George Woodbury collection

George Woodbury collection, 1950-1976

Overview of the Collection

Creator: Woodbury, George, 1904-1997
Title: George Woodbury collection
Dates: 1950-1976 (inclusive)
19501976
Quantity: 8 cubic feet, (2 document boxes, 2 bankers boxes, and 4 oversized. )
Collection Number: MG 554
Summary: A scrapbook of the Woodburys' trip to South America and matted photographs taken both nationally and internationally. Film slides of personal and research trips abroad. Includes horticulture photographs.
Repository: University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives
Special Collections and Archives
University of Idaho Library
875 Perimeter Drive
MS 2350
Moscow, ID
83844-2350
Telephone: 2088850845
libspec@uidaho.edu
Access Restrictions: Some material in collection is restricted. Please contact Special Collections for more information.
Languages: English

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

Photographs of Palouse area, Idaho and South America; scrapbook of his year in Colombia; series of photos of Nez Perce woman; newsclippingsp; programs; brochures. Additional materials added include photographs from Fulbright research, personal photographs, and research pertaining to his faculty position.

Historical NoteReturn to Top

George was born August 21, 1904 to Ames Lynn and Rose Woodbury in St. Johns, Michigan where he was educated. He earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Michigan Agricultural College (now Michigan State University). He received his doctorate in vegetable crops from Comell University. His first teaching job was at the University of Maine where he met and married Kathryn Schanley in 1928. In 1935, Woodbury was employed by the University of Idaho. During World War II he worked in commercial areas of vegetable and grain related companies in Ithaca, New York. He returned to Idaho in 1948 where he served as a researcher at Parma, as Chairman of the Horticultural Department at U.I. in Moscow, and headed the University's Mission to Ecuador from 1954-1956. In 1961 George accepted a Fulbright Scholarship to teach at Universidad de Ion Andes in Bogota, Columbia, South America. George retired and traveled extensively using Moscow, Idaho as his home base. He died January 27, 1997 in Moscow, Idaho.

Other Descriptive InformationReturn to Top

Materials in this collection may contain images, language, or other content that may be offensive or disturbing. These materials are a product of a time and place in history and should be viewed within their historical context. To maintain historical accuracy, the materials appear as they were originally created to serve as historical evidence of the social mindsets, occurrences, behaviors, and norms of their time. They do not reflect the current views of the University of Idaho. For more information about how we treat materials with offensive or disturbing content, please see the University of Idaho Library, Special Collections and Archives Offensive Content Policy.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Preferred Citation

FOR DOCUMENTS: Author, Description or "Title" of item, date. Collection name, collection number, box, folder. University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, Moscow, ID.

FOR PHOTOS Photographer, "Title," date. Collection name, object ID. University of Idaho Library Special Collections and Archives, Moscow, ID.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

Restricted materials were removed and foldered separately.

Acquisition Information

George Woodbury

Processing Note

Film slides were removed from metal and wood containers and put into archival sleeves for preservation. The second scrapbook was scanned for digital prosperity.

