Charles Frederick Yocom (1914-1985) was an Assistant Professor of Wildlife Biology at Washington State College in the early 1950s. The 600 photographs in this collection represent Yocom’s work on nesting sites of Canada geese on the Snake River and Columbia Basin region between the years 1942-1953.
This collection consists of approximately 600 photographs and photograph negatives of the inland Northwest, believed to have been taken by Charles Yocom. Photographs document the nesting sites and migratory patterns of Canada geese, particularly relating to geographical features such as lakes, rivers, and tributaries in the eastern portion of Washington state.
The collection was received unordered. Each photograph is labeled on the back with a date and a geographic location. Photographs have been foldered alphabetically by Washington county (Whitman county has been further subdivided into a number of areas, again sorted alphabetically), and then chronologically by photograph date. A few larger non-county-specific regions have been located at the end of the collection. Several hundred unidentified photographs, mostly those of geese and/or nests, were discarded during processing.
This collection is open and available for research use.
Copyright restrictions apply.
[Item Description] Charles Yocom Photographs of Inland Northwest Geography, 1942-1953 (PC 138)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
This collection was received as UPC 2008-01 at Washington State University (WSU) Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) in November, 2008 from Matthew J. Monda of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife in Ephrata, WA, where the photographs had been stored for an unknown number of years.
This collection was processed by History graduate student Nathan Sowry and University Archivist Mark O'English in September, 2010.
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