Guide to the Charles Jay Gould Papers 1933-1977
Cage 373

Summary Information

Repository
Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Creator
Gould, Charles Jay
Title
Charles Jay Gould Papers
ID
Cage 373
Date [inclusive]
1933-1977
Extent
11 containers., 11 linear feet of shelf space., 11,790 items.
Language
Collection materials are in English.
Abstract
Correspondence, budget data, experimental data, research notes and scientific papers on turf-grass and ornamental plant pathology.

Preferred Citation

[Item Description]. Cage 373, Charles Jay Gould Papers . Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

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Biography/History

Charles Jay Gould, Jr., was born on February 28, 1912 in Eaton, Ohio and raised in Huntington, West Virginia. He attended high school and college in West Virginia graduating cum laude from Marshall College (now Marshall University) in 1934. He received an M.S. in Plant Pathology from Iowa State College in 1937 where he taught botany until 1941. In 1941 he joined the staff of the Western Washington Experimental Station in Puyallup, now the Western Washington Research and Extension Center (WWREC), as an assistant plant pathologist specializing in the control of Northwest turf and bulb disease. In 1942, he received his Ph.D. in Plant Pathology from Iowa State College.

His significant accomplishments include organizing the first bulb growers short course in 1948, studying bulb diseases in the Netherlands as a Fulbright scholar in 1951, and organizing the first conference of turfgrass pathologists,as well as publishing nearly 350 articles dealing with various plant diseases. Dr. Gould retired from the WWREC in 1977. The following year Dr. Gould was named a Fellow in the American Phytopathological Society.

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Arrangement

The papers are arranged in three series: Correspondence, Budget. and Experiments and Related Data. Correspondence, 1947-1977, includes General Correspondence from 1947 through 1977 restructured chronologically by year, and Other Correspondence from 1948 through 1977 arranged alphabetically by subject and/or correspondent.

Budget Data from 1935 through 1976 includes budget and funding information of the Western Washington Research and Extension Center from 1935 through 1976 arranged chronologically by year, as well as data relating to the WWREC relationship with the United States Department of Agriculture from 1954 through 1976. This material consists of budget information, correspondence, memoranda, automobile reports, greenhouse data, and time and attendance reports arranged alphabetically by subject.

Experiments and Related Data from 1933 through 1977 are divided into three sections: Turf, 1949-1977, ornamentals, 1938-1974, and Other Research and Projects, 1933-1975. Turf data is arranged by experimental species and includes Snowmold, Fusarium and Typhula (two fungi that cause snowmold in eastern Washington), Corticum, Ophiobolus, and Fairy Ring research as well as correspondence, memoranda, and reports relating to turf and turfgrass pathology arranged alphabetically. Ornamental data from 1938 through 1974 is arranged alphabetically and includes experimental research on basal rot, crown rot, and other ornamental diseases. Other Research and Projects from 1933 through 1975 includes experimental data, research, and reports arranged alphabetically by subject.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections  © 2012

http://www.libraries.wsu.edu/masc/

Terrell Library

P.O. Box 645610

Pullman, WA, 99164-5610 USA

509-335-6691

mascref@wsu.edu

Restrictions on Access

This collection is open for research use.

Acquisition Information

The papers of Dr. Charles J. Gould were donated to the Washington State University Library in November 1977 by Dr. Gould upon his retirement from the Western Washington Research and Extension Center (WWREC) in Puyallup, WA, (UA 77-33).

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Names and Subjects

Occupation(s)

  • Plant pathologists -- Washington (State)--Puyallup--Records and correspondence

Personal Name(s)

Creator(s) :
  • Gould, Charles J. --Archives

Subject(s)

  • Grasses -- Diseases and pests--Research
  • Plants, Ornamental--Diseases and pests--Research
  • Agriculture
  • Science
  • Washington (State)

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Detailed Description of Collection

The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in the collection.

Series 1: Correspondence 1947-1977 

General Correspondence 1947-1977 

 folder
box folder

 1948-1968  1,981

 1 1-21

 1969-1973  1,388

 2 22-39

 1974-1977  383 items.

 3 40-43
box folder

Agricultural Chemicals Committee 1961-1964  73 items.

 3 44

Chemical Companies 1970-1976  370 items.

 3 45-48

Department Review--Plant Pathology 1973-1974  9 items.

 3 49

Faculty Council 1971-1975  30 items.

 3 50

Land Use 1972-1977  36 items.

 3 51

Official 1952-1976  327 items.

 3 52-56

Personal Material, Biography 1975-1977  10 items.

 4 57

Plant Science Building 1948-1969  28 items.

 4 58

John F. Schafer, Chairman, Plant Pathology Dept. 1973-1977  26 items.

 4 59

C. Gardner Shaw, Chairman, Plant Pathology Dept. 1965-1971  53 items.

 4 60

Spray Conference, Portland 1973  9 items.

 4 61

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Series 2: Budget 1935-1976 
box folder

Western Washington Research and Extension Center 1935-1976  871 items.