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series I: ScrapbookReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
Box	Folder
1	1	Fulbright 15 items : Letters and ephemera	1960-1961
1	2	Monserrate 11 items : Brochures; bw photos Avenida Septima Bogata; Continental esidencies Vera Cruz; Tequendama Falls; Catedral de Sal Zipaquira;	1960
1	3	Bogata 16 items : Journal and bw photos of Bogata	1960
1	4	Vera Cruz 32 items : bw photos Mesitas del Colegio; Vera Cruz; Los Andes;	1960
1	5	Los Andes 6 items : bw photos fiesta; business card Alicia de Harnandez; flyer	1960
1	6	Colombia 9 items : bw photos of villagers, building, and cemetery; champagne label; news clippings about Colombian violence; airdropped leaflet from the Bay of Pigs	1961
1	7	Medellin 11 items : bw photos of travel to Medellin; music program; business cards; ephemera	1961
1	8	Colombia Travel 14 items : travel book; bw photos of Colombian countryside; Cartagena; colonial buildings; Fort San Jose; San Felipe;	1961
1	9	Panama 31 items : Equator crossing certificate; Mormacsurf menu; bw photos of the ship Mormacsurf; passengers; officers; Caracas; La Guaira Venezuela; Maracaibo; Valencia; Carahbo battle monument; postcard	1961
1	10	Trindad and Tobago 11 items : Miramar Night Club program; travel guides; bw photos	1961
1	11	Brasil and Argentina 32 items : Ephemera; Peru newsclipping; brochures; postcards; bw photos scenic photos; Salvador Bahia Brasil; scenic views	1961
2	12	University 32 items : Brochures; ephemera; Festival newsclipping; bw photos Leon Lyde; Fulbright; Audrey Kaslow; Joe Grimsley; sugar factor; "el Paraiso" ; walking palm; Dr. Andrade Marin y Guillo; Patricio Andris; Quito;	1961
2	13	Various photos 14 items : hotel receipt; bw photos Plaza Francesa, Panama City; Antingua, Guatemala; San Agustin; arachaological park statues;	1961
2	14	Guatemala 11 items : tour itinerary; business cards; bw photos of Lake Atitlan; Chichicastinango;	1961
2	15	Yucatan 12 items : Brochure; card; bw photos Chichen Itza; caracal; castilla; hennequin; labna	1961
2	16	Mexico 10 items : Brochures; receipts; bw photos	1961
2	17	United States 12 items : Brochures; letters from Henry Dworshak; Christmas cards; bw and color family photos	1961
2	18	Booklets 3 items : Historic Silver City by Mildretta Adams; The Hobby Greenhouse by George Woodbury; The 'Irish' Potato by G.W. Woodbury and J.E. Kraus	1961
2	19	Campus View 3 items : 2 4x5 bw negs and a description of the campus view	1961
2	20	University of Idaho 3 items : 8x10 bw photos greenhouses; Admin Bldg clock tower	1961
2	21	Palouse 4 items : 8x10 bw photos steam engine; Paradise Ridge; Moscow, Idaho	undated
2	22	Boothill 2 items : 8x10 bw photo tombstones	undated
2	23	Atlanta 2 items : 8x10 bw photo Atlanta	undated
2	24	Montana 3 items : 8x10 bw photos Glacier National Park; tombstone; gallows; Bannack, Montana	undated
2	25	Plants 4 items : 8x10 bw photos Death Camas; False Hellebore	undated
2	26	People 4 items : 8x10 bw photos Horticulturists; entomoogists; plant pathologists; Kenneth Andrew Dick; Jim Neibaur; Rose Neibaur; Steve Symms; Donald R. Theophilus	1958-1961
2	27	Nez Perce 6 items : 8x10 bw photos Nez Perce women in regalia	undated
2	28	Idaho 2 items : 8x10 bw photos Custer, Idaho; Delamar, Idaho; Forence Franklin; Kathryn Woodbury	1950-1955
2	29	Lewiston 5 items : 8x10 bw photos Lewiston field station; systemic horticulture;	undated
2	30	Idaho Historical Signs 6 items : 8x10 bw photos Mackenzie's Post; Lolo Summit; First Capital; Lawyer's Canyon; Old Fort Boise	undated
2	31	Idaho City 12 items : 8x10 bw photos	undated

