WAUSylvesterAlbertHale1518.xml Sylvester (Albert Hale) Papers Guide to the Albert Hale Sylvester Papers Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries 2007 (Last modified: 8/30/2021)
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This finding aid was produced using ArchivesSpace on 2021-08-30 16:10:56 +0000. Description is written in: English, Latin script. Describing Archives: A Content Standard Sylvester, Albert Hale, 1871-1944 Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries Albert Hale Sylvester papers 1518 1518-001 0.46 cubic feet 1897-1965 1930-1940 Papers of a forest supervisor of the Wenatchee National Forest, 1908-1931 English

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.

Materials are arranged topically.

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

 Sylvester, Albert Hale, 1871-1944--Archives Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington) Photographs Forestry and Forestry Products Biographical Information 4 items 1/1 Incoming Letters 11 items 1931 1/2 Incoming Letters 2 items 1939, 1944 1/3 Outgoing Letters 3 items 1928, 1937, 1943 1/4 Legal Documents 3 items 1/5 Report 1 item 1/6 Speech 1 item 1/7 "Notes on History of Lake Wenatchee" writing 1 item approximately 1935 1/8 "Place-Naming In the Northwest" writing 1 item undated 1/8 "Place Names within and bordering Icicle Creek Watershed" writing 1 item undated 1/8 "Above and Beyond Our World" writing 1 item 1934 1/8 "The Formula, Chapter 2" writing 1 item 1933 1/8 "Celestial Mechanics" writing 1 item 1934 1/8 "The Supervisor's Ten Commandments" writing 1 item undated 1/8 "Forests, Their Uses and Management" (fragment) writing 1 item undated 1/8 Poems to wife Alice Peirce Sylvester 20 items 1916, 1927-1928, 1932-1933, 1935, 1937, 1939 1/9 Poems to children Margaret (Peggy) Sylvester and Richard Sylvester 13 items 1919-1920, 1925-1926, 1928, 1931-1937, 1939, 1943 1/10 Poems to Margaret Sylvester 10 items undated 1/11 Poems, miscellaneous 27 items 1/12 Poems, miscellaneous 39 items 1/13 Notes 1/14 Photographs 32 items 1/15-18 Clippings 1/19 Memorabilia 1/20 Scrapbook - Forest Remembrances, pictures and letters written by Sylvester's colleagues for his retirement, May 25, 1931 1 item 1925 1/21 Ephemera 1/22 "Notes on the Activities of Lieutenants Crook, McCall, and Turner in Eastern Washington Territory, August-September 1958" 1 item 1/23