University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives
Clarence Seely Papers
Seely, Clarence, 1912-2000
MG 664
3 cubic feet
1935-1995
Annual reports of Agronomy Deptartment and noxious weed investigations, slides, correspondence, and articles by Seely.
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Collection includes three boxes of folders. Box one contains folders of 35mm film negatives. Box two contains annual reports on weed investigations, research, and publications pertaining to plant science and agronomy. Box three contains the annual reports of the agronomy department that cover project details and general interests.
Clarence Irving Seely (1912-2000) was a professor, consultant, and assistant research director working in the fields of agronomy and weed science. He was mostly active between 1935 and 1976. Prior to teaching, he worked for the US Department of Agriculture as one of the first investigators tasked with researching treatments to control perennial weeds during the late 1930s.
He graduated with honors from Washington State College in 1933. He was granted a master's degree in 1935. He served as superintendent at the Lind, Wash., Branch Experimental Station in 1934 and 1935 and then joined the USDA as Assistant Agronomist in weed investigations in 1936. Clarence was one of the original four "weed investigators" employed by the USDA as a result of the historic Bindweed Investigations Appropriation Bill of 1936.
He served as Assistant and Associate Agronomist and Director of the Genesee, Idaho, Bindweed Research Station until 1947, when he joined the Agronomy Department as Agronomist and Weed Scientist of the University of Idaho. In 1955, he joined the teaching staff at the university with the title of Agronomist and Professor of Agronomy and Weed Science. He retired as professor emeritus in 1976.
UIEXTPUBS, University of Idaho Extension Publications, 1892-2011
PG 39, University of Idaho Agricultural Extension Service photographs, 1936-1972
VF UI Personnel, University of Idaho Personnel Vertical File, 1889-present
Materials received from Clarence Seely in 1997 (MA 1997-14).
Collection is open for research
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Washington (State)
Agronomy
University of Idaho
Weeds
Agriculture--Research--Idaho--History--Sources.
Photographs
Correspondence
Agricultural extension work--Idaho
Idaho
Agriculture
Series 1: Slides
Australia 1
13 items
Port Ardrossan; Adelaide; South Australia; Victoria; New South Wales; South Queensland; Hahndorf; kangaroos; trees; homes; Port Broughton; North Sydney; flowers; grass; fields; birds; Murray River; church; koala; banosa valley; sunset; Yara
1968
1
1
Australia 2
1
14 items
Pineapple plantation; traditional celebration; taroom; Queensland; dam; beach; birds; kangaroos; monument hill war memorial; Albury; New South Wales; mountains; papaya plantation; church; forest fire; fields; flowers; beach town; highway; bovines
1968-1969
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2
Australia 3
15 items
wheat field; Victoria; Healesville; Sea Lake; Melbourne; Numurkah; Tasmania; Hobart; Frankston; Hobart fire; Mount Wellington; beach; crabbing; stained glass; Sydney; New South Wales; downtown; birds; house; Mount Defiance Lookout; Hamilton; Casterton; color-switching water fountain; Arnehem Land Sculpture; palm trees; new hotel
1968-1969
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3
New Zealand 1
13 items
Mount Egmont; canyons; laceleaves; waterfall; beach; lei; hotel bed; glow worm cave; flowers; beach; pasture; plane; aerial view of downtown; downtown; te hokowhitu a tu; Rotorua; Oamaru; river; bridge; snow
