ponds' Stilliguamish steelhead ponds; Perry Island, Eniwetok including Bear Parlor, and other photos from the survey expeditions; chum fishing in Japan; the facilities of Oregon Aqua-Foods; images of fish including comparative trout sizes and a Chinese Donaldson trout; Donaldson and others with Luang Videt Yontrakit, Education Attaché of the Royal Thai Embassy; the Donaldsons on a visit to Tokai University in August, 1980, and in 1983; the Donaldsons and others (Ivar Haglund, Kenneth Chew, Bob Iwamoto, Ron Hardy, Ernest Brannon, Dr. Novatany, Dr. Landolt and Dr. Nakatani) at Ivar's Salmon House on Lake Union in 1983; Ti Chow; Donaldson and Ximing Gu at the Chittenden Locks, 1989; Donaldson with Alexander Bille in 1990 and at Cypress Salmon Farms, Cypress Island; Donaldson with Xu Shiquiong in September 1984; Donaldson at a Fisheries Halloween party with Sheila Wilkins, Co-op secretary; Donaldson at graduation 1991 with Ximing Guo and James Myer (Ph.D.) and Maria Soledad Montalva (M.S.); unidentified colleagues and friends, with and without Donaldson. Also includes several postcards collected by Donaldson.
1963, 1983-1990, undated
Photographs
Titles in quotations marks are Donaldson's own and reflect his filing system.
Some images may be duplicates of photographs in scrapbooks or photo albums. Many of the photographs in these files are by James O. Sneddon of the University of Washington's Office of Public Information, or by other University of Washington photographers. Many of these prints are labeled with an Office of Public Information identifying number. Contact sheets are 8 1/2" x 11" with 35mm images unless otherwise specified. Photographs are black-and-white unless otherwise indicated.
Box/Folder
24/15
"Alaska"
Two contact sheets with images of Bumble Bee Cannery and Fisheries Research Institute research in Alaska; one 2-3/4" x 3-3/4" negative labeled "Fish wheel - Tanana River."
undated
24/16
"Branding, Egg Packing"
Six 8" x 10" prints and two contact sheets.
undated
24/17
"Campus Views"
One 3.5" x 5" and eight 8" x 10" prints: aerial view of Husky Stadium signed by Don James; aerial views of south and central campus; "Football-Action-Wash. vs. Rice-Aerials-Marine Science"; Mount Rainier from Red Square; five contact sheets with two to four views of south campus per sheet.
undated
24/18-19
"Chinook Salmon"
34 contact sheets, one color 3.5" x 5" and sixteen 8" x 10" prints of: Fisheries Center salmon operations, including: Donaldson, Fisheries students, the Fisheries pond, salmon spawning, salmon returning, egg harvesting, close-ups of fish heads, etc.
undated
25/1
"Chinook Salmon - 1966 Spawning Operations (Attebery)"
13 contact sheets, two with 2 1/4" x 2 1/4" images.
1966
25/2
"Coho"
Prints (one 8" x 10" and two smaller black-and-white; approximately 20 color, 5" x 5" or larger) and negatives of coho salmon showing measurements and comparative sizes; some are annotated with brood year and average weight.
1974, undated
25/3
"L.R. Donaldson"
Approximately 40 prints, mostly undated, from the 1940s to the 1980s. Two color, mostly 8" x 10" with a few 3.5" x 5", 4" x 6" and 5" x 7"; four contact sheets with 1 to 4 images per sheet. Images include Donaldson in the front row at a Huskies (basketball?) game with cheerleaders in foreground; Donaldson alone (posed portraits and informal snapshots) in office, in laboratory or at pond, holding fish, and with students (in one image possibly a secretary) assisting or taking notes.
undated
25/4
"L.R. Donaldson - With Visitors"
