Warren C. Wilson Western Alpines Project Lantern Slides, 1936-1938
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Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Wilson, Warren C.
- Title
- Warren C. Wilson Western Alpines Project Lantern Slides
- Dates
- 1936-1938 (inclusive)19361938
- Quantity
- 0.05 cubic foot, including 9 photographs, (2 boxes)
- Collection Number
- P 298
- Summary
- The Warren C. Wilson Western Alpines Project Lantern Slides consist of photographs made by Wilson during a 1936 alpine plant collecting trip in Colorado and Washington. Wilson graduated from Cornell University and was a plant propagator and nursery owner in Maplewood, Oregon, specializing in alpine flora.
- Repository
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Oregon State University Libraries, Special Collections and Archives Research Center
Special Collections and Archives Research Center
121 The Valley Library
Oregon State University
Corvallis OR
97331-4501
Telephone: 5417372075
Fax: 5417378674
scarc@oregonstate.edu - Access Restrictions
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Collection is open for research.
- Languages
- English
Historical Note
Warren C. Wilson graduated from Cornell University in 1938 where he worked as an assistant in the Department of Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture. In 1940 Wilson married Genevieve Swiderski and the couple settled in Portland, Oregon. At that time, Wilson worked as a propagator in the William Borsch and Sons Nursery. Wilson owned the Saxton and Wilson Nursery (successor of Borsch and Sons) in Maplewood, Oregon, from the 1940s to 1990s. Saxton and Wilson specialized in alpines (plants that grow primarily above tree line) and rock garden perennials.
Content Description
The Warren C. Wilson Western Alpines Project Lantern Slides consist of 9 lantern slides of photographs made by Wilson during a western alpine flora collecting trip in 1936. The slides depict the Mount Baker and Mount Shuksan areas in the North Cascades of Washington, Mount Rainier, Jasper National Park in Alberta, and the Portland (Oregon) Airport on Swan Island. An offprint of the article "Collecting Western Alpines by Air", written by Wilson and published in The National Horticultural Magazine, provides details of the collecting trip and is also part of the collection. One of the photographs of Mount Rainer is published in the article. The other slides are annotated with references to page numbers in the article.
Use of the Collection
Preferred Citation
Warren C. Wilson Western Alpines Project Lantern Slides (P 298), Oregon State University Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.
Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
The materials were donated to the Special Collections & Archives Research Center by Eugene W. McMullen in 2013.
Related Materials
Other photographs of Mount Baker and Mount Shuksan are available in the Wanda Gifford Photographs (P 218-SG 4). The Special Collections & Archives Research Center houses many collections documenting botany in Oregon and Washington including the Helen M. Gilkey Papers (MSS GilkeyH), Oliver Matthews Collection (MSS Matthews) and Oliver Matthews Photograph Collection (P 118), and the Herbarium Records (RG 117) and Photographs (P 093).
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Mountain plants--Alberta--Jasper National Park.
- Mountain plants--Colorado.
- Mountain plants--Washington (State).
- Plant collecting.
Geographical Names
- Baker, Mount (Wash.)
- Jasper National Park (Alta.)
- Rainier, Mount (Wash.)
- Shuksan, Mount (Wash.)
Form or Genre Terms
- Lantern slides.
