Walter Julius Damtoft Collection – M2011.06

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Summary Information

Repository
UNC Asheville Special Collections and University Archives
Title
Walter Julius Damtoft Collection
ID
M2011.06
Date [inclusive]
1900-1980
Extent
4.0 Linear feet
Description note
The collection consists of correspondence, brochures, pamphlets, maps, scrapbooks, newspaper clippings, reprinted journal articles and photographs.
Location note
Located in Special Collections, Row 3, Section 1.
Language
English
Citation

[Identification of item], Walter Julius Damtoft Collection, D.H. Ramsey Library, Special Collections, University of North Carolina at Asheville 28804.

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Bibliography/ Historical Information

A native of Connecticut, Damtoft was educated in the Prospect St. Grammar School, Bridgeport, Connecticut.

A graduate of the Yale School of Forestry in 1911, Damtoft had one of the most distinguished careers in the profession of forestry. What his distinguished career describes was the estimate given by the School of Damtoft’s performance while enrolled and the fact that Damtoft’s diploma was held back as he was deemed to be a student who “lacked maturity of purposeful effort.” What this really meant was that Damtoft was remarkably young to be receiving the Masters diploma from the Forest School and to be doing so in one year. While he did not graduate from the Biltmore Forest School nor have any academic association with the local school, he was given an honorary degree of “Bachelor of Biltmore Forestry and Fellow of the Biltmore Union” by his fellow foresters.

Damtoft is known for his industrial conservation practices and his dedication to the restoration of the land that supports forest growth. His principles of selective timber cutting which acknowledged the importance of retaining seed trees, placed him among the most responsible of foresters practicing in the early years of the twentieth-century. His work with the Appalachian Spruce forest was ground-breaking. The spruce forests high on Roan Mountain are the result of his work in encouraging growth of the species on cut-over land. And, when the Great Smoky Mountains National Park was created and the high-elevation spruce resources were preserved for the park and not for commercial harvesting, Damtoft shifted his attention to the use of lower elevation trees and to the products derived from chestnut wood, particularly tannin. When the chestnut blight began to ravage the forests in the 1930s, Damtoft worked to save the species by attempting to create alternate resistant species. His early work has finally been realized in the recent efforts to save the chestnut tree by the national Chestnut Society and the new hybrid species that is experiencing a come-back in the southern Appalachians. .

Damtoft was a model of civic engagement. He was an active member of the N.C. Board of Conservation and Development ; Chairman of the Asheville Housing Authority ; Trustee of Memorial Mission Hospital ; Chairman of the Canton Planning Committee ; Chairman of the District Board of Appeal of the Selective Service System ; General Chairman of the Southern Governor’s Conference , Asheville 1947 ; Member of the Board of managers of Wachovia Bank and Trust Co., Asheville ; President of the N.C. Industrial Council ; Director of the Asheville Chamber of Commerce ; President of the N.C. Traffic League ; Secretary of the Western North Carolina Committee for the Development of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park ; President of the Canton Civic Club ; President of the West Asheville Business Men’s Club ; Member of the Asheville Pen and Plate Club ; Member of the Newcomer Society ; Member of the Downtown Club ; Member of the Mountain City Club ; Member of the Biltmore Forest Country Club ; Member of the Trinity Episcopal Church.

Damtoft married Dorothy Atkinson in September of 1921. Dorothy was a native of Asheville and they gave birth to a son, Walter A. Damtoft and a daughter, Ann Damtoft Campbell. Walter J. Damtoft’s first wife, Vivian Keen Martin Damtoft died in the flu epidemic of 1918.

Biographical Timeline:
  • 1903-1907 Student at Prospect St. Grammar School, Bridgeport, Connecticut
  • 1910 B.A. Philosophy. Yale University, Sheffield Scientific School.
  • 1911 Master of Forestry. Yale University, Yale Forest School.
  • 1911-1917 Forest Examiner for the U.S. Forest Service for seven states
  • 1917-1919 Administrative Assistant in the Pisgah National Forest Headquarters
  • 1918 First wife, Vivian Keen Martin Damtoft, dies in the great flu epidemic.
  • 1920-1950 Chief Forester and Assistant Secretary and Assistant Division Manager of Champion Paper and Fiber Co., Canton, NC. General Manager of Hamilton Laboratories, Inc., Asheville, NC (a Champion subsidiary.)
  • 1950 Assistant Secretary-Treasurer and Director of the General Woods Department of Champion.
  • 1951 Acting Director of the Forest Products Division, Office of Price Stabilization, Washington D.C.
  • 1951 Returned to Champion Paper and Fiber Co., Canton, NC
  • 1958 Retirement from Champion Paper and Fiber Co., Canton, NC
  • 1958 Honorary Secretary of Champion Paper and Fiber Company (CPFCo)

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Scope and Contents

The collection consists contains materials that document the life-work of Walter Julius Damtoft, Sr, who is recognized as the first industrial forester in the United States, a profession he created when he was hired by Champion Paper Company in Canton, North Carolina.  He was a graduate of Yale Forest School and was associated with members of the Biltmore Forestry School who created what is now known as the “Cradle of Forestry in America,” in western North Carolina.  Damtoft was a significant figure in the history of forestry in the United States. This collection contains material from Damtoft’s years as a Yale student, some early history of the Biltmore Forest School, which operated from 1898 to 1913 under the leadership of German-born forester Carl Alwin Schenck (1868-1955), and materials that documents the broader history of national forests in western North Carolina, especially the Nantahala and the Pisgah national forests.

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Administrative Information

Publication Information

UNC Asheville Special Collections and University Archives

Ramsey Library, CPO # 1500
One University Heights
Asheville, North Carolina, 28804-8504
828.251.6645
speccoll@unca.edu

Access note

The collection is available for research.

Accruals note

No additional accruals are expected.

Processing Information

Processed by Special Collections staff, 2011, additional processing by Derek Whisnant and Michael Dennis.

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Related Materials

Related Materials

Related to National Forests in North Carolina Historic Photographs (NFNC) collection (approximately 1800 images) and the U.S. Forest Service Southern Experimental Station (USFS) collections (approximately 3000 images). For online access please see the Southern Appalachian Digital Collections “Forestry in Western North Carolina” website.

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Collection Inventory –

Box 1: Personal and miscellaneous materials

  • Folder 1: Yale Materials – Body measurements, Class Day, Reunion, and Commencement materials
  • Folder 2: Walter Julian Damtoft personal information, biographical materials
  • Folder 3: Oral history transcripts by Elwood R. Maunder for the Forest History Foundation, Inc.
  • Folder 4: Corrected information for Biographical Directory of American Men of Science, Ninth Ed. Vol. 2, Biographical Sciences (1954)
  • Folder 5: North Carolina State College commencement materials
  • Folder 6: USA Personal Security Questionnaire
  • Folder 7: Exchange subscription for United States Savings Bonds (1960)
  • Folder 8: Summary of Individual Income Tax (1966)
  • Folder 9: Champion acounts statements and status summaries (retirement, disability,deferred compensation, beneficiary designation)
  • Folder 10: Ballot materials – General Municipal Election (1935)
  • Folder 11: W.J. Damtoft involvment in boards, committees, corporations
  • Folder 12: Address by Reuben B. Robertson at the dedication of the W.J. Damtoft Health Lodge
  • Folder 13: Timeline – “Milestones of Forestry”
  • Folder 14: Retirement picture and drawing of W.J. Damtoft

Box 2: Professional Correspondence

  • Folder 1: Letter to the State Forester – Charlottesville, V.A. from W.J. Damtoft (May 4, 1918)
  • Folder 2: Letter from Charles Lathrop Pack to W.J. Damtoft (June 19, 1922)
  • Folder 3: Memorandum for the President of The Champion Fibre Company (January 19, 1928)
  • Folder 4: Correspondence – Reuben B. Robertson (June 1928 – October 1958)
  • Folder 5: Letter from Alfred B. Hastings to the Yale Forest School students class of 1911 (June 12, 1931)
  • Folder 6: Correspondence – Verne Rhoades (September 1935 – September 1950)
  • Folder 7: Mears Lands planting cost report – Fairfield county, SC (June 2, 1937)
  • Folder 8: Letter from R.B. Slaughter to W.J. Damtoft (June 18, 1940)
  • Folder 9: Letter to J.W. Bailey from W.J. Damtoft (May 13, 1941)
  • Folder 10: Correspondence between J. Melville Broughton and W.J. Damtoft (July 1941 – January 1944)
  • Folder 11: Correspondence between Starkey and W.J. Damtoft (October 1941)
  • Folder 12: Correspondence between J.J. Wilkinson and W.J. Damtoft (January 1942)
  • Folder 13: Letter to Sherman Fairchild from W.J. Damtoft (October 28, 1942)
  • Folder 14: Letter from John G. Deshler to W.J. Damtoft (February 25, 1943)
  • Folder 15: Letter to Harry T. Ratliff from W.J. Damtoft and attached minutes from meeting of the Governor’s Committee on War Industrial Coordination (May 27, 1943)
  • Folder 16: Letter from Champion Co. General Traffic Manager to W.J. Damtoft (June 3, 1943)
  • Folder 17: Letter from Paul V. McNutt to W.J. Damtoft (June 14, 1943)
  • Folder 18: Correspondence regarding tonnage through Wilmington (November – December 1943)
  • Folder 19: Correspondence between H.S. Newins and W.J. Damtoft (March 1944 – October 1950)
  • Folder 20: Miscellaneous letters to W.J. Damtoft (June 1944 – November 1952)
  • Folder 21: Letter from Joseph C. Kircher to W.J. Damtoft (December 19, 1944)
  • Folder 22: Letter from R. Gregg Cherry to Glenn C. Palmer (May 4, 1945)
  • Folder 23: Letter from David E. Lilienthal to W.J. Damtoft (May 24, 1945)
  • Folder 24: Correspondence between Hugh G. Mitchell and W.J. Damtoft (October 1945)
  • Folder 25: Letter from J.S. Dorton to W.J. Damtoft (November 2, 1945)
  • Folder 26: Letter to Logan G. Thomson including excerpt from Champion board of directors meeting (June 28, 1946)
  • Folder 27: Letter from C.R. Hoey to W.J. Damtoft (February 14, 1947)
  • Folder 28: Correspondence between R. Gregg Cherry and W.J. Damtoft (May 1947)
  • Folder 29: Correspondence – Dwight J. Thomson (September 1948 – July 1958)
  • Folder 30: Letter from William L. Hall to W.J. Damtoft (July 1, 1950)
  • Folder 31: Letter from Benjamin F. Swalin to W.J. Damtoft (July 21, 1950)
  • Folder 32: Correspondence and materials – Carl Alwin Schenck (September 1950 – March 1954)
  • Folder 33: Correspondence – J. Harold Peterson (October 1950 – April 1951)
  • Folder 34: Letter to George A. Garrett from W.J. Damtoft (October 9, 1950)
  • Folder 35: Letter from Reuben B. Robertson Jr. to the G.O. Department Heads (January 5, 1951)
  • Folder 36: Letter to J. Tilman Lovin from W.J. Damtoft (January 12, 1951)
  • Folder 37: Correspondence between Richard Kilbourne and W.J. Damtoft (February 1951 – July 1954)
  • Folder 38: Letter from Henry Clipper to W.J. Damtoft (December 1, 1951)
  • Folder 39: Correspondence between Samuel T. Dana and W.J. Damtoft (August 1953 – June 1954)
  • Folder 40: W.J. Damtoft subpoena to Committee on Unamerican Activities re. McCarthy vs. Robert Stevens & the Army of the United States (1954)
  • Folder 41: Correspondence between Carey H. Bostian and W.J. Damtoft (March – May 1954)
  • Folder 42: Correspondence between Richard J. Preston and W.J. Damtoft (May – June 1954)
  • Folder 43: Correspondence between Joe Sternberg and W.J. Damtoft (June 1954)
  • Folder 44: Correspondence between W.J.D. van Dobbenburgh and W.J. Damtoft (June 1954)
  • Folder 45: Letter from Richard G. Stockton to W.J. Damtoft (June 7, 1954)
  • Folder 46: Letter from Jamie Clark to W.J. Damtoft (June 8, 1954)
  • Folder 47: Correspondence between Leo Weill and W.J. Damtoft (June 1954)
  • Folder 48: Correspondence between J.W. Bunn and W.J. Damtoft (June 1954)
  • Folder 49: Letter to Thomas W. Morse from W.J. Damtoft (June 9, 1954)
  • Folder 50: Letter from Joseph S. Silversteen to Sybil L. Wilson (June 10, 1954)
  • Folder 51: Letter from Henry A. Foscue to W.J. Damtoft (June 11, 1954)
  • Folder 52: Letter form Pauline Slaughter to Ray Garrett (June 21, 1954)
  • Folder 53: Correspondence between Bill Ryon and W.J. Damtoft (June 1954)
  • Folder 54: Correspondence between Joseph Dave and W.J. Damtoft (June 1954)
  • Folder 55: Letter from A. Fletcher Marsh to W.J. Damtoft (June 28, 1954)
  • Folder 56: Letter from K.A. Swenning to W.J. Damtoft (July 1, 1954)
  • Folder 57: Letter from L.J. Freedman to W.J. Damtoft (July 1, 1954)
  • Folder 58: Correspondence between K.C. Pratt and W.J. Damtoft (July 1954)
  • Folder 59: Letter from Tom Gill to W.J. Damtoft (July 13, 1954)
  • Folder 60: Letter from W.S. Rosencrans to W.J. Damtoft (July 16, 1954)
  • Folder 61: Letter from Henry Rigby to W.J. Damtoft (July 30, 1956)
  • Folder 62: Correspondnece between M.D. Conklin and W.J. Damtoft (July 1956 – August 1958)
  • Folder 63: Correspondence between Elwood R. Maunder and W.J. Damtoft (October 1956 – September 1957)
  • Folder 64: Correspondence between W.C. Hennessee and W.J. Damtoft (November 1956)
  • Folder 65: Correspondence between Miss Clodaugh M. Neiderheiser and W.J. Damtoft (October 1956 – September 1957)
  • Folder 66: Letter from H.J. Malsberger to W.J. Damtoft (November 28, 1956)
  • Folder 67: Correspondence between Ray Garrett and W.J. Damtoft (February 1957)
  • Folder 68: Correspondence between Edgar P. Wesley and W.J. Damtoft (March 1957)
  • Folder 69: Correspondence between Bruce C. Harding and W.J. Damtoft (June – August 1957)
  • Folder 70: Letter from Luther H. Hodges to W.J. Damtoft (June 21, 1957)
  • Folder 71: Correspondence between Harold F. Lange and W.J. Damtoft (January – December 1958)
  • Folder 72: Correspondence between J. Walter Meyers, Jr. and W.J. Damtoft (March – December 1958)
  • Folder 73: Letter to C.F. Korstian from W.J. Damtoft (April 7, 1958)
  • Folder 74: Correspondence between Carlos C. Campbell and W.J. Damtoft (August – September 1958)
  • Folder 75: Correspondence between Robert S. Lambert and W.J. Damtoft (August – September 1958)
  • Folder 76: Letter from Walter H. Meyer to W.J. Damtoft (September 8, 1958)
  • Folder 77: Correspondence – Vertrees Young (September 1958)