Approximately twenty 8" x 10" and 5" x 7" black-and-white prints; five contact sheets with four images per page; approximately fifteen color prints, 3" x 5" or 5" x 7". Includes a group photograph with labeled diagram of visitors from Hokkaido University on August 1, 1955; photos of Donaldson and his wife at commencement with students; other individuals pictured include Jeremy Platt; Yoshio Hiyama, a professor at Tokyo University of Fisheries; Pan Jin-Pei, Dong Jinhai, Huang Xiangfei, Coi Qiming, and Cui JiJing of the Ocean University of Qingdao.
1955, 1992, undated
25/5-6
"Fish Farms"
Approximately sixty-five prints, a few in color. Includes photographs used as illustrations in Chapter 3 of Salmon Ranching, published by Academic Press, Inc.; primarily of salmon farming facilities; also approximately thirty other prints labeled: Squaxim Sea Farms, Inc.; NMFS; Weyerhauser; Pacific Ocean Farms; DomSea Farms, Inc.; Quinault Indian Reservation; Cowlitz Hatchery; Pautzke Ponds on the Skykomish River; Thor Gudjonson's fish farm; salmon traps at Brinnon, Washington; Ore-Aqua Coos Bay site; Ngongotaha Trap, Rotorua, New Zealand; many unlabeled; one diagram of a fish facility.
1934,1979, undated
25/7, 28/1
"Fish Ladder"
Approximately fifteen prints, mostly 8" x 10", (two oversize in Box 28) and several contact sheets and proofs. Primarily of the fish ladder at the University of Washington, during construction with work crew, and after construction with Donaldson posing in lab coat; one other unidentified fish ladder; one drawing of "The East Fish Ladder - The Dalles Dam"; also a lock, dam and north shore fish ladder on the lower Columbia River; one print of a James Sneddon close-up photo of a fish in the Fisheries ladder.
1970, 1983, undated
25/8
"Fisheries Center - Exterior"
Thirteen prints (8" x 10", 7" x 8", 5" x 7" and 3 1/2" x 5") and two contact sheets showing the University of Washington Fisheries Center.
1940, 1949, undated
25/9
"Fisheries Center - Interior"
Approximately 18 prints, mostly 8" x 10" with a few 5" x 7" and 6 1/2" x 8" showing the University of Washington Fisheries Center.
1966, undated
25/10
"Fisheries Center - Old"
Nine prints (mostly 8" x 10", several 5" x 7") and one proof. Subjects include Donaldson with Charles Odegaard, Joseph McCarthy, Stafford Warren, Charles Dunham and Neil O. Hines with a copy of Proving Ground, and a photo of a poster promoting the School of Fisheries.
1965, 1969, undated
25/11
"Hybrids"
One 4" x 10" print showing a rainbow-steelhead hybrid; five strips of 1" x 1.5" images of fish (showing comparative measurements) and Donaldson in lab.
1971, undated
25/12
"Indians"
Two contact sheets labeled "Fisheries Quinault Indi[an] Res." and "Indians of LaConner and Tulalup [sic] Wash."; one 8" x 10" print of Donaldson at the Quinault facility.
undated
25/13
"King Olav's Visit, May 2, 1968"
Three contact sheets and one 5" x 7" print.
1968
25/14
"Lake Rehabilitation, Opening Day of Fishing Season"
Ten 8" x 10" prints of recreational fishing at Big Twin Lake, Okanogan County; Green Lake, King County; Pass Lake, Skagit County; Jamieson Lake, Douglas County (features Seattle Game Commissioner Richard Seward); Lake Tanwax, Pierce County; also scrap fish "brought to the surface by the state game department" during the rehabilitation of Liberty Lake, Spokane County prior to its replanting with rainbow trout.
1951-1953, undated
25/15
"Lauren - Lab - Eniwetok"
Nine 8 1/2" x 11" prints, some labeled, of Donaldson and other University of Washington scientists in and on the beach behind the EMBL Laboratory "awaiting transportation to return to the U.S."
1957
25/16
" Life Magazine 1961"
