Lauren R. Donaldson was a professor of fisheries and director of the
Applied Fisheries Laboratory and its successors at the University of
Washington. Donaldson was born near Tracy, Minnesota in 1903 and received his
B.A. degree in 1926 from Intermountain Union College in Helena, Montana. After
arriving in Seattle in 1930, he earned his M.S. degree (1931) and Ph.D. degree
(1939) in Fisheries at the University of Washington. Donaldson joined the
University of Washington faculty in 1932 as an assistant instructor and
launched a program to improve the size, growth rate, and spawning capacity of
rainbow trout. Donaldson was well-known for his selective breeding experiments
that produced five species of hatchery-raised salmon and a super-strain of
rainbow trout, known as the Donaldson trout, which came to be raised
world-wide. He also secured funding for a hatchery on the campus and, through
that project, demonstrated that salmon can be reared to return to their point
of release, establishing a salmon run which brings 5,000 to 7,000 fish back to
the University campus each year.
Another significant aspect of Donaldson's career was his involvement
in radiobiological studies in both field and laboratory settings between 1946
and 1973. In 1943, the Applied Fisheries Laboratory was established at the
University of Washington under the authority of the Manhattan District of the
Army Corps of Engineers. The initial purpose of the laboratory was to study the
effects of radiation on aquatic organisms. Lauren Donaldson was chosen to
direct the laboratory, and did so until 1958 when he headed its successor, the
Laboratory of Radiation Biology (renamed the Laboratory of Radiation Ecology in
1966).
In 1946, Donaldson, his Applied Fisheries Laboratory colleague Arthur
D. Welander, and Washington State Game Department biologist Clarence F.
Pautzke, were selected to serve as radiation monitors for Operation Crossroads,
the first atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll. They also performed sampling and
analysis of specimens as part of the unofficial "Division of Radiobiology" that
formed within the expedition's Radiological Safety Section in response to
growing interest, on the part of the scientists present, in the disposition of
radioactive material through biological systems. Altogether the Bikini and
Eniwetok Atolls were the subject of seven separate series of atmospheric
nuclear bomb tests between 1946 and 1958, and Donaldson planned or led the
radiobiological activities for surveys and resurveys of Bikini and Eniwetok in
1947, 1948 (Operation Sandstone), 1949, 1952 (Operation Ivy, the first hydrogen
bomb test), 1954 (Operation Castle), 1956 and 1964 to determine the effects of
radiation on the islands' flora and fauna, and to assess the extent of recovery
from exposure with the passage of time. In June 1954, some months after the
crew of the Japanese fishing vessel
Fukuryu Maru were exposed to radioactive
fallout from the Operation Castle tests at Bikini, Donaldson participated in a
joint Japanese-American scientific conference, which permitted American
scientists to share their knowledge of radiation and its effects with their
Japanese counterparts, significantly easing tensions arising from the incident.
Another significant aspect of the Applied Fisheries Laboratory's work
with the Atomic Energy Commission was the Fern Lake Mineral Metabolism Program,
which examined, through the use of radioactively tagged minerals, the
absorption of nutrients by the relatively impoverished ecosystem of Fern Lake
in Kitsap County, Washington. Donaldson also served as consultant and observer
for tests in Nevada in the spring of 1951, acted as consultant to the Atomic
Energy Commission on the Hanford Engineering Works, and drafted a plan for the
biological study of the area designated for Project Chariot (a
never-implemented plan to create a harbor on the coast of northwest Alaska).
Donaldson lent his expertise to the planning of the Seattle Aquarium,
serving on the Aquarium Committee of the Washington Oceanographic
Commission.
Donaldson retired from the faculty in 1973; however, he continued to
work on campus as professor emeritus, meeting with researchers, faculty, and
students. Professor Donaldson received numerous awards, including the Shinkishi
Hatai Medal from the Japanese government in 1975 and the University of
Washington's Alumnus Summa Laude Dignatus award in 1987. He died on November
22, 1998.
The particular strength of the Donaldon papers is the extensive
collection of project files on radiation projects carried out in the University
of Washington's Applied Fisheries Laboratory, as well as logbooks, reports,
notes, photo albums, scrapbooks and other materials from the radiological
resurveys of Bikini Atoll and nearby islands after atomic and hydrogen bomb
tests in the 1940s and 1950s. Project files on other trout and salmon research
are also present. Correspondence makes up approximately one third of the
accession and includes both intradepartmental correspondence within the
University of Washington College of Fisheries and correspondence with
Donaldson's colleagues outside the University. Also included are Donaldson's
papers from his service on the Washington State Oceanographic Commission,
particularly concerning planning for the Seattle Aquarium. The papers also
contain a substantial number of Donaldson's speeches and writings, his
Shinkishi Hatai Medal as well as award plaques and commemorative pins and
coins.
Listening equipment necesary for reel-to-reel tape and viewing equipment
necessary for film. Contact Special Collections for details
Open to all users, but access to portions of the papers restricted.
Contact repository for details.
Creator's literary rights transferred to the University of Washington
Libraries.
Lauren R. Donaldson papers, Special Collections Division, University
of Washington Libraries.
Source: Lauren R. Donaldson, 1981-1988; Jack Donaldson, 1999; Robert
Goff, 2004.
Processed by Eric Anderson and Janet Polata in
2005-2007.
Five Metskers and United States Geological Survey maps were
transferred to the University of Washington Libraries Map Collection January
13, 2006.
Neal O. Hines.
Proving Ground: An Account of Radiobiological
Studies in the Pacific, 1946-1961. (Seattle, University of Washington
Press, 1962).
Neal O. Hines.
Fish of Rare Breeding: Salmon and Trout of the
Donaldson Strain. (Washington, D.C., Smithsonian Institution Press,
1976).
Robert R. Stickney.
Flagship: A History of Fisheries at the
University of Washington. (Dubuque, Iowa, Kendall/Hunt Publishing
Company, 1989).
University of Washington Laboratory of Radiation Biology Records,
Accession #00-065.