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Box 3: Personal Correspondence

  • Folder 1: Correspondence between Harold F. Lange and W.J. Damtoft (January 1959)
  • Folder 2: Correspondence between Carlos C. Campbell and W.J. Damtoft (January – February 1959)
  • Folder 3: Letter from Robert M. Hanes to W.J. Damtoft (February 13, 1959)
  • Folder 4: Letter from William P. Saunders to W.J. Damtoft (February 23, 1959)
  • Folder 5: Correspondence between Richard E. McArdle and W.J. Damtoft (April 14, 1959)
  • Folder 6: Correspondence between D.S. Jeffers and W.J. Damtoft (April – May 1959)
  • Folder 7: Correspondence between James O. Hazard and W.J. Damtoft (April 20, 1959)
  • Folder 8: Correspondence between W.S. Bromely and W.J. Damtoft (April 1959)
  • Folder 9: Correspondence between Neal T. Childs and W.J. Damtoft (April – May 1959)
  • Folder 10: Letter to Luther H. Hodges from W.J. Damtoft (May 4, 1959)
  • Folder 11: Program for the 1959 Southern Forestry Conference (April 23-24, 1959)
  • Folder 12: Letter from John B. Veach to W.J. Damtoft (April 24, 1959)
  • Folder 13: Correspondence between Steven Chase and W.J. Damtoft (April – May 1959)
  • Folder 14: Letter from J.W. Sirkes to W.J. Damtoft (April 27, 1959)
  • Folder 15: Correspondence between J. Walter Myers and W.J. Damtoft (June 1954 – April 1959)
  • Folder 16: Correspondence between Ed Haff and W.J. Damtoft (May 1959)
  • Folder 17: Correspondence between Elwood R. Maunder and W.J. Damtoft (April 1959 – June 1960)
  • Folder 18: Letter to Harry Langdale from W.J. Damtoft (May 4, 1959)
  • Folder 19: Correspondence between Joseph D. Edwards and W.J. Damtoft (May 4, 1959)
  • Folder 20: Correspondence between W.C. Hammerle and W.J. Damtoft (May 4, 1959)
  • Folder 21: Correspondence between Harold S. Newins and W.J. Damtoft (April – May 1959)
  • Folder 22: Correspondence between George A. Garratt and W.J. Damtoft (June 1954 – May 1959)
  • Folder 23: Letter from M.D. Conklin to W.J. Damtoft (May 18, 1959)
  • Folder 24: Letter to Jack Veach from W.J. Damtoft (May 21, 1959)
  • Folder 25: Correspondence between Louis J. Freedman and W.J. Damtoft (May 1959)
  • Folder 26: Letter to W.J. Damtoft (June 8, 1959)
  • Folder 27: Correspondence between C.H. Watzek and W.J. Damtoft (October 1954 – June 1959)
  • Folder 28: Letter from Elwood R. Maunder to Reuben B. Robertson (June 25, 1959)
  • Folder 29: Correspondence between Reuben B. Robertson and W.J. Damtoft (May 1955 – July 1959)
  • Folder 30: Letter from Clodaugh M. Neiderheiser to W.J. Damtoft (August 17, 1959)
  • Folder 31: Correspondence between Reuben B. Robertson and Charlie Kluss (October 1959 – February 1962)
  • Folder 32: Correspondence between Ann Lindquist and W.J. Damtoft (December 1959)
  • Folder 33: Letter from P. Carlton Peyton to W.J. Damtoft (February 28, 1960)
  • Folder 34: Letter from A.E. Moss to Yale Foresters of 1911 (June 22, 1960)
  • Folder 35: Letter from George W. Butz to the Biltmore Forest School Alumni (June 22, 1960)
  • Folder 36: Letter to Verne Rhoades from Junior Butz (October 13, 1960)
  • Folder 37: Correspondence between A. Fletcher Marsh to W.J. Damtoft (October 1960)
  • Folder 38: Letter from George W. Butz, Jr. to W.J. Damtoft (October 25, 1960)
  • Folder 39: Letters from Bob Weiser to Karl Wenz (December 1960)
  • Folder 40: Correspondence from Charles L. Klus to W.J. Damtoft (May 1961)
  • Folder 41: Correspondence between Earl D. Folker and W.J. Damtoft (February 1962 – March 1967)
  • Folder 42: Letter from Ralph A. Klawitter to W.J. Damtoft (February 8, 1968)
  • Folder 43: Letter from Walter Swanson to W.J. Damtoft (No Date)
  • Folder 44: Letter to George W. McCoy from W.J. Damtoft (No Date)
  • Folder 45: Letter from Ovid Butler to W.J. Damtoft (April 2, 1941)
  • Folder 46: Correspondence between Carl Alwin Schenck and Mr. and Mrs. Reuben B. Robertson (May 1941 – November 1949)
  • Folder 47: Letter from Anders Fjelstad to W.J. Damtoft (January 6, 1944)
  • Folder 48: Correspondence between Clyde R. Hoey and W.J. Damtoft (April 1944)
  • Folder 49: Correspondence between Rudolph Pate and W.J. Damtoft (May 1954)
  • Folder 50: Correspondence between Walter Hoffman and W.J. Damtoft (June 1954 – May 1959)
  • Folder 51: Letter from George H. Hepting to W.J. Damtoft (June 7, 1954)
  • Folder 52: Letter from Don P. Johnson to W.J. Damtoft (June 7, 1954)
  • Folder 53: Letter from D. Clarke to W.J. Damtoft (June 7, 1954)
  • Folder 54: Letter to W.J. Damtoft (June 9, 1954)
  • Folder 55: Letter to Dottie from Halsy (June 15, 1954)
  • Folder 56: Correspondence between R.E. Haynes and W.J. Damtoft (June 1954 – January 1957)
  • Folder 57: Correspondence between John Harden and W.J. Damtoft (June 1954)
  • Folder 58: Correspondence between Erich I. Rosenberg and W.J. Damtoft (June 1954)
  • Folder 59: Correspondence between J.G.K. McClure and W.J. Damtoft (June 1954)
  • Folder 60: Correspondence between H.J. Malsberger and W.J. Damtoft (June 1954)
  • Folder 61: Correspondence between C. Sylvester Green and W.J. Damtoft (June 1954)
  • Folder 62: Correspondence between William S. Edmunds and W.J. Damtoft (June 1954)
  • Folder 63: Correspondence between L.F. Dixon and W.J. Damtoft (June 1954)
  • Folder 64: Correspondence between Wayne Corpening and W.J. Damtoft (June 1954)
  • Folder 65: Letter from Andy to W.J. Damtoft (July 15, 1954)
  • Folder 66: Correspondence between George Snowden and W.J. Damtoft (July 1954)
  • Folder 67: Correspondence between D.B. Frampton and W.J. Damtoft (July 1954 – December 1956)
  • Folder 68: Letter from P.H. Glatfelter to W.J. Damtoft (August 4, 1954)
  • Folder 69: Correspondence between G.W.E Nicholson and W.J. Damtoft (November 1, 1954)
  • Folder 70: Correspondence between Lowell Besley and W.J. Damtoft (August – November 1954)
  • Folder 71: Correspondence between Harris Collingwood and W.J. Damtoft (August – November 1954)
  • Folder 72: Copy of letter from Le Van Bollinger
  • Folder 73: Correspondence between Ray Garrett and W.J. Damtoft (November 1956)
  • Folder 74: Correspondence between Willis E. Penfield and W.J. Damtoft (November – December 1956)
  • Folder 75: Correspondence between Charles Waddell and W.J. Damtoft (November 1956 – May 1959)
  • Folder 76: Correspondence between Frank Crane and W.J. Damtoft (December 1956)
  • Folder 77: Correspondence between Carlton F. Diskin and W.J. Damtoft (December 1956)
  • Folder 78: Letter from Tom Gill to W.J. Damtoft (January 11, 1957)
  • Folder 79: Correspondence between Eugene H. Clapp and W.J. Damtoft (January – February 1957)
  • Folder 80: Letter from J.E. McCaffrey to W.J. Damtoft (January 19, 1957)
  • Folder 81: Letter from Inman F. Eldredge to W.J. Damtoft (May 13, 1957)
  • Folder 82: Correspondence between Bruce Zobel and W.J. Damtoft (May 1959)
  • Folder 83: Correspondence between R.E. Davis and W.J. Damtoft (May 1959)
  • Folder 84: Correspondence between John Gray and W.J. Damtoft (May 1959)
  • Folder 85: Letter from Arthur F. Fisher to W.J. Damtoft (May 4, 1959)
  • Folder 86: Letter from H.C. Carruth to W.J. Damtoft (May 1959)
  • Folder 87: Correspondence between Vertrees Young and W.J. Damtoft (May – April 1959)
  • Folder 88: Correspondence between Percy B. Ferebee and W.J. Damtoft (May – April 1959)
  • Folder 89: Correspondence between Albert H. Lathrop and W.J. Damtoft (May – April 1959)
  • Folder 90: Correspondence between Mabel Young and W.J. Damtoft (May 1959)
  • Folder 91: Letter from Myron W. Thompson to W.J. Damtoft (April 20, 1959)
  • Folder 92: Letter from Sybil to W.J. Damtoft (April 20, 1959)
  • Folder 93: Letter from A.F. Fisher to J. Walter Myers (April 14, 1959)
  • Folder 94: Correspondence between C.H. Watzek and J.W. Myers Jr. (April 1959)
  • Folder 95: Correspondence between Ernest C. Pegg and W.J. Damtoft (April – May 1959)
  • Folder 96: Correspondence between Charles H. Edwards and W.J. Damtoft (April – May 1959)
  • Folder 97: Letter from L.R. Statdmiller to J. Walter Myers Jr. (April 15, 1959)
  • Folder 98: Letter from Bee and Herb to Dottie and W.J. Damtoft (June 14, 1959)
  • Folder 99: Letter from Stephen G. Boyce to W.J. Damtoft (April 7, 1971)
  • Folder 100: Correspondence between Walter H. Meyer and W.J. Damtoft (August – September 1958)
  • Folder 101: Correspondence between Benjamin F. Swalin and W.J. Damtoft (June 1954)
  • Folder 102: Card from Mr. and Mrs. Clarence F. Korstian to W.J. Damtoft
  • Folder 103: Card from may and Jim Kelley to W.J. Damtoft
  • Folder 104: Letter from D. Hiden Ramsey to W.J. Damtoft
  • Folder 105: Letter from Pat Parkin to W.J. Damtoft