Twelve 8" x 10" prints of Donaldson and others with trout and trout eggs.
1949, 1951, 1961
26/1
" Look Magazine"
Thirteen 8" x 10" prints of Donaldson and students in laboratory and at Fisheries ponds, and close-ups of salmon.
1962
26/2
"Marion Lake, B.C. 7/vii 67"
Five 8" x 10" prints, views of lake and shots of Donaldson and other researchers.
1967
26/3
"Ponds"
Eight 8" x 10" prints and several contact sheets and proofs with aerial views of the Fisheries holding pond, and shots of Donaldson and students at the pond; one 8" x 10" print is labeled "Fish Spawning Facilities on Turtle Rock Island Above Rocky Reach Dam."
undated
26/4
"Radiation Facility"
Four prints (8" x 10" and 5" x 7") and one proof sheet showing facility and a student examining trays.
undated
26/5-6
"Rainbow Trout"
Undated, but probably 1970s. Approximately forty prints, most 8" x 10" and 5" x 7", several in color; ten contact sheets; three 4" x 6" color and one 3 7/8" x 7 7/8" black-and-white negatives. Images of Donaldson, students, and various aspects of trout operations.
undated
26/7-8
"Rainbow Trout Experiment"
Color prints (about twenty-five 5" x 7", 5" x 5" and 8.5" x 11") recording the results of a feeding experiment. Photos show whole fish, partially-dissected fish and fish halves. 5.5mm x 5.5mm negatives of these prints and of lab operations are present, as well as notes of the different feeding plans.
1971
28/2, 40/16
Rainbow Trout Spawning Operations
Prints and contact sheets of photographs by James Sneddon; oversize prints in boxes 28 and 40.
1966
26/9, 40/17
South Pacific
Four prints, 8" x 10" and slightly larger and smaller; Donaldson on a beach, scientists on rocks at the shore, a large sea turtle, and the supply room on Eniwetok; one oversize print of Donaldson and scientists on beach and two of nuclear blasts (mushroom clouds) in Box 40.
1957
26/10, 28/3
Fish and Fishing
Four prints of various sizes, one negative, two sets (one Japanese) of printed cards with photographs of fish varieties; several oversize prints in Box 28.
undated
26/11
Laboratory Photos: Fish and Fish Tissues
Eight 5" x 7" prints.
undated
26/12
Colleagues, Occasions and Visits
Approximately 50 variously-sized prints and several contact sheets. Mostly undated but from the 1940s to the 1980s, with the more recent snapshots in color. Subjects include the Bikini 25th reunion; unidentified gathering at the Donaldson home; Washington Department of Game function; a birthday picnic; students and faculty of the University of Oregon Marine Station at Coos Bay; Donaldson's retirement party; Kinuko Kada, Cowlitz Hatchery dedication; W.A. Stevenson (mayor of Howick, Auckland, New Zealand); Jeffrey and Max Silverstein; other unidentified colleagues, students and friends
1941, 1968, 1985, undated
26/13
Promotional Photographs
Five 8" x 10" prints of staged fishing scenes, showing adults and children admiring their own and one another's catches, some taken by Josef Scaylea and some are from the National Publicity Studios in Wellington, New Zealand.
1965, undated
26/14
Maps and Diagrams
Puget Sound (negative), Columbia River basin and an unidentified diagram.
undated
26/15-17
Illustrations from Fish of Rare Breeding by Neil O. Hines
Approximately 45 images covering various aspects of Donaldson's work, focusing on salmon and trout breeding.
undated
26/18
Miscellaneous
Approximately 15 prints, including images of volleyball and racquetball (or squash) games, unidentified aerial views, cows, roses, and the Fraser River delta.
1994, undated
Slides
Titles in quotations marks are Donaldson's. Slides in glass mounts are stored separately in Boxes 31 and 32.

