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Rudo L. Fromme photograph album and lantern slides, approximately 1900-1939

Overview of the Collection

Photographer
Fromme, Rudo L.
Title
Rudo L. Fromme photograph album and lantern slides
Dates
approximately 1900-1939 (inclusive)
Quantity
426 photographs in 1 album (1 box) ; sizes vary
93 lantern slides (2 boxes) ; 3.25" x 4"
Collection Number
PH0920
Summary
Photographs of and by U.S. Forest Service Ranger Rudo Fromme focusing primarily on his forestry work in the Deschutes National Forest Oregon, and the Olympic Peninsula, Washington.
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

Entire collection can be viewed on the Libraries Digital Collections website. Permission of Visual Materials Curator is required to view original photographs. Contact Special Collections for more information.

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Languages
English
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Biographical Note

Rudo Lorenzo Fromme (1882-1973) worked for the National Forest Service in Washington, Oregon and Idaho, for 37 years. He was a Forest Service Superintendent in the Olympic National Forest from 1911-1926. Fromme was born July 10, 1882, in Saint Paris, Ohio, to Frank W. and Stella L. (neé Riker) Fromme. He attended Purdue University and Ohio State University. He earned a Master's Degree from the Yale School of Forestry in 1906 and married Ruby Ellen Gowanlock on May 20, 1908. Fromme worked in forestry in Idaho, California, Oregon, and Washington, with the majority of his career in the Olympic National Forest, Washington. In 1932 Fromme married Eleanor Louise Banks and the couple lived in Maple Valley, Washington. Supervisor Fromme retired from the Forest Service in 1943 and embarked on a new career, doing make-up for stage performances in Pomona, Claremont, and LaVerne, California, until his second retirement in 1965. Fromme died in a nursing home on August 19, 1973 and is buried in Mountain Crest Memorial Park in Enumclaw, Washington. Mount Fromme, near Mount Claywood and Mount Sentinel, was named in 1920 by a mountaineering party for Superintendent Fromme.

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Content Description

The album covers approximately 1900-1926. The majority of the photographs are of the Olympic National Forest in Washington state. Fromme's Yale Forestry camps, travels in North Carolina, Idaho, Oregon, California, and Alaska, forest firefighting procedures, treks with the Seattle Mountaineers, and a tour of the St. Louis World's Fair in 1904 are also included, as well as several photographs by photographers Billy Everett and Asahel Curtis.

Also includes hand-tinted glass lantern slides from approximately 1900-1940 of forest rangers, the Olympic Peninsula wilderness, Oregon and Washington Cascade Mountains, and an avalanche on Mount Baker

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Use of the Collection

Alternative Forms Available

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Restrictions on Use

Restrictions may exist on reproduction, quotation, or publication. Contact Special Collections, University of Washington Libraries for details.

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Administrative Information

Acquisition Information

Donated by Mrs. Rudo L. Fromme on January 1, 1974.

Processing Note

Processed by Claire Imamura, 2011; Susan Fitch, processing completed 2017.

The photographs were relocated from the Rudo L. Fromme Papers, Accession No. 1999-002 in the repository, in 2011.

The original album cover was deteriorated, so the pages are foldered and boxed. The order of the album pages has been retained.

Separated Materials

Material Described Separately:

Rudo Fromme Papers (Collection No. 1999)

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Detailed Description of the Collection

 

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Subject Terms

  • Forests and forestry--United States
  • Visual Materials Collections (University of Washington)

Personal Names

  • Fromme, Rudo L.--Family--Photographs
  • Fromme, Rudo L.--Photographs

Corporate Names

  • Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 :   Saint Louis, Mo.)--Photographs
  • Yale University--Students--Photographs
  • Yale University. School of Forestry--Students--Photographs

Geographical Names

  • Hoh Glacier (Wash.)--Photographs
  • Olympic Mountains (Wash.)--Photographs
  • Olympic National Forest (Wash.)--Photographs
  • Olympic Peninsula (Wash.)--Photographs


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