Box 4: Writing (Published articles, Speeches, Radio, Newspaper commentary, etc.)

  • Folder 1: Research Aspects of Forest Growth
  • Folder 2: The Forest Nursery and Forest Protection
  • Folder 3: “The Development of the Pulp and Paper Industry…”
  • Folder 4: Report to the Champion Fibre Company on its reforestation policy and plans
  • Folder 5: (No title) Talk to the Aheville Civitan Club of Conservation and Development of the state of North Carolina, with emphasis on forests
  • Folder 6: Untitled speech: History of N.C. Dept. of Conservation and Development
  • Folder 7: Paper delivered before Southern Appalachian section of the Society of American Foresters – at Asheville, NC October 29, 1921
  • Folder 8: Talk for the Rotary Club meeting
  • Folder 9: Actividades de una Gran Compania Maderero – Papeliera y sus Relaciones con los Trabajos de un Ingeniero Forestal
  • Folder 10: Activities of a Large Pulp and Lumber Company and Relations of a Forest Engineer Thereto (1923)
  • Folder 11: Forestry in its Relation to Watershed Protection (1923)
  • Folder 12: “In Re “Utilization Forest Products Conference” Called by the Secretary of Agriculture” (Nov. 1924)
  • Folder 13: History of the Forestry Movement (1925)
  • Folder 14: Meeting of Southern Forestry Congress Stresses Important Value of Farm Woodlands to the South
  • Folder 15: The Champion Fibre Company and Reforestation
  • Folder 16: Organizing for Forest Management in the Southern Appalachians
  • Folder 17: South Carolina Inaugurates System of Forest Protection
  • Folder 18: Radio talks on forestry: The Pulp and Paper Industry in Relation to Forestry
  • Folder 19: The Agricultural and Industrial Development of Western North Carolina
  • Folder 20: Some notes on reforestation
  • Folder 21: Lest We Forget
  • Folder 22: Forest Conservation in Relation to the Pulp and Paper Industry
  • Folder 23: The Great Smoky Mountain National Park (1932)
  • Folder 24: Conservation and Development of Forest Resources in Western North Carolina
  • Folder 25: Conservation and Development of Natural Resources in the Tennessee River Valley (1933)
  • Folder 26: The Step Child of the Farm!
  • Folder 27: The Farmer and Organized Effort to Develop a State Forestry Program
  • Folder 28: Talk delivered by W.J. Damtoft upon presentation of flags to Haywood County
  • Folder 29: Forest Conservation in Relation to the Pulp Industry
  • Folder 30: Cooperation and Control with Relation to Private Forest Land
  • Folder 31: Speech (?) & Note to Reuben Robertson (April 26, 1934)
  • Folder 32: Notes on the new plant of the Champion and Fibre Company near Houston, Texas
  • Folder 33: First modern pulp mill to be established in Texas now under construction along The Hudson ship channel by the Champion Paper Mill and Fibre Company of Hamilton, Ohio
  • Folder 34: Closer Integration of Farm and Factory Made Possible by the Pulp Industry
  • Folder 35: An outline of the development of the Champion Paper and Fibre Company now constructing of a modern pulp mill at Pasadena, Texas
  • Folder 36: Copy and letter to Victor M. Schoffelmayer
  • Folder 37: Paper delivered at breaking of ground for new Presbyterian church
  • Folder 38: New Industrialism in the Mountains
  • Folder 39: Greeting annual banquet of Canton Chamber of Commerce
  • Folder 40: Outline of talk delivered before Art Conference at Blue Ridge, NC
  • Folder 41: The Pulp and Paper Industry in Relation to an Important Community Resource Dialogue
  • Folder 42: The Champion Paper and Fibre Company Canton Division (1939)
  • Folder 43: The Champion Paper and Fibre Company Canton Division
  • Folder 44: Broadcast bried for script, Texas, (4/12/39)
  • Folder 45: Industry and Commerce
  • Folder 46: Radio transcript: Salute to: Champion Paper and Fibre Company
  • Folder 47: “Paper the Medium for Human Relation” (April, 1939)
  • Folder 48: Will Any Form of Regulation Solve the Problem of Lumber Supply, Permenacy of Labor, Rural Communities and Land Use
  • Folder 49: Speech before the Engineers Club of Charlotte (October 18, 1940)
  • Folder 50: Closer Integration of Farm and Factory Made Possible by the Pulp Industry
  • Folder 51: Speech delivered by W.J. Damtoft (May 3, 1941)
  • Folder 52: Outline of talk given to the Asheville Rotary Club
  • Folder 53: Message by President W.J. Damtoft to the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association at its third annual meeting at Atlanta, Georgia (January 28, 1942)
  • Folder 54: Report of Committee on Conservation and Observation delivered at the Annual Pulpwood Association at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City (February 19, 1942)
  • Folder 55: Proposal to make the Port of Wilmington for regular steamship service
  • Folder 56: Report to the Committee on War Industrial Coordination covering activities between our last meeting and the present
  • Folder 57: Report of President W.J. Damtoft of the Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association at its annual meeting at the Atlanta-Biltmore Hotel (February 2, 1944)
  • Folder 58: Transcript of Introduction of Mr. Harry Straus Banquet
  • Folder 59: Untitled talk given to farmers in Waynesville, NC
  • Folder 60: The Champion Paper and Fibre Company: Company History (1946)
  • Folder 61: Substance of testimony in support of appropriation for forest fire protection
  • Folder 62: Leisure Time in Relation to State Park and Recreational Areas
  • Folder 63: Outline for talk in series “From Forest to Finished Product”
  • Folder 64: “Response of W.J. Damtoft to Address of Welcome by Mayor Dills of Morehead City to Board of COnservation and Development -July 25, 1949”
  • Folder 65: The Pulp and Paper Industry in the Economic Life of the South
  • Folder 66: Speech to the Public Lands House of Representatives (5/21/49)
  • Folder 67: Article from “Proceedings of Eighty-Seventh Meeting of Southeast Shippery Advisory Board”
  • Folder 68: Fifty Years of Industrial Forestry Progress
  • Folder 69: Summary of papers on forestry which were delivered at North Carolina Conservation Congress at Raleigh, NC (November 17, 1952)
  • Folder 70: Whither Welfare?
  • Folder 71: The Corporate Route
  • Folder 72: One Gets You Six!
  • Folder 73: “Report of the Second (1958) Meeting of the North Carolina Forest History Committee”
  • Folder 74: Miracle in the Southern Forests (1960)
  • Folder 75: The Development of the Pulp & Paper Industry in North Carolina as a Stimulus to Agriculture
  • Folder 76: Memorial Pamphlet for Robert M. Haynes (March 10, 1959)

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Box 5: Champion Paper Company

  • Folder 1: “The Champion Fibre Company & Reforestation”
  • Folder 2: The Champion Paper and Fibre Company Common Stock Dividend
  • Folder 3: The Champion Paper and Fibre Company new mill at Houston, Texas
  • Folder 4: Champion
  • Folder 5: The Champion Paper Fibre Company Canton Division: Brief History (11/31)
  • Folder 6: “Champion Expansions at Canton and its Significance” (July 1947)
  • Folder 7: “1951 Annual Report to Champions”
  • Folder 8: “Champion Deferred Compensation Fund of the Champion Paper and Fibre Company” (1958)
  • Folder 9: Champion Organization Effective August 1, 1958
  • Folder 10: Report to Shareholders Ended March 31, 1964
  • Folder 11: Yale University News Release (May 12, 1978)
  • Folder 12: Logan Gamble Thompson Death Announcement

Box 6: Newspaper Clippings – Misc.

  • Folder 1: Newspaper Clippings – No date
  • Folder 2: Newspaper Clippings – 1910 to 1930
  • Folder 3: Newspaper Clippings – 1931 to 1934
  • Folder 4: Newspaper Clippings – 1935
  • Folder 5: Newspaper Clippings – 1936 to 1939
  • Folder 6: Scrapbook #1 – Newspaper Clippings – 1940
  • Folder 7: Newspaper Clippings – 1941
  • Folder 8: Scrapbook #1 – Newspaper Clippings – 1942
  • Folder 9: Newspaper Clippings – 1943
  • Folder 10: Newspaper Clippings – 1944
  • Folder 11: Newspaper Clippings – 1945
  • Folder 12: Newspaper Clippings – 1946
  • Folder 13: Newspaper Clippings – 1947
  • Folder 14: Scrapbook #1 – Newspaper Clippings – 1948
  • Folder 15: Newspaper Clippings – 1949
  • Folder 16: Newspaper Clippings – 1950
  • Folder 17: Newspaper Clippings – 1951
  • Folder 18: Newspaper Clippings – 1952
  • Folder 19: Newspaper Clippings – 1953
  • Folder 20: Newspaper Clippings – 1954
  • Folder 21: Newspaper Clippings – 1955
  • Folder 22: Newspaper Clippings – 1956
  • Folder 23: Newspaper Clippings – 1957
  • Folder 24: Newspaper Clippings – 1958
  • Folder 25: Newspaper Clippings – 1959
  • Folder 26: Newspaper Clippings – 1960
  • Folder 27: Newspaper Clippings – 1961
  • Folder 28: Newspaper Clippings – 1963
  • Folder 29: Newspaper Clippings – 1965
  • Folder 30: Newspaper Clippings – 1976
  • Folder 31: Newspaper Clippings – 1978
  • Folder 32: Newspaper Clippings – Weeks Law
  • Folder 33: Newspaper Clippings – Reuben Roberts

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Box 7: Miscellaneous Publications