1968
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4
New Zealand 2
15 items
mountains; downtown; boat; river; gorge; train; sheep; cave exploration; boat trip; waterfall; tied arch bridge; animal photos; Christchurch; Gore; Te Anau
1968
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5
Peru, B.C., Quebec
7 items
oceanside sunsets; sea stacks; boarding a bus; Basilica of Sainte-Anne-de-Beaupré; Victoria, B.C.; thunderbird park; big check; pain de menage; church apses; waterfall; countryside of Quebec; highway; bridge; downtown
1974-1978
1
6
Beetle, Planting
2 items
alta fescue; bumblebee plant; Shoshone; Chandler Mine; gemellata; deer creek; basil seedling;
1951-1957
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7
Beetle, Planting 2
5 items
Whitebird; seeding on Blackhawk; Salmon River; hyperici; goatweed; Adams; Middle Boulder Creek; Hayden Creek; Kootenai; Clearwater; Idaho; Dixie; whitetop
1949-1953
1
8
Tenacoat
11 items
dalmatian toadflax; Whitebird; Kern North Fork; Clearwater; Sandpoint; gemellata planting; Glenwood; Meadow Creek; wild oats; Corral Creek; Billy Creek; ranch; Webb Creek; Ford's Creek; Latah; Troy; Shoshone; treated and untreated; storage cloth and plastic; Kendrick planting; west skyline; goatwood beetle planting; Princeton Planting; Troy planting; Fernwood planting; St. Maries planting
1948-1974
1
9
Scenery
4 items
shrubs; rolling hills; prairies; rivers; white flowers; general Idaho scenery; Lewiston; highwater; snowy neighborhood house; city lights; downtown
1948-1974
1
10
Plants
11 items
ground sprouting; winter wheat; Barbon peas; white clovers; red clover; raccoon tails; ditch treatments; Austrian peas; winter barley; Moscow plots; Grangeville plots; weed spray; Shepard's purse; hairy whitetop; hoary cress; pepperweed; blue mustard
1950-1983
1
11
Hypercici planting
2 items
Bonner Co film; slopes photos; Rimrock; Gold Creek; Priest River; Cascade Creek; Albeni Falls; Blanchard; Clagstone hyperci; Chilco planting; Kaniksu c.hyperci
1950-1953
1
12
Unknown
Sprayed field
3 items
pasture plots; quackgrass plots; woodworm on ceansthas; fields before and after being sprayed; amine; Russian knapweed; group of people on field;
1948-1973
1
13
Digiquat plots
5 items
diuron plots; winter wheat tanweed; bosse wheat; Sandpoint; sweet grass field; absorption pots; paraquat diqual trials; road shoulder sterilization; paraquat grass; trifoliate leaves; first tiller stage photos
1963-1964
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14
IPC
4 items
IPC testing; goatweed; chlorate patch; salt plots; quackgrass; Lewiston; Sandpoint; northern sugar beet variety tests; greenhouse tests; Mortenson peas; Harold snow; Ogle; Fred Nelson peas; crested wheat spray; non wetting agent; amine
1948-1962
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15
Weeds
4 items
juvenile plant leaf; A and B type rosettes; skeleton weed inoculation; skeleton weed rust; fern; PCNB corn; water hemlock; R-11 water; blue flowering lettuce; misc. weed pictures; moss; iron weeds pictures
1949-1972
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16
Idaho
13 items
Robinson Lake collection; fish; tansy mustard; Alaska peas; tiller stage; Lewiston; goatweed; twilight viola; lake photos of Arthur; Moscow; Portland; house; group of people in prairie; seed fields; Yellowstone thistle; Rathdrum; skeleton weed; Culdesac; leafy spurge; root reserve graphs; dalmatian toadflax; Grangeville; winter wheat; Nez Perce; umbellate chickweed; pheasants eye; diuron; Salsbury wheat; parrot feather (myriophyllum brasiliensis); Emmet; fanweed; spring plots; Sandpoint; quackgrass; Snake River; Whitebird; switchgrass; IPC tests; Salmon River and Seven Devils Country; Hagedorn Farm; Fred Nelson; clover tests