University of Washington Laboratory of Radiation Ecology Records,
Accession #90-60
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| Box/Folder |
Date
|
| | Personal Papers | 1906-1994 |
| 1/1 | | Biographical Features | 1962, undated |
| | Outgoing Letters | |
| 1/2-3 | | of Donaldson and William K. Hershberger | 1987-1989 |
|
Historical Note
: Dr. Hershberger took over maintenance of the Donaldson strain
of rainbow trout after Donaldson's retirement. |
| | General
Correspondence | |
| 1/4 | | Alaska Department of Fish and Game | 1957-1975, 1980 |
| 1/5 | | Alaska Department of
Fisheries | 1951-1957 |
| 1/6 | | Allen, George H. | 1956-1970 |
| 1/7 | | Alpena Community College | 1967-1977 |
| 1/8-10 | | American Fisheries Society | 1934-1939, 1954-1991, undated |
| 1/11 | | American Institute of Biological Sciences | 1967 |
| 1/12 | | American Society of Limnology and
Oceanography | 1972 |
| 1/13 | | AmFac, Inc. | 1973 |
| 1/14 | | Atlantic Monthly Press | 1960, 1967 |
| 1/15 | | Bardach, John E. | 1966-1968 |
| 1/16 | | Battelle Pacific Northwest Laboratories | 1968-1989 |
| 1/17 | | Bill, Alexander | 1980-1992 |
| Scope and Content: Includes photographs of a visit by Donaldson to Cypress Island
circa 1990, including pictures of fish and fish traps. |
| 1/18 | | California Academy of Sciences | 1955-1969 |
| 1/19 | | California Department of Fish and Game | 1935, 1939, 1950-1970 |
| 1/20 | | Canada (governmental departments and
agencies) | 1969-1971 |
| 1/21 | | Canada Department of Fisheries | 1950-1954, 1965-1969, 1981 |
| 1/22-23 | | Canada Fisheries Research Board | 1937-1939, 1950-1972 |
| 1/24 | | Chapman, Wilbert McLeod | 1947-1950 |
| 1/25 | | Chelan County Public Utility District No.1 | 1960-1974 |
| 1/26 | | Chow, Ti | 1953-1986 |
| 1/27 | | Colorado (state agencies and departments) | 1937-1939, 1952-1965 |
| 1/28-29 | | Crown Zellerbach Corporation | 1966-1978 |
| Scope and Content: Contains photographs of the overflow structure of a Crown
Zellerbach facility, inluding the structure, the channel, and the overflow
meeting the Elwha River. |
| 1/30 | | Donaldson, John R. | 1951, 1965-1984 |
| 1/31 | | Ellis, James N. | 1951-1952, 1967-1974 |
| 1/32 | | Food and Agriculture Organization of the United
Nations | 1950-1972 |
| 1/33 | | Foster, Fred J. | 1932-1939 |
| 1/34 | | Fullerton, James | 1957-1968 |
| Scope and Content: Includes photographs of the pump house, office/hatchery
building and ponds at Fullerton's Crescent Fish Farms on the Nicomekl River in
British Columbia. |
| 1/35-40 | | General Mills | 1959-1973 |
| 1/41 | | Germany (governmental departments and
agencies) | 1967-1973 |
| 1/42 | | Grotto Foundation | 1983-1989 |
| 1/43 | | Gudjonsson, Thor | 1959-1983 |
| 1/44 | | Gunstrom, Gary | 1967-1973 |
| 1/45 | | Halme, Erkki | 1954-1969, undated |
| 1/46 | | Hastings, Waldon H. | 1972-1973 |
| 2/1-3 | | Haydon, John M. | 1969-1974 |
| 2/4 | | Hill, Louis W. | 1973-1989 |
| 2/5-6 | | Hines, Neal O. | 1968-1977, undated |
| 2/7 | | Hiyama, Yoshio | 1954-1967 |
| 2/8 | | Idaho Department of Fish and Game | 1935-1954, 1965 |
| 2/9 | | Idaho Power Company | 1978 |
| 2/10 | | India, Ministry of Community Development and
Cooperation | 1960-1962, 1964 |
| 2/11 | | International Pacific Salmon Fisheries
Commission | 1941-1958, 1969-1973 |
| Scope and Content: Includes a photo of Donaldson circa 1941. |
| 2/12 | | Japan (governmental departments and
agencies) | 1957-1977, undated |
| 2/13 | | Japan (universities and companies) | 1957-1977, undated |
| Scope and Content: The "Report to Japan Society for the Promotion of Science"
includes photographs of Donaldson's visit to Tokyo University of Fisheries in
September/October 1973. |
| 2/14 | | Japan Marine Products Photo Materials
Association | 1971-1973, undated |
| 2/15-16 | | Japan Salmon Resources Preservation
Association | 1968-1970 |
| 2/17 | | Joseph Johnston & Sons, Ltd. | 1966-1976 |
| 2/18 | | Katz, Max | 1950-1958 |
| 2/19 | | Kim, Myung Hee | 1990-1992 |
| 2/20 | | King County Prosecutor's Office | 1963-1964 |
| 2/21 | | Kittelsen, Arne H. | 1967-1970 |
| 2/22 | | Lowman, Frank G. | 1969-1979 |
| 2/23 | | Magnuson, Warren G. | 1963-1968 |
| 2/24 | | Marine Digest Publishing Company | 1965-1967 |
| 2/25 | | Massachusetts Division of Marine Fisheries | 1954, 1960, 1972-1973 |
| 2/26 | | Menasveta, Deb | 1962-1979 |
| 2/27 | | Michigan Department of Conservation | 1955-1968 |
| 2/28 | | Minnesota: governmental departments and
agencies | 1968-1981 |
| Scope and Content: Includes a photograph of Dennis Anderson holding a 19.5-pound
Donaldson rainbow trout. |
| 2/29 | | Montana Department of Fish and Game | 1935-1971 |
| 2/30 | | Moore, Milo | 1951-1972 |
| Scope and Content: Includes photographs of the harbor at Piraeus, Greece, and
Greek fishing vessels (purse seines, trawlers) and a Greek marine research
vessel. |
| 2/31 | | Moore-Clark Company | 1972-1973 |
| 2/32 | | Morrison-Woodsworth-Crosby, Inc. | 1965-1967 |
| 2/33 | | Naidu, Janakiram R. | 1965-1968, 1992 |
| 2/34 | | National Science Foundation | 1960-1970 |
| 2/35 | | New York Department of Environmental
Conservation | 1936, 1955-1977 |
| 2/36 | | New Zealand (governmental departments and
agencies) | 1970 |
| 2/37 | | New Zealand Conservator of Wildlife | 1967-1973 |
| 2/38 | | Northwest Pulp And Paper Association | 1960-1966, 1977 |
| 2/39 | | Norway Directorate of Fisheries | 1950, 1966-1979 |
| 2/40 | | Ocean Systems, Inc. | 1970-1971, undated |
| 2/41 | | Oceanic Institute (Makapuu Point, Waimanalo,
Hawaii) | 1966-1969 |
| 2/42 | | Okada, Yaichiro | 1954-1967 |
| 2/43 | | Oregon (various departments) | 1963, 1970-1979 |
| 2/44 | | Oregon Aqua-Foods, Inc. | 1973-1984 |
| 2/45-46 | | Oregon Fish Commission | 1935, 1945-1973 |
| 2/47 | | Oregon State Game Commission | 1948- 1968 |
| 2/48-49 | | Oregon State University | 1951-1974 |
| 2/50 | | Pacific Fishery Biologists | 1938-1939, 1955-1971 |
| 3/1-3 | | Pacific Marine Fisheries Commission | 1953-1956, 1968-1974 |
| 3/4 | | Pautzke, Clarence F. | 1961-1971 |
| 3/5 | | Pennsylvania Fish Commission | 1958-1959 |
| 3/6 | | Pritchard, Joel | 1973-1976 |
| Scope and Content: Correspondence regarding United States Congress Fisheries
Coordinating Council |
| 3/7 | | Public Utility District No. 1 of Franklin
County | 1961-1965 |
| 3/8 | | Puget Sound Power & Light Company | 1961, 1973-1979 |
| 3/9 | | Radiation Research | 1967-1971 |
| 3/10 | | Ralston Purina Company | 1955-1968 |
| 3/11 | | Rocky Mountain College | 1955-1958, 1966 |
| 3/12 | | Rollefson, Gunnar | 1953-1971 |
| 3/13 | | Salmon Research Trust of Ireland | 1960-1976 |
| 3/14 | | Satia, Benedict P. (Ben) | 1975-1992 |
| 3/15-22 | | Sea Pool Fisheries, Ltd. | 1967-1971 |
| 3/23 | | Seattle City Light | 1960-1965 |
| 3/24 | | Seattle Milk Fund | 1969-1978 |
| 3/25 | | Seversun, Richard F. | 1988 |
| 3/26 | | Sigma Xi, University of Washington Chapter | 1950-1951, 1968-1976 |
| 3/27 | | Sømme, Sven | 1952-1961 |
| 3/28 | | Stanford University | 1935, 1939, 1950, 1954, 1966-1977 |
| 3/29 | | State College of Washington | 1951-1957 |
| 3/30 | | Stevenson, William Alfred | 1961-1970 |
| Scope and Content: Includes photographs of Stevenson, his family, friends, boat
and a fish he caught. |
| 3/31 | | Sunkist Growers | 1971-1975 |