  • Folder 1: “Wildlife Conservation in the Southern Appalachains” by: Verne Rhoades
  • Folder 2: “A Forestry Program for the Lower South” by: E.L. Demmon. Southern Lumberman Issue. December 15, 1943
  • Folder 3: “A Guide to the Vegitation of Mount Mitchell State Park”
  • Folder 4: “Endangered Rare and Uncommon Wildflowers Found on the Southern National Forests”. U.S. Dept of Agriculture Forest Service – Southern Region. 1970
  • Folder 5: “The Little Smith Barn”. The Bank of Asheville
  • Folder 6: “The Responsibilities and Opportunities of Government in Forest Conservation” by: A.G.T Moore. December 15, 1938. Columbus, Ohio
  • Folder 7: “Grow Green Gold” by: A.G.T. Moore. November 16, 1938. Syracuse, N.Y.
  • Folder 8: “A Possible Solution to the State and Private Forest Land Problem” by: C.A. Gillett
  • Folder 9: “The Cooperative Approach in Forest Conservation” by: F.A. Silcox, H.M. Seaman, A.G.T. Moore, B.M. Lufburrow, Frank Heyward, Jr.. March 22-24, 1939. New Orleans, Louisiana
  • Folder 10: “People… A Plan and a Purpose – Part 4: Our Timber Products Division” by: Walter J. Damtoft, A.C. Shaw. Champion Paper and Fibre Co.
  • Folder 11: “Amid These Trees – Honoring Carl Alwin Schenck”
  • Folder 12: “Songs of the Foresters”
  • Folder 13: “A National Park for Eastern America”. Great Smoky Mountain Conservation Assoc.
  • Folder 14: “Shall We PReserve Nature’s Wonderland?” and “A Natural Playground for All”. The Knoxville Automobile Club
  • Folder 15: “The Champion Fibre Company and the Proposed Smoky Mountain National Park” by: Reuben B. Robertson. The Champion Fibre Company. Canton, North Carolina
  • Folder 16: Map of Lake Logan. 1958
  • Folder 17: “After 48 Years! – A Pictoral and Editorial Account of Your Secretary on His Return Visit to the European Home of B.F.S.” by: J.H. Peterson
  • Folder 18: “The North Carolina Forestry Association”
  • Folder 19: “Cradle of Forestry in America”. U.S. Dept of Agriculture – Forestry Service. 1964
  • Folder 20: “The Crade of Forestry in America – In The Pisgah National Forest North Carolina”
  • Folder 21: “A Conservation Program for American Forestry”. The American Forestry Association. Washington, D.C.
  • Folder 22: “Recreation Map – Pisgah and Nantahala National Forest in North Carolina”. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, Forest Service – Southern Region. Asheville, North Carolina
  • Folder 23: The Forest Industries Are Growing Their Future”. American Forest Products Industries, Inc.. Washington, D.C.
  • Folder 24: “The First Thirty Years of the Yale School of Forestry” by: Henry Graves, Tom Gill, C. Edward Behre. February 21-22, 1930. New Haven, Connecticut
  • Folder 25: “Texas Brags” by: John Randolph, Mark Storm. 1944. Houston, Texas
  • Folder 26: “Flowers for the Living, Trees for the Great” by: J. Harold Peterson, C.A. Schenck. July 25, 1953
  • Folder 27: “Trees of the Forest, Their Beauty and Use”. U.S. Dept. of Agriculture – Forest Service. April 1964
  • Folder 28: “This Was Forestry in America, The Biltmore Forest School 1898-1913” by: F.H. Tainter, B.M. Cool. Clemson University Department of Forestry. Clemson, S.C.
  • Folder 29: “Lessons in Appalachian Forestry” by: H.D. Bennett, Adele Griffith. Forestry Division – Appalachian Hardwood Manufacturers, Inc.. 1950. Cincinnati, Ohio
  • Folder 30: “A Half Century of Forestry in a Democracy” by: W.J. Damtoft. American Forest Products Industries, Inc.. 1950. Washington, D.C.
  • Folder 31: “Progress of Purchase of Eastern National Forests” by: National Forest Reservation Commission. January 1, 1920. Washington, D.C.
  • Folder 32: “Guyot’s Measurement of the Mountains of Western North Carolina” by: Arnold Guyot. July 16, 1860. copied from Speeches and Writings by Clingman, pages 138 – 147
  • Folder 33: “Park, Parkway and Recreational Area Study of North Carolina – Preliminary Report of Findings”. North Carolina Department of Conservation and Development, North Carolina State Planning Board, United States Department of the Interion National Park Service. December 1940

Box 8: Miscellaneous Publications

  • Folder 1: (In folder “Forestry”) “Seeding and Planting” Prof. Towney, Spring term, 1910
  • Folder 2: Publications: “Report of the National Forest Reservation Commission: Letter From the Secretary of War” 62nd Congress 3rd Session. Dec. 11, 1912
  • Folder 3: (In folder: “Forestry”) “Lands Ceded to the United States by Cherokee Indians by the Indian Treaty of the New Echota, May 23, 1836” by Hon. J.C. McReynolds, Atty. Gen. U.S., 1914
  • Folder 4: Publications: “The Keene Forest: A Preliminary Report” by J. W. Toumey & R.C. Hawley, Yale University School of Forestry, Bulletin 4, July 1916
  • Folder 5: Publications: “January Field Program, 1918”
  • Folder 6: National Parks Bulletin November, 1925
  • Folder 7: “Scenery a Cash Crop” by: Forrest Crissey from the Saturday Evening Post September 12, 1925
  • Folder 8: Sketch map proposed Smoky Mt. National Park compiled by W.J.D. 9/24/25
  • Folder 9: “Last Survivals of Forests in Appalachians” from Bryson City Times July 24, 1925
  • Folder 10: “Report of Committee” (July 25, 1925)
  • Folder 11: “The Log Birthday Number 1851-1926”
  • Folder 12: “Yale Forest Chool News Vol. XX No. 3 Pt. 1”
  • Folder 13: “Is Public Reculation of Private Forest Operation Needed?”
  • Folder 14: The Log, January 1939 – Vol. XX No. 12
  • Folder 15: “The Log, 25th Anniversary” (February 1939)
  • Folder 16: “Bird Life on Mt. Mitchell By Thomas D. Burleigh”
  • Folder 17: “Reorganization in Connecticut” 1944
  • Folder 18: “Legislation We Need For Forestry in the South” by J.H. Allen
  • Folder 19: Suggested Rules of Forest Practice the Southern Region (December 16, 1944)
  • Folder 20: “Clyde R. Hoey for United States Senator” (1945 – 1954)
  • Folder 21: Talk by Reuben B. Robertson (1946)
  • Folder 22: Prep magazine March 3, 1947
  • Folder 23: “Fifty-Eight Years in Asheville” (1948)
  • Folder 24: “The Hercules Mixer” (April 1948)
  • Folder 25: “Skynews Vol. 1 No. 1” (May 1948)
  • Folder 26: “The E.S.C. Quarterly Vol. 6 No. 1” (1948)
  • Folder 27: The Log, November 1949
  • Folder 28: Publications: “Dr. Elisha Mitchell’s Measurement of Mount Mitchell” Information sheet No. 4 4/57 (Condensed from William S. Leinbach, Article, March 6, 1950)
  • Folder 29: “Reunion of the Alumni of Biltmore Forest School” (May 28-31, 1950)
  • Folder 30: Front cover of Yale Forest School News Vol. XXXIX No. 1 (January, 1951)
  • Folder 31: “Great Smoky Mountain National Park” (1953)
  • Folder 32: Letter from C.A. Schenck to Damtoft, March 1954
  • Folder 33: Newspaper Release, June 11, 1954
  • Folder 34: “Preserve Those Records” by Elwood R. Maunder (January 20, 1955)
  • Folder 35: “Battle in Defense of ‘The Mountain'” from the Burke County News and the Morganton Herald, July 11, 1955
  • Folder 36: “Champion Salesman Cited for Pulp Career Work” from Forestry Digest, November 1955
  • Folder 37: Forest History Newsletter Vol. 1 No. 2, Summer 1957
  • Folder 38: Publications: “The Col. William B. Greeley Lectures in Industrial Forestry” No. 2 Univ. of Washington College of Forestry
  • Folder 39: “Representative Pulp and Paper Companies Sales and Earnings – First Half 1958” from Pulp & Paper 1958
  • Folder 40: “Hews Mill out of Jungle” from Pulp & Paper October 1958
  • Folder 41: “Pettigrew Park” from North Carolina Eucation December 1958
  • Folder 42: Annual Christmas Letter to Biltmore Forest School Graduates (1958)
  • Folder 43: “Research’s Role Featured At Tuscaloosa Meeting, April 23-24” March 1959
  • Folder 44: “Forest History Newsletter” Vol. 1 No. 4 Winter 1958
  • Folder 45: Yale Forest School News Vol. XLVII No.1, January 1959
  • Folder 46: “Southern Forestry Conference of the Forest Farmers Associations” (April 23-24, 1959)
  • Folder 47: “The Crisis in Outdoor Recreation” by Marion Clawson
  • Folder 48: Forest Farmer April 1959
  • Folder 49: The Log, June 1959
  • Folder 50: “Yale Forest School News” Vol. XLVII No. 3 (July 1959)
  • Folder 51: Forest History Society, Inc. (Vol. 2 Nos. 2&3; Vol. 3 Nos. 1&2; Vol. 4 No. 2)
  • Folder 52: Champion Newsletter, March 1960
  • Folder 53: Publications: “Comparison of Acron Production and Damage on Sites with Abundant adn Sparse Oak Regenation”
  • Folder 54: “Forest Report – 1963”
  • Folder 55: Publications: “Announcing The Cradle of Forestry in America – Pisgah National Forest”
  • Folder 56: “The Cradle of Forestry” from American Forests May 1964
  • Folder 57: “The Forest Festival Trail” June 1964
  • Folder 58: “The Cradle of Forestry in America By Keith Argon” from Journal of Forestry Vol. 62 No. 10 October 1964
  • Folder 59: “Soil Conservation, Vol. XXX, No. 3 – October 1964”
  • Folder 60: Publications: “The Fashioning of the Cradle of Forestry in America”, October 19, 1964
  • Folder 61: “The Great Smokies Park and Winderness Act” from the Living Wilderness Autumn 1965
  • Folder 62: Publications: American Forest: The Cradle of Forestry in America: October 1968
  • Folder 63: “…Early Life of Gifford Pinchot”, Journal of Forestry September 1968
  • Folder 64: “The Lady Senator”

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Box 9: Photographs from album

