UUS_P0550.xml Guide to the Gaylen Ashscroft photograph collection1912-1970 Ashcroft, (Gaylen) photograph collection1970 Finding aid/Register created by Sara Skindelien Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant, 2007-2008 Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives
Merrill-Cazier Library Utah State University 3000 Old Main Hill Logan, UT 84322-3000 Phone: 435 797-8248 Fax: 435 797-2880 Email: scweb@usu.edu
©2014 Encoded in oXygen XML editor by Sara Skindelien, 2014 August 13. Finding aid encoded in English. Finding aid based on DACS (Describing Archives: A Content Standard, 2nd Edition). 2009 Template information was updated to reflect Archives West best practice guidelines. Overview of the Collection UUS_P0550 Gaylen Ashcroft photograph collection 1912-1970 Ashcroft, Gaylen L. Utah State University, Merrill-Cazier Library, Special Collections & Archives Photograph Collection
Merrill-Cazier Library Utah State University 3000 Old Main Hill Logan, UT 84322-3000 Phone: 435 797-8248 Fax: 435 797-2880 Email: scweb@usu.edu
1 box .5 linear feet The Gaylen Ashcroft collection consists of 740 photographs and slides from Dr. Ashcroft's time with the Utah Climate Center. Includes department staff and faculty, USU scenic images, slides used in class lectures, experiments and equipment, and aerial views from Idaho and Utah. Material in English

Processed in August of 2014

Received from Gaylen Ashcroft in 2013.

No restrictions on use, except: not available through interlibrary loan.

It is the responsibility of the researcher to obtain any necessary copyright clearances.

Permission to publish material from the Gaylen Ashcroft Photograph Collection must be obtained from the Special Collections Photograph Curator and/or the Special Collections Department Head.

Initial Citation: USU_P0550; Gaylen Ashcroft Photograph Collection; Photograph Collections Special Collections and Archives. Utah State University Merrill-Cazier Library. Logan, Utah.

Following Citations:USU_P0550, USUSCA.

 Biographical Note

Gaylen Ashcroft and his wife Elaine attended USU in the 1950s. Gaylen received a B.S. in 1954 and an M.S. in 1956 from USU and a Ph.D. from Oregon State in 1962. He was a professor of Agronomy and Associate Director of the Utah Climate Center.

Contains photographs and slides from Gaylen Ashcroft's time with the Utah Climate Center. Includes department staff and faculty, USU scenic images, slides used in class lectures, experiments and equipment, and aerial views from Idaho and Utah.

Arranged according to material type.

 Environmental Conditions Colleges and Universities Cache Valley Logan Utah Photographs USU--Faculty and staff. USU--Research programs. Utah Climate Center (Logan, Utah) Utah State University Utah--Climate--Photographs. Historical Photographs & Portraits 1912-1950 1 1 0:1:01:01 "Corinne old city hall on left site of weather Utah" 1970 February 5 01:01:02 Corinne residents posing outside of the Central Hotel on the corner of 6th and Montana Street. 1875 01:01:03 "Dr. Theodore Kryshtofovich, Commissioner of the Russian Ministry of Agriculture at St. Louis & Vice President of the International Dry-Farming Congress" 1912 01:01:04 "Professor F. B. Linfield, Director Montana State Experiment Station, Bozemon, Montana & a member of the Board of Governors of the International Dry-Farming Congress" 1912 01:01:05 "Her Royal Highness The Duchess of Connaught who it is anticipated will formally open the second International Congress of Farm Women" 1912 01:01:06 "Professor R. W. Thatcher Director Washington State Experiment Station, Pullman, Washington, Chairman Scientific Research Section of The Seventh International Dry-Farming Congress" 1912 01:01:07 "Professor W. H. Fairfield Direction Dominion of Canada Experiment Farm, Lethbridge, Alberta, Chief of Jury of Awards of The Seventh International Dry-Farming Congress" 1912 01:01:08 "Dr. John A. Widtsoe, President Utah Agricultural College & International President of The Seventh International Dry-Farming Congress" 1912 01:01:09 "George Harcourt, Esquire, Deputy Minister of Agriculture of Alberta, Edmonton, Chairman of Board of Governors of the International Dry-Farming Congress 1912 01:01:10 "Mrs. Eleanor S. Burns of Denver, Colorado, Secretary of the International Congress of Farm Women" 1912

[2 copies. Includes negatives]

 01:01:11 "C. P. Squires, Las Vegas, Nevada" standing in front of a weather station box 1950

[3 copies. Includes negative]