| 3/32 | | Svärdson, Gunnar | 1959-1968 |
| 3/33 | | Tacoma Poggie Club | 1952-1962 |
| 3/34 | | Thailand (governmental departments and
agencies) | 1955-1971 |
| 3/35 | | Thompson, Fred A. | 1938, 1950-1951 |
| 3/36 | | Tokyo University of Fisheries, Laboratory of
Fish-Culture | 1973 |
| 3/37 | | Tomiyana, Tetuo | 1964-1983 |
| 3/38 | | Universitet I Oslo | 1952, 1963-1972 |
| 3/39 | | United States (various agencies and
departments) | 1965-1972 |
| 3/40 | | United States Atomic Energy Commission | 1954-1971 |
| 3/41 | | United States Atomic Energy Commission Division of
Biology and Medicine | 1953, 1967-1969 |
| 3/42 | | United States Atomic Energy Commission Division of
Biomedical and Environmental Research | 1970-1972 |
| 3/43 | | United States Atomic Energy Commission Richland
Operations Office | 1967-1968 |
| 3/44 | | United States Bonneville Power
Administration | 1968-1970 |
| 3/45-49 | | United States Embassy, Tokyo (Clinton E. Atkinson,
Fishery Attaché) | 1966- 1973 |
| Scope and Content: Folder #46 includes photographs of a Japanese aquaculture
facility and of fish samples. |
| 3/50 | | United States Environmental Protection
Agency | 1973 |
| 3/51 | | United States Federal Power Commission | 1962 |
| 3/52-57 | | United States Fish and Wildlife Service | 1940-1977 |
| 4/1-5 | | United States Fish and Wildlife Service,
Portland | 1951-1977 |
| 4/6 | | United States Fish and Wildlife Service,
Seattle | 1957-1969, 1992 |
| 4/7 | | United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Western Fish
Disease Laboratory | 1969-1975 |
| 4/8 | | United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Western Fish
Nutrition Laboratory | 1957-1969 |
| 4/9 | | United States Bureau of Fisheries | 1935-1939 |
| 4/10 | | United States Department of the Interior | 1937-1939, 1969, 1971 |
| 4/11 | | United States National Fisheries Center and
Aquarium | 1965-1966, undated |
| Scope and Content: Includes a photograph of the National Fisheries Center and
Aquarium Advisory Consultants taken April 29 or 30, 1965, in Washington,
D.C. |
| 4/12 | | United States National Marine Fisheries
Service | 1970-1989 |
| 4/13 | | United States National Marine Fisheries Service
(Portland) | 1970-1976 |
| 4/14 | | United States National Marine Fisheries Service
(Seattle) | 1970-1986 |
| 4/15-16 | | United States National Sea Grant Program | 1970-1976 |
| 4/17 | | United States Department of the Navy (James
Forrestal) | undated (circa 1946) |
| 4/18 | | United States Public Health Service | 1953-1958, 1970 |
| 4/19 | | United States Senate Committee on Commerce | 1968 |
| 4/20 | | United States Senate Committee on Interstate and
Foreign Commerce (Magnuson, Warren G.; Moore, Milo) | 1955-1961 |
| 4/21 | | United States Trust Territory of the Pacific
Islands | 1955-1956 |
| 4/22 | | University of Alaska | 1982-1984 |
| 4/23 | | University of California | 1950-1978 |
| 4/24 | | University of Michigan, School of Natural
Resources | 1954-1973 |
| 4/25 | | University of Rhode Island | 1970-1973 |
| 4/26 | | University of Wisconsin Zoology Department | 1950-1966 |
| 4/27 | | Washington (various state agencies and
departments) | 1935-1937, 1951-1953, 1964, 1977, 1979,
undated |
| 4/28 | | Washington, Office of the Attorney General
| 1964-1975 |
| 4/29-37 | | Washington, Department of Fisheries | 1937-1938-1985 |
| 4/38-40 | | Washington Department of Game | 1936, 1948-1964 |
| Scope and Content: Includes Fishery Management Divison |
| 5/1-2 | | Washington Department of Game | 1965-1979 |
| Scope and Content: Includes Fishery Management Divison |
| 5/3 | | Washington Public Utility Districts'
Association | 1960-1967 |
| 5/4 | | Washington State Sportsmen's Council | 1950, 1959, 1973 |
| 5/5 | | Washington State Trout Grower's
Association | 1953-1956 |
| 5/6 | | Williams, Hill | 1967-1971 |
| 5/7 | | Winther, John K. | 1957-1960 |
| 5/8 | | Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources | 1968-1969 |
| 5/9 | | Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution | 1972-1979 |
| 5/10 | | Wright, James E. | 1970-1971 |
| 5/11-28 | | Miscellaneous correspondents A-I | ca. 1940s-1990s |
| Scope and Content: Go-Gw (folder #25): A letter from Harold Goodwin dated July
28, 1977, includes a photo of an unidentified geographical feature (referred to
in the letter as a mountain in the making) |
| Hen-Hu (folder #27): A letter from Dr. Karl Herde includes a
photo of Dr. Herde and his wife Edna in Alaska in 1986. |
| 6/1-26 | | Miscellaneous correspondents J-War | ca. 1940s-1990s |
| Scope and Content: L (folder #4): A letter from Charles Lee contains a 1988 photo
of Lee with his wife and son. |
| Mi-My (folder #7): A letter from Sigeru Motoda includes a 1983
photograph of Donaldson, Motoda and others at a snack bar in Shimizu,
Japan. |
| Se-Si (folder #19): Includes photos of Jeff Silverstein, his
wife and son. |
| 7/1-4 | | Miscellaneous correspondents Was-Z | ca. 1940s-1990s |
| | General Correspondence Regarding | |
| 7/5 | | Unidentified | 1931-1970, undated |
| 7/6-7 | | Articles on Salmon and Trout (
Harper's and
Reader's Digest) | 1966-1967 |
| 7/8 | | Articles on Salmon and Trout (
Look and
Popular Mechanics) | 1961-1964 |
| 7/9 | | Articles on Salmon and Trout (
Nutrition Today) | 1966-1967 |
| 7/10 | | Articles on Salmon and Trout (
Sea Frontiers) | 1967-1968 |
| 7/11-12 | | Egg Shipments to Japanese Governmental Entities,
Universities, and Companies | 1971-1977 |
| 7/13 | | Fisheries Reprints | 1960-1968 |
| 7/14 | | Hanford Litigation | 1993-1994, undated |
| 7/15 | | McConahy Estate | 1961-1968 |
| 7/16 | | Mossbacks | 1978-1979 |
| Scope and Content: Contains correspondence regarding, and copies of, "
"Fish Hatchery Memoirs,"" an
informal newsletter for retired federal fish hatchery workers. |
| 7/17 | | National Sea Grant College Award | 1971 |
| Scope and Content: Donaldson was the first recipient of this award. |
| 7/18 | | Power Plants | 1975-1976 |
| 7/19-21 | | Rainbow Trout | 1959-1967 |
| 7/22-24 | | Rainbow Trout Egg Requests | 1959-1972 |
| 7/25-33 | | Salmon and Trout (General) | 1965-1974 |
| 7/34 | | "The Salmonid Fishes as a Natural
Livestock" | 1983 |
| | Seattle Aquarium | |
| General Notes: See also material from the Washington Oceanographic Commission
and Seattle Aquarium Director Screening Committee, in boxes and folders
38/22-28, 40/21, 41/2-6 . |
| 7/35 | | Seattle City Council | 1969-1972 |
| 7/36 | | Seattle Department of Community
Development | 1970 |
| 7/37 | | Seattle Mayor's Office | 1968-1970 |
| 7/38 | | Tuai, Liem E. (City Council member) | 1970-1972 |
| 7/39 | | Miscellaneous Correspondents | 1968-1972 |
| 7/40 | | Tag Returns | 1972-1973 |
| 8/1-2 | | University of Washington Fisheries Holding
Pond | 1960-1962 |
| 8/3 | | University of Washington Fisheries Holding Pond
Contributions | 1961-1964 |
| 8/4 | | "Visit of China Guests" | 1989, undated |
| 8/5 | | Washington Department of Commerce and Economic
Development | 1966-1970 |
| 8/6 | | Winton Gift | 1968 |
| | Interdepartmental Correspondence | |
| 8/7 | | University of Washington Assistant Comptroller for
Sponsored Research (Treibel, Wallace C.) | 1964-1965 |
| 8/8-12 | | University of Washington Graduate School | 1950-1972 |
| 8/13 | | University of Washington Grant and Contract
Services | 1967-1968 |