  • 9.001: Group beside a bonfire
  • 9.002: Group photo
  • 9.003: Group photo on steps
  • 9.004: Group infront of tents, one man holding animal bones
  • 9.005: Group photo of young men, Cornell banner
  • 9.006: Postcard of town street
  • 9.007: Camp scene with racist overtones
  • 9.008: Camp scene with racist overtones
  • 9.009: Yale Forest School camp scene – Trinity, Texas (April, 1911)
  • 9.010: Yale Forest School Camp scene with racist overtones – Trinity, Texas (April, 1911)
  • 9.011: Waterfall
  • 9.012: Small Creek
  • 9.013: Pool in the forest
  • 9.014: Camp scene, group
  • 9.015: Camp scene, group
  • 9.016: Camp scene, group
  • 9.017: Men walking path in front of a house
  • 9.018: Men swimming in river
  • 9.019: Large group photo at a dam
  • 9.020: Large group photo at a dam
  • 9.021: Men reading at a camp
  • 9.022: Large group watching bears on leashes
  • 9.023: Yale Forest School Summer Camp, names on back (1909)
  • 9.024: Camp Postcard to “Pop” (August 7, 1909)
  • 9.025: “Butch” Nelson surveying at Yale Forestry Camp (July, 1909)
  • 9.026: Young man surveying at Yale Forestry Camp
  • 9.027: Yale Forestry Camp postcard to F.V. Damtoft (August 6, 1909)
  • 9.028: Two photos of men with surveying equipment
  • 9.029: Sydney F. Brown surveying (1909)
  • 9.030: Yale Forest School Camp postcard to K.J. Damtoft (July 21, 1910)
  • 9.031: Camp postcard – group photo
  • 9.032: Two photos, going to fight forest fires (1909)
  • 9.033: Two photos, Louis Stadtmiller playing tennis (1909)
  • 9.034: Fighting the forest fire (July, 1909)
  • 9.035: Two women pose for photo
  • 9.036: Group photo
  • 9.037: Men sitting in front of Shohola Falls Post Office
  • 9.038: Group photo in front of a large house
  • 9.039: Two photos, men on the porch of a large house
  • 9.040: Factory room
  • 9.041: Young men walking a path
  • 9.042: Three men skinny dipping
  • 9.043: Man with lumber cart
  • 9.044: Men sitting on a bridge
  • 9.045: Two Yale Forestry School Camp postcards to K.J. Damtoft (July, 1909)
  • 9.046: Yale Forestry School Camp postcard to F.V. Damtoft (July 21, 1909)
  • 9.047: Yale Forestry School Camp postcard
  • 9.048: Yale Forestry School Baseball team
  • 9.049: Yale Forestry School postcard to K.J. Damtoft, men eating (July 22, 1910)
  • 9.050: Yale Forestry School postcard to F.V. Damtoft, instruction (August 5, 1910)
  • 9.051: Yale Forest School Camp – dining hall, junio and senior club house
  • 9.052: Yale Forest School Campfire
  • 9.053: Trees with moss hanging
  • 9.054: Trees with moss hanging
  • 9.055: Cabin
  • 9.056: Two photos – women fishing
  • 9.057: Two men smoking together
  • 9.058: Lumber factory from the outside
  • 9.059: Men working inside lumber factory
  • 9.060: Men collecting timber
  • 9.061: Tower yarder
  • 9.062: Tower yarder
  • 9.063: Men with log loader
  • 9.064: Men working inside lumber factory
  • 9.065: Man hauling timber
  • 9.066: Group on porch steps
  • 9.067: Group on porch steps
  • 9.068: Man holding snake with others watching
  • 9.069: Three men holding a snake
  • 9.070: Men washing clothes
  • 9.071: Group sitting on fallen tree
  • 9.072: Man writing
  • 9.073: Man sharpening axe on a grinding wheel
  • 9.074: Man holding puppy
  • 9.075: African-American man sitting on a stump
  • 9.076: Men gathered around a keg
  • 9.077: Man performing for others from on top of a barrel
  • 9.078: Postcard of Fraser, Colorado to K.J. Damtoft (October 6, 1911)
  • 9.079: Postcard of Fraser, Colorado
  • 9.080: Postcard from Clark, Colorado to F. Damtoft (August 30, 1911)
  • 9.081: Beaver dam in a stream
  • 9.082: Snow covered landscape
  • 9.083: Camp scene
  • 9.084: Snowy mountains
  • 9.085: Horse rolling in the snow
  • 9.086: Men on a horse drawn wagon
  • 9.087: Lumber yard
  • 9.088: Man riding lumber sled
  • 9.089: Camp scene, men resting around a fire
  • 9.090: Men surveying the forest
  • 9.091: Men with horses in the forest
  • 9.092: Man leading horses through a field
  • 9.093: Mountain landscape
  • 9.094: Woodpile in the forest
  • 9.095: Snowy forest
  • 9.096: Mountain landscape
  • 9.097: Men riding lumber sled in the forest
  • 9.098: Train passing through cleared land
  • 9.099: Snow covered trees
  • 9.100: Man standing in deep snow
  • 9.101: Two men sit on large dead animal
  • 9.102: Man drinking from a flask
  • 9.103: Two men sitting by a wood stove indoors
  • 9.104: Family on front porch of a cabin
  • 9.105: Group on the front porch of a cabin
  • 9.106: Cabin
  • 9.107: Group on the front porch of a cabin
  • 9.108: Panoramic view, Frazier, Colorado (Winter 1911 – 1912)
  • 9.109: Two men on horseback
  • 9.110: People gathered in front of Corona Cafe
  • 9.111: Ranger station
  • 9.112: Wagon crossing a plain
  • 9.113: Large cabin
  • 9.114: Man on horseback
  • 9.115: Man swimming in lake
  • 9.116: Man on horseback
  • 9.117: Man on horseback
  • 9.118: Group photo
  • 9.119: Man on horseback near cabins
  • 9.120: Men drinking in the back of a sleigh
  • 9.121: “Thanksgiving” Men sitting on a fence
  • 9.122: Men joking around
  • 9.123: Group photo
  • 9.124: Wood stoves
  • 9.125: Wood stoves
  • 9.126: Man at work
  • 9.127: Small rocky hill
  • 9.128: Men with stringer of caught fish
  • 9.129: Two men on one horse
  • 9.130: Men hauling felled trees
  • 9.131: Two photos, large “cone bins” – description on back
  • 9.132: Large storehouse
  • 9.133: Cone opening plant – description on back
  • 9.134: Camp scene
  • 9.135: Group of men sitting on a fence
  • 9.136: “The Crew” Group of men in front of camp tents – names on back
  • 9.137: “Bear Hunters (and Estimators)” – names on back
  • 9.138: Two men at the door of a tent
  • 9.139: Portrait of a man
  • 9.140: Man getting a haircut
  • 9.141: W.J. Damtoft holding an axe
  • 9.142: Man holding a snake’s skin
  • 9.143: African-american man working in camp kitchen
  • 9.144: Men around a campfire
  • 9.145: W.J. Damtoft holding a snake’s skin
  • 9.146: Man smoking in a tent
  • 9.147: Man shaving
  • 9.148: People sitting in the forest
  • 9.149: Man on a horse with two young children
  • 9.150: Three men on horseback
  • 9.151: Man sitting at a table
  • 9.152: Man with a horse
  • 9.153: Group photo in front of tents
  • 9.154: Man and woman in a carriage
  • 9.155: Camp scene
  • 9.156: Men sawing logs
  • 9.157: Woman sitting
  • 9.158: Man operating machinery
  • 9.159: Men sitting in a tent
  • 9.160: Man in a riverbed
  • 9.161: Man leaning on a table
  • 9.162: Two men standing for portrait
  • 9.163: Man sitting in a tent
  • 9.164: Man standing on a ridge
  • 9.165: Herd of sheep
  • 9.166: People riding in a horse-drawn cart
  • 9.167: Men standing in brush with outstretched arms
  • 9.168: Man sitting in a Confederate trench – McDowell, Virginia
  • 9.169: W.J. Damtoft sitting in a tent with another man
  • 9.170: Men sitting in tents next to a cornfield
  • 9.171: View of foggy mountains
  • 9.172: Small portrait of a man
  • 9.173: Small portrait of a man
  • 9.174: Small portrait of a woman
  • 9.175: Small portrait of a woman
  • 9.176: Portrait of a couple
  • 9.177: Portrait of a woman by a fence
  • 9.178: Group photo
  • 9.179: Portrait of a woman
  • 9.180: Portrait of two women

Box 10: Photos 10.181 – 10.254 continue from album in box 9; 10.255 – 10.261 are photos from C.A. Schenck’s Pine Plantation and an article by Lino Della – Bianca describing the plantation

  • 10.181: Unoccupied tent
  • 10.182: Portrait of a woman
  • 10.183: Portrait of two women and a man
  • 10.184: Portrait of W.J. Damtoft with two other men
  • 10.185: Portrait of W.J. Damtoft with two women
  • 10.186: Portrait of a man and a woman
  • 10.187: Portrait of a man and a woman
  • 10.188: Portrait of a man and two women
  • 10.189: Portrait of W.J. Damtoft, two women, and another young man on the ground
  • 10.190: Portrait of two women sitting on large rocks
  • 10.191: Portrait of W.J. Damtoft with a woman
  • 10.192: Sheet of glued photos, mostly lumber yard and portraits
  • 10.193: Town street lined with palm trees
  • 10.194: Palm tree and passenger car
  • 10.195: Entry way, palm trees, monument in the background
  • 10.196: Two men writing with factory in the background
  • 10.197: Large palm trees
  • 10.198: Men sitting in front of cannons on ship’s deck
  • 10.199: Men sitting on fallen tree
  • 10.200: Dept of history – Louisiana State Museum
  • 10.201: House in the mountains
  • 10.202: Portrait of two men
  • 10.203: Portrait of one man and three women
  • 10.204: Group of people in the back of a train car
  • 10.205: Women sitting on a car
  • 10.206: Portrait of a man sitting on a wall in front of mountains
  • 10.207: Man and woman standing in a garden
  • 10.208: Telephone pole in the plains
  • 10.209: Town in the plains
  • 10.210: Postcard of Cascade Mtn., Banff – Taken by Byron Harmon
  • 10.211: Postcard of Goat Mtn., Banff – Taken by Byron Harmon
  • 10.212: Postcard of Bow Valley, Banff – Taken by Byron Harmon
  • 10.213: Postcard of the C.P.R. Hotel and Sulphur Range, Banff – taken by Byron Harmon
  • 10.214: Postcard of the C.P.R. Hotel, Banff – Taken by Byron Harmon
  • 10.215: Whitewater section of a river
  • 10.216: Postcard of Mt. Macdonald, Banff – Taken by Byron Harmon
  • 10.217: Postcard of Lake Louise, Banff – Taken by Byron Harmon
  • 10.218: Postcard of the Illecillewaet Valley, Banff – taken by Byron Harmon
  • 10.219: Postcard of Mt. Sir Donald, Banff – Taken by Byron Harmon
  • 10.220: Postcard of the Illecillewaet Glacier, Banff – Taken by Byron Harmon
  • 10.221: Postcard of Illecillewaet Glacier, Banff – taken by Byron Harmon
  • 10.222: Postcard of the loop, Glacier, B.C. – Taken by Byron Harmon
  • 10.223: Postcard of the Cisco Bridge, Banff – Taken by Byron Harmon
  • 10.224: Postcard of Sycamous Lake, Banff – Taken by Byron Harmon
  • 10.225: Postcard of Albert Canyon, Banff – Taken by Byron Harmon
  • 10.226: Postcard of Hell’s Gate, Banff – taken by Byron Harmon
  • 10.227: Postcard of Albert Canyon, Banff – taken by Byron Harmon
  • 10.228: Man leaning on large tree
  • 10.229: W.J. Damtoft in front of large tree
  • 10.230: large trees
  • 10.231: Sandy recreation area
  • 10.232: Empress hotel, Victoria
  • 10.233: British Columbia parliament buildings
  • 10.234: Belmont building, Victoria
  • 10.235: Man standing in front of large tree
  • 10.236: Woman and child near fountains
  • 10.237: People standing at the base of a redwood tree
  • 10.238: W.J. Damtoft with a cut tree
  • 10.239: Two ostriches
  • 10.240: Cactuses
  • 10.241: Man standing in front of palm trees
  • 10.242: Man standing in a field
  • 10.243: Man stnading with “El Camino Real” signpost
  • 10.244: Man standing on rocky beach
  • 10.245: Mission San Gabriel Arcangel
  • 10.246: Mission San Gabriel Arcangel
  • 10.247: Steam ferry
  • 10.248: Man wearing “Launch Arrow” hat
  • 10.249: People in row boats
  • 10.250: Man posing with two fish
  • 10.251: Campsite
  • 10.252: Small boats in a bay
  • 10.253: Man posing with fish
  • 10.254: Man posing with fish
  • 10.255: 1897 – Before planting; wattles to check soil erosion before planting eastern white pine in March 1899
  • 10.256: 1916 – Before thinning
  • 10.257: 1916 – After thinning; 1923 – After thinning
  • 10.258: 1922 – Before thinning; 1929 – Before thinning
  • 10.259: 1942 – After thinning; 1953 – Before thinning
  • 10.260: 1929 – After thinning; 1947 – Before thinning
  • 10.261: 1970 – Before thinning; 1970 – After thinning; Schenck’s Old Orchard White Pine Plantation at Biltmore by Lino Della-Bianca

