personal narratives
Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Narratives, usually told in first person, relating the life events or experiences of the narrator.
Found in 3 Collections and/or Records:
Rogue River National Forest records
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MSS-019
Abstract
Jeffery LaLande worked as an independent historian outside of his Forest Service career, and this collection resulted from his independent research. These papers include correspondence with researchers on various topics; files from essays, articles, book reviews, and books he has written; and his peer reviews, requested by various editors, of manuscripts submitted for publication.
Dates:
Majority of material found within 1900s-2006
Personal Memoirs and Historical Accounts, 1901-2006
Series — Box 08: Series MSS019:K; Series MSS019:L [Barcode: 35138008116078]
Identifier: MSS019:L
Scope and Contents
These files are largely composed of correspondence that contains personal remembrances by retired Forest Service personnel, and local historical accounts; it also includes records dealing with past Forest Service history projects. It does not include the transcripts of the Forest's oral-history interviews with former F.S. employees.
Dates:
1901-2006
The Rogue River National Forest chapter from the book "Memoirs", 1989-1997
File — Box 09: Series MSS019:L; Series MSS019:M [Barcode: 35138008116086], Folder: 13
Identifier: MSS019:L.17
Scope and Contents
L-40 A photocopy of one chapter from "Memoirs," by Harold C. Chriswell, Bellingham, Washington. Memoirs is a privately produced document that contains a portion of Mr. Chriswell's memoirs of his Forest Service career, 1933-1971. The chapter "Memoirs" covers Chriswell's years at the RRNF, 1950-52. Chriswell recalls the heavy snowfall at Union Creek, and the Forest Service employees living there. The document includes a discussion of the typical workload, briefly mentions the mining claim...
Dates:
1989-1997