| | University of Washington President's Office
| |
| 8/14-15 | | Miscellaneous Correspondence | 1946-1969, 1990 |
| 39/1 | | Correspondence regarding School of Fisheries
Dean | 1958 |
| Restrictions on Access: Restricted |
| Scope and Content: Includes correspondence from Presidents Odegaard and
Schmitz. |
| 8/16 | | University of Washington Quinault Resource Development
Advisory Panel | 1970-1971 |
| 8/17 | | University of Washington Radiological Sciences
| 1970-1972, undated |
| 8/18-22 | | Washington Sea Grant Program | 1970-1990 |
| 8/23-36 | | Miscellaneous A-Z | 1940s-1980s |
| | Intradepartmental Correspondence | |
| | University of Washington School of
Fisheries | 1935-1958 |
| 39/2 | | Applicant Information | 1947 |
| Restrictions on Access: Restricted |
| 39/3 | | Student Evaluations | 1953-1954 |
| Restrictions on Access: Restricted |
| 8/37-46 | | University of Washington College of
Fisheries | 1959-1969 |
| 9/1-9 | | University of Washington College of
Fisheries | 1970-1992 |
| 9/10 | | University of Washington College of Fisheries,
Fisheries Institute | 1961-1991, undated |
| 9/11 | | University of Washington College of Fisheries
On-Campus Facilities Committee | 1969-1973 |
| | Radiation Projects | |
| Arrangement: These files are arranged according to Donaldson's project
numbers and project section numbers. |
| General Notes: See also the project scrapbooks in boxes 20 through 24, and the
slides in boxes 27 and 31. |
| 9/12 | | Monthly Reports; Summary of Operations | 1943-1947 |
| 9/13 | | Chronology Charts, Project List and
Summary | 1946-1948, undated |
| 9/14-17 | | Logbooks, Office of Scientific Research and
Development Projects | 1944-1950 |
| 9/18 | | Project I Telephone Transcript and Contract
Draft | 1943 |
| | Project I: Basic Studies of the Effect of X-rays upon
Fish in Various States of Development | |
| 9/19-20 | | Log Book | 1944, 1948, undated |
| 40/1 | | Project Chronology Charts
OVERSIZE | 1944 |
| | Section I (Chinook salmon adults from Green River)
and Section II (Chinook salmon eggs from Section I) | |
|
| Box/Folder | |
9/21 | | Office of Scientific Research and Development
Original Papers, Chinook A and B Series. | 1943-1944, undated | | 40/2 | | Chinook X-Ray Statistical Summary
OVERSIZE | 1944, undated |
| 9/22 | | Chinook Salmon from Green River, Markings,
etc. | 1943-1944, undated |
| 9/23 | | Chinook Salmon from Soos Creek Egg Mortality Per
Week | 1943, undated |
| 9/24 | | Egg Mortalities and Abnormalities | 1943-1947, undated |
| 9/25 | | Statistical Analysis. Seymour, A. H. | 1947, undated |
| 9/26 | | Mortality Analysis, Egg and Fry
(Revised) | undated |
| 9/27 | | Recovery of Chinook Salmon, Samish
River | 1946-1947, undated |
| Scope and Content: Includes photographs of fish. |
| 9/28 | | Scale Samples Mortality | 1946-1947, undated |
| 9/29 | | Rochester Statistical Group Report | 1945, undated |
| 9/30 | | Samish River Returns | 1947-1949, undated |
| 9/31 | | Samish Chinook Report. Rough Draft of Report
Number UWFL 13. Appendix to UWFL 6 | 1948 |
| Scope and Content: Report contains a photograph of a magnified salmon
scale. |
| 9/32 | | Chinook X-Ray Statistical Summary (write-up
started by K. Bonham) | 1946-1947, undated |
| | Section III: Mature sockeye salmon adults from
Cultus Lake, British Columbia, and Section IV: Sockeye salmon eggs from Section
III | |
| 9/33 | | Sockeye Log Book: Return to Cultus
Lake | undated |
| 9/34 | | Sockeye Log Book II: Eggs from Section
III | undated |
| 9/35 | | Sockeye Log Book II: Adults | 1943 |
| 9/36-37 | | Statistical Analysis of Sockeye
Mortalities | 1944, undated |
| 40/3 | | Statistical Analysis of Sockeye
Mortalities
OVERSIZE | 1944, undated |
| 9/38 | | Weight Measurements, Miscellaneous including
Sockeye | 1945, undated |
| 10/1 | | Section V: Steelhead Trout Adults from Columbia
River; Miscellaneous Data | 1942-1947, undated |
| 10/2 | | Section V and Section XV: Steelhead Trout Adults
from Columbia River (Leavenworth); Steelhead Log Book III | undated |
| | Sections VI and VII: Chinook Salmon Eyed Eggs from
Green River | |
| 10/3 | | Original of Published Report Number UWFL 8 (X-Ray
Effects on Chinook Embryos and Larvae) | 1948, undated |
| 10/4 | | Chinook Salmon Eggs from Green River, Log Book II
| 1944 |
| 10/5 | | Chinook Salmon Eggs from Green River, Log Book
III | 1944 |
| 10/6 | | Chinook Salmon Irradiated in Eyed-Egg Stages, Lot
Numbers 1A to 21A, Welander, A.D. | 1944, undated |
| 40/4 | | Oversize Tables: Fish Measurements and Cell
Counts
OVERSIZE | 1944 |
| | Section XII and Section XIII: Male Silver
Salmon | |
|
| Box/Folder | |
10/7 | | Chinook Salmon Work Sheets: Egg Mortalities and
Rough Draft | 1944, undated | | 10/8 | | Original Papers Chinook, including "B"
| 1944-1945, undated |
| 10/9 | | Write-Up and Table Figures: Chinook Salmon from
Columbia River | undated |
| 10/10 | | Log Book: Chinook Salmon Adults | 1944 |
| 10/11 | | Log Book: Chinook Salmon Eggs from Section
XII | 1944 |
| | Section VIII | |
| 10/12-20 | | Draft of A.D. Welander's doctoral thesis,
Studies of the Effects of Roentgen
Rays on the Growth and Development of the Embryos and Larvae of the Chinook
Salmon (oncorhynchus
tschawysha) | 1945 |
| Scope and Content: Includes photographs (photomicrographs) of salmon larvae,
embryos, skin, and internal organs. |
| 10/21 | | Silver Salmon Log Book: Males Only | 1944, undated |
| 40/5 | | Photograph
OVERSIZE | undated |
| Scope and Content: Oversize photograph (several prints taped together) of
salmon skull and skin. |
| | Section IX: Rainbow trout yearlings from University
of Washington stock | |
|
| Box/Folder | |
10/22 | | Rainbow Trout Log Book I, Adults (Closed
Out) | undated | | 10/23 | | Miscellaneous Data, Rainbow Adults (Section
Discarded 1944) | 1944-1945, undated |
| 10/24 | | Section XV: Steelhead trout adults from Columbia
River (Leavenworth), and XVI: Steelhead trout eggs from Section XV | undated |
| 10/25 | | Section XVIII: Original Papers:
Goldfish | undated |
| | Project III: Bikini Experiments of 1946 ("Operation
Crossroads") | |
| 10/26 | | Expense Statements, Equipment Lists, Photo
Logs | 1946, undated |
| 10/27 | | Donaldson's log book | 1946 |
| 10/28 | | "Bikini Log Notes - LRD" | 1946-1951 |
| Scope and Content: Typed transcript of Donaldson's 1946 Bikini log, with a
subsequently-written introduction describing the events leading up to his
participation in the project. |
| 10/29 | | Notes | 1946 |
| 10/30 | | Yearbook - U.S.S. Bairoko | undated, but presumably 1946 or 1947 |
| | Project IV: Bikini Experiments of 1947 ("Bikini
Resurvey Project") | |
| 10/31 | | Log | 1947 |
| 10/32 | | Personnel | 1947 |
| 10/33 | | Counting Room Log | undated |
| 10/34 | | Equipment | 1946-1947, undated |
| 10/35 | | Miscellaneous Notes | 1943, 1947, undated |
| 10/36 | | Report Maps | 1947, undated |
| 10/37 | | Log of Jesse P. Pflueger | 1947 |
| 10/38 | | Orders to Duty of Resurvey Staff from United States
Navy | 1947, undated |
| 11/1-6 | | Bikini Scientific Resurvey Technical
Report | 1947 |
| 11/7 | | Project VIII: Cooperation Project with the Hanford
Engineering Works; Rainbow Trout Eggs from Hanford | 1951-1953 |
| Scope and Content: Primarily fish mortality records. |
| 11/8 | | Project IX: Operation Sandstone (Eniwetok);