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Box 11: Photos 11.001 – 11.246: forestry scenes, workers, Yale Forest School and N.C. Board of Conservation and Development

Box 11 Processing Information note –
Photos 11.111 – 11.121 marked in original finding aid as “Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama (1929)”; Photos 11.122 – 11.128 marked originally “Plank road – up Pisgah (1933)”
Box 11 Arrangement note – Original finding aid states: 11.001 – 11.103: “Primarily forest scenes / forestry workers from early 20th century” 11.104 – 11.202: “Further forest scenes / forestry workers, thought to be pre-WWII era, but also some photographs of Damtoft, including several that appear to be later in date 11:203 – 11.246: “Primarily Yale Forest School and N.C. Board of Conservation and Development, but also includes images from Champion Paper and Fiber Co. and family photographs”
  • 11.001: Postcard; Yale Forest School camp; Milford, PA; looking north (1909 – 1910) [2 copies]
  • 11.002: Yale Forest School; Milford, PA; L.R. Stradtmiller, Goody, S. F. Brown, Kurt Roehrs, W.J. Damtoft (1909 – 1910)
  • 11.003: Yale Forest School; Milford, PA; Jenkins, Goodwin, McCullogh (1909 – 1910)
  • 11.004: Yale Forest School; Milford, PA; postcard; photo: men writing at table; message: “Dear Mother…love Kid”; (August 8, 1910)
  • 11.005: Yale Forest School; 23 students with suitcases (1909 – 1910)
  • 11.006: Yale Forest School; five men in front of new building (1909 – 1910)
  • 11.007: Yale Forest School; camp at Milford, PA; men around fire (1909 – 1910)
  • 11.008: Yale Forest School; Milford, PA; White men holding snake skin around an African American man (1909 – 1910)
  • 11.009: Yale Forest School; Milford, PA; Men relaxing at the camp (1909 – 1910)
  • 11.010: Yale Forest School; Milford, PA; man standing on horse wearing noose, others surrounding him (1909 – 1910)
  • 11.011: Yale Forest School; Milford, PA; men sitting by a tent (1909 – 1910)
  • 11.012: Yale Forest School; Milford, PA; men sitting in front of tents (1909 – 1910)
  • 11.013: Yale Forest School; Milford, PA; men standing around camp (1909 – 1910)
  • 11.014: Yale Forest School; Milford, PA; men sitting on train (1909 – 1910)
  • 11.015: Yale Forest School; Milford, PA; African American man on stump wearing a noose while white men watch (1909 – 1910)
  • 11.016: Yale Forest School: Milford, PA; men in front of wooden building
  • 11.017: Yale Forest School; Milford, PA; men in suits in front of building (1909 – 1910)
  • 11.018: Yale Forest School; Milford, PA; men working in a field (1909 – 1910)
  • 11.019: Yale Forest School; Milford, PA; men digging by water (1909 – 1910)
  • 11.020: Yale Forest School; Milford, PA; African American man drinking on a stump, white men watching (1909 – 1910)
  • 11.021: Yale Forest School; Trinity, TX; postcard to Damtoft; men at train station (September, 1911)
  • 11.022: Yale Forest School; Trinity, TX; postcard; men seated on a bench (April, 1911)
  • 11.023: Yale Forest School; Trinity, TX; men eating outdoors (1911) [2 copies]
  • 11.024: Yale Forest School; Trinity, TX; camp scene, tent labeled “Hotel” (1911)
  • 11.025: Yale Forest School; Trinity, TX; Men standing in front of tent labeled “Hotel” (1911)
  • 11.026: Yale Forest School; Trinity, TX; camp scene, description on back (1911)
  • 11.027: Yale Forest School; Trinity, TX; “Kitchen and Dining Room” (1911)
  • 11.028: Texas trip; men sitting on a log, description on back (Spring, 1911)
  • 11.029: Texas trip, Gibson Hotel (Spring, 1911)
  • 11.030: Texas trip; 2 chained logs (Spring, 1911)
  • 11.031: Texas trip; group of men with suitcases (Spring, 1911)
  • 11.032: Texas trip; men seated in front of tent (Spring, 1911)
  • 11.033: Texas trip; Stadtmiller and Damtoft sitting on axle (Spring, 1911)
  • 11.034: Shenandoah; Harold Hunter and Bill Stevens (1912)
  • 11.035: “A picture taken at our first camp. Hunter, Marsh, and I” (1912)
  • 11.036: Halston, Nebraska; Postcard; planting camp (1914)
  • 11.037: Camp Bungay, Benton, NH; “Mt. Mooilauke and Wild Ammonoosue River” (1915)
  • 11.038: Camp Bungay, Benton, NH; “Flag Raising” (1915)
  • 11.039: Camp Bungay, Benton, NH; “A view of the camp circle with some of the boys” (1915)
  • 11.040: Camp Bungay, Benton, NH; two men in doorway (1915)
  • 11.041: Camp Bungay, Benton, NH; men standing in a doorway; Carl Browler, H.S. Davis, Fred Martin, W.J. Damtoft, E. Exchange (1915)
  • 11.042: Camp Bungay, Benton, NH; men in a doorway; Paul Sheridan, E. Exchange, Bally Haglish, Carl Browler, Fred Martin (1915)
  • 11.043: Camp Bungay, Benton, NH; men digging in a field; E. Fletcher, E. Exchange, H.S. Davis, W.D. Hayes, Fred Sheridan, Carl Brown (1915)
  • 11.044: Camp Bungay, Benton, NH; Paul Sheridan and W.J. Damtoft in front of a tent (1915)
  • 11.045: Camp Bungay, Benton, NH; “Hughes’ Headquarters” further described on back (1915)
  • 11.046: Camp Bungay, Benton, NH; African American man in apron, “Uncle Barney Green” (1915)
  • 11.047: Camp Bungay, Benton, NH; group photo, “Col. Damtoft a merry man” (1915)
  • 11.048: Camp Bungay, Benton, NH; four men with a felled tree (1915)
  • 11.049: Camp Bungay, Benton, NH; group by the railing of a bridge, Mrs. Karl Schmitt, Carl Brower (1915)
  • 11.050: Camp Bungay, Benton, NH; Mrs. Karl Schmidt, W.J. Damtoft by a shrub (1915)
  • 11.051: Silvermine Bald trip; Pisgah range; T.C. Cuthbertson, M.M. Lacker (March 20, 1916)
  • 11.052: Silvermine Bald trip; case camp ridge; T.C. Packer, Lance (March 20, 1916)
  • 11.053: Silvermine Bald trip; “Field Asst. T.C. Cuthbertson” (March 20, 1916)
  • 11.054: Silvermine Bald; Camp party: T.C. Cuthberson, W.J. Damtoft (March 21, 1916)
  • 11.055: “Our camp on top of Silvermine Bald – Camp party: T. C. Cuthbertson, W. J. Damtoft” (March 21, 1916)
  • 11.056: Silvermine Bald trip; top of Pisgah Range; T.C. Cuthbertson, M.M. Lance (March 23, 1916)
  • 11.057: Silvermine Bald; Pisgah National Forest (March, 1916)
  • 11.058: Devil’s Courthouse from Silvermine Ridge
  • 11.059: Devil’s Courthouse; white flag marks south boundary of Silvermine tract; T.C. Cuthebertson
  • 11.060: Devil’s Courthouse from Silvermine Ridge; W.J. Damtoft in foreground
  • 11.061: Vanderbilt Estate, Big Bald Mtn.; Thanksgiving Day
  • 11.062: Cawston Ostrich Farm, Pasadena, California; Man in ostrich buggy
  • 11.063: Vancouver; W.J. Damtoft and another man on stone wall
  • 11.064: Vancouver; man in front of large Douglas fir
  • 11.065: Three men in the snow
  • 11.066: Vancouver; W.J. Damtoft in front of large Cedar
  • 11.067: Five men with snowshoes
  • 11.068: Two men and woman on passenger train
  • 11.069: Snow covered town
  • 11.070: Men around stove, snow covered tents
  • 11.071: Man on porch of small, snow-covered house, horses in the back
  • 11.072: W.J. Damtoft with snowshoes
  • 11.073: Three men pose with deer carcasses
  • 11.074: Men pose with deer carcasses, W.J. Damtoft on the right
  • 11.075: Group of men near a cabin, horse-drawn cart in the background
  • 11.076: Five men next to fence in cleared land
  • 11.077: Man standing on snowy trail
  • 11.078: Logs being hauled by mule team
  • 11.079: Steam-powered log loader
  • 11.080: Logs being hauled by mule team
  • 11.081: Men working around steam-powered tower yarder
  • 11.082: Steam-powered tower yarder loading railcars
  • 11.083: “American Log Loader Model C” loading railcars, two men pose nearby
  • 11.084: Men sitting and standing in a meadow
  • 11.085: Men standing and sitting with mules in a meadow
  • 11.086: Men standing underneath small shelter
  • 11.087: Men standing underneath small shelter
  • 11.088: Men standing and sitting with mules in a meadow
  • 11.089: Six men and a mule in front of a cabin
  • 11.090: Three men with a pack mule
  • 11.091: Four men with a small railcar
  • 11.092: Mountain meadow with a few small structures in background
  • 11.093: Seven men in front of log shelter
  • 11.094: Row of tents in front of log cabin
  • 11.095: Spring house with water wheel
  • 11.096: Men clearing debris from around small house
  • 11.097: Man standing next to knocked down barns
  • 11.098: Two men leaning on mules
  • 11.099: Two men with mules on a ridge
  • 11.100: Two men with mules on trail in the woods
  • 11.101: Two men with mules on trail in the woods
  • 11.102: Creek in the woods
  • 11.103: W.J. Damtoft (far left) and “some of the Dunn brothers”
  • 11.104: “Some of the Dunn brothers, ‘Shorty'”
  • 11.105: “Some of the Dunn family” posed on a porch
  • 11.106: S.S. Bremen; Andrew Gennett, W.J. Damtoft playing shuffleboard (March, 1933)
  • 11.107: S.S. Bremen; W.J. Damtoft and Andrew Gennett reading (March, 1933)
  • 11.108: Group photo, men and children; “L.L.B., P.C.C., McCall, Chas James, Roy Jolly”
  • 11.109: Man posed with cut tree
