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NTE2cg790.xml Guide to the Percy B. Rowley Papers 1920-1987 Rowley (Percy B.) Papers Finding aid prepared by Cheryl Gunselman. Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2013

Pullman, WA 99164-5610 USA (509) 335-6691 http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/masc/ mascref@wsu.edu

Finding aid encoded by Doug Lambeth. 2013 Finding aid written in English. English. Finding aid based on DACS ( Describing Archives: A Content Standard). Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections

Pullman, WA 99164-5610 USA (509) 335-6691 http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/masc/ mascref@wsu.edu

Cage 790 Rowley, Percy B. Percy B. Rowley Papers 1920-1987 5 linear feet of shelf space 8 boxes This collection consists of manuscripts, photographs, and business records related to Rowley Poultry Farm and Percy Rowley's professional activities as a poultry breeder, along with some personal and family materials. Collection materials are in English, with a few items in Japanese.

Percy Bateman Rowley (1902-2000) was a poultry breeder and expert. With his wife, Cecelia (1907-1989), he owned and operated Rowley Poultry Farm in Puyallup, WA. He was actively involved at the state, national, and international levels of the poultry industry for approximately fifty years. He often collaborated with the Western Washington Research and Extension Center (WWREC) in research and development of egg type poultry breeds and best practices for poultry facilities. He specialized in two breeds, single-comb white leghorns and New Hampshire reds. Rowley's business included a substantial international trade, with customers in Asia and Europe as well as North and South America. He was active in industry groups including the Washington Poultry Improvement Association and the Washington Baby Chick Association, serving as president of both groups; he was an advisor to Washington State College, serving as a member of the Poultry Advisory Board and the Central Advisory Committee. He was also actively engaged in civic and service groups including Kiwanis and the Patrons of Husbandry (Grange).

This collection consists of manuscripts, photographs, and business records related to Rowley Poultry Farm and Percy Rowley's professional activities as a poultry breeder, along with some personal and family materials. His international travel for poultry industry programs is especially well documented.

This collection is arranged in four series:

Series 1: History packets compiled by Percy Rowley, 1920-1987

These files are mostly topical in nature, and contain photographs, manuscripts, clippings, and ephemera. Rowley bundled the materials together in packets, and annotated many of them. Most of these packets represent his professional activities and travel, along with some personal and family matters. Formerly mounted on boards, the contents of the packets have been transferred into folders, maintaining Rowley's arrangement. In cases where he created titles for the packets, these have been transcribed in the container list below.

Series 2: Correspondence, circa 1940s-1986

Series 3: Scrapbook and miscellaneous items, 1922-1986

Series 4: Poultry breeding and performance records, 1927-1955

This series includes a loose-leaf volume of detailed breeding and laying records (1943-1955) with a few inserted photographs and clippings, and poultry performance records (trapnest, 1927-1941).

This collection is open and available for research use.

[Item Description] Percy B. Rowley papers, 1920-1987

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

Percy Rowley donated this collection to the Washington State University Libraries between 1984 and 1987 (MS 1984-35 and MS 1987-33).

This collection was processed by Cheryl Gunselman.

At the National Agricultural Library (Washington, D.C.): Percy B. Rowley Papers (1922-1997; collection number HD9437.U62R68 R).

This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or places should search the catalog using these headings.

