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C. C. Hall Photograph Album, 1906-1933

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Hall, C. C. (Charles Chandler), 1870-1939.
Title
C. C. Hall Photograph Album
Dates
1906-1933 (inclusive)
1906-1920 (bulk)
Quantity
0.1 cubic feet, including 54 photographs, (1 box)
Collection Number
P 301
Summary
The C. C. Hall Photograph Album consists of 54 photographs collected by C. C. (Charles Chandler) Hall during his career with the U.S. Forest Service, from 1906 to 1933. R. E. (Raymond E.) Marsh, a photographer for the U.S. Forest Service, took some but not all of the photographs; the other photographer(s) are unknown. The photographs depict the forest rangers and stations from C. C. Hall’s time as a forest reserves supervisor in Arizona, Montana, New Mexico and Oregon. Rare photographs of Aldo Leopold are included in the album.
Repository
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

Collection is open for research.

Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Charles Chandler Hall was born in Decatur, Illinois, May 9, 1870 and died Jan. 7, 1939 in Seattle, Washington. He began his Forest Service career in 1906 as an assistant forest ranger in Hell Gate Forest Reserve in Montana. In 1907 he was promoted to supervisor of the Hell Gate and Big Hole Forest Reserves. He continued as supervisor for the rest of his career, with the exception of 1912, when he began as a grazing inspection at Tonto Forest Reserve in Arizona. In 1913 he was appointed as supervisor of the Reserve. In 1916 he transferred to the Santiam Forest Reserve in Oregon where he remained as supervisor until his retirement from the Forest Service on March 1, 1933.

Biographical information found in: Elliot, Roy. Biography of C. C. Hall. Timber Lines ; Vol. 19, June 1967. pp. 101-104

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Content Description

The C. C. Hall Photograph Album consists of the original 53 black and white photographs, some with sepia-toning caused by aging, and 1 photographic postcard. All images were removed from the original album; the album pages did not include captions and were discarded. The images were collected by C. C. (Charles Chandler) Hall during his career with the U.S. Forest Service from 1906 to 1933. R. E. Marsh, a photographer for the U.S. Forest Service took some but not all of the photographs; the other photographers are unknown. The photographs depict the forest rangers, forest stations and camps, as well as station events and other activities, such as hunting. The collection includes: five photographs of Aldo Leopold, Forest Supervisor and naturalist; three photographs of Ira T. Yarnall, Deputy Supervisor, Santa Fe National Forest; three of Fred E. Ames, Forest Supervisor, Umpqua Forest Reserve; and five group photographs of forest supervisors attending a National Forest Service Leadership Meeting held in Montana between 1910-1919. The national forest reserves depicted in the photographs include: Hell Gate, Big Hole and Deerlodge, now the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, in Montana; Sargent Seep Ranger Station in Alamo Forest Reserve, now part of Lincoln National Forest, and Tonto National Forest in Arizona; Tres Piedras headquarters in Carson National Forest in New Mexico; and Santiam National Forest Reserve, now part of Willamette National Forest in Oregon.

All photographs in the album are available in digital format in Oregon Digital Collections.

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Use of the Collection

Preferred Citation

C.C. Hall Photograph Album (P 301), Oregon State University Special Collections & Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

The collection is arranged as a single series.

Custodial History

Acquisition Information

The album was donated to the Special Collections & Archives Research Center by Gerald W. Williams in 2008 with other materials in Accession 2008:099. In 2014, the album was separated from the Gerald W. Williams Collection to form this photograph collection.

Future Additions

Related Materials

The Special Collections & Archives Research Center's holdings include collections documenting national forests and forest reserves in Oregon. The Gerald G. Williams Collection (MSS WilliamsG) contains documents referring to the Santiam National Forest and the Gerald G. Williams Digital Collection provides photographs from Santiam. The Siuslaw National Forest Collection consists of thousands of photographs from Siuslaw National Forest. Print maps from the National Forests in Oregon (MAPS USFS) collection created during Hall’s time are also available. The papers of Fred Elijah Ames, a contemporary of Hall depicted in the album, are held at the University of Oregon, Special Collections and University Archives.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

Finding aid prepared by Ruth Vondracek.
2014

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