See also radiation project files in boxes 10 and 11.

All slides (except most diagrams and charts) are color images unless otherwise indicated. Subjects are similar (and in some cases identical) to images in photograph files: trout and salmon in various stages of development; Donaldson and students engaged in operations at the Fisheries pond and in the laboratory; various commercial and other fish hatcheries and other facilities; many of the duplicates are slides of photos taken by James Sneddon and other University of Washington photographers. Many (particularly slides from the South Pacific) have detailed labels.
Box/Folder
27/1, 31
"South Pacific #1 and Alamagordo"
Approximately 50 slides. Photographs taken on Rongelap, Bikini and Likiep Atolls, Boro Island, Perry Island, Leroy Island. Subjects include the project scientists; groups of the islands' inhabitants; beaches; vegetation; the Ran-Annim; copra boats and copra-making; women hanging out washing; children doing handstands on the beach; a Rongelap village; dissecting Tridacnas; charts and diagrams; "umbrella" (a mushroom cloud); sick and burned birds and dead terns on Leroy Island; Donaldson in the brush amid blast and burn damage on Leroy; a slide labeled "Rongelap native" showing an inhabitant holding a board labeled "Rong. No. 39"
1949-1968
27/2
"South Pacific and Alamagordo"; "South Pacific"
Approximately 20 slides. Photographs taken on Likiep, Bikini, Rongelap and Arji; images include "A village scene"; two scientists holding up a large fish; the "Oak shot" detonation; concentric butterflyfish ( chaetodon) from Perry Island; a coconut crab; coconut trees and stumps; "Dead plants in 'hot' zone"
1949-1964, undated
27/3-7
"Tarawa Kapingi Kusai"
Approximately 80 slides. Subjects include village scenes; project scientists at work; vegetation; landscapes; Japanese airstrip, tanks and guns on Tarawa; local inhabitants including Chief Likanet of Kapingi Atoll; an island cemetery; collecting fish samples; "Local belles Ponape 5/56"; Donaldson "trading with natives" on Tarawa; island inhabitants engaged in various occupations.
1954-1958, undated
27/8-9
"Color Photo's J.H.M. 863 dupl. set"
Approximately 145 slides. Mostly images of coconut plantings; also other vegetation (living and dead); radiation soil pits; aerial views; scientists taking samples; white tern and other birds; some underwater photographs; photos taken on Gejen, Kabelle, Bikini, Eniwetok, Rongelap, Naen and Lomuilal
1959-1967
27/10
"So[uth] Pacific, Chariot"
27 slides. Photos taken on Enyu, Namu and Bikini including scenes on ship and on islands, vegetation, sample collecting, etc.; also photos of Donaldson and others at Alamagordo (?) in 1950, showing crater area, Oscuro Peak, trinitite, rattlesnakes; several photos taken in Alaska, including "Chariot 1960--Chariot Site from Crowbill Mt."
1950-1965
27/11-12
"South Pacific 1962"
Approximately 150 slides, primarily of Donaldson's 1962 trip to the South Pacific, but also older images of vegetation, local inhabitants, etc. from Ponape. Locations include Tongatapu, Tonga, Penrhyn, Fiji, Malden and Christmas Islands, and Rarotonga, New Zealand; subjects include birds; fish collecting; survey scientists including Barnes, Olson, Slacks and Lusk; schoolchildren and a girls' basketball team at Rarotonga; local buildings and inhabitants; C-124 airplane.
1946-1962
27/13, 31
"South Pacific Extras"
Approximately 45 slides. Images are similar to other slides of the South Pacific, but includes one 1954 slide from Rongelap showing a child, in profile, with a board labeled "Rong. No. 75"; the child's face seems to have some kind of discoloration or mark.
1946-1967, undated
27/14
"Chronic Irradiation Hanford and Col[umbia] R[iver]."
32 slides. Mostly charts, graphs and displays concerning salmon spawning and mortality, reactor effluents, etc. many marked "From R.F. Foster" and "Battle" (presumably Battelle); a few images of boats and indoor and outdoor equipment.
1977, undated
27/15, 32
"Samish Chinook spawning, tissues etc.; silver salmon; steelhead trout; Life magazine chinook; Life tissue shots etc."
33 slides.
1950, undated
29/1-2
Fern Lake