Rowley Poultry Farm -- Archives Poultry -- Breeding -- Washington (State) Poultry -- Breeding -- History -- Sources Chickens -- Breeding -- Washington (State) Chicken industry -- Washington (State) -- History -- Sources Ranching Agriculture Washington (State) Series 1: History packets compiled by Percy Rowley, 1920-1987 1 1 1962-1963 Beirut and Jordan (1962); World Poultry Congress (Australia, 1963) 1 2 1966 World Poultry Congress (Russia) 1 3 1970 World Poultry Congress (Spain) 1 4 1978 World Poultry Congress (Rio de Janeiro) 1 5 1978 Rio de Janeiro 1 6 1940s-1984 World Poultry Congress (Finland, 1984), with some older items 1 7 1966, 1983 Washington Poultry Leaders delegration to Europe (1966); Helsinki trip (1983) 2 8 1952 Seoul, South Korea (United Nations mission) 2 9 1962-1981 Hong Kong (1962, 1964, 1973, 1981) 2 10 1960s-1986 Story of Kadoorie in Hong Kong 2 11 1964-1969 Canadian hatchery convention (Vancouver, 1964); also Tacoma Sister City and Kiyoshi Yamanaka correspondence 2 12 1964-1984 Japan 2 13 1963-1985 Kimiko Toyama and Shigera Toyama correspondence 2 14 1927-1986 Patricia Aludino (also includes some Tacoma-Kokura sister city correspondence) 3 15 1964-1978 Sa Pereira (exchange student) 3 16 1962-1977 Tay Kok Nam, Singapore (also Ruth McDonald photographs) 3 17 1930-1968 Kenya (Sturdevant project, 1968); Leon Losey correspondence (1930s-1940s) 3 18 1962 World Tour 3 19 1962-1972 Bangkok 3 20 1972-1973 Inchon, Korea; Taiwan and Singapore (Kiwanis) 3 21 1981 China trip 3 22 1981 China 3 23 1927-1986 Mostly about our friend J.W. Kalkus, Supt. WWREC 4 24 1920-1981 1920-1981 (primarily Rowley Poultry Farm history) 4 25 1920s-1984 A good collection of early pictures (includes photographs, ephemera, clippings) 4 26 circa 1930-1987 50 Years Industry Work Together (includes professional and personal materials; compiled circa 1987) 4 27 1927-1983 Unlabeled packet of photographs, ephemera, and clippings about the Rowley family and the poultry business 4 28 1964-1981 Recognition certificates and miscellaneous copies 4 29 1931-1983 Unlabeled packet (mainly Washington State College central advisory committee materials and Wilson Compton materials) 4 30 1963-1983 and undated 20821 After Day One (Percy and Cecelia Rowley materials, including Christmas letters, with some business-related items) 4 31 1979-1982 Dixy Lee Ray 4 32 1954-1981 Mrs. Henry A. Wallace Series 2: Correspondence, circa 1940s-1986 5 33 1963-1986 Unsorted correspondence 5 34 1960-1983 Horace Kadoorie, Hong Kong 5 35 1962-1985 Japan correspondence 5 36 1959 Michigan State University archives 5 37 1951-1965 Henry Beernink 5 38 1970-1981 Somalia, Singapore, and Nau Ru 5 39 1980-1984 Ray Schar 5 40 1985 60th wedding anniversary letters (reproductions) 5 41-42 1948-1952 Central Committee, Advisory Boards to the Institute of Agricultural Sciences, State College of Washington 5 43 1968-1979 Washington Poultry Improvement Association 5 44 1980-1986 Washington Poultry Improvement Association 5 45 1984-1985 Donald McQ. Shaver 5 46 circa 1940s-1950s Catalogs of some hatcheries that use Rowley's stock 6 47 1984-1985 WWREC (Kathy Sain) 6 48 1980-1984 Bill Jasper 6 49 1947-1979 Wilson Compton Series 3: Scrapbook and miscellaneous items, 1922-1986 6 50 1922-1984 Scrapbook 6 51 1922-1986 Miscellaneous items 7 58 1960s Niwatori-No-Kenkyu (Japanese poultry trade journal; 3 issues) 7 60 [supporting documentation and processing file for collection] Series 4: Poultry breeding and performance records, 1927-1955 6 52-54 1937-1956 USDA National Poultry Improvement Plan reports, with some breeding records 6 55 1944-1949 Breeding records 6 56 1949-1952 Breeding records 6 57 1952-1956 Breeding records 7 59 1927-1931 Performance records 8 61 1927-1941 Performance records (trapnest) 8 62 1943-1955 Breeding and laying record (loose-leaf volume with inserted clippings and photographs)