 01:01:12 "Mrs. Williams, Tuscarora, Nevada" standing in front of a weather station box 1950 Equipment 1954 1 1 01:01:13-14 "Anemometers 8 vanes" 1954 01:01:15-17 Wet bub-dry bulb relative humidity recording equipment 1954 01:01:18-:19 "Temperature recorder for numbered positions" 1954 01:01:20 "One of the 50' poles where thermometers are attached to the loops" 1954 01:01:21 "Solar radiation equipment" 1954 01:01:22-23 "Remote positions for thermometers base of pole" 1954 01:01:24 "Anemometers at 386'" 1954 01:01:25 "Mr. Rod Vertree's test wind machine" 1954 01:01:26 "Wind mile counters for each anemometer in test plot measures to tenths of a mile (looks & acts & lights up like a pin ball machine). Very accurate" 1954 01:01:27 "Augus recorder - wind velocity 8 direction- for all test area" 1954 01:01:28 "Inside trailer. IBM typewriter wind recording equipment. WB thermographs. Note glass thermometer at upper right- these are used at lettered points on diagram" 1954

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 01:01:29 "Close-up of IBM typewriter- prints temperatures for all numbered thermometer positions in test plot" 1954 01:01:30-31 Possibly a pyranometer 1954 01:01:32-34 Equipment in a laboratory 1954 01:01:35 Anemometer & other equipment 1954 01:01:36-37 Weather station boxes 1954 01:01:38 "Soil temperature recorder pen nearest center" 1954 Locations 1954 01:01:39 "Bear River Refuge [Utah] looking south" 1954 01:01:40 "Bear River Refuge [Utah] looking north" 1954 01:01:41 "Bear River Refuge [Utah] looking east" 1954 01:01:42 "Bear River Refuge [Utah] looking west" 1954 01:01:43 "Gunnison [Utah] looking east" 1954 01:01:44 "Gunnison [Utah] looking south" 1954 01:01:45 "Gunnison [Utah] looking north" 1954 01:01:46 "Fish Springs [Utah] looking east" 1954

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 01:01:47 "Fish Springs [Utah] looking west" 1954 01:01:48 "Fish Springs [Utah] looking south" 1954 Aerial Views undated 1 2 01:02:01 Utah State University 1940 01:02:02-09 Utah/Idaho border 1952 October 2 01:02:10-12 Forestry summer camp 1953 September 10 1 3 01:03:01-27 Unidentified aerial views 1939 June 12 - 1966 May 1 01:03:28 Negative of Utah undated

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 Men adjusting equipment 1950 1 4 01:04:01-07 Equipment in the field 1950 01:04:08-11 Equipment in the field & laboratory 1950

[Proofsheets]

 01:04:12-16 Negatives undated Slides undated Clouds 1962-1970 1 5 01:05:01 "Cumulonimbus with anvil top" 1969 01:05:02 "Cumulus Congestus cirrus 1969 01:05:03 "Cirrocumulus" 1969 01:05:04 "Stratus" undated 01:05:05-06 "Wind blown alto cumulus" 1963 01:05:07 "Cirrostratus" undated 01:05:08 "Fog" undated 01:05:09 Cumulus 1962 01:05:10-12 "Stratocumulus in Arches National Park" undated 01:05:13 "Altostratus in Arches National Park" undated 01:05:14 Cirrocumulus in Zion's Park undated 01:05:15 Altostratus 1961 01:05:16 Nimbostratus 1961 01:05:17 "Nimbus stratus" 1962 01:05:18 "Cirrus" undated 01:05:19 "Nimbostratus" 1962 01:05:20 Nimbostratus undated 01:05:21 Frost covered trees undated 01:05:22 "Altostratus thru fractocumulus" undated 01:05:23 Altocumulus undated 01:05:24 Cumulus 1969 01:05:20 Cirus 1970 01:05:21 Cumulus congestus 1969 01:05:22 Cumulus 1969 01:05:23-24 Cirrus 1969 01:05:25-26 "Cirrocumulus wave" 1969

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 01:05:27 Cirrus 1970 01:05:28 "Cirrocumulus wave" 1969 01:05:29-33 Cirrus 1965-1970 01:05:34 Altocumulus 1969 01:05:35-36 Altostartus in Hendricks 1969 01:05:37 Cumulus clouds & fire crackers in Daytona Beach, Florida 1970 01:05:38 Sunset or sunrise in Hendricks undated 01:05:39 Stratus clouds over an air craft carrier undated 01:05:40 Nimbostratus clouds over mountains & a river undated 01:05:41 Stratocumulus undated