Approximately 125 slides, primarily charts and graphs relating to the experiments at Fern Lake; some images of the lake, equipment, vegetation, etc.
undated
29/3
"Spawning Field Trips 1953 Spring"
12 slides; one is labeled "Senator Reed B.C. being made an indian chief Adams River"
1953
29/4
"Steelhead Spawning February 23, 1971" (James Sneddon)
22 slides.
1971
29/5
"Packing Eggs for Shipment"
25 slides.
undated
29/6
"Hybrids 1969"
14 slides of hybrid trout.
1969
29/7
"Trout"
21 slides.
1965, 1973
29/8
"Sneddon Rainbow 1962"
8 slides.
1962
29/9
"Fish - Trout Spawning and Eggs" (James Sneddon)
25 slides.
1958
29/10
"Fish Marking 1964 Col[umbia] R[iver] - Army Quince"
16 slides.
1961, 1964
29/11
"Extra" (fish)
Approximately 35 slides.
1965-1971, undated
29/12
"Ore-Aqua"
Approximately 45 slides. Includes images of Oregon Aqua-Foods facilities, equipment and procedures at Coos Bay and Newport.
1979, 1981
29/13
"Sea Pool"
Approximately 50 images of the commercial fishery: location, facility and fish taken at Clam Bay.
1969
29/14
"Photos of NMFS - Manchester; Domsea - Manchester; Seattle City View; University of Washington etc. Ron Hardy 2/15/85"
1985
29/15
Commercial Fish Farms
1973-1977, undated
29/16
"Nutrition - Food Processing"
15 slides, mostly showing various pieces of equipment used in the production of fish feed.
1962, 1981, undated
29/17
Unlabeled Box (primarily hatcheries)
46 slides, mostly images of the Cowlitz Hatchery; also the Alsea hatchery, "Lauren's class spring 1965," Fraser River, Adams River, and slides marked "Michigan 1966."
1962-1968, undated
29/18
"1960 Mt. Baker Eugene-Nov. 60"
23 slides. Also includes two images from the 1982 Seattle Times Salmon Derby.
1952-1961
29/19
"Baker Lake Spring 1966"
40 slides, including shots of Baker Lake, Mt. Baker, dam and machinery.
1966
29/20
"Echo Lake Photos by Jim Sneddon April 20,1958"
25 slides of trout, eggs and spawning.
1958
29/21
"Planting Salmon Ft. Lawton May 1969"
31 slides including aerial view, people working in pond, etc.
1969
29/22
"Atlantic Salmon misc. Maine Coast, Plymouth Rock, Martha's Vineyard, Mass."
20 slides, including images of scenery, harbor views, town scenes and groups of people, possibly from a conference or meeting.
1972, undated
29/23
"Woods Hole, St. Andrews 1972"
7 slides, mostly images of Matamek River and Falls.
1972
29/24
"Hells Gate - Fraser R. 2. Rocky Reach Dam - spawning Chinook 3. Indian fishing at [Cowlitz?] Falls"
Fish ladder at Hell's Gate; bridge over Fraser River; Chukchi Sea from Crowbill Mountain (marked "Chariot"); Adams River; Cowlitz Hatchery.
1953-1962
29/25
"Canada - Aug. 1984 - Locks - Rapid Rush"
19 slides, including aerial views, rivers and lakeshores, a group at a picnic table.
1984
29/26
"Hells Canyon Dam - Bonneville - Eastern Ore[gon]"
15 slides of Hell's Canyon Dam and the surrounding area, including aerial views.
undated
29/27
"Horsefly trip Oct. 1976"
25 slides. Includes 1976 images of Horsefly River, Bulkley River, Seaton Creek, Hell's Gate and Babine Lake Spawning Channel. Also one slide marked "Coho - Lake Michigan 1967," and several slides labeled "Chariot 1960," captioned "Butchering Beluga Whale Kivalina," "Drying fish and whale meat Kivalina" and "Eskimo children eating blubber."
1960-1976, undated
29/28
"Spring Creek Lewiston Mont[ana] May 10, 1976"
12 slides.
1976
29/29
"Aquarium Slides"
14 slides. Images include "Flamingo Dance, Namegawa Island [Japan]," facilities at Tokyo Fisheries University, and the Bergen Aquarium.
1966-1967, undated
29/30
"Chinook 1-40" "Chinook 41-80"
80 slides of embryonic salmon development, from fertilization to hatching.
1978
29/31
"History of Fish Culture" and "Artificial Production - History of Fish Culture - Slides of Old Hatchery Pictures"
Approximately 50 lecture slides, primarily reproductions of historical photos (1890-1940) of hatcheries including Kalama, Dungeness, Bonneville, Hood River, Spring Creek, Wizard Falls, McKensie and Union Hatcheries. Also images of prominent individuals in the field of aquaculture, including Clarence F. Pautzke, R. Burrows and [?] Ryckman. Procedures shown include seining salmon, grading salmon, spawning salmon, processing fish feed, "anaesthetizing salmon with club" and preparing salmon carcasses.
