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Western Washington Experiment Station: David F. Allmendinger Fluorine Research Records, 1943-1959

Overview of the Collection

Title
Western Washington Experiment Station: David F. Allmendinger Fluorine Research Records
Dates
1943-1959 (inclusive)
Quantity
approximate 1016 items, ( 1.25 linear feet), ( 2 containers)
Collection Number
Archives 180
Summary
Contains correspondence, surveys, charts, maps, photographs, meeting minutes, booklets, experiments, actual leaf samples, and copies of legal proceedings involving industrial companies and the farming communities.
Repository
Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Access Restrictions

The Collection is open for research use.

Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Historical Note

David F. Allmendinger received a Master of Science degree at Ohio State University in about 1940 and a Ph.D at Washington State College in 1947. Allmendinger worked as a research assistant at the Tree Fruit Branch Experiment Station in Wenatchee, Washington from 1940 to 1947. In the latter year he transferred to the Southwestern Washington Experiment Station in Vancouver. He was later appointed as Superintendent of that station in 1949. In 1953, Dr. Allmendinger transferred to the Western Washington Experiment Station in Puyallap as Superintendent. His responsibilities expanded in 1963 and he was appointed Vice Director of the Washington Agricultural Experiment Stations. Dr. Allmendinger retired as the Vice Director of the College of Agriculture Research Center.

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Content Description

D. F. Allmendinger's files contain extensive research on atmospheric fluorine and its effects on the environment, especially Italian prunes, gladiolas, ponderosa pines and dairy cattle.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The files are arranged alphabetically and contain correspondence, surveys, charts, maps, photographs, meeting minutes, booklets, experiments, actual leaf samples, and copies of legal proceedings involving industrial companies and the farming communities.

Acquisition Information

The records of the Western Washington Experiment Station were transferred to the Washington State University Libraries in November 1977 (UA77-34). The D. F. Allmendinger fluorine research files were separated from the rest of the station records in June 1979 and reaccessioned in February 1981 (UA81-07). Archives 180 consists solely of the Allmendinger fluorine research files.