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 01:05:42-44 Altostratus undated 01:05:45-53 Cumulus undated 01:05:54-57 "Stratocumulus" undated 01:05:58-73 Cirrus 1969 01:05:74 Cirrocumulus 1969 01:05:75-76 Status undated 01:05:77-78 Stratocumulus undated 01:05:79-104 Cumulus 1963-1969 01:05:105-106 Cumulonimbus undated 01:05:107 "Ice (frozen fog) coating trees - Bore Mountain, New York" undated 01:05:108 "Fair weather. Cumulus-Western Ontario, Canada" undated 01:05:109 "Heavy cumulus-Puerto Rico" undated 01:05:110 "Swelling cumulus-San Diego, California" undated 01:05:111 "Swelling cumulus-south of Victor, New York" undated 01:05:112 "Heavy & swelling cumulus-Monroe County, New York" undated 01:05:113 "Shower type cumulus-near Victor, New York" undated 01:05:114 "Heavy cumulus. Snow showers after hail storm-Utah" undated 01:05:115 "Choia Ridleyl-near Field, British Columbia" undated 01:05:116 "Cumulus with cirrus above" undated 01:05:117 "Cumulus with alto-cumulus above. Alto-cumulus usually are 800 feet to 15,000 feet above ground" undated 01:05:118 "Alto-cumulus with cirro-cumulus above" undated 01:05:119 "Upper surface of cumulus, some swelling, from airplane, southwestern, U.S." undated 01:05:120 "Swelling cumulus with dark farctomcumulus, western Oklahoma" undated 01:05:121 "Lenticular altocumulus and cumulus-Chihuahua, Mexico" undated 01:05:122 "Numbostratus-Yates County, New York" undated 01:05:123 "Alto-cumulus with cirrus above" undated 01:05:124 "Alto-cumulus with cirro-cumulus above" undated 01:05:125 "Fracto-cumulus with cirro-cumulus above" undated 01:05:126 "Strato-cumulus clouds with rain in distance" undated 01:05:127 "Strato-cumulus. A third formation" undated 01:05:128 "Stratacumulus becoming swelling cumulus, some altocumulus, Oakshela, Saskatchewan" undated 01:05:129 "Cirrus in polar bands, fair weather cumulus below, Canadaigua Lake, New York" undated 01:05:130 "Cirrus and heavy cumulus-Tompkins County, New York" undated 01:05:131 "Hooked cirrus, some fractocumulus-Yates County, New York" undated 01:05:132 "Cirrus (wispy, forms) & cirro-cumulus (curled, crinkled forms)" undated 01:05:133 "Center: Mare's tall cirrus. Upperpart: Cirro-cumulus (small tufts) & alto-cumulus (larger tufts)" undated 01:05:134 "Primary & secondary rainbows with cumulus & strato-cumulus clouds" undated 01:05:135 "Lightning-Amarillo, Texas" undated 01:05:136 "Ice on telephone wires" undated 01:05:137 "Dust storm-near Dwight, Illinois" undated 01:05:138 "House undermined by wave action from hurricane, north of Juno Beach, Florida" undated 01:05:139 "Gilder being towed off from ground-Elmira, New York" undated 01:05:140 "Glider soaring-Elmira, New York" undated 01:05:141 "Art work-drawing of a different types of clouds undated 01:05:142 "Art work-drawing showing rain, a cold front & a warm front" undated 01:05:143 "Art work-drawing showing cold, warm & cool sections of a wave" undated 01:05:144 "Art work-drawing of tornado funnel destruction" undated 01:05:145 "Mecurial barometer" undated 01:05:146 "Detail of vernier scale of mercurial barometer" undated 01:05:147 "Thermoscreen" undated 01:05:148 "Hygrograph" undated 01:05:149 "Close-up of hair of hygrograph" undated 01:05:150 "Barograph with Buffalo, New York, chart of 1954 Hurricane Hazel" undated 01:05:151 "Anemometer" undated 01:05:152 "Field recorder for dewpoint & ambient temperatures" undated 01:05:153 "Close-up of ambient temperature recording instrutment" undated 01:05:154 "Close-up of dewpoint temperature recording instrument" undated 01:05:155 "Detail of graph showing the automatically recording wind direction, wind speed, sunshine, & precipitation" undated 01:05:156 "Sling psychrometer" undated Maps undated 01:05:157-158 Utah Rainfall undated 01:05:159 "Average Relative Humidity" undated 01:05:160 "Average Number of Hours of Sunshine" undated 01:05:161 "Average Number of Days with Snow Cover" undated 01:05:162 "Effect of climate on soil " undated 01:05:163 "Date of Beginning Chill" undated 01:05:164-165 "Elberta peach harvest dates" undated 01:05:166-167 "Average Date of First 28F in Fall" undated 01:05:168 "Growing Degree Hours Accumulated During Chilling" undated 01:05:169 "Annual Extreme Minimum Temperatures" undated 01:05:170 A crack in stone undated 01:05:172-173 "Freeze Free Season in Utah" undated 1 6 01:06:01 "A generalized map of zonal soil groups" undated 01:06:02 Great Salt Lake & land east undated 01:06:03-05 Isreal undated 01:06:06 Cool & warm air patterns undated 01:06:07 High areas of Earth undated 01:06:08 "Seasonal Climates of the Earth" undated 01:06:09 North & South America undated