1958, 1975, undated
30/1-2
"Salmon [Story?]"
Approximately 130 slides illustrating various aspects of salmon breeding and raising, including images of fish, fish pieces, and fish facilities including the University of Washington, Ore-Aqua, Domsea, Cowlitz Hatchery, Wenatchee River, Adams River, Fidalgo Fish Company, Lummi Indian Reservation, and Japan, Sweden, Norway, Iceland.
1954-1981, undated
30/3-4
"Aquaculture"
Approximately 130 slides, very similar in content to the previous item.
1958-1981, undated
30/5
"Salmon Aquaculture Box II slides 41-80 Col[umbia] River Ore-Aqua"
Approximately 35 images of the Ore-Aqua Foods facility.
1973-1975, undated
30/6
"Extra" lecture slides
Approximately 45 slides, some marked "K.K. Chew," mostly relating to oyster farming; also Sheldon Jackson, Japanese shrimp farms and images of fish.
undated
30/7
"Copies of figures in INPF Commission Bulletin #23 1967"
18 slides of maps and charts.
1977
30/8
"Japanese [medal], [plaque], etc., presents; Photo by John Nightingale"
8 slides of Donaldson's Shinkishi Hatai Medal and other awards, etc.
1972
30/9-10
"Extras"
Approximately 140 slides of miscellaneous subjects relating to the previous groups; also includes images of "Celebration at Adams River welcoming the salmon back, mostly Indians" (1954 or 1958).
1954-1979, undated
Negatives
Box/Folder
30/11
"Fred Thompson's negatives - shark - Quilcene salmon meal plant"
Eight 2.5" x 1.5" negatives and three 3.5" x 2.5" prints, undated but approximately 1930s or 1940s, of the Quilcene plant (interior and exterior) and of a recently-caught shark being displayed stretched at length on the ground and also being held by two men to demonstrate its size.
undated
30/12-15
Unlabeled negatives
Grouped in folders corresponding to the envelopes in which they were stored. All were unlabeled, but subjects seem to include fish (three 3" x 4" negatives); University of Washington campus and possibly a Fisheries picnic or other gathering (15 strips of 35mm negatives); charts and tables (five 35mm negatives); and an unidentified hatchery (seven 41/4" x 2 3/4" negatives).
undated
Box
33, 42
Film
Approximately 90 rolls of 16mm film, mostly unidentified and of varying lengths, including outtakes and fragments.
undated
Box/Folder
19/30-32
Engagement Calendars
1975-1977
34/1-6
Engagement Calendars
1978-1987
34/7-12
Guest Books
1945-1971, 1983, 1990
34/13
Travel Journals
1954-1963
34/14
Address Book
undated
34/15
Lists: Bikini Reunion
1976
34/16
Awards, Honors and Citations
Includes Donaldson's Marine Technology Society Lockheed Award for Ocean Science and Engineering; a photograph of Donaldson at the University District (Seattle) Kiwanis Club on January 26, 1959, is present.
1971, 1972
box-folder:oversize
40/18
Awards, Honors and Citations
1968, 1971, 1986, undated
Box
35
Medals, Pins and Commemorative Coins
Includes Donaldson's Shinkishi Hatai Medal from the Government of Japan.
1975, undated
36
Plaques
1973, 1987
Box/Folder
19/27-29
Notes
1962-1966, 1977, 1984-1991
34/17
Note Cards, Robertson, O. H.
1947-1961
34/18
Newsletters
Includes (single issues unless otherwise indicated) Public Power News (3), The Pacific Northwest Public Power Bulletin, The [Rocky Mountain College] Monitor , Medical Abstracts, Egg & Smolt (2) and Homopiscis Rusticus (for and about retired members of the American Fisheries Society)
1961-1973, 1985-1988
34/19-20
Ephemera
1957-1971, 1981-1989, undated
Clippings
Box/Folder
34/21
Chronological
1934-1950
37/1-10
Chronological
1951-1992, undated
37/11-12
By Topic
Topics include the Seattle Aquarium, Bikini and Eniwetok, Fern Lake, Michigan Coho, "Indian Programs," Pennsylvania, Minnesota, New York and Miscellaneous (includes one positive review of the University of Washington Fisheries Building).
1968-1971, 1984, undated
box-folder:oversize
40/19
International Pacific Fisheries Commission
1945
Box/Folder
37/13
Fortune
1963
37/14
Harper's
1965, 1973
37/15
Time
1964
37/16
Western Conservation Journal
1960
37/17
Department of Commerce and Economic Development, Olympia, Washington
undated