  • 11.110: Man on rustic bridge
  • 11.111: Log house with white trim in the woods (Photos 11.111 – 11.121 marked in original finding aid as “Tuscaloosa Co., Alabama”)
  • 11.112: “Henderson Mill Site”; foliage
  • 11.113: “Henderson Mill Site”; abandoned structures and brush
  • 11.114: “Henderson Mill Site”; abandoned structures (furnace?)
  • 11.115: “Henderson Mill Site”; abandoned structures
  • 11.116: “Henderson Mill Site”; abandoned structures
  • 11.117: “Henderson Mill Site”; abandoned structures
  • 11.118: “Henderson Mill Site”; train tracks and station
  • 11.119: Hurricane Creek; Tuscaloosa, Alabama; arrow on photo “Highwater 1929”
  • 11.120: Hurricane Creek, 1/2 mile above mouth; Tuscaloosa, Alabama; arrow on photo “highwater 1929”
  • 11.121: Hurricane Creek, 1/2 mile above mouth; Tuscaloosa, Alabama; “Highwater 1929”
  • 11.122: Ethel Simmons, Charles E. Beaumont pose on a log
  • 11.123: Carl Brown poses next to post
  • 11.124: W.J. Damtoft, C.E. Beaumont, Roy Jolly, C.H. Burrage, pose on ladder
  • 11.125: Roan Mountain; plank road and forest (May, 1933)
  • 11.126: Roan Mountain; group photo of 12 men on plank road; taken by Prof. R.J. Hoyle, Syracuse University Forest School (May, 1933)
  • 11.127: Roan Mountain; truck on plank road (May, 1933)
  • 11.128: Canton, North Carolina; “German foresters”, large group on steps (April 21, 1938)
  • 11.129: Wooded area after logging, 34190A in bottom R corner
  • 11.130: Woods scene, man sitting on log among other fallen trees, 34193A in bottom R corner
  • 11.131: W.J. Damtoft speaking behind lecturn, “Compliments of Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association”
  • 11.132: Five men behind a table and a lecturn, W.J. Damtoft on far left, “Compliments of Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association”
  • 11.133: W.J. Damtoft speaking behind lecturn, “Compliments of Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association”
  • 11.134: Man in front of large tree, “Tie Lovin in Smokies on Champion Property”
  • 11.135: Willits, North Carolina; one year old California redwood sapling grown at Champion Nursery next to a ruler
  • 11.136: Willits, North Carolina; Forest Nursery of the Champion Fibre Company, general view; “Growing trees for growing children”
  • 11.137: Willits, North Carolina; 2 year old norway spruces, Champion nursery
  • 11.138: Canton, North Carolina; general view of Champion Fibre Co. Forest Nursery
  • 11.139: Rows of seedlings at forest nursery
  • 11.140: Rows of seedlings at forest nursery
  • 11.141: Forest scene
  • 11.142: Forest scene
  • 11.143: Forest scene
  • 11.144: Open burned acreage, hat on post in foreground, scattered trees in background
  • 11.145: Burned acreage, trees in background
  • 11.146: Open grassland with remaining stumps, few trees
  • 11.147: College Station, Texas; Texas Forest Service, “Print #14”; cut and burned land
  • 11.148: Man standing in grassland
  • 11.149: Cut lumber on barge “Colle #4”
  • 11.150: Grassland covered in small trees
  • 11.151: Cut lumber on barge “Colle #19”
  • 11.152: Grasslands with small trees
  • 11.153: Grasslands
  • 11.154: Grasslands with tall tree in foreground
  • 11.155: Grasslands
  • 11.156: Rich Mountain, Transylvania, Co.; photo of Roy Jolly, W.J. Damtoft in front of tent, taken by Miuchester
  • 11.157: Man working with seedlings
  • 11.158: Warrior Lumber Co., Hale Co., Alabama; forest scene
  • 11.159: “45 year old field, Taken with C.E.S., Near Randolph”
  • 11.160: Large tree next to fields and dirt road
  • 11.161: Warrior Lumber Co., Hale Co., Alabama; forest scene
  • 11.162: Warrior Lumber Co., Hale Co., Alabama; “Near Grubs good 6 forties, area cutover was cut following a blowdown”
  • 11.163: “Old field near coal fire”
  • 11.164: Two men standing in front of buildings
  • 11.165: “Old field near coal fire”
  • 11.166: Warrior Lumber Co., Hale Co., Alabama; “Near Grubbs good six forties”
  • 11.167: Men unloading a train car
  • 11.168: Men standing in the back of a train car
  • 11.169: Boarding area of a train station
  • 11.170: Wide view of a train station
  • 11.171: Men standing on flat-bed train car
  • 11.172: Men standing on flat-bed train cars
  • 11.173: Logs being loaded onto a train car
  • 11.174: Two men on platform of a train station
  • 11.175: Grasslands
  • 11.176: “Looking toward Carolina from Lufty Gap”
  • 11.177: W.J. Damtoft standing with fish on stringers behind car
  • 11.178: Man standing ontop of a wooden tower
  • 11.179: W.J. Damtoft (left) and another man in the forest
  • 11.180: Two bison from “the original Pisgah herd”
  • 11.181: Seven men sitting on a log
  • 11.182: Six men sitting on a porch drinking from bottles
  • 11.183: W.J. Damtoft on a bridge, woman in background
  • 11.184: 6 people relaxing in a garden
  • 11.185: Five men standing in a forest
  • 11.186: View of mountain landscape
  • 11.187: Postcard; six men and a child in front of small cabin
  • 11.188: Alabama; Large group in front of cabin, “This is the whole town” [duplicate of 11.189]
  • 11.189: Alabama; Large group in front of cabin, “This is the whole town” [duplicate of 11.188]
  • 11.190: Man looking up in the forest
  • 11.191: “Pine falling”
  • 11.192: Forest scene
  • 11.193: North Carolina; “A representative large poplar (liriodendron tulipifera)”
  • 11.194: Champion Fibre Co. woodlands; stand of poplars
  • 11.195: “Farmlands from Davidson Run [?] Valley” handwriting not clear
  • 11.196: Large tree in the forest
  • 11.197: Large tree in the forest
  • 11.198: Large tree in the forest
  • 11.199: Large tree in the forest, sketch on back
  • 11.200: Roy Jolly seated in the forest with dog
  • 11.201: W.J. Damtoft, R. Carl Brown pose; “I like this picture of you, Walter, thank you for sending it. You look not more than 16 years old”
  • 11.202: W.J. Damtoft smoking, holding a snake skin in front of tent
  • 11.203: Two men sitting in tents
  • 11.204: Man sitting in tent wearing uniform
  • 11.205: Tents
  • 11.206: Man cooking in tent
  • 11.207: Man standing next to tents
  • 11.208: W.J. Damtoft, G.E.M., De. Byrum, Charles E. Beaumont, posing in formal clothing
  • 11.209: Large group of young men lounging in grass
  • 11.210: Group of well dressed people, appears to be wedding ceremony
  • 11.211: Small group photo, young couples
  • 11.212: Six well-dressed women by a lake
  • 11.213: Seven women and one man in a field
  • 11.214: Two young girls using donkey as a telephone; “Rocky Mt. Hello line”
  • 11.215: W.J. Damtoft and a young woman sitting on a fence
  • 11.216: W.J. Damtoft and “Hank” posing
  • 11.217: W.J. Damtoft (back right) and three others sitting outdoors
  • 11.218: W.J. Damtoft (far right) and five others stand infront of a field
  • 11.219: W.J. Damtoft sitting in the forest
  • 11.220: Five men standing in residential area
  • 11.221: Man sitting in an office, marked 1941
  • 11.222: Man wearing lederhosen in front of house with a dog
  • 11.223: Six men in horse-drawn wagon
  • 11.224: View of wooded landscape
  • 11.225: Landscape view of valley with snow-covered mountains in background
  • 11.226: Landscape view of valley with snow-covered mountains in background
  • 11.227: Snow-covered landscape, train tracks, wooden factory building
  • 11.228: Two men in cabin, various items hung on walls behind (snowshoes, photos, satchel)
  • 11.229: Large pile of sacks
  • 11.230: W.J. Damtoft infront of evergreen in the snow
  • 11.231: Snow-covered landscape, train tracks, wooden factory building
  • 11.232: Man standing beside large pile of sacks
  • 11.233: Yale Forest School Camp; Waldo Barlow, Myron Thompson seated in front of a tent (Spring, 1911)
  • 11.234: W.J. Damtoft (far left) and three other young men sitting on log
  • 11.235: Top of Mt. Mitchell, North Carolina; “Stand of Spruce pulpwood” (1916)
  • 11.236: Yale Forest School; men planting seedlings, W.J. Damtoft second from left
  • 11.237: Frazier, Colorado; W.J. Damtoft with another young man in front of railcar (1911)
  • 11.238: Moffat road, Arrow, Colorado; Postcard to F.V. Damtoft (October 11, 1911)
  • 11.239: Texas trip, Yale Forestry School; W.J. Damtoft (right) with timber moving equipment [description enclosed] (1911)
  • 11.240: Frazier, Colorado; W.J. Damtoft (right) and another young man (1911)
  • 11.241: Large group of men, W.J. Damtoft on far left
  • 11.242: Yale Forestry camp; group of men sitting, W.J. Damtoft third from right
  • 11.243: Yale Forestry School camp, Milford, Pennsylvania; Postcard, W.J. Damtoft and large group of men holding a snake (July 29, 1910) [description enclosed]
  • 11.244: Yale Forestry School camp; mess hall
  • 11.245: Yale Forestry School camp; men wrestling with audience
  • 11.246: Yale Forestry School camp; men relaxing by tents