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 01:06:10 Air flow across the United States undated

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 01:06:11 Global pressure zones undated 01:06:12 Rivers undated 01:06:13 Hurricane patterns undated 01:06:14 Pressure maps of the United States undated 01:06:15 Girl dancing along high/low pressure map of the United States undated

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 01:06:16 Warm front undated

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 01:06:17-20 Weekly forecast for the United States undated 01:06:21-22 Global rainfall undated 01:06:23-24 Global patterns undated 01:06:25 A cold front undated 01:06:26 Air patterns over a city undated 01:06:27 Mean Sea Level Temperature undated 01:06:28 Winds across North America undated 01:06:29 Thunderstorm Distribution undated 01:06:30 Global rainfall undated

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 01:06:31 Contours 1959 October 13 01:06:32 "Average Length of the Frost-Free Period in Days" undated 01:06:33-36 Sunshine undated Graphs undated 01:06:37 "Inches of Precipitation" 1900-1960 01:06:38 "Average Temperature" 1900-1960

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 01:06:39 "Zonal Velocity" 1955-1960 01:06:40 "Temperature of air in a heated & unheated orchard" undated 01:06:41 Heated & Unheated Orchard undated 01:06:42 Temperature undated 01:06:43 "Temperature of air in a heated & unheated orchard at 30 feet" undated 01:06:44 "Temperature of air in a heated & unheated orchard at 10 feet" undated 01:06:45 Cold front undated 01:06:46 Warm front undated 01:06:47 "Utah Climate" 1963 01:06:48-80 "General Circulation" undated 01:06:81-97 "Ashcroft Ph.D. slides" undated 01:06:98-113 "Orchard Heating" 1965 01:06:114-124 "Biomes & Zoogeographic" undated 01:06:125-137 "History of Meterology at USU" undated 01:06:138-146 "Humidity, Radiation/Energy Balance & Adiabatic Changes" undated 01:06:147-154 "Unsaturated Flow in Soil" undated 01:06:155-161 "Infrared photos of desert species" 1965 May 10 01:06:162-165 "Microclimatic Relations" undated 01:06:163-172 "Air Masses, Fronts & Special Storms" 1970 General Slides undated 01:06:173-186 "Meterological Experiment Equipment" undated 01:06:187-197 Lab equipment undated 1 7 01:07:01-99 Setting up equipment in fields undated 01:07:-100-122 Pages from a book undated 01:07:-123-158 Equipment on desert flats 1987 1 8 01:08:01-11 Fields with cement factory in the background undated 01:08:12-25 Peach orchard 1965 01:08:26-51 Landscapes 1983 01:08:52 "Mud slide FT Deer Creek come from5'08" in 24 hr rainfall" undated 01:08:53-54 "Contour strip cropping Box Elder County, dry farm" 1948 October 01:08:55 "Eroded knolls NW of Mendon" 1955 May 01:08:56 "Dryland west side Cache Valley west of Petersen" 1960 August 26 01:08:57 "Sprinkling in Cache Valley" undated 01:08:58 "Alto stratus clouds over field" undated 01:08:59 "Soil Temp, snow cover all winter" table 1957-1958

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 01:08:60-61 "Predatory mits on apple leaf" undated 01:08:62-63 "Flowering crab frozen May 5-6; portion near home wasn't hurt" 1965 May 10 01:08:64-67 "Al Bleak-Philadelphia Flat seeds germinating under snow. Photo in 26' deep snow" 1957 June 20 01:08:68 Cherries 1969 July 01:08:69 Tree blossoms undated 01:08:70 Man digging a hole in a cow pasture undated 01:08:71-72 Aerial view above clouds undated 01:08:73-75 Cirrus clouds undated 01:08:76-77 Meterology equipment in the field undated 01:08:78-79 Weather diagrams undated 01:08:80-83 Meterological terms undated Prints undated 01:09:01 Person holding a meterological instrument undated 01:09:02 Juniper tree undated 01:09:03 Close-up of tree bark undated 01:09:04 Fruit orchard undated 01:09:05 Children sledding down Old Main Hill undated

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 01:09:06-10 Old Main Hill undated 01:09:11 Spider in a web undated 01:09:12-13 Ground squirrel undated 01:09:14-23 Trees covered in frost and snow undated 01:09:24 Snowdrifts undated

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 01:09:25 Soil drawing undated