1948-1977
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Idaho 2
7 items
Dry Creek planting; Whitebird Grade; beetles on goat weed; goatweed; Garpster; Lewiston Grade; Rathdrum plots; untreated and treated plots; skeleton weed; umbellate chickweed; Nez Perce weeds; wingtip; airplane photos; April aerial; Webb gemellata
1954-1970
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18
Idaho 3
12 items
Whitebird Grade; Coyote Grade; planting c. gemellata; Nez Perce; goatweed; beetles on goat weed; plots; IPC decomposition tests; greenhouses; prickly peas; tree cactus; wheat-sallow peas; peas; highways; field sprays; Bodine; diuron treatment;
1948-1973
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Washington
4 items
Colfax; sprayers; trailer sprayers; tractors; hydraulic lift; Meyers low pressure sprayer; iron age trailer sprayer; Electrovator 1949 model; spray-rite tractor; bindweed; medusahead grass; karmex; greenhouse tests; Winthrop; Washington Pass; Ross Dam
1949-1976
1
20
Nevada and California
2 items
Rainbow Vista; Calico Ghost Town; California; Rainbow Basin; old buildings; desert views; Maze Rock pictograph; lake photos
1976-1977
1
21
California
9 items
spray plane; olive picker; Davis; flame weeder; bege wooder; gorilla; tortoises; water birds; white pelicans; giraffe; tropical forest birds; San Jacinto; Palm Springs; Ramona Bowl; Mount Whitney; lone pine photos; camp; buffalo; antelope; horses; characters at play; Napa Valley; Mount Lassen; picnic table photo
1971-1977
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Georgia, Mass., N.Y.
11 items
Washington D.C. monuments collection; John Smith statue; Washington Monument; historic houses in D.C.; Lincoln house statue; civil war monuments; 78th and 102nd New York Infantry; White House; United States Capitol Building; Marine Corps war memorial; Empire State plaque; New York City aerial photos; Philadelphia aerial photos; bridges and water of New York; Twin Towers; Statue of Liberty; wharfs and bays of Massachusetts; historic buildings of Massachusetts; fall scenery of Massachusetts; Atlanta houses; Atlanta tram
1973-1978
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23
Arizona, California, South Dakota, Montana
8 items
South Dakota roads; Wall Drug store; Badlands National Park; Mitchell Corn Palace; Organ Pipes National Monument; Arizona cacti; Montezuma Well photos; Gilbert Bay; desert sunsets; San Xavier mission; petroglyphs; valley fires; white domes; duck rock; Lake Mead; Mount Rushmore; Valley of Fire; Elephant Rock; erosion moles
1977-1978
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24
Trips to Idaho, Washington, and Oceanside
7 items
Desert Christ Park; cacti; Organ Pipes National Monument; Cottonwood Spring Oasis photos; California fan palms; Bill Clark's homecoming O.E.S., Twin Falls, ID; Lions Club Golf Course; lake photos; landscape photos; wharfed boat in fog; fishing photos; Pacific Ocean; southern Idaho rocks; Ginko Park petroglyphs; phacelia flower; Mount Sawtell; Pullman junk castle; plane landing; Seattle aerial view; Columbus, Ohio hotel; Maineville, Ohio
1970-1979
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25
Testing and Event Misc.
9 items
Jerry E. Asher business card; yellow paper with contact information for 35mm slides; invasive exotic plants papers; UI weed tour agenda sheet; soil testing papers;
1983-1995
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26
Plant and event misc.