Donaldson's log of the hydrogen bomb test at Eniwetok Atoll | 1948 |
| 11/9 | | Project X: Bikini Resurvey of 1948; Donaldson's
Log | 1948 |
| 11/10 | | Project XI: Bikini Resurvey of 1949 | 1949 |
| Scope and Content: Donaldson's Log |
| 11/11-12 | | "Operation Ivy." First Hydrogen Bomb Test | 1952 |
| Scope and Content: Includes logs of Lauren Donaldson (which includes his
identification badges) and Allyn H. Seymour from the hydrogen bomb test at
Eniwetok Atoll |
| 11/13 | | "Operation Castle" Eniwetok Atoll | 1954 |
| Scope and Content: Donaldson's notes |
| 11/14 | | Bikini-Eniwetok-Rongelap Field Survey | 1964 |
| Scope and Content: Typed and bound summary of scientific staff's daily logs. |
| | Low-level Chronic Irradiation of Salmon | |
| Scope and Content: This project was supported by the United States Atomic Energy
Commission, which later became the Energy Research and Development
Administration. |
| 11/15 | | General Correspondence | 1969-1976 |
| 11/16-18 | | Project Proposals | 1967-1970 |
| 11/19 | | Project Summaries | 1968-1969 |
| 11/20 | | Equipment, Expenditures, Budget | 1967-1969 |
| 11/21 | | Data | 1968-1973 |
| 11/22-30 | | Progress Reports | 1968-1976 |
| Scope and Content: Reports for 1970, 1971, 1973 and 1974 include photographs of
fish, fish gonads, and deformed fingerlings (immature fish). |
| 11/31 | | Papers based on irradiation research | 1964-1967 |
| Scope and Content: By Donaldson and others; the paper for the Eleventh Pacific
Science Conference includes a photo of the radiation facility. |
| | Project Files | |
| 11/32 | | Adams River Fingerling Experiment | 1943 |
| | Eagle Creek (Oregon) Selective Breeding
Program | |
| Scope and Content: A joint research program of the College of Fisheries and the
Fish and Wildlife Service at the Eagle Creek National Fish Hatchery in Oregon,
intended to develop techniques of selective breeding applicable to fish culture
operations on the Columbia River and to improve the quality and survival of
silver salmon and steelhead trout runs. |
| 11/33 | | Project Description | 1968 |
| | General Correspondence. | |
| 11/34 | | United States Fish and Wildlife
Service | 1964-1972 |
| 11/35 | | Roley, Dennis D. | 1972-1973 |
| 11/36 | | General Information | 1966, 1972, undated |
| 11/37-38 | | National Fish Hatcheries Management
Charts | 1967-1971 |
| 11/39 | | United States Fish and Wildlife Service Conference
Reports | 1962-1969 |
| 11/40 | | Genetic Selection | undated |
| 11/41-42 | | Pete Castle Workshops | 1966-1967, undated |
| 11/43-48 | | Coho Salmon | 1961-1972, undated |
| Scope and Content: Includes project data, notes, and summaries of releases and
returns for brood years 1961-1972. |
| 40/6 | | Coho Salmon
OVERSIZE | 1972, undated |
| 12/1-28 | | Silver Salmon | 1961-1971 |
| Scope and Content: Includes files on production stock, genetic improvement,
spawning, survival, releases and returns for brood years 1961-1971, although
not all data types are present for all brood years |
| 40/7 | | Silver Salmon
OVERSIZE | undated |
| 12/29-46 | | Steelhead Trout | 1962-1970 |
| Scope and Content: Includes general information as well as information on
genetic improvement, spawning and survival. |
| 12/47-48 | | Steelhead/Rainbow cross | 1967-1978 |
| Scope and Content: Mostly size data. |
| 12/49-51 | | Miscellaneous | 1972-1978, undated |
| 40/8 | | Miscellaneous
OVERSIZE | 1978 |
| | Fern Lake Mineral Metabolism Program | |
|
| Box/Folder | |
12/52 | | General Correspondence: United States Atomic Energy
Commission | 1968-1971 | | 12/53-56 | | United States Atomic Energy Commission
Proposals | 1967-1970 |
| 12/57 | | Contract | 1972 |
| | Reports | |
| 12/58 | | Budget and Project Report (fiscal
year) | 1968 |
| 12/59 | | Research summary | 1969 |
| 12/60 | | Fern Lake Geologic Study (Palmer) | 1957 or 1979 |
| 13/1 | | Cladocera and Copepoda manuscript | 1970 |
| Scope and Content: By Rufus Kiser, with Donaldson's review comments. Report
includes three photographs showing Fern Lake and rushes and sedge growing
there. |
| 13/2-6 | | Miscellaneous Reports | 1958-1972 |
| Scope and Content: Progress reports and other papers by researchers
associated with the project, as well as one report published by the University
of Washington. "Fern Lake Trace Mineral Metabolism Program" includes
photographs of Fern Lake and researchers. |
| 13/7 | | "Fern Lake Misc." | 1969-1970, undated |
| Scope and Content: Notes and accident report. |
| 13/8-13 | | Photographs | ca1969-1970 |
| Scope and Content: Two folders of captioned photographs originally stored
together in a binder, showing the estuary of Rocky Creek; the cabin where
researchers stayed; views of Fern Lake from the eastern and western shores;
researchers including Rufus Kiser, James Olson and Paul Olson; equipment and
facilities including the outlet structure, a recording rain gauge, a recording
pyrheliometer, water level and water temperature gauges, an electric
directional fish counter and equipment for studying movement of elements within
a Douglas fir ecosystem; a female crayfish with eggs; a steelhead trout; a
lecture for high school teachers enrolled in a summer radiation biology
institute. |
| Two folders of miscellaneous photographs of Fern Lake and
the surrounding vegetation, the researchers and their equipment. |
| 13/14-15 | | Matamek | 1977-1979 |
| Scope and Content: Correspondence and reports about the salmon-related research
project at the Matamek Research Station (property of the Woods Hole
Oceanographic Institute) on the Matamek River in Quebec Province, Canada, on
which Donaldson was asked to advise. |
| | Quesnal District (British Columbia) | |
| Scope and Content: A project to investigate possibilities for the rehabilitation
of depleted fish runs. |
| 13/16 | | General Correspondence | 1941-1943 |
| 13/17 | | Summary of Activities | 1941-1943 |
| 13/18 | | Reports | 1941-1943 |
| Scope and Content: Includes photographs of the Quesnel, Horsefly and Mitchell
Rivers, and a dam on the South Fork of the Quesnel. |
| 13/19 | | Log Books | 1942 |
| 40/9 | | Maps
OVERSIZE | undated |
| 13/20 | | Horsefly Lake Temperature | 1941-1942 |
| 13/21 | | General Notes from Commission Files | 1947, undated |
| 13/22 | | Sockeye Temperature Experiment | 1941 |
| 13/23-34 | | River Water; Bacteriological Analysis | 1944-1950 |
| | Salmon Selective Breeding Program | |
| Scope and Content: This ongoing research project was funded first by the United
States Fish and Wildlife Service and then by the National Oceanographic and
Atmospheric Administration's National Marine Fisheries Service. |
| 14/1-8 | | Project Proposals | 1966-1973 |
| 14/9-11 | | Contracts | 1961-1968 |
| 14/12-17 | | Weyerhaeuser / Ore-Aqua Foods | 1975-1988 |
| 40/22 | | Weyerhaeuser / Ore-Aqua Foods; Drawing of
Cooker
OVERSIZE | undated |
| | Subject Files | |
|
| Box/Folder | |
14/18 | | American Samoa | 1906, undated | | 14/19-22 | | "China Visit" | 1982-1986 |
| Scope and Content: Donaldson's folder title has been retained; this material
includes correspondence regarding a visit the Donaldsons made to China in 1983
as well as correspondence on egg shipments and other matters with Chinese
academics and former students. Includes a contact sheet with photographs of the
