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Title: Warren C. Wilson Western Alpines Project Lantern Slides, 1936-1938

ID: P 298

Primary Creator: Wilson, Warren C.

Extent: 0.05 cubic feet. More info below.

Languages of Materials: English [eng]

The Warren C. Wilson Western Alpines Project Lantern Slides consist of photographs made by Wilson during a 1936 alpine plant collecting trip in Colorado and Washington. Wilson graduated from Cornell University and was a plant propagator and nursery owner in Maplewood, Oregon, specializing in alpine flora.

The Warren C. Wilson Western Alpines Project Lantern Slides consist of 9 lantern slides of photographs made by Wilson during a western alpine flora collecting trip in 1936. The slides depict the Mount Baker and Mount Shuksan areas in the North Cascades of Washington, Mount Rainier, Jasper National Park in Alberta, and the Portland (Oregon) Airport on Swan Island. An offprint of the article "Collecting Western Alpines by Air", written by Wilson and published in The National Horticultural Magazine, provides details of the collecting trip and is also part of the collection. One of the photographs of Mount Rainer is published in the article. The other slides are annotated with references to page numbers in the article.

Warren C. Wilson graduated from Cornell University in 1938 where he worked as an assistant in the Department of Floriculture and Ornamental Horticulture. In 1940 Wilson married Genevieve Swiderski and the couple settled in Portland, Oregon. At that time, Wilson worked as a propagator in the William Borsch and Sons Nursery. Wilson owned the Saxton and Wilson Nursery (successor of Borsch and Sons) in Maplewood, Oregon, from the 1940s to 1990s. Saxton and Wilson specialized in alpines (plants that grow primarily above tree line) and rock garden perennials.

More Extent Information: 9 photographs; 2 boxes

Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.

Acquisition Note: The materials were donated to the Special Collections & Archives Research Center by Eugene W. McMullen in 2013.

Related Materials: Other photographs of Mount Baker and Mount Shuksan are available in the Wanda Gifford Photographs (P 218-SG 4). The Special Collections and Archives Research Center houses many collections documenting botany in Oregon and Washington including the Helen M. Gilkey Papers (MSS GilkeyH), Oliver Matthews Collection (MSS Matthews), Oliver Matthews Photograph Collection (P 118), Herbarium Records (RG 117), and the Herbarium Photographs (P 093).

Preferred Citation: Warren C. Wilson Western Alpines Project Lantern Slides (P 298), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Wilson, Warren C.

Baker, Mount (Wash.)
Jasper National Park (Alta.)
Mountain plants--Alberta--Jasper National Park.
Mountain plants--Colorado.
Mountain plants--Washington (State).
Natural Resources
Plant collecting.
Rainier, Mount (Wash.)
Shuksan, Mount (Wash.)
Wilson, Warren C.

Lantern slides.