Washington Forest Protection Association Aerial Maps, 1937-1968

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Washington Forest Protection Association
Title
Washington Forest Protection Association Aerial Maps
Dates
1937-1968 (inclusive)
Quantity
3.25 Linear feet of shelf space, (7 boxes), (1550 images)
Collection Number
PC 134 (collection)
Summary
The Washington Forest Fire Association (WFFA) was a voluntary organization of forestland owners founded in 1908 with the stated intent of protecting private forestland from wildfire. In 1958, the association changed its name to Washington Forest Protection Association (WFPA). This collection consists primarily of aerial photographs, with a small quantity of explanatory and instructional materials.
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

This collection is open and available for research use.

Languages
English

Historical NoteReturn to Top

The Washington Forest Fire Association (WFFA) was a voluntary organization of forestland owners founded in 1908 with the stated intent of protecting private forestland from wildfire. In 1958, the association changed its name to Washington Forest Protection Association (WFPA).

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

This collection consists primarily of aerial photographs, with a small quantity of explanatory and instructional materials. The instructional / explanatory materials comprise the first series and first box, and includes aerial mosaics and indexes to the collection of 1964-1967 aerial photographs, as well as a few greater Washington state mosaic indexes. Also included in the intructional materials is a pair of stereographic lenses for viewing the maps, and two books and one folder of materials used to teach / learn use of these maps. Excepting the aerial mosaics and index maps, the materials in this small series are not WFPA/WFFA produced, and are retained primarily as aids to researchers attempting to use these maps.

Series two is the actual aerial photographs. Boxes two through six comprise the first subseries of these, which are series of aerial photographs taken from 1964 to 1967 and covering approximately the entire southeast quarter of Washington state. Box seven contains two separate subseries of maps, one from 1951 and one from 1936; unlike the 1960s maps, these do not appear to be comprehensive. It is unclear if these earlier maps were actually produced by WFPA or came from another source.

Individual maps are approximately nine inches by nine inches, and appear to cover about five miles by five miles. They were taken from an altitude of about 30,000 feet. Each set of maps is retained in their original ordering: the first sequence starts on the Washington coast at the Oregon border and moves north; the second sequence would then start again at the Oregon border immediately east of the prior sequence, and so forth. It is suggested that anyone looking for a particular location begin with the mosaics and indexes held in folders one and two in box one.

Other Descriptive InformationReturn to Top

Many of these photographs are curling severely due to problems with their storage prior to coming to MASC, but this should not provide any serious use or copying difficulties.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Preferred Citation

[Item Description] Washington Forest Protection Association Aerial Maps, 1937-1968 (PC 134)

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Acquisition Information

These materials were transferred to MASC in January 2010 from the State of Washington Water Research Center and retained as UA2010-01. In July of 2011, a donated second stereographic viewer was added to the collection as Box 1a.

Processing Note

This collection was processed by University Archivist Mark O'English in January of 2010.

Related Materials

The archives of the WFPA/WFFA are held at the University of Washington as Manuscript Collection #1311.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series 1: Explanatory and Instructional MaterialsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
1 1
Aerial mosaics, 1964-1968.
1 2
Index maps to 1965 aerial photographs.
1 3
Stereoscopic glasses.
1 4
35 mm photography for measurement analysis. Carl Strandberg, 1964.
1 5
Aerial discovery manual. Carl Strandberg, 1967.
1 6
Training kit. Basic techniques in forest photo interpretation. Intermountain Forest and Range Experiment Station, Forest Service, USDA, 1960.
1a
Stereoscopic Viewer.