Processing Note

These records were processed in March 1985 by Carmen E. Petersen.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: Air Pollution Studies-Correspondence
    43 items
    Dates: 1946-1953
    Container: Box 1, Folder 1
  • Description: Air Pollution Studies-Papers and Pamphlets
    17 items
    Dates: 1953-1959
    Container: Box 1, Folder 2
  • Description: Air Pollution Studies-Reports
    13 items
    Dates: 1953-1959
    Container: Box 1, Folder 3
  • Description: Air Pollution Legislative Advisory Committee
    26 items
    Dates: 1955-1956
    Container: Box 1, Folder 4
  • Description: Annual Reports of the Agricultural Experiment Station
    2 items
    Dates: 1944-1945
    Container: Box 1, Folder 5
  • Description: Articles and Pamphlets
    57 items
    Dates: 1947-1953
    Container: Box 1, Folder 6
  • Description: Articles and Meeting Minutes
    16 items
    Dates: 1950-1953
    Container: Box 1, Folder 7
  • Description: Articles and Memoranda
    9 items
    Dates: 1957
    Container: Box 1, Folder 8
  • Description: Atmospheric Fluoride Report
    2 items
    Dates: 1953
    Container: Box 1, Folder 9
  • Description: Booklets Describing Fluoride Effects
    12 items
    Dates: 1945-1951
    Container: Box 1, Folder 10
  • Description: Booklets and Reports/Investigations
    6 items
    Dates: 1953-1956
    Container: Box 1, Folder 11
  • Description: Budgets and Memoranda
    12 items
    Dates: 1951-1953
    Container: Box 1, Folder 12
  • Description: Chemical Analysis
    10 items
    Dates: 1950-1951
    Container: Box 1, Folder 13
  • Description: Clark County Survey
    40 items
    Dates: 1948-1950
    Container: Box 1, Folder 14
  • Description: Correspondence
    112 items
    Dates: 1943-1948
    Container: Box 1, Folder 15
  • Description: Correspondence
    21 items
    Dates: 1948-1950
    Container: Box 1, Folder 16
  • Description: Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, and Articles
    8 items
    Dates: 1945-1949
    Container: Box 1, Folder 17
  • Description: Damage Reports
    33 items
    Dates: 1945-1949
    Container: Box 1, Folder 18
  • Description: Damage Surveys
    49 items
    Dates: 1945-1951
    Container: Box 1, Folder 19
  • Description: Experiments and Correspondence
    23 items
    Dates: 1950-1951
    Container: Box 1, Folder 20
  • Description: Fluorine Surveys and Analysis
    48 items
    Dates: 1946-1948
    Container: Box 1, Folder 21
  • Description: Fluorine Surveys and Analysis
    48 items
    Dates: 1950-1952
    Container: Box 1, Folder 22
  • Description: Fluorine Surveys Bud Analysis
    31 items
    Dates: 1951
    Container: Box 1, Folder 23
  • Description: Fumigation
    7 items
    Dates: 1947-1948
    Container: Box 1, Folder 24
  • Description: Gladiolus Charts
    8 items
    Dates: 1950-1951
    Container: Box 1, Folder 25
  • Description: Gladiolus Experiments
    52 items
    Dates: 1948-1950
    Container: Box 1, Folder 26
  • Description: Gladiolus Experiments
    2 items
    Dates: 1948
    Container: Box 1, Folder 27
  • Description: Gladiolus Survey Results
    62 items
    Dates: 1951
    Container: Box 1, Folder 28
  • Description: Injury Reports
    18 items
    Dates: 1941-1947
    Container: Box 1, Folder 29
  • Description: Investigations-Sauvie Island
    2 items
    Dates: 1952-1953
    Container: Box 1, Folder 30
  • Description: Leaf Samples
    3 items
    Dates: 1945-1948
    Container: Box 1, Folder 31
  • Description: Lime Papers
    49 items
    Dates: 1950
    Container: Box 1, Folder 32
  • Description: Longview Data
    35 items
    Dates: 1950-1951
    Container: Box 1, Folder 33
  • Description: Longview Experiment Correspondence
    28 items
    Dates: 1949-1953
    Container: Box 1, Folder 34
  • Description: Proposed Longview Project
    8 items
    Dates: 1953-1957
    Container: Box 1, Folder 35
  • Description: Meeting Minutes
    12 items
    Dates: 1953
    Container: Box 2, Folder 36
  • Description: Meeting Minutes
    5 items
    Dates: 1949
    Container: Box 2, Folder 37
  • Description: Notes on Construction of Drying Room
    2 items
    Container: Box 2, Folder 38
  • Description: Pamphlets-Effect on Dairy Cattle
    4 items
    Dates: 1952-1954
    Container: Box 2, Folder 39
  • Description: Pollution Manuals and Pamphlets
    5 items
    Dates: 1950-1956
    Container: Box 2, Folder 40
  • Description: Ponderosa Pine Damage
    5 items
    Dates: 1950
    Container: Box 2, Folder 41
  • Description: Prunes
    1 item
    Dates: 1947
    Container: Box 2, Folder 42
  • Description: Prune Surveys [photographs]
    2 items
    Dates: 1946
    Container: Box 2, Folder 43
  • Description: St. John Project
    3 items
    Dates: 1946-1950
    Container: Box 2, Folder 44
  • Description: Spokane-Ponderosa Pine Blight
    16 items
    Dates: 1949
    Container: Box 2, Folder 45
  • Description: Spokane-Ponderosa Fine Blight
    3 items
    Dates: 1950
    Container: Box 2, Folder 46
  • Description: Studies Data
    15 items
    Dates: 1950-1951
    Container: Box 2, Folder 47

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Subject Terms

  • Fluorine compounds--Research--Archives

Corporate Names

  • Washington State University. Western Washington Experiment Station, David F. Allmendinger Fluorine Research--Records and correspondence
  • Washington State University. Western Washington Experiment Station--Archives (creator)

Other Creators

  • Corporate Names

    • State College of Washington. Western Washington Experiment Station. (creator)
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