 4 62-88

United States Department of Agriculture 1954-1976 
box folder

Budget and Funds 1955-1976  646 items.

 5 89-104

Automobile 1954-1973  200 items.

 5 105-106

Correspondence 1955-1966  149 items.

 5 107-109

Greenhouse 1965-1973  33 items.

 5 110

Time and Attendance Reports 1957  28 items.

 5 111

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Series 3: Experiments and Related Data 1933-1977 

Turf 1949-1977 
box folder

Snowmold 1972-1977  184 items.

 6 112-127

Fusarium 1955-1970 
box folder

 1955-1970  447

 6 128-146

 1969-1976  230

 7 147-155
box folder

Typhula 1972-1977  77 items.

 7 156-165

Corticum 1957-1975  112 items.

 7 166-173

Ophiobolus 1961 1974  156 items.

 7 173-180

Fairy Ring 1949-1955  285 items.

 7 181-186

Correspondence 1955-1977  40 items.

 7 187-188

Charts 1967  9 items.

 8 189

Disease, General Survey 1962-1963  75 items.

 8 190-191

Effect of Different Light Types on Growth 1960  9 items.

 8 192

Experimental Data, General 1955-1959  35 items.

 8 193

International Turfgrass Society, Annual Meeting 1973-1974  10 items.

 8 194

Northwest Turf Association 1958-1973  181 items.

 8 195-197

Pathologists Newsletter, Meetings 1968-1976  70 items.

 8 198

Plastichouse 1959-1960  46 items.

 8 199

Slide Collection, Agronomy 1973-1976  6 items.

 8 200

Summaries, Fungicidal 1970-1974  55 items.

 8 201

United States Golf Association 1972-1977  50 items.

 8 202

Western Regional Coordinating Committee 1972-1976  52 items.

 8 203

Ornamentals 1938-1974 
box folder

Basal Rot 1941-1969  750 items.

 8 204-211

Black Rot, Iris 1947-1974  60 items.

 9 212-213

Botrytis Diseases, Paper undated  50 items.

 9 214

Bulbs 1966-1969  85 items.

 9 215

Bulb Growers Short Course 1955-1957  20 items.

 9 216

Crown Rot 1945-1969  420 items.

 9 217-222

Iris Data 1959  225 items.

 9 223-224

Lily Rot, Dips 1947  60 items.

 9 225

Tulip Disease 1947-1974  100 items.

 9 226
box folder

Apple--Blue Mold Dips 1949-1951  17 items.

 9 227

Cabbage Research 1949  40 items.

 9 228

Cross Inoculation Studies 1947  35 items.

 9 229

Clover Rot 1952-1956  34 items.

 9 230

Cypress Root Rot 1952-1955  10 items.

 9 231

Dissertation Research, Parasitism of Glomerulia Lonicerae (Pk) D. & H. in Lonicera Species 1940-1945  230 items.

 9 232-241

Douglas Fir 1944  22 items.

 10 242

Ethyl Mercury Damage, Paper 1954  4 items.

 10 243

Experimental Data, General 1949-1975  60 items.

 10 244

Fir Rust 1965  4 items.

 10 245

Fluorine Trial 1944-1950  27 items.

 10 246

Fieldbooks 1942-1952  11 items.

 10 247-251

Fungicide Data undated  1 item.

 10 252

Holly Blight 1954  3 items.

 10 253

Laurel Diseases 1952  24 items.

 10 254

Moss 1953  3 items.

 10 255

Notes for Speeches 1960  4 items.

 10 256

Organic Gardening 1962-1965  26 items.

 10 257

Plant Disease Survey 1944-1945  11 items.

 10 258

Plant Pathology Meeting 1972  3 items.

 10 259

Potato Research 1943-1949  130 items.

 10 260-270

Research Prior to employment at WSU 
box folder

Polypores 1935-1936  1 item.

 11 271

Workshop, Progressive Education Asso. 1938  18 items.

 11 272

Teaching, Iowa State 1938-1940  12 items.

 11 273

Research, Iowa State 1935-1940  3 items.

 11 274

Master's Thesis, Iowa State 1937  1 item.

 11 275

Poplar Cankers 1933  20 items.

 11 276
box folder

Pansy Leaf Sprout 1945  2 items.

 11 277

Pypacantha Fungicides 1972-1975  5 items.

 11 278

Radio Talks; KVI 1942-1953  30 items.

 11 279

Reports, Bulletins, Papers 1952-1975  60 items.

 11 280-281

Rhododendron Data 1944-1968  135 items.

 11 282-289

Rhodo-Spruce Growth 1966  9 items.

 11 290

Rose Culling Disinfection 1953 1956  5 items.

 11 291

Rose Mold 1941  18 items.

 11 292

Salal Data 1962-1972  68 items.

 11 293-295

Soil and Soil Treatments 1955  40 items.

 11 296

Soil Moisture Sample 1949-1950  1 item.

 11 297

Sweet Pea Research 1953-1954  4 items.

 11 298

Temperature Readings, Puyallup 1949-1971  110 items.

 11 299-300

Tomato Research 1942  1 item.

 11 301

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