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Albert Hale Sylvester papers, 1897-1965

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Sylvester, Albert Hale, 1871-1944
Title
Albert Hale Sylvester papers
Dates
1897-1965 (inclusive)
1930-1940 (bulk)
Quantity
0.46 cubic feet
Collection Number
1518 (mss), 1518-001 (accession)
Summary
Papers of a forest supervisor of the Wenatchee National Forest, 1908-1931
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

Access restricted: For terms of access, contact Special Collections for details.

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Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Forester.

Albert Hale Sylvester was born in 1871 and died in 1944. He was a Forest Supervisor of the Wenatchee National Forest, 1908-1931. Sylvester mapped much of the area in the United States Geologic Survey, and then in the Forest Service named more than 3,000 place names in the area.

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Content Description

Correspondence, biographical and other writings, speeches, poems, photos, and clippings, relating primarily to Sylvester's position as supervisor of Wenatchee National Forest, and to his activities mapping and naming places there.

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Use of the Collection

Restrictions on Use

Creator's literary rights not transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Materials are arranged topically.

Acquisition Information

Copied from originals in possession of Dwight Watson, 1/13/1971.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Description: Biographical Information
    4 items
    Container: Box/Folder 1/1
  • Description: Incoming Letters
    11 items
    Dates: 1931
    Container: Box/Folder 1/2
  • Description: Incoming Letters
    2 items
    Dates: 1939, 1944
    Container: Box/Folder 1/3
  • Description: Outgoing Letters
    3 items
    Dates: 1928, 1937, 1943
    Container: Box/Folder 1/4
  • Description: Legal Documents
    3 items
    Container: Box/Folder 1/5
  • Description: Report
    1 item
    Container: Box/Folder 1/6
  • Description: Speech
    1 item
    Container: Box/Folder 1/7
  • Description: "Notes on History of Lake Wenatchee" writing
    1 item
    Dates: approximately 1935
    Container: Box/Folder 1/8
  • Description: "Place-Naming In the Northwest" writing
    1 item
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1/8
  • Description: "Place Names within and bordering Icicle Creek Watershed" writing
    1 item
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1/8
  • Description: "Above and Beyond Our World" writing
    1 item
    Dates: 1934
    Container: Box/Folder 1/8
  • Description: "The Formula, Chapter 2" writing
    1 item
    Dates: 1933
    Container: Box/Folder 1/8
  • Description: "Celestial Mechanics" writing
    1 item
    Dates: 1934
    Container: Box/Folder 1/8
  • Description: "The Supervisor's Ten Commandments" writing
    1 item
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1/8
  • Description: "Forests, Their Uses and Management" (fragment) writing
    1 item
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1/8
  • Description: Poems to wife Alice Peirce Sylvester
    20 items
    Dates: 1916, 1927-1928, 1932-1933, 1935, 1937, 1939
    Container: Box/Folder 1/9
  • Description: Poems to children Margaret (Peggy) Sylvester and Richard Sylvester
    13 items
    Dates: 1919-1920, 1925-1926, 1928, 1931-1937, 1939, 1943
    Container: Box/Folder 1/10
  • Description: Poems to Margaret Sylvester
    10 items
    Dates: undated
    Container: Box/Folder 1/11
  • Description: Poems, miscellaneous
    27 items
    Container: Box/Folder 1/12
  • Description: Poems, miscellaneous
    39 items
    Container: Box/Folder 1/13
  • Description: Notes
    Container: Box/Folder 1/14
  • Description: Photographs
    32 items
    Container: Box/Folder 1/15-18
  • Description: Clippings
    Container: Box/Folder 1/19
  • Description: Memorabilia
    Container: Box/Folder 1/20
  • Description: Scrapbook - Forest Remembrances, pictures and letters written by Sylvester's colleagues for his retirement, May 25, 1931
    1 item
    Dates: 1925
    Container: Box/Folder 1/21
  • Description: Ephemera
    Container: Box/Folder 1/22
  • Description: "Notes on the Activities of Lieutenants Crook, McCall, and Turner in Eastern Washington Territory, August-September 1958"
    1 item
    Container: Box/Folder 1/23

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Subject Terms

  • Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)

Personal Names

  • Sylvester, Albert Hale, 1871-1944--Archives
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