Series II: PhotographsReturn to Top

Container(s)		Description	Dates
		Subseries I: Oversized
Box	Folder
3	1	Oversize scrapbook 10 items : pages from the scrapbook; newsclippings	undated
3	2	Photographs 10 items : bw photograph Clivia; Selway Falls; Kibbie Dome	undated
	object
4	1	Round Barn Near Pullman 1 items : bw photograph	undated
4	2	Dendrobium Orchids 1 items : bw photograph	undated
4	3	U of I Golf Course 1 items : bw photograph	undated
4	4	Old Admin Steps 1 items : bw photograph	undated
4	5	Smilacena racemosa 1 items : bw photograph	undated
4	6	Rhona Glacier, Switzerland 1 items : bw photograph	undated
4	7	Taj Mahal, India 1 items : bw photograph	undated
4	8	Palenque, Mayan Yucatan, Mexico 1 items : bw photograph	undated
4	9	Temple of Bacchus, Baalbek, Lebanon 1 items : bw photograph	undated
4	10	Theatre at Epidaurua, Pelopenuc, near Athens 1 items : bw photograph	undated
4	11	Mt. Eisenhauer, Banff National Park, B.C. 1 items : bw photograph	undated
4	12	Abbottsford, Scott's home, England 1 items : bw photograph	undated
4	13	Untitled 1 items : bw photograph	undated
4	14	Dancing Ladies 1 items : bw photograph	undated
4	15	Arches, World's Fair, Seattle, WA 1 items : bw photograph	1957
4	16	Dugout Canoe Building on Subic River, New Guinea 1 items : bw photograph	undated
4	17	Untitled 1 items : bw photograph	undated
4	18	Two Ecuadorian Guirls at Equator 1 items : bw photograph	undated
4	19	Sidon Lebanon early 1976 1 items : bw photograph	1976
4	20	Path, Univ. of Idaho Campus 1 items : bw photograph	undated
5	1	Street in Pisac, Peru 1 items : bw photograph	undated
5	2	Alcalde (amyor) Pisac, Peru 1 items : bw photograph	undated
5	3	Palenque - Mexico 1 items : bw photograph	1934
5	4	Palenque Temple of Inscriptions 1 items : bw photograph	1974
5	5	Machu Picchu Peru 1 items : bw photograph; reverse gives 1955 as the date	1956
5	6	Market in Quito, Ecuador 1 items : bw photograph	undated
5	7	Memorial Towers, Caracas, Venezuela 1 items : bw photograph	undated
5	8	Aqueduct, Segovia, Spain 1 items : bw photograph	undated
5	9	Linderhof Castle, Bavarian Alps Austria 1 items : bw photograph	undated
5	10	Hadrian's Villa, Tivoli 1 items : bw photograph	undated
5	11	Gateway Dubrovnik 1 item : bw photograph; reverse reads: "Entrance to Old Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia."	undated
5	12	Chapel in Loire Valley, France 1 item : bw photograph	undated
5	13	Guard Tower, Dubrovnik 1 item : bw photograph; reverse reads: "Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia 1975."	1975
5	14	Apple Terraces Lebanon 1 item : bw photograph	1975
5	15	Chapel Dubrovnik 1 item : bw photograph	1975
5	16	Acropolis, Athens 1 item : bw photograph	undated
5	17	Pigeons at Dubrovnik 1 item : bw photograph; reverse reads: "kids feeding pigeons, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia."	1975
5	18	Temple of Zeus, Athens 1 item : bw photograph	undated
5	19	Shrine of Apollo, Delphi 1 item : bw photograph	1970
5	20	Temple of Jupiter, Baalbeck 1 item : bw photograph; reverse reads: "Temple of Jupiter, Baalbek, Lebanon."	1975
5	21	11th Century Castle, Obidos, Portugal 1 item : bw photograph	undated
5	22	Temple of Castor & Pollux, Roman Forum, Rome 1 item : bw photograph; reverse reads: "Forum, Rome."	undated
5	23	San Marcos, Venice 1 item : bw photograph; reverse reads: "San Marcos Cathedral, St. Marks Square Venice."	undated
5	24	Salisbury Cathedral, England 1 item : bw photograph	undated
5	25	Roman Arch, Tyre, Lebanon 1 item : bw photograph; reverse reads: "Roman Arch, Tyre, Lebanon."	1975
5	26	Main Street, Dubrovinik 1 item : bw photograph; reverse reads: "Street, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia."	1975
5	27	Towers in Barcelona, Spain 1 item : bw photograph	undated
6	1	Sheep in Northern Idaho 1 item : bw photograph	undated
6	2	Trick Falls, Glacier National park, Montana 1 item : bw photograph	undated
6	3	Aug - The Dawg 1 item : bw photograph; reverse reads: "Augie, the Basset Hound."	undated
6	4	Jenny Lake, Teton National Forest 1 item : bw photograph	undated
6	5	Rain Forest, Olympic Peninsula, WA 1 item : bw photograph	undated
6	6	Oregon Coast Near Cannon Beach 1 item : bw photograph	undated
