Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Guide to the Charles Yocom Photographs of Inland Northwest Geography
1942-1953
PC 138
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives and Special Collections
- Creator
- Yocom, Charles Frederick, 1914-
- Title
- Charles Yocom Photographs of Inland Northwest Geography
- ID
- PC 138
- Date [inclusive]
- 1942-1953
- Extent
- .5 Linear feet of Shelf Space, 1 box, Approximately 600 images
- Language
- Collection materials are in English.
- Abstract
- This collection consists of approximately 600 photographs and photograph negatives of the inland Northwest, believed to have been taken by Charles Yocom. Charles Frederick Yocom (1914-1985) was an Assistant Professor of Wildlife Biology at Washington State College in the early 1950s. Photographs document the nesting sites and migratory patterns of Canada geese, particularly relating to geographical features such as lakes, rivers, and tributaries in the eastern portion of Washington state.
Preferred Citation
[Item Description] Charles Yocom Photographs of Inland Northwest Geography, 1942-1953 (PC 138)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Biography/History
Charles Frederick Yocom (1914-1985) was an Assistant Professor of Wildlife Biology at Washington State College in the early 1950s. The 600 photographs in this collection represent Yocom’s work on nesting sites of Canada geese on the Snake River and Columbia Basin region between the years 1942-1953.
Scope and Content
This collection consists of approximately 600 photographs and photograph negatives of the inland Northwest, believed to have been taken by Charles Yocom. Photographs document the nesting sites and migratory patterns of Canada geese, particularly relating to geographical features such as lakes, rivers, and tributaries in the eastern portion of Washington state.
Arrangement
The collection was received unordered. Each photograph is labeled on the back with a date and a geographic location. Photographs have been foldered alphabetically by Washington county (Whitman county has been further subdivided into a number of areas, again sorted alphabetically), and then chronologically by photograph date. A few larger non-county-specific regions have been located at the end of the collection. Several hundred unidentified photographs, mostly those of geese and/or nests, were discarded during processing.
Administrative Information
Publication Information
Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections © 2016
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 and available for research use.
Restrictions on Use
Copyright restrictions apply.
Acquisition Information
This collection was received as UPC 2008-01 at Washington State University (WSU) Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC) in November, 2008 from Matthew J. Monda of the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife in Ephrata, WA, where the photographs had been stored for an unknown number of years.
Processing Information
This collection was processed by History graduate student Nathan Sowry and University Archivist Mark O'English in September, 2010.
Names and Subjects
Personal Name(s)
Subject(s) :
- Yocom, Charles Frederick, 1914-
Subject(s)
- Canada goose -- Ecology -- Washington (State)
- Waterfowl -- Washington (State)
- Natural History -- Washington (State)
- Fisheries and Wildlife
- Washington (State)
- Science
Detailed Description of Collection
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box | folder | |||
Adams County |
1 | 1 | ||
Chelan County |
1 | 2 | ||
Douglas County |
1 | 3 | ||
Garfield County |
1 | 4 | ||
Grant County |
1 | 5 | ||
Grant County (Negatives) |
1 | 6 | ||
Lincoln County |
1 | 7 | ||
Okanogan County |
1 | 8 | ||
Okanogan County (Negatives) |
1 | 9 | ||
Pierce County |
1 | 10 | ||
Spokane County |
1 | 11 | ||
Spokane County (Negatives) |
1 | 12 | ||
Stevens County |
1 | 13 | ||
Whitman County |
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box | folder | |||
Almota |
1 | 14 | ||
Cabbage Patch |
1 | 15 | ||
Davis Bar |
1 | 16 | ||
Palouse Falls and Palouse River |
1 | 17 | ||
Steptoe Canyon |
1 | 18 | ||
Wawawai |
1 | 19 | ||
Rock Lake and Rock Creek |
1 | 20 | ||
General |
1 | 21 | ||
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box | folder | |||
Blue Mountains |
1 | 22 | ||
Columbia River |
1 | 23 | ||
Snake River |
1 | 24 | ||
Snake River (Negatives #1) |
1 | 25 | ||
Snake River (Negatives #2) |
1 | 26 | ||
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