Dalian Aquatic Products Bureau delegation and their University of Washington
hosts. |
| 14/23 | | Donaldson, Lauren R. Personal to 1959 | 1930-1959 |
| Scope and Content: Includes Donaldson's student record book, appointment letters,
an application for federal employment, and material regarding his high school
graduating class. |
| 14/24 | | Fish Nutrition | 1952, 1962, 1973, undated |
| Scope and Content: Includes unidentified (possibly 1950s) photograph of three
young fish. |
| 40/10 | | Fish Nutrition
OVERSIZE | undated |
| Scope and Content: One oversize chart. |
| 14/25 | | Habits and Propogation of Freshwater Fish | 1940-1951 |
| Scope and Content: Includes a photograph captioned "Equipment used for
transporting bass to the Yakima river." |
| 14/26 | | Home Aquaria | 1924-1938 |
| 14/27 | | Iceland | 1974-1981 |
| 14/28 | | International Biological Program | 1967-1968, undated |
| 14/29 | | Japan [Trip] | 1953-1963, undated |
| Scope and Content: Includes 10 photographs, primarily of Donaldson. |
| 14/30 | | Korea | undated |
| 14/31 | | Lummi Aquaculture Development | 1944-1952 |
| 14/32 | | Marine Hatchery Methods | 1932-1938 |
| 14/33 | | Mineral Composition of Salmon Diets | 1979-1987 |
| 14/34 | | Native American Aquaculture Projects | 1976 |
| 14/35 | | Norway, Scotland and England Trip | 1977 |
| Scope and Content: Includes a photograph of Donaldson with some of his British
hosts. |
| 14/36-37 | | Norwegian Fish Meal | 1987, undated |
| 14/38 | | Ocean Ranching | 1976 |
| 15/1-4 | | Professional Leave | 1959, 1967 |
| Scope and Content: Folder #4 includes an unidentified aerial photograph. |
| 15/5 | | Protan Laboraties | 1986 |
| 15/6 | | Research Proposals and Program Outlines | 1954, undated |
| 15/7 | | Salmon (Chinook) | 1968-1984 |
| 15/8 | | Salmon Data | 1936, 1981-1983 |
| 15/9 | | Salmon Returns | 1972-1977, 1983 |
| 15/10 | | Salmon Stock Improvement, Northwest Pulp and Paper
Association | 1964-1969 |
| 15/11 | | Salmon Summaries and Returns | 1973-1974, undated |
| 15/12 | | Samples, Invertebrates | 1952-1958 |
| 15/13 | | Siberia | 1977 |
| 15/14 | | Skagit Nuclear Power Project | undated |
| 15/15 | | Sweden | 1975-1981 |
| 15/16-18 | | Toledo-Edison Hearings | 1959, undated |
| 15/19 | | Trout | 1970-1972, undated |
| 15/20 | | Trout and Lakes | 1939-1962 |
| Scope and Content: Includes a photograph of two fish-possibly the photo of two
different trout strains referred to in a letter to Maynard Reece. |
| 15/21 | | United States Atomic Energy Commission, Bio-Medical
Program Directors | 1952, 1956 |
| 15/22-29 | | University of Washington College of Fisheries Hatchery
Records | 1928-1968, 1978, 1986-1997, undated |
| Scope and Content: Includes work logs, temperature records and other
material. |
| 15/30 | | University of Washington College of Fisheries Holding
Pond Records | 1946-1950, 1967-1968 |
| Scope and Content: Includes logbook and budget report. |
| 15/31 | | University of Washington Graduate School Hybridization
Studies (Initiative 171) | 1952-1961 |
| 15/32-36 | | Visitors and Tours | 1959-1977 |
| Scope and Content: Includes photograph of Donaldson. |
| 16/1 | | Washington State Department of Fisheries | 1963-1971 |
| | Reports | |
| 16/2 | | Elwha River | 1973 |
| 16/3 | | Evergreen State College Site | 1968 |
| 16/4 | | National Marine Fisheries Service | 1975 |
| 16/5 | | Preliminary Biological Survey of the Skagit and
Stillaguamish Rivers | 1921 |
| 16/6 | | Puget Sound Power and Light Company | 1974 |
| 16/7 | | Research in Fisheries | 1966-1976 |
| 16/8 | | Miscellaneous | 1937, 1961, 1974 |
| 16/9-10 | | University of Washington College of Fisheries; Summary
of Activities | 1956-1980 |
| 16/11 | | Fish Counts and Statistics | 1936, 1943, 1962-1970, undated |
| | Speeches and Writings | |
| 16/12-21 | | Of Others | 1920s-1980s |
| 16/22-28 | | Chronological | 1930s-1977 |
| Scope and Content: The paper on cymatogaster
aggregatus in folder #22 (1930s) includes photographs of
cymatogaster specimens and scales. |
| 17/1-4 | | Chronological | 1978-1991, undated |
| 17/5 | | Alumni Program Short Course, "Salmon and Trout and
their Management." | 1977 |
| 17/6-7 | | Untitled Book Draft | 1973 |
| Scope and Content: Draft of a book about Donaldson's work with breeding of
salmonid fishes. |
| 17/8 | | Chronic Irradiation Studies | 1975, undated |
| 17/9 | | Coho Return: Paper Notes | undated |
| 17/10 | | Development of Rainbow Trout Breed Stock by Selective
Breeding, Donaldson and Olson | 1955 |
| 17/11-13 | | Distinguished Faculty Lecture Series Notes | 1977 |
| 17/14 | | Environmental Paper on American Samoa | undated |
| 17/15 | | Interracial Hybridization of Cutthroat Trout and its
Use in Fisheries Management; Donaldson, Hansler, and Buckridge | 1956 |
| 17/16-17 | | Nutrition | 1935-1942 |
| Scope and Content: Includes photomicrographs of fish tissues. |
| 17/18 | | The Pond | 1986 |
| 17/19 | | Problems in Feeding Food Concentrates to Hatchery
Fish, Parts I and II, Donaldson and Foster | undated |
| 17/20-22 | | Radiation Biology | 1948-1964 |
| 17/23 | | The Return of the Silver Salmon, Oncorhynchus Kisuch
(Walbaum) to the Point of Release, Donaldson and Allen | 1957 |
| 17/24 | | A Review of the Salmon Hatcheries of the Republic of
Korea | 1973 |
| 17/25 | | Salmon Ranching in Washington State by John E.
Thorpe | 1978-1979 |
| 17/26 | | "The Salmonid Fishes: Aquatic
Livestock of the Future" | 1983 |
| Scope and Content: Includes captioned photos used in the article (credits in
parentheses where given): two of the School of Fisheries showing the pond; a
spawning salmon scaling the fish ladder (James O. Sneddon); Norwegian salmon
and trout cages; comparing salmon sizes (R. Whitney); a fish wheel on the
Chitose River in Hokkaido, Japan (Timothy Joyner); a "private salmon hatchery
on the Oregon coast" (Oregon Aqua-Foods); coho salmon that had homed to the
University of Washington's fish ladder; salmon returning to a weir on the
Kalinin River, Sakhalin Island, U.S.S.R. (J.N.Halle) |
| 17/27 | | Salmonid Feed Studies | 1930s |
| Scope and Content: Includes Donaldson's thesis |
| 17/28 | | Selective Breeding of Chinook Salmon | 1960 |
| 18/1 | | Skagit River Surveys | 1973-1979 |
| 18/2 | | Trout Feed Studies | 1932 |
| 18/3-10 | | Publications | 1951-1975, 1988-1989, undated |
| Scope and Content: Miscellaneous magazines, brochures and books collected by
Donaldson, primarily on fish-related topics. |
| | Conference and Convention Files | |
| 18/11 | | Alaska Aquaculture Conference | 1982 |
| 18/12 | | 29th Alaska Science Conference | 1978 |
| 18/13 | | American Fisheries Society / International Association
of Game, Fish and Conservation Commissioners | 1937-1940, 1953-1959 |
| 18/14 | | First International Conference on the Biology of the
Pacific Salmon (U.S.S.R.) | 1978-1979 |
| Scope and Content: Includes a photograph of Donaldson speaking. |
| 18/15-16 | | Thomas Alva Edison Foundation 14th Education
Conference | 1969 |
| 1 sound tape reel |
| Scope and Content: Recording of Donaldson's talk. |
| 18/17 | | Food and Agriculture Committee (United Nations) Ad Hoc
Working Party on Genetic Selection | 1971 |
| 18/18 | | Joint Center for Graduate Studies Science Seminar,
Richland, Washington | 1978 |
| 18/19 | | Marine Technology Society, Washington, D.
