C. C. Hall Photograph Album, 1906-1933

Title: C. C. Hall Photograph Album, 1906-1933

Predominant Dates: 1906-1920

ID: P 301

Primary Creator: Hall, C. C. (Charles Chandler) (1870-1939)

Extent: 0.1 cubic feet. More info below.

Arrangement: The collection is arranged as a single series.

Languages of Materials: English [eng]

The C. C. Hall Photograph Album consists of 54 photographs collected by C. C. (Charles Chandler) Hall during his career with the U.S. Forest Service, from 1906 to 1933. R. E. (Raymond E.) Marsh, a photographer for the U.S. Forest Service, took some but not all of the photographs; the other photographer(s) are unknown. The photographs depict the forest rangers and stations from C. C. Hall’s time as a forest reserves supervisor in Arizona, Montana, New Mexico and Oregon. Rare photographs of Aldo Leopold are included in the album.

Images from this collection have been digitized and are available in Oregon Digital.

The C. C. Hall Photograph Album consists of the original 53 black and white photographs, some with sepia-toning caused by aging, and 1 photographic postcard. All images were removed from the original album; the album pages did not include captions and were discarded. The images were collected by C. C. (Charles Chandler) Hall during his career with the U.S. Forest Service from 1906 to 1933. R. E. Marsh, a photographer for the U.S. Forest Service took some but not all of the photographs; the other photographers are unknown. The photographs depict the forest rangers, forest stations and camps, as well as station events and other activities, such as hunting. The collection includes: five photographs of Aldo Leopold, Forest Supervisor and naturalist; three photographs of Ira T. Yarnall, Deputy Supervisor, Santa Fe National Forest; three of Fred E. Ames, Forest Supervisor, Umpqua Forest Reserve; and five group photographs of forest supervisors attending a National Forest Service Leadership Meeting held in Montana between 1910-1919. The national forest reserves depicted in the photographs include: Hell Gate, Big Hole and Deerlodge, now the Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest, in Montana; Sargent Seep Ranger Station in Alamo Forest Reserve, now part of Lincoln National Forest, and Tonto National Forest in Arizona; Tres Piedras headquarters in Carson National Forest in New Mexico; and Santiam National Forest Reserve, now part of Willamette National Forest in Oregon.

Images from this collection have been digitized and are available in Oregon Digital.

Charles Chandler Hall was born in Decatur, Illinois, May 9, 1870 and died Jan. 7, 1939 in Seattle, Washington. He began his Forest Service career in 1906 as an assistant forest ranger in Hell Gate Forest Reserve in Montana. In 1907 he was promoted to supervisor of the Hell Gate and Big Hole Forest Reserves. He continued as supervisor for the rest of his career, with the exception of 1912, when he began as a grazing inspection at Tonto Forest Reserve in Arizona. In 1913 he was appointed as supervisor of the Reserve. In 1916 he transferred to the Santiam Forest Reserve in Oregon where he remained as supervisor until his retirement from the Forest Service on March 1, 1933.

Biographical information found in: Elliot, Roy. Biography of C. C. Hall. Timber Lines ; Vol. 19, June 1967. pp. 101-104

More Extent Information: 54 photographs; 1 box

Statement on Access: Collection is open for research.

Acquisition Note: The album was donated to the Special Collections & Archives Research Center by Gerald W. Williams in 2008 with other materials in Accession 2008:099. In 2014, the album was separated from the Gerald W. Williams Collection to form this photograph collection.

Related Materials: The Special Collections and Archives Research Center's holdings include collections documenting national forests and forest reserves in Oregon. The Gerald W. Williams Collection (MSS WilliamsG) contains documents referring to the Santiam National Forest and the Gerald W. Williams Digital Collection provides photographs from Santiam. The Siuslaw National Forest Collection consists of thousands of photographs from Siuslaw National Forest. Print maps from the National Forests in Oregon (MAPS USFS) collection created during Hall’s time are also available. The papers of Fred Elijah Ames, a contemporary of Hall depicted in the album, are held at the University of Oregon, Special Collections and University Archives.

Preferred Citation: C.C. Hall Photograph Album (P 301), Oregon State University Special Collections and Archives Research Center, Corvallis, Oregon.

Hall, C. C. (Charles Chandler) (1870-1939)
Marsh, R. E. (Raymond Eugene) (1885-1971)

Alamo National Forest (N.M.)
Ames, Fred E. (Fred Elijah), 1880-1957
Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest (Mont.)
Deerlodge National Forest (Mont.)
Forest reserves--Arizona--Tonto National Forest.
Forest reserves--Montana--Deerlodge National Forest.
Forest reserves--New Mexico--Carson National Forest.
Forest reserves--New Mexico--Lincoln National Forest.
Forest reserves--Oregon--Willamette National Forest.
Hall, C. C. (Charles Chandler), 1870-1939
Leopold, Aldo, 1886-1948
Natural Resources
Santiam National Forest (Or.)
Sargent Seep Ranger Station (N.M.)
United States. Forest Service. Pacific Northwest Region
United States. Forest Service. Southwestern Region.

Photographic postcards.
Photographic prints.