Guide to the Charles Yocom Photographs of Inland Northwest Geography 1942-1953
PC 138

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Detailed Description of Collection

 

 

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 

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

 

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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