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Scope and Contents In this small “A Line A Day” journal, Allison recounts daily Forest Service work in Washington, D.C., Arkansas and in various locations in New Mexico and Arizona. He also discusses land purchases and a period of real estate work in Fresno, California, 1911-1912, while affiliated with the real estate office of Merriam & Hambleton. Allison often details daily weather conditions as well as personal experiences and social activities. Includes observations on localities and...

Scope and Contents This small “A Line A Day” journal provides almost daily notes on weather conditions, discusses some academic and forestry work, and recounts social activities and personal/family experiences. Most of the entries are from St. Paul, Minnesota. Includes some entries in the memoranda section at the end.

Scope and Contents This small “A Line A Day” journal recounts forestry and academic work, daily weather, social activities and personal/family experiences, including the death of first wife Mabel. Allison left Albuquerque for St. Paul, Minnesota on September 22, 1919. The journal also recounts a trip to Sweden in 1923. Inscribed by wife Mabel Allison. Includes memoranda section at the end recording important dates, notes, a list of “Shows Seen” and other miscellaneous items.

Scope and Contents Forest Service “Green Book”, consisting of “instructions and record for official accounts”. Itemizes expenses from July 1909 to May 1910 for meals, lodging, horses, rail travel and other transportation, supplies, laundry and baths. Specifies locations in Arizona and New Mexico and also details expenses for a rail journey through Kansas City, Missouri to Hot Springs, Arkansas, and another trip to Antonito, Colorado. Includes accounts forwarded for payment to a number of named...

Scope and Contents Folder includes a copy of a letter to J.H. Allison from his mother in Granby, Connecticut, December 30, 1908. Mrs. Allison discusses cold remedies, measures for coping with cold weather, her son’s visit to El Tovar at the Grand Canyon, buying land, and giving to the church. Copy of the publication “The National Forest Service: In the Beginning, Photos and History of Early Days on the Southwest Region 3”, prepared by Lila Eisenhower, Pine/Strawberry Museum. The publication...

Scope and Contents Includes digital copies on one CD of five albums of photographs taken mostly by J.H. Allison, primarily during his work for the Forest Service in Arizona, 1906-1908, but also including a series of family photographs circa 1919 in Minnesota and landscapes and other scenes photographed in Wyoming, Montana and Ontario, Canada in the 1920s. The contents of the individual albums are detailed below. The CD also includes three portrait photographs of J. H. Allison circa...

Scope and Contents Digital copy on CD of the 1915 diary of Mabel Ann Shepard Allison, first wife of J.H. Allison, who died in 1920.