6	7	Canadian National Park 1 item : bw photograph; reverse reads: "Highway between Banff and Jasper, B.C. National Park	undated
6	8	Lake between Babb & Many Glacier, Glacier National Park 1 item : bw photograph	undated
6	9	Big Trees of Calaveros California 1 item : bw photograph	undated
6	10	Lake, Glacier National Park 1 item : bw photograph	undated
6	11	Back of 1424 Borah, Moscow, ID 1 item : bw photograph	1968
6	12	Yellowstone Falls, Yellowstone Park 1 item : bw photograph	undated
		Subseries II: Scrapbooks, Research Trip
Box	object
7	1	Scrapbook 1 item : Scrapbook of the Woodbury's trip to Ecuador between 1954-1956.	1954-1956
	Folder
7	2	University of Idaho Ecuador Project: Semi-Annual Report 31 items : Semi-annual report written by George Woodbury for the period between December 1, 1954 through May 1955.	1954-1955
		Subseries III: Film Slides
Box	Folder
8	1	Film Slide Inventory Book 2 items : Film slide inventory book for Woodbury's collection of film slides from his travels.	undated
8	2	Film Slide Box 1 7 items : Contents: Quito film slides	1954-1956
8	3	Film Slide Box 2 & 3 7 items : Contents described by donor as: "Box 2 - Colordados, Natives, Quito Natives, Fiesta Bull Fight" & "Box 3 - Santo Domingo, Guayaquil, South of Quito, Trip to Ecuador, Otavalo."	1955-1956
8	4	Film Slide Box 3 & 4 8 items : Contents described by donor as: "Box 3 - Santo Domingo, Guayaquil, South of Quito, Trip to Ecuador, Otavalo." & "Box 4 - People Ecuador, Kinfolks people, Churches, Indian markets."	1954-1956
8	5	Film Slide Box 4 3 items : Contents described by donor as: "Box 4 - People Ecuador, kinfolks people, churches, Indian markets."	1955-1956
8	6	Film Slide Box 9, 10, 11 & 12 7 items : Contents described by donor as: "Box 9 - Rio to B.A.", "Box 10 - Guatemala & Ch. Itza", "Box 11 - Cusco - Macchu Picchu", "Box 12 - Gold museum, Bogota."	1954-1961
8	7	Film Slide Box 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 8 items : Contents described by donor as: "Box 13 - Gold museum, Bogota", "Box 14 - Bogota", "Box 15 - Bogota", "Box 16 - San Augustin, Colombia", "Box 17 - Cali trip to Co., misc."	1961
8	8	Film Slide Box 17, 18, 19, 20, 21 8 items : Contents described by donor as: "Box 17 - Cali trip to Co., misc.", "Box 18 - Flowers, Fruits, Plants", "Box 19 - Flowers & Horticulture", "Box 20 - Medellin, Cauca Valley, St. Augustin, etc.", "Box 21 - Panama to Antigua".	1960-1962
8	9	Film Slide Box 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27 8 items : Contents described by donor as: "Box 22 - Chichen Itza", "Box 23 - Mexico", "Box 24 - Wild flowers", "Box 25 - Wild flowers", "Box 26 - Quito Otovola", "Box 27 - Wild flowers".	1959-1962
8	10	Film Slide Box 27, 29, 30, 32, 34, 35 9 items : Contents described by donor as: "Box 27 - wildflowers", "Box 29 - wildflowers", "Box 30 - wildflowers", "Box 32 - highway historical", "Box 34 - Tetons 1962", "Box 35 - Trip to Seattle and Puget Sound".	1956-1962
8	11	Film Slide Box 35, 39, 40, 41a, 42 7 items : Contents described by donor as: "Box 35 - Trip to Seattle and Puget Sound", "Box 39 - wildflowers", "Box 40 - wildflowers", "Box 41a - Owyhee California, misc. views", "Box 42 - mostly wildflowers".	1960-1965
8	12	Film Slide Box 43b, 2b, 3b, Q 7 items : Contents described by donor as: "Box 43b - Indians 1964", "Box 43 - wildflowers", "Box 2b - wildflowers", "Box 3b - wildflowers", Box Q - Quito, etc.".	1956-1964
8	13	Film Slide Box R, S, T, U, X 7 items : Contents described by donor as: "Box R - Trip Home", "Box S - Santo Domingo & Other", "Box T - Flowers, etc.", "Box U - Horticulture", "Box X - Machu Picchu".	1955-1956
8	14	Film Slide Box Y, Z 3 items : Contents described by donor as: "Box Y - Pisac", "Box Z - Peru, Lima".	1956
8	15	Restricted Film Slides 9 items : *Restricted* Film slides include indigneous ceremonies and practices, as well as nudity.	undated
		Subseries IV: Miscellaneous Materials
Box	Folder
8	16	Miscellaneous Photographs 47 items : Miscellaneous photographs of research trip to Ecuador and South America.	1955-1956
8	17	Miscellaneous Materials 6 items : Miscellaneous paper materials relating to research and publications.	1950-1975
8	18	Autobiography: "George… By George" 141 items : Autobiography of George Woodbury.	1976

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