Washington State University Libraries Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Western Washington Experiment Station: David F. Allmendinger Fluorine Research Records 1943-1959
Archives 180
Table of Contents
Summary Information
- Repository
- Washington State University Libraries, Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
- Title
- Western Washington Experiment Station: David F. Allmendinger Fluorine Research Records
- ID
- Archives 180
- Date [inclusive]
- 1943-1959
- Extent
- approximate 1016 items, 1.25 linear feet, 2 containers
- Abstract
- Contains correspondence, surveys, charts, maps, photographs, meeting minutes, booklets, experiments, actual leaf samples, and copies of legal proceedings involving industrial companies and the farming communities.
Biography:
David F. Allmendinger received a Master of Science degree at Ohio State University in about 1940 and a Ph.D at Washington State College in 1947. Allmendinger worked as a research assistant at the Tree Fruit Branch Experiment Station in Wenatchee, Washington from 1940 to 1947. In the latter year he transferred to the Southwestern Washington Experiment Station in Vancouver. He was later appointed as Superintendent of that station in 1949. In 1953, Dr. Allmendinger transferred to the Western Washington Experiment Station in Puyallap as Superintendent. His responsibilities expanded in 1963 and he was appointed Vice Director of the Washington Agricultural Experiment Stations. Dr. Allmendinger retired as the Vice Director of the College of Agriculture Research Center.
Scope and Content
D. F. Allmendinger's files contain extensive research on atmospheric fluorine and its effects on the environment, especially Italian prunes, gladiolas, ponderosa pines and dairy cattle.
Arrangement
The files are arranged alphabetically and contain correspondence, surveys, charts, maps, photographs, meeting minutes, booklets, experiments, actual leaf samples, and copies of legal proceedings involving industrial companies and the farming communities.
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
The Collection is open for research use.
Acquisition Information
The records of the Western Washington Experiment Station were transferred to the Washington State University Libraries in November 1977 (UA77-34). The D. F. Allmendinger fluorine research files were separated from the rest of the station records in June 1979 and reaccessioned in February 1981 (UA81-07). Archives 180 consists solely of the Allmendinger fluorine research files.
Processing Information
These records were processed in March 1985 by Carmen E. Petersen.
Names and Subjects
Corporate Name(s)
Creator(s) :
- Washington State University. Western Washington Experiment Station--Archives
- State College of Washington. Western Washington Experiment Station.
Subject(s) :
- Washington State University. Western Washington Experiment Station, David F. Allmendinger Fluorine Research--Records and correspondence
Subject(s)
- Fluorine compounds--Research--Archives
- Washington (State)
- Colleges and Universities
- Agriculture
- Maps
- Photographs
Detailed Description of Collection
| box | folder | |||
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Air Pollution Studies-Correspondence 1946-1953 43 items |
1 | 1 | ||
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Air Pollution Studies-Papers and Pamphlets 1953-1959 17 items |
1 | 2 | ||
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Air Pollution Studies-Reports 1953-1959 13 items |
1 | 3 | ||
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Air Pollution Legislative Advisory Committee 1955-1956 26 items |
1 | 4 | ||
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Annual Reports of the Agricultural Experiment Station 1944-1945 2 items |
1 | 5 | ||
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Articles and Pamphlets 1947-1953 57 items |
1 | 6 | ||
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Articles and Meeting Minutes 1950-1953 16 items |
1 | 7 | ||
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Articles and Memoranda 1957 9 items |
1 | 8 | ||
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Atmospheric Fluoride Report 1953 2 items |
1 | 9 | ||
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Booklets Describing Fluoride Effects 1945-1951 12 items |
1 | 10 | ||
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Booklets and Reports/Investigations 1953-1956 6 items |
1 | 11 | ||
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Budgets and Memoranda 1951-1953 12 items |
1 | 12 | ||
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Chemical Analysis 1950-1951 10 items |
1 | 13 | ||
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Clark County Survey 1948-1950 40 items |
1 | 14 | ||
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Correspondence 1943-1948 112 items |
1 | 15 | ||
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Correspondence 1948-1950 21 items |
1 | 16 | ||
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Correspondence, Meeting Minutes, and Articles 1945-1949 8 items |
1 | 17 | ||
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Damage Reports 1945-1949 33 items |
1 | 18 | ||
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Damage Surveys 1945-1951 49 items |
1 | 19 | ||
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Experiments and Correspondence 1950-1951 23 items |
1 | 20 | ||
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Fluorine Surveys and Analysis 1946-1948 48 items |
1 | 21 | ||
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Fluorine Surveys and Analysis 1950-1952 48 items |
1 | 22 | ||
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Fluorine Surveys Bud Analysis 1951 31 items |
1 | 23 | ||
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Fumigation 1947-1948 7 items |
1 | 24 | ||
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Gladiolus Charts 1950-1951 8 items |
1 | 25 | ||
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Gladiolus Experiments 1948-1950 52 items |
1 | 26 | ||
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Gladiolus Experiments 1948 2 items |
1 | 27 | ||
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Gladiolus Survey Results 1951 62 items |
1 | 28 | ||
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Injury Reports 1941-1947 18 items |
1 | 29 | ||
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Investigations-Sauvie Island 1952-1953 2 items |
1 | 30 | ||
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Leaf Samples 1945-1948 3 items |
1 | 31 | ||
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Lime Papers 1950 49 items |
1 | 32 | ||
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Longview Data 1950-1951 35 items |
1 | 33 | ||
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Longview Experiment Correspondence 1949-1953 28 items |
1 | 34 | ||
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Proposed Longview Project 1953-1957 8 items |
1 | 35 | ||
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Meeting Minutes 1953 12 items |
2 | 36 | ||
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Meeting Minutes 1949 5 items |
2 | 37 | ||
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Notes on Construction of Drying Room 2 items |
2 | 38 | ||
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Pamphlets-Effect on Dairy Cattle 1952-1954 4 items |
2 | 39 | ||
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Pollution Manuals and Pamphlets 1950-1956 5 items |
2 | 40 | ||
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Ponderosa Pine Damage 1950 5 items |
2 | 41 | ||
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Prunes 1947 1 item |
2 | 42 | ||
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Prune Surveys [photographs] 1946 2 items |
2 | 43 | ||
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St. John Project 1946-1950 3 items |
2 | 44 | ||
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Spokane-Ponderosa Pine Blight 1949 16 items |
2 | 45 | ||
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Spokane-Ponderosa Fine Blight 1950 3 items |
2 | 46 | ||
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Studies Data 1950-1951 15 items |
2 | 47 | ||