Box 12: Photos 12.247 – 12.346 continue from series represented in previous box

Arrangement note
Original Finding aid states:    Photos 12.247 – 12.302: “Yale Forest School and N.C. Board of Conservation and Development, but also includes images from the Champion Paper and Fibre Company and some family photographs”; Photos 12.303 – 12.346: “Various forest scenes and an assortment of formal photographs. Also includes some view of forest land, possibly farmed by Champion Fibre”
  • 12.247: Raleigh, North Carolina; Opening of N.C. Conservation Congress; W.J. Damtoft, George R. Ross, C. Sylvester Green, Miles J. Smith (November 17, 1952)
  • 12.248: Morehead City, North Carolina; N.C. Conservation board group photo, W.J. Damtoft front row – far left; letter from Charles Parker to W.J. Damtoft enclosed (August 7, 1941)
  • 12.249: Williston, North Carolina; Square dancing during N.C. Conservation and Development Commission meeting (July, 1947)
  • 12.250: North Carolina Board of Conservation and Development group photo; W.J. Damtoft, Governor Scott, and others (October, 1949) [list of names on back]
  • 12.251: Morehead City, North Carolina; N.C. Board of Conservation and Development group photo (July 29, 1952) [list of names on back]
  • 12.252: North Carolina Board of Conservation and Development group photo (July 27, 1953) [list of names included]
  • 12.253: Morehead City, North Carolina; N.C. Board of Conservation and Development group photo, summer meeting (July, 1954) [list of names included]
  • 12.254: Hickory, North Carolina; N.C. Board of Conservation and Development group photo, last meeting with Gov. Luther H. Hodges (October 16-18, 1960) [list of names included]
  • 12.255: North Carolina Board of Conservation and Development group photo (October, 1960) [list of names included]
  • 12.256: Sanford, North Carolina; N.C. Board of Conservation and Development group photo at Chamber of Commerce (April 23, 1961)
  • 12.257: Meeting, W.J. Damtoft seated third from left (circa 1950’s)
  • 12.258: Men standing behind conference table, W.J. Damtoft sixth from right (circa 1950’s)
  • 12.259: Group seated around conference table, W.J. Damtoft on far right, back row (circa 1950’s)
  • 12.260: Group of people on deck of boat “Hatteras”, photo by N.C. Dept. Conservation and Development
  • 12.261: Man at ornate desk with group standing around; photo by N.C. Dept. Conservation and Development (circa 1950’s)
  • 12.262: Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Group dining on a patio, photo by U.S. Army Signal Corps (circa 1950’s)
  • 12.263: Large group of men on steps, W.J. Damtoft second row, far left (circa 1950’s or 60’s)
  • 12.264: Dorothy Damtoft and Art Nelson seated on couch holding framed acknowledgement of gift to Yale University for Champion Inernational Walter J. Damtoft Study Tour (February 16, 1978)
  • 12.265: Dorothy Damtoft and Art Nelson seated on couch holding framed acknowledgement of gift to Yale University for Champion Inernational Walter J. Damtoft Study Tour (February 16, 1978)
  • 12.266: Dorothy Damtoft and Art Nelson seated on couch holding framed acknowledgement of gift to Yale University for Champion Inernational Walter J. Damtoft Study Tour (February 16, 1978)
  • 12.267: Two men talking, John B. Hollister on left
  • 12.268: Man speaking to group in a cafeteria
  • 12.269: Man speaking to group in a cafeteria
  • 12.270: Large roll of paper on machine, men talking behind
  • 12.271: Three men eating at a table, man on right Dr. Logan Robertson
  • 12.272: Four men eating at a table, man on right Dr. Logan Robertson
  • 12.273: Man standing at podium with Champion Paper Co. crest on it
  • 12.274: Lake recreation area, lawn chairs, horseshoe pits, beach
  • 12.275: Cataloochee Ranch, Haywood Co.; Smoky Mtn. National Park appraisers annual reunion group photo [list of names incl.], Asheville Citizen Times description included (May 21, 1967)
  • 12.276: Canton, North Carolina; The Champion Paper and Fibre Co. Canton Division, men seated around table (1947) [list of names and roles on back]
  • 12.277: Photo of sign for Champion Paper and Fibre Co. tree farm (October, 1949) [description incl.]
  • 12.278: Older men on parade float “Champion Old Timers, 40 year”, W.J. Damtoft third from right (September 4, 1950)
  • 12.279: Canton, North Carolina; Three 4-H members receiving prize money from Champion Paper Co. and Asheville Agricultural Development Council (September 28, 1950) [duplicate and newspaper description incl.]
  • 12.280: Morganton, North Carolina; Photo at dedication of Ralph Edwards State Nursery (1957) [names and description incl.]
  • 12.281: Large group of men in conference room, W.J. Damtoft back row, fourth from left
  • 12.282: Asheville, North Carolina; Group photo of “Downtown Club” members (July 18, 1959) [list of names on image]
  • 12.283: Asheville, North Carolina; Group photo of “Downtown Club” members
  • 12.284: “Presto(?) Pharmacy, where I met mother”, long brick building
  • 12.285: Great Smoky Mtns., W.J. Damtoft and two other men [names on back] surveying (1920’s)
  • 12.286: W.J. Damtoft seated in small boat (circa 1920’s)
  • 12.287: Willets Boundary; “Cassie Branch, Scotch pine”, W.J. Damtoft standing next to small tree (Summer, 1932)
  • 12.288: Double Top Mountain, Willets, North Carolina; Champion Fibre Co. road sign
  • 12.289: Large group of men on steps; “Old Naval Base – to become ‘View of the Sea'” (July, 1947)
  • 12.290: Canton, North Carolina; “Early WJD Reforestation Projects”, Photo of Champion Paper and Fibre Co initial nursery, Willets Nursery [description incl.]
  • 12.291: W.J. Damtoft seated on the ground in front of Mercantile Company building
  • 12.292: Two men standing in front of Tow… Mercantile Company building
  • 12.293: Man and dog, “Bim” and Dock Tipton
  • 12.294: W.J. Damtoft, a dog, and two mules
  • 12.295: W.J. Damtoft with a dog, date February 20, 1967 on back but photo is obviously much earlier than that, possibly 1910’s
  • 12.296: Men standing in field, five white and one African American [names written on image]
  • 12.297: Large group of young men around a campfire
  • 12.298: Yale Forest School camp; young men inside lodge, W.J. Damtoft seated on mantle (Circa 1910)
  • 12.299: Large group of well dressed young people on risers
  • 12.300: 2 copies, likely Yale Forest School Camp; W.J. Damtoft, second from right, and 4 others seated in front of a tent (circa 1910)
  • 12.301: Group of 20 men wearing Yale class of 1910 jackets; “1910’s group at Reunion Headquarters 45th reunion” (1955)
  • 12.302: Two copies; photo of 3 generations of the Robertson family and a letter from “Ken”
  • 12.303: Portrait of Reuben B. Robertson
  • 12.304: Home Quarry Run, Virginia; Harold Hutter, and W.J. Damtoft at U.S. Forest Service Camp in a tent (August, 1912) [description incl.]
  • 12.305: Battery Park, Asheville, North Carolina; Forestry Appalachian Research Council group photo (February 13, 1925) [full list of names incl.]
  • 12.306: Washington, D.C.; Annual meeting of American Forest Product Industries board of trustees and officers (1949) [full description and name list incl.]
  • 12.307: New York; Group photo of members of the board of trustees, American Pulpwood Association at meeting (April 2, 1952) [full description and name list on back]
  • 12.308: Two couples on a stone wall; W.J. Damtoft far left
  • 12.309: Raleigh, North Carolina; State Dept. of Conservation and Development activities; (right to left) W.J. Damtoft, Ben C. Douglas, and Luther Hodges (January, 1955) [2 copies]
  • 12.310: W.J. Damtoft in front of stand of trees
  • 12.311: U.S. Dept. of Agriculture sign “First National Forest Tract” ; signed by J.K. Vessey
  • 12.312: Sculpture by Delaplanche: “Education Maternelle” at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek
  • 12.313: Malvern Hills
  • 12.314: 11 men; photo by U.S. Army Signal Corps
  • 12.315: Asheville, North Carolina; Chamber of Commerce annual banquet, W.J. Damtoft in center (1950) [description incl.]
  • 12.316: Dinner at YMCA, W.J. Damtoft far right
  • 12.317: Lake Logan, NC; Woods meeting, “our old [illegible] group”, W.J. Damtoft 3rd from left (June, 1948) [names on back]
  • 12.318: Large group of men, W.J. Damtoft top row, 2nd from left (September, 1948)
  • 12.319: Photo of sharply dressed man; “to my esteemed friend Walter J. Damtoft, Yours truly…” (March 2, 1952)
  • 12.320: South Carolina; W.J. Damtoft and a stand of pine trees [2 copies, description incl.]
  • 12.321: Large group of men [2nd copy includes names]
  • 12.322: Large group of men, W.J. Damtoft 6th from right
  • 12.323: Group of men standing on road in front of field, W.J. Damtoft 3rd from left
  • 12.324: Negative of a forest scene
  • 12.325: Negative of a forest scene
  • 12.326: Man standing in front of a building
  • 12.327: W.J. Damtoft in front of fir tress
  • 12.328: W.J. Damtoft in front of exhibit on his life in forestry
  • 12.329: Group of men, W.J. Damtoft 3rd from left
  • 12.330: Log cabin
  • 12.331: Champion Fibre Co, Canton, Ohio; “A large poplar, Bradley Fork of Lufty River”, W.J. Damtoft and another man in front of tree
  • 12.332: New Haven, Connecticut; Yale Forest School survey team
  • 12.333: The Verne Rhoades family christmas card (1945)
  • 12.334: Lovelace lands, man standing among trees [2 copies]
  • 12.335: Lovelace lands, man standing among trees [2 copies]
  • 12.336: “Tenn. land co.”, man standing among trees [2 copies]
  • 12.337: “Tenn. Land co.”, trees [2 copies]
  • 12.338: Lovelace lands, man standing among trees [2 copies]
  • 12.339: Lovelace lands, trees [2 copies]
  • 12.340: “Tenn. Land co.”, man standing among trees [2 copies]
  • 12.341: Nursery
  • 12.342: “Wood storage yard on operation of the Champion Fibre co.”
  • 12.343: Poscard of man sitting by a tent
  • 12.344: Five prints published by T.H. Lindsey, Asheville, N.C.
  • 12.344a: Views of Western North Carolina, Esmerelda’s Cabin [description on back]
  • 12.344b: Views of Western North Carolina, View of Asheville from Battery Park [description on back]
  • 12.344c: Western North Carolina views, Lover’s Leap along the French Broad [description on back]
  • 12.344d: Views of Western North Carolina, Battery Park Hotel
  • 12.344e: Views of Western North Carolina, The Wood Market
  • 12.345: Four black children standing in the street, “What are you laughing at?”
  • 12.346: Pisgah Inn, Asheville, North Carolina; Biltmore Forest School Reunion (October, 1960)

Box 13: Photos 13.347 – 13.423 continue from series represented in previous box

  • 13-347: Hemlock growth on Bobs Creek
  • 13-348: Chestnut growth in Poplar Cove
  • 13-349: Poplar and Chestnuts near Headwaters of Long Creek
  • 13-350: Mixed growth in Nichols Cove of Slick Rock Valley
  • 13-351: Hemlock on Sunk Knob branch of Big Snowbird Creek
  • 13-352: Poplar growth in Slick Rock Valley
  • 13-353: Mixed growth in Buffalo Creek
  • 13-354: Three poplars in Poplar cove
  • 13-355: Road from Andrews N.C, Long Creek Poplar
  • 13-356: Mixed Hardwood on Snowbird tract
  • 13-357: Hemlock on Mouse Knob
  • 13-358: Buffalo Creek Yellow Poplar
  • 13-359: Mirror Image photo
  • 13-360: Variety Growth in Bear Creek
  • 13-361: Cherry Growth in Denton Cove
  • 13-362: Mixed Timber on Nichols Cove
  • 13-363: Poplar and Hemlock near Bear creek
  • 13-364: Chestnut on Long Creek
  • 13-365: Giant White ash on the Upper rivers of Slick Rock Valley
  • 13-366: Eight foot yellow poplar on Belding tract
  • 13-367: South America
  • 13-368: Brazil?
  • 13-369: 3 Native women
  • 13-370: Bird hunter
  • 13-371: trained Ocelot
  • 13-372: Ranch, South America
  • 13-373: South America Negative
  • 13-374: South American forest, color, dated week of Nov 22 1954
  • 13-375: Color Aerial of waterfall, South America
  • 13-376: South America Forest
  • 13-377: Stand with house in background
  • 13-378: Group photo
  • 13-379: Village
  • 13-380: Aerial of Champion paper
  • 13-381: Group photo 3 men
  • 13-382: South American Harbor
  • 13-383: Four People
  • 13-384: Dam spillway
  • 13-385: View of hotel
  • 13-386: Dam
  • 13-387: View of Champion paper
  • 13-388: South American Champion Mill
  • 13-389: Damtoft on log
  • 13-390: Native family on riverbank
  • 13-391: Native men beside boat
  • 13-392: 2 men in front of Cabin
  • 13-393: Hunter holding dead birds
  • 13-394: Man holding gun and 2 dead birds
  • 13-395: Dinner on a boat
  • 13-396 W.J Damtoft and R.B Roberts at train station
  • 13-397: Botanical Garden in Rio De Janeiro
  • 13-398: Men standing in clear cut
  • 13-399: 2 men in timber stand
  • 13-400: 2 men beside cut logs
  • 13-401: Damtoft in front of paper machinery
  • 13-402: Man beside car
  • 13-403: Man on a horse
  • 13-404: 4 men with horse
  • 13-405: Man on horse with cattle
  • 13-406: 8 men in corral
  • 13-407: 2 men beside airplane
  • 13-408: City Negatives
  • 13-409: South American city photos
  • 13-410: Album, 4 prints
  • 13-411: Loose album, 19 photos
  • 13-412: Album, 8 prints
  • 13-413: Album, 11 prints w descriptions
  • 13-414: View of Rio De Janeiro
  • 13-415: Botanical Garden, Rio De Janeiro, 18 prints
  • 13-416: Album, 6 prints
  • 13-417: Coastal scene
  • 13-418: Negatives
  • 13-419: Negatives
  • 13-420: 8 men in University cap and gown
  • 13-421: Damtoft in front of photo of Yale Forestry School
  • 13-422: Negatives
  • 13-423: Negatives
  • Item: Champion Magazine, “The Roots of Champion” 1981(?)

Box 14: Miscellaneous Publications, Documents, and Photographs

  • Item 14-424: Newspaper clippings on Forestry 1964-1976
  • Item 14-425: Newspaper Articles, Cherokee soldiers in the civil war July 30th 1933, Naming of New Smoky Mountain highway, May 15 1932
  • Item 14-426 UNC college of Agriculture and Engineering, doctorate diploma, 1954
  • Item 14-427: Champion Annual report, Issued March 31st 1957
  • Item 14-428: “A Guide to the vegetation of Mount Mitchell State Park”
  • Item 14-429: Photo of Damtoff in front of Yale Forestry School photo
  • Item 14-430: Southern Pulpwood Conservation Association award, 2/5/1964
  • Item 14-431: Framed photo of lumber camp
  • Item 14-432: Forestry Materials
  • Item 14-433: Membership Directory Appalachian Section, Society of American Foresters Jan 1948; Mt LeConte, By Paul J Adams, 1966, Signed copy
  • Item 14-434: Photo album

Box 15: Includes seven books of unprocessed negatives with 50 negatives per book