International Atlantic Salmon Foundation, 1970-1975Return to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
37/18-22
General Correspondence
1970-1976
37/23-25
Minutes
1970-1975
37/26
Speeches and Writings
1971
37/27-28
Conference and Convention Files
1972
37/29
News Releases and Clippings
1972-1975
37/30-31
Newsletters
1970-1978
37/32
Ephemera
1975, undated

Seattle Mayor's Advisory Committee for Fort Lawton Park RecordsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
38/1-2
Miscellaneous
Contains correspondence, diagrams and ephemera.
Oversize materials are in box 40.
1968-1973, undated
box-folder:oversize
40/20
Oversize diagrams
1970, 1971, undated

Salmon Unlimited, Inc., 1959, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s): Box-folder 38/3

Seattle Aquarium Director Screening Committee Correspondence and ApplicationsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
38/4
Correspondence
1972
39/5
Correspondence
Restricted
1969,1972
38/5
Applications
1972

University of Washington College of Fisheries Records, 1960-1975, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s): Box-folder 38/6-8

Contains correspondence, lists, notes, proposals (or proposal drafts), reports and other materials, including materials relating to the College's 50th Anniversary Symposium.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
39/6
University of Washington College of Fisheries Minutes
Restricted.
1960

University of Washington College of Fisheries, Cooperative Sport Fishing Unit Committee, 1966Return to Top

Container(s): Box-folder 38/9

University of Washington College of Ocean and Fishery Sciences minutes and informational materials, 1956-1986, 1989, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s): Box-folder 38/10

University of Washington Contract Research Committee Correspondence, 1955-1957Return to Top

Container(s): Box-folder 38/11

University of Washington. Graduate School, Faculty Council Records, 1958-1969Return to Top

Container(s): Box-folder 38/12-15

Includes agendas, minutes and correspondence of the Graduate School Executive Committee

University of Washington School of Fisheries Records, 1939-1955, 1981-1994, undatedReturn to Top

Container(s): Box-folder 38/16-20

This subgroup includes conference files, a review of the aquaculture program, notes and ephemera.