C. | 1971 |
| 18/20 | | North Pacific Aquaculture Symposium | 1980, 1983 |
| Scope and Content: Includes seven color photographs of Donaldson and other
attendees of the 1980 symposium. |
| 18/21-22 | | Northwest Fish Culture Conference | 1967-1978 |
| 18/23 | | Pacific Fisheries Biologists | 1948-1969, undated |
| Scope and Content: Includes photo of 1948 conference participants taken at Lake
Quinault Lodge, with list of names; one earlier undated conference photo; one
later undated conference photo (possibly 1965 in Harrison, British
Columbia) |
| 18/24 | | Pacific Science Congress (Japan) | 1966 |
| Scope and Content: Includes photographs from the 1966 event; some are of
Donaldson. |
| 19/1-4 | | Pacific Science Congress (Japan) | 1966-1975 |
| Scope and Content: Includes photographs from the 1966 event; some are of
Donaldson. |
| 40/11 | | Pacific Science Congress (Japan)
OVERSIZE | 1966 |
| Scope and Content: Map and conference brochure. |
| 19/5 | | Salmonid Reproduction, International
Symposium | 1983 |
| 19/6 | | Sea Grant Conference | 1971 |
| 19/7 | | Western Association of State Game and Fish
Commissioners | 1939-1965 |
| 19/8-13 | | Miscellaneous conferences | 1940-1981 |
| | Curriculum Materials | |
| 39/4 | | Class Records | 1934-1964 |
| Restrictions on Access: Restricted |
| 19/14 | | Fisheries 301, 451 | 1972, 1966, undated |
| Scope and Content: Includes a photograph of an 18-month-old rainbow trout. |
| 19/15 | | Fisheries 452 | 1959-1971, undated |
| 19/16-17 | | Fisheries 453 | 1939, 1951-1967, undated |
| 19/18 | | Unidentified | 1955, 1964, 1983, undated |
| | Exam Questions | |
| 19/19-20 | | Fisheries 152, 153, 156, 157, 450, 453,
461 | 1936-1971, undated |
| 19/21 | | Fisheries 451 | 1950-1972, undated |
| 19/22 | | Fisheries 452 | 1950-1973, undated |
| 19/23 | | Graduate Student Exam Questions | 1949, 1965-1966, undated |
|
| Box | |
40/12 | | Maps
OVERSIZE | 1965, 1968, undated | | Scope and Content: Crown Zellerbach Corporation |
|
| Box/Folder | |
19/24 | | Proposals: Metropolitan Seattle Sewage Utilization
Study | 1973 | | | Plans | |
|
| Box/Folder | |
40/13 | | Sea Pool Fisheries, Ltd.
OVERSIZE | 1970, undated | | 40/14 | | University of Washington Fisheries Center Floor Plans
and Pumping Station Alterations
OVERSIZE | 1968-1969 |
| 40/15 | | United States National Fisheries Center and Aquarium
Floor Plans
OVERSIZE | 1965 |
| 19/25 | | Miscellaneous Plans | 1961, 1993, undated |
| Scope and Content: Includes a plan for the University of Washington's South
Campus, a spawning bed located near the Baker Reservoir and two unidentified,
undated drawings. |
| 19/26 | | Bibliography: Donaldson's Writings | 1931-1986 |
| | Scrapbooks | |
| General Notes: See also the project files for the radiological surveys in boxes
10 and 11. |
| 20/1-21 | | Radiological Survey of Bikini, Eniwetok and Likiep
Atolls, Marshall Islands, Laboratory of Radiation Biology | 1949 |
| Scope and Content: 81 pages. Photographs and narrative captions. Includes
photographs of the crew and officers of the LSI 1091, "the
laboratory-headquarters vessel supplied by the Navy for the use of the AEC
Donaldson Expedition," as well as pictures of the boat itself. Includes many
photographs of the scientists at work and a few of the scientists at rest.
There are many aerial photographs of Bikini Atoll, some of which show oil
slicks in the water. Some photographs depict the survey party landing on Bikini
beaches using rubber life rafts. Mutated plants on Eniwetok Atoll are seen in
some of the photographs. Aso includes photographs of native dwellings, persons
and fish traps on Likiep Atoll. Individuals pictured include Spencer W. Tinker,
Neal O. Hines, Harold St. John, Dr. Allyn H. Seymour, Paul Kellogg, George B.
Greer, Dr. Ralph Palumbo, Dr. Kelshaw Bonham, Dr. Lauren R. Donaldson, Dr.
Arthur Welander, Frank Lowman, Dr. Orlin Biddulph, Father Francis J. Feeney,
Anton DeBrum and Cappelle DeBrum. |
| 20/22-24 | | Operation Crossroads | 1946 |
| Scope and Content: Includes many newspaper articles, photographs, crayon
illustrations, and programs from talks Donaldson gave. Although the scrapbook
is entitled "Scrapbook of Operation Crossroads," a number of the newspaper
articles concern Donaldson's other work. Individuals pictured include Lauren R.
Donaldson, Arthur D. Welander, Clarence F. Pautzke, Enos Bradner, Raymond
Allen, Mrs. Donaldson, David E. Lilienthal, John Koch, Spencer Tinker, Orlin
Biddulph, Kelshaw Bonham, Paul Kellogg, Herb Mann and Richard Foster |
| 21/1-41 | | Bikini Atoll Radiological Survey, Laboratory of
Radiation Biology, University of Washington | 1947 |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 85 pages. Includes an "Alphabetical directory of
officers, scientists and technicians who participated in the Bikini scientific
resurvey." Includes photographs of scientists at work; of scientists diving in
the water to release poison; vehicles used; a drill rig; native persons and
buildings, including a native church and a native cemetery; a Japanese
monument,;numerous photographs of marine life including fish, clams, lobsters,
crabs, and a turtle; a water collecting device made of galvanized metal; and a
portrait of the University of Washington Radiobiology Group in the Bikini
resurvey. Scientists pictured include Lauren Donaldson, Robert C. Meigs, Jesse
P. Pflueger, Frederick H. Rodenbough, Sr., Frederick H. Rodenbough, Jr., Arthur
D. Welander, Richard F. Foster, Richard H. Osborn, Lorence B. Marquiss, Allyn
H. Seymour and Clarence Pautzke. |
|
| Box | |
22 | | Volume I: Radiological Survey of Bikini, Eniwetok and
Rongelap Atolls, Laboratory of Radiation Biology, University of Washington
OVERSIZE | 1964 | | Scope and Content: Approximately 70 pages. Includes a press release describing
the resurvey; numerous newspaper articles including a Norwegian-language
newspaper article; articles from
Time magazine, October 30, 1964,
U.S. News & World Report,
November 2, 1964,
Business Week, October 10, 1964,
Think, January- February 1965; an
undated article from French-language magazine
Réalités and an English
translation of the same article; a
Newsweek article from February 22,
1965; and a humorous six-page account of the trip entitled "The Great Glass
Ball Expedition of 1964." Also includes approximately eight pages of
uncaptioned photographs of Donaldson and colleagues. Individuals pictured
include Lauren R. Donaldson, Kelshaw Bonham, Arthur D. Welander, Ralph Palumbo
and Frank Lowman |
|
| Box/Folder | |
23/1-51 | | Volume II: Radiological Survey of Bikini, Eniwetok and
Rongelap Atolls. Laboratory of Radiation Biology, University of
Washington. | 1964 | | Scope and Content: 51 pages. Includes photographs, captions and narrative
paragraphs. Subjects of photographs include: scientists at work; aerial view of
the islands; the M-Boat which was used for transportation between the islands;
a concrete blockhouse on Engebi Island; vegetation and animal life on the
islands, the crew of Ran-Annim; and the wreck of a ship called the
Nickajack Trail . Scientists pictured include Lauren Donaldson,
Arthur D. Welander, Ralph F. Palumbo, Kelshaw Bonham, William Jackson, Richard
Billings, Frank Lowman, Gary Lewis, Raul McClin, Robert Josephson, Steven March
and Stanley P. Gessel. Others pictured include reporter Hill Williams, who
served as the trip's historian, and James O. Sneddon, photographer. |
| 23/52-89, 24/1-9 | | Volume III: Radiological Survey of Bikini, Eniwetok
and Rongelap Atolls, Laboratory of Radiation Biology, University of
Washington. | 1964 |
| Scope and Content: 47 pages. Includes photographs of scientists at work and
photographs of the islands, photo captions, and narrative paragraphs. Subjects
of photographs include vegetation (includingScaevola); Kelshaw Bonham taking radiation readings of a
coconut crab; underwater photographs near Namu Island; inhabitants of Rongelap
Island (both adults and children); and a Rongelap woman weaving a mat. Some
photographs were taken from a 75-foot observation tower on Bikini Island.