11 items
white top; Shepard's purse; topcide story slideshow slides; KC and Shawn photos; foodball stadium; Darlene homecoming collection; PCMB soil testing; fee arch stadium; purple mustard; blue lips; dog fennel; ryegrass; gromwell; black nightshade; hen bit; bachelor button; prickly lettuce; chickweed; fan weed; plot photos; Grangeville; Rathdrum; silfcow plants; field photos; Blackfoot; Austrian peas
1964-1981
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Various 35mm slides
7 items
Livestock; travel; crops; notebook listing slides
1960-1965
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Series 2: Papers
1
WPA NWI 1936
1 items
Annual Weed Report WPA; climatic and experiment data; cultivation; effects and rates; toxicity; fundamental data; Mr. Hood; C.I. Seely; weed control
1936
2
1
ARNWI 1936
1 items
Annual Report Noxious Weed Investigations; climatic and experiment data; cultivation; effects and rates; toxicity; growth of root fragments; fundamental data; C.I. Seely; trend of root reserves; biological methods of control; weed control by cultural methods; weed control by herbicides; weed control by crop competition; Genesee; Moscow; Nez Perce; Latah; weed control by tillage;
1936
2
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ARNWI 1937
1 items
Annual Report Noxious Weed Investigations; climatic and experiment data; cultivation; effects and rates; toxicity; growth of root fragments; fundamental data; C.I. Seely; trend of root reserves; biological methods of control; weed control by cultural methods; weed control by herbicides; weed control by crop competition; Genesee; Moscow; Nez Perce; Latah; weed control by tillage;
1937
2
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ARNWI 1938
1 items
Annual Report Noxious Weed Investigations; climatic and experiment data; cultivation; effects and rates; toxicity; growth of root fragments; fundamental data; C.I. Seely; trend of root reserves; biological methods of control; weed control by cultural methods; weed control by herbicides; weed control by crop competition; Genesee; Moscow; Nez Perce; Latah; weed control by tillage
1938
2
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ARNWI 1939
1 items
Annual Report Noxious Weed Investigations; climatic and experiment data; cultivation; effects and rates; toxicity; growth of root fragments; fundamental data; C.I. Seely; trend of root reserves; biological methods of control; weed control by cultural methods; weed control by herbicides; weed control by crop competition; Genesee; Moscow; Nez Perce; Latah; weed control by tillage;
1939
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ARNWC 1939
1 items
Annual Report Weed Control Investigations; climatic and experiment data; cultivation; effects and rates; toxicity; fundamental data; C.I. Seely; root reserves; various methods of control
1939
2
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ARNWI 1940
1 items
Annual Report Noxious Weed Investigations; climatic and experiment data; cultivation; effects and rates; toxicity; growth of root fragments; fundamental data; C.I. Seely; trend of root reserves; biological methods of control; weed control by cultural methods; weed control by herbicides; weed control by crop competition; Genesee; Moscow; Nez Perce; Latah; weed control by tillage
1940
2
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ARNWI 1941
1 items
Annual Report Noxious Weed Investigations; climatic and experiment data; cultivation; effects and rates; toxicity; growth of root fragments; fundamental data; C.I. Seely; trend of root reserves; biological methods of control; weed control by cultural methods; weed control by herbicides; weed control by crop competition; Genesee; Moscow; Nez Perce; Latah; weed control by tillage;
1941
2
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ARNWI 1942
1 items
Annual Report Noxious Weed Investigations; climatic and experiment data; cultivation; effects and rates; toxicity; growth of root fragments; fundamental data; C.I. Seely; trend of root reserves; biological methods of control; weed control by cultural methods; weed control by herbicides; weed control by crop competition; Genesee; Moscow; Nez Perce; Latah; weed control by tillage
1942
2
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ARNWI 1943
1 items
Annual Report Noxious Weed Investigations; climatic and experiment data; cultivation; effects and rates; toxicity; growth of root fragments; fundamental data; C.I. Seely; trend of root reserves; biological methods of control; weed control by cultural methods; weed control by herbicides; weed control by crop competition; Genesee; Moscow; Nez Perce; Latah; weed control by tillage