Washington State Fisheries Advisory Committee Records, 1960-1965Return to Top

Container(s): Box-folder 38/21

Contains correspondence, minutes, and meeting notes.

Washington Oceanographic Commission, 1931-1973Return to Top

This subgroup partly concerns planning for the Seattle Aquarium.

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
38/22
General Correspondence
1968-1971
38/23
Agendas
1968-1970
38/24-25
Minutes
1968-1970
Reports
Box/Folder
38/26
Miscellaneous
1967, 1969-1972, undated
38/27
Aquarium Sites Evaluation
undated
38/28
Seattle Aquarium Economic Feasibility Study
1971
Box/Folder
41/1
Contracts, Agreements and Legal Documents
1931-1934, 1950, 1965-1969
41/2
Speeches and Writings
1972, undated
box-folder:oversize
40/21
Diagram
undated
Box/Folder
41/3
Press Releases
1968, 1970
41/4
Rosters
1968 undated
41/5
Lists
undated
41/6
Notes
1970, undated

Washington Oceanography Study Committee Records, 1965-1967Return to Top

Container(s): Box-folder 41/7

Consists primarily of correspondence, but also includes minutes, agendas, notes and clippings.

Donaldson Family PapersReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box/Folder
41/8
Incoming Letters
1941-1951, undated
41/9
Will: Russell G. Donaldson (father of Lauren R.)
1939
41/10
Financial Records of Donaldson Family Farm in Minnesota
1940-1946
41/11
Photographs
Three photographs of Donaldson and his family in Seattle and on family trips.
undated
41/12-15
Negatives
116 negatives; images of 1933 "lake trip" and many unidentified family and vacation scenes.
1933, undated

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Aquatic organisms--Effect of radiation on
  • Aquatic plants--Effect of radiation on
  • College teachers--Washington (State)--Seattle--Archives
  • Environmental monitoring--Marshall Islands
  • Fishery scientists--Washington (State)--Seattle--Archives
  • Fishes--Breeding
  • Fishes--Effect of radiation on
  • Fishes--Research
  • Nuclear weapons--Testing--Marshall Islands
  • Operation Crossroads, Marshall Islands, 1946
  • Radiobiology
  • Radiology--Research
  • Salmon--Research
  • Trout--Research

Personal Names

  • Atkinson, Clinton E. (Clinton Edwin)--Correspondence
  • Chapman, Wilbert McLeod, 1910-1970--Correspondence
  • Donaldson, Lauren R. (Lauren Russell, 1903-1998--Archives
  • Haydon, John M. (John Morse), 1920- --Correspondence
  • Seymour, Allyn Henry, 1913- --Correspondence

Corporate Names

  • American Fisheries Society--Correspondence
  • Seattle Aquarium--Correspondence
  • U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. Division of Biology and Medicine--Correspondence
  • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service--Correspondence
  • United States. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife --Correspondence
  • University of Washington. Applied Fisheries Laboratory
  • University of Washington. Laboratory of Radiation Biology
  • University of Washington. Laboratory of Radiation Ecology
  • Washington (State). Department of Fisheries-- Correspondence
  • Washington (State). Department of Game--Correspondence

Geographical Names

  • Bikini Atoll (Marshall Islands)--Environmental conditions
  • Enewetak Atoll (Marshall Islands)--Environmental conditions
  • Marshall Islands--Environmental conditions

Form or Genre Terms

  • Awards
  • Correspondence
  • Logs (records)
  • Medallions (medals)
  • Notes
  • Photograph albums
  • Reports
  • Research (document genres)
  • Scrapbooks
  • Speeches, addresses, etc

Other Creators

  • Corporate Names
    • Oceanographic Commission of Washington (creator)

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • University Archives/Faculty Papers (University of Washington)