Scientists pictured include Lauren R. Donaldson, Kelshaw Bonham and Ralph F.
Palumbo. Others pictured include Hill Williams and William Allen. |
| | Photo Albums | |
| 24/10-11 | | Social Events | 1965-1966, undated |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 20 pages. Includes photos of Donaldson's
birthday party, the twenty-year celebration of the University of Washington
Laboratory of Radiation Biology, several going-away parties and a lab Christmas
party. Individuals pictured include Allyn H. Seymour, Ralph Palumbo, Lauren R.
Donaldson, Solomon Katz, Neal O. Hines, President Charles E. Odegaard, Dean
Joseph L. McCarthy, Mrs. Donaldson, Richard F. Foster, Carolyn Kinney, Stanley
Gessel, George Lesko, Arthur Welander, Raul McClin, Dr. Tomiyana, Kichi
Tomiyana, Sigurd Olsen, Clarence Pautzke and Mrs. Pautzke |
| 24/12 | | Untitled Photo Album I | 1973, undated |
| Scope and Content: Includes photographs of fish and fisheries facilities and
operations at the University of Washington and elsewhere, probably from the
1970s (one possibly depicting Fisher Mills in Seattle); photographs of undated,
unidentified social occasions; one photograph of Donaldson in Japan. |
| 24/13-14 | | Untitled Photo Album II | 1963, 1983-1990, undated |
| Scope and Content: Includes a note to Donaldson from Teri King, who was working
with him on labeling the photographs in this album. Mostly undated and
unidentified, but subjects include: historical views, including the Kalama
River, Green River and Cowlitz Hatcheries; Pautzke Ponds' Stilliguamish
steelhead ponds; Perry Island, Eniwetok including Bear Parlor, and other photos
from the survey expeditions; chum fishing in Japan; the facilities of Oregon
Aqua-Foods; images of fish including comparative trout sizes and a Chinese
Donaldson trout; Donaldson and others with Luang Videt Yontrakit, Education
Attaché of the Royal Thai Embassy; the Donaldsons on a visit to Tokai
University in August, 1980, and in 1983; the Donaldsons and others (Ivar
Haglund, Kenneth Chew, Bob Iwamoto, Ron Hardy, Ernest Brannon, Dr. Novatany,
Dr. Landolt and Dr. Nakatani) at Ivar's Salmon House on Lake Union in 1983; Ti
Chow; Donaldson and Ximing Gu at the Chittenden Locks, 1989; Donaldson with
Alexander Bille in 1990 and at Cypress Salmon Farms, Cypress Island; Donaldson
with Xu Shiquiong in September 1984; Donaldson at a Fisheries Halloween party
with Sheila Wilkins, Co-op secretary; Donaldson at graduation 1991 with Ximing
Guo and James Myer (Ph.D.) and Maria Soledad Montalva (M.S.); unidentified
colleagues and friends, with and without Donaldson. Also includes several
postcards collected by Donaldson. |
| | Photographs | |
| Arrangement: Titles in quotations marks are Donaldson's own and reflect his
filing system. |
| Scope and Content: Some images may be duplicates of photographs in scrapbooks or
photo albums. Many of the photographs in these files are by James O. Sneddon of
the University of Washington's Office of Public Information, or by other
University of Washington photographers. Many of these prints are labeled with
an Office of Public Information identifying number. Contact sheets are 8 1/2" x
11" with 35mm images unless otherwise specified. Photographs are
black-and-white unless otherwise indicated. |
| 24/15 | | "Alaska" | undated |
| Scope and Content: Two contact sheets with images of Bumble Bee Cannery and
Fisheries Research Institute research in Alaska; one 2-3/4" x 3-3/4" negative
labeled "Fish wheel - Tanana River." |
| 24/16 | | "Branding, Egg Packing" | undated |
| Scope and Content: Six 8" x 10" prints and two contact sheets. |
| 24/17 | | "Campus Views" | undated |
| Scope and Content: One 3.5" x 5" and eight 8" x 10" prints: aerial view of Husky
Stadium signed by Don James; aerial views of south and central campus;
"Football-Action-Wash. vs. Rice-Aerials-Marine Science"; Mount Rainier from Red
Square; five contact sheets with two to four views of south campus per
sheet. |
| 24/18-19 | | "Chinook Salmon" | undated |
| Scope and Content: 34 contact sheets, one color 3.5" x 5" and sixteen 8" x 10"
prints of: Fisheries Center salmon operations, including: Donaldson, Fisheries
students, the Fisheries pond, salmon spawning, salmon returning, egg
harvesting, close-ups of fish heads, etc. |
| 25/1 | | "Chinook Salmon - 1966 Spawning Operations
(Attebery)" | 1966 |
| Scope and Content: 13 contact sheets, two with 2 1/4" x 2 1/4" images. |
| 25/2 | | "Coho" | 1974, undated |
| Scope and Content: Prints (one 8" x 10" and two smaller black-and-white;
approximately 20 color, 5" x 5" or larger) and negatives of coho salmon showing
measurements and comparative sizes; some are annotated with brood year and
average weight. |
| 25/3 | | "L.R. Donaldson" | undated |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 40 prints, mostly undated, from the 1940s to the
1980s. Two color, mostly 8" x 10" with a few 3.5" x 5", 4" x 6" and 5" x 7";
four contact sheets with 1 to 4 images per sheet. Images include Donaldson in
the front row at a Huskies (basketball?) game with cheerleaders in foreground;
Donaldson alone (posed portraits and informal snapshots) in office, in
laboratory or at pond, holding fish, and with students (in one image possibly a
secretary) assisting or taking notes. |
| 25/4 | | "L.R. Donaldson - With Visitors" | 1955, 1992, undated |
| Scope and Content: Approximately twenty 8" x 10" and 5" x 7" black-and-white
prints; five contact sheets with four images per page; approximately fifteen
color prints, 3" x 5" or 5" x 7". Includes a group photograph with labeled
diagram of visitors from Hokkaido University on August 1, 1955; photos of
Donaldson and his wife at commencement with students; other individuals
pictured include Jeremy Platt; Yoshio Hiyama, a professor at Tokyo University
of Fisheries; Pan Jin-Pei, Dong Jinhai, Huang Xiangfei, Coi Qiming, and Cui
JiJing of the Ocean University of Qingdao. |
| 25/5-6 | | "Fish Farms" | 1934,1979, undated |
| Scope and Content: Approximately sixty-five prints, a few in color. Includes
photographs used as illustrations in Chapter 3 of
Salmon Ranching, published by
Academic Press, Inc.; primarily of salmon farming facilities; also
approximately thirty other prints labeled: Squaxim Sea Farms, Inc.; NMFS;
Weyerhauser; Pacific Ocean Farms; DomSea Farms, Inc.; Quinault Indian
Reservation; Cowlitz Hatchery; Pautzke Ponds on the Skykomish River; Thor
Gudjonson's fish farm; salmon traps at Brinnon, Washington; Ore-Aqua Coos Bay
site; Ngongotaha Trap, Rotorua, New Zealand; many unlabeled; one diagram of a
fish facility. |
| 25/7, 28/1 | | "Fish Ladder" | 1970, 1983, undated |
| Scope and Content: Approximately fifteen prints, mostly 8" x 10", (two oversize
in Box 28) and several contact sheets and proofs. Primarily of the fish ladder
at the University of Washington, during construction with work crew, and after
construction with Donaldson posing in lab coat; one other unidentified fish
ladder; one drawing of "The East Fish Ladder - The Dalles Dam"; also a lock,
dam and north shore fish ladder on the lower Columbia River; one print of a
James Sneddon close-up photo of a fish in the Fisheries ladder. |
| 25/8 | | "Fisheries Center - Exterior" | 1940, 1949, undated |
| Scope and Content: Thirteen prints (8" x 10", 7" x 8", 5" x 7" and 3 1/2" x 5")
and two contact sheets showing the University of Washington Fisheries
Center. |
| 25/9 