1943
2
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ARNWI 1944
1 items
Annual Report Noxious Weed Investigations; climatic and experiment data; cultivation; effects and rates; toxicity; growth of root fragments; fundamental data; C.I. Seely; trend of root reserves; biological methods of control; weed control by cultural methods; weed control by herbicides; weed control by crop competition; Genesee; Moscow; Nez Perce; Latah; weed control by tillage
1944
2
11
S-131 and RM-13 Reports
3 items
IPC or DNBP; completed tables; diuron tests on Austrian winter peas; herbicidal treatments on weeds; wheat-pea rotation; Alaska peas; project control of weeds on pasture and range land; weed control on non-irrigated lands of Idaho
1967
2
12
Correspondence
32 items
cell collect; memorandum; Weed Control on The non-Irrigated Lands of Idaho progress report; O'Connell; Heston v. Payne case; Rosemurgy and Corporation Incorporated; Anderson v. Bauman; WA State Weed Association; enveloped letter to Seely; seed stock allocations; Kimball v. Huntington and Cummings; weed research plans
1954-1980
2
13
Notes
13 items
Timeline; handwritten chronological list; reflections of weed control controversies; wheat and weed notes; undated memo
undated
2
14
Blog Info
1 items
biographical packet on Clarence I. Seely
undated
2
15
Seely Publications (papers)
2
36 items
Four Decades in Retrospect or Forty Years Behind the Eight Ball; Variability in Wild Oats Types and Its Implications; Effect of IPC on Selections of Wild Oats; prelim report on possible use of 2, 4 dichloorophlenoxyacetic acid for the control of wild morning glory in orchards; effects of light quantities and glucose on 2,4-D toxicity to Canada thistle; wild oat reports; weed seed in soil; wheat production; herbicides; quackgrass control; weed control; bindweed control; alfalfa seed fields; dalmatian toadflax
1948-1976
2
16
Weed Science Research Reports (college of forestry)
9 items
project reports; indices; proposed revisions and by-laws; technical information report AC 222, 293; plant science 338; hiring procedures; seed news; fall seeded crops under NIFSA contract; Noxious weeds in the Columbia Basin
1951-1983
2
17
Weed Science Research and Tables
25 items
Bromox-Glean tables; dinitroaniline herbicide persistence table; Dupont plant-back tables; ripgut brome tables; broadleaf weed control tables; spring grass tables; wild oat tables; bedstraw tables; bromoxynil tables; picloram plantback; winter pea herbicide; metribuzin; trichlopyr plantback; spring pea herbicide; lentil herbicide
undated
2
18
Directories of NA weed scientist and WSA members
2 items
winners; officers; awards; list of scientists; world-wide members book; American members book
1986-1988
2
19
Progress On Research
8 items
Research work unit/project progress report sheet U.S. Department of Agriculture; What's New in Selectives and Selective Use of Sterilants; S-131 Infection from Soil-borne Inoculum; diuron and bromoxynil extension trials; Weed Control on the Non-irrigated Land of Idaho
1964-1969
2
20
Proceedings Western Weed Control Conference
3 items
Annual Weed Control Conference books; treasurer reports; project and control information; members in attendance; literature and references
1948-1952
2
21
Letters
16 items
newspaper snippet; note from Helen Seely; correspondence
1989
2
23
Minutes Agronomy Liaison Conference
1 items
Dean Kraus; Extension activities and organization functions; conservation; soils; crop and seed activities; weed control; plant trails; herbicide trails; publications discussion
1959
2
22
Annual Western Weed Control Conference
2
7 items
Annual Meeting notebooks; articles; members present; drama; radio talks; resolutions; research reports
1940-1947
2
24
Law and Legal Documents
4 items
Herbicide Law chapter 120; herbicide law chart; noxious weed law; public law 92-516 92nd congress; Superior Courts of Paris - Third Chamber Hearing
1954-1976
2
25
Misc Objects
5 items
Seely field notebook; Kodachrome slide film; accession information; Seely 1935 thesis
1935-1997
2
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Series 3: Annual Reports
Annual Report Agronomy Department
10 items
Reports by projects and general interests; weed control; revegetation; ecology and control; evaluations; data tables; range weeds; thistle; Baker; Klages; Fosberg; grass responses
1950-1951
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