Series 2: Aerial PhotographsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description
Subseries 2.1: 1964-1967
Box Folder
2 1
Sequence WFPA-64, flight 1, maps 2 - 14
2 2
Sequence WFPA-64, flight 2, maps 3 - 16
2 3
Sequence WFPA-64, flight 3, maps 2 - 15
2 4
Sequence WFPA-64, flight 4, maps 3 - 16
2 5
Sequence WFPA-64, flight 5A, maps 3 - 8
2 6
Sequence WFPA-64, flight 5B, maps 1 - 8
2 7
Sequence WFPA-64, flight 6, maps 3 - 18
2 8
Sequence WFPA-64, flight 7A, maps 3 - 8
2 9
Sequence WFPA-64, flight 7B, maps 1 - 10
2 10
Sequence WFPA-64, flight 8, maps 3 - 18
2 11
Sequence WFPA-64, flight 9, maps 3 - 18
2 12
Sequence WFPA-64, flight 10, maps 4 - 21
2 13
Sequence WFPA-64, flight 11, maps 1 - 29
2 14
Sequence WFPA-64, flight 12, maps 3 - 33
2 15
Sequence WFPA-64, flight 13, maps 4 - 34
2 16
Sequence WFPA-64, flight 14, maps 4 - 35
2 17
Sequence WFPA-64, flight 15, maps 4 - 34
3 1
Sequence WFPA-64, flight 16, maps 3 - 34
3 2
Sequence WFPA-64, flight 17, maps 2 - 30
3 3
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 27, maps 2 - 8
3 4
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 28A, maps 2 - 10
3 5
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 28B, maps 3 - 4
3 6
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 29, maps 2 - 10
3 7
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 30A, maps 2 - 16
3 8
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 30B, maps 1 - 6
3 9
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 31A, maps 2 - 16
3 10
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 32A, maps 2 - 22
3 11
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 32B, maps 2 - 28
3 12
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 33A, maps 3 - 29
3 13
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 33B, maps 1 - 28
3 14
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 34A, maps 3 - 42
3 15
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 34B, maps 6 - 10, 12-20
4 1
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 35, maps 2 - 54
4 2
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 36, maps 2 - 54
4 3
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 37, maps 2 - 54
4 4
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 38, maps 2 - 39
4 5
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 39, maps 2 - 40
4 6
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 40A, maps 2 - 38
4 7
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 41A, maps 1 - 8
4 8
Sequence WFPA-65, flight R41, map 2
5 1
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 42A, maps 2 - 10
5 2
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 42B, maps 2 - 6
5 3
Sequence WFPA-65, flight 43A, maps 2 - 4
5 4
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 60, maps 1 - 8
5 5
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 61, maps 2 - 10
5 6
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 61A, maps 1 - 4
5 7
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 62, maps 2 - 16
5 8
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 63A, maps 2 - 6
5 9
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 63B, maps 1 - 19
5 10
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 64A, maps 2 - 8
5 11
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 64B, maps 1 - 6
5 12
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 64C, maps 1 - 18
5 13
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 65A, maps 2 - 11
5 14
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 65B, maps 1 - 6
5 15
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 65C, maps 1 - 13
5 16
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 65D, maps 3 - 6
5 17
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 66A, maps 2 - 11
5 18
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 66B, maps 1 - 8
5 19
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 67A, maps 1 - 10
5 20
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 67B, maps 1 - 7
5 21
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 67C, maps 3 - 4
5 22
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 68A, maps 1 - 10
5 23
Sequence WFPA-66, flight R68, maps 2 - 8
5 24
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 69, maps 2 - 19
5 25
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 70, maps 3 - 14
5 26
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 70A, maps 1 - 7
6 1
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 71, maps 1 - 3
6 2
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 71A, maps 1 - 14
6 3
Sequence WFPA-66, flight R71A, maps 3 - 4
6 4
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 72A, maps 2 - 14
6 5
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 72B, maps 1 - 4
6 6
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 72C, maps 1 - 5
6 7
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 73, maps 2 - 25
6 8
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 73C, maps 2 - 8
6 9
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 74, maps 2 - 3
6 10
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 74A, maps 1 - 22
6 11
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 74B, maps 1 - 9
6 12
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 75A, maps 1 - 5
6 13
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 75B, maps 1 - 13
6 14
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 75C, maps 2 - 8
6 15
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 76, maps 2 - 25
6 16
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 77, maps 2 - 13
6 17
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 77B, maps 1 - 4
6 18
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 77C, maps 1 - 5
6 19
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 78, maps 1 - 9
6 20
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 79, maps 1 - 11
6 21
Sequence WFPA-66, flight 80, maps 1 - 5
Subseries 2.2: 1951
Box Folder
7 1
Sequence EW-1H, maps 3 - 44
7 2
Sequence EW-1H, maps 45 - 87
7 3
Sequence EW-1H, maps 108 - 159
7 4
Sequence EW-1H, maps 160 - 203
7 5
Sequence EW-2H, maps 1 - 35
7 6
Sequence EW-2H, maps 36 - 75
7 7
Sequence EW-2H, maps 76 - 114
7 8
Sequence EW-2H, maps 115 - 139
7 9
Sequence EW-2H, maps 141 - 159
7 10
Sequence EW-2H, maps 160 - 189
7 11
Sequence EW-3H, maps 5 - 20
7 12
Sequence EW-3H, maps 21 - 30
Subseries 2.3: 1936
Box Folder
7 13
Sequence EW-1, maps 25 - 40
7 14
Sequence EW-1, maps 41 - 65
7 15
Sequence EW-1, maps 66 - 86
7 16
Sequence EW-2, maps 14 - 39
7 17
Sequence EW-2, maps 40 - 70
7 18
Sequence EW-2, maps 71 - 96
7 19
Sequence EW-3, maps 9 - 33
7 20
Sequence EW-3, maps 34 - 68

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Forest fires -- Washington (State)
  • Forest management.
  • Forests and forestry -- Societies, etc.
  • Forests and forestry -- Washington (State)

Other Creators

  • Corporate Names
    • Washington Forest Fire Association (creator)

Finding aid prepared by Mark O'English
2016

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