The Albert Davies papers consists of a scrapbook contianing photographs of 1939 smokejumping experiments near Portland, Oregon and Winthrop, Washington. It also contains loose photographs and clippings about these experiments.
This collection is arranged at the collection level.
Albert Davies was the Assistant Director of Fire Control for Region 6 of the United States Forest Service (USFS) when the USFS ran a series of smokejumping experiments from its base in Winthrop, Washington in 1939.
Collection is open to the public.
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Albert Davies papers; SPC-021-0928; Archives and Special Collections, Eastern Washington University.
This collection was donated to Eastern Washington University in 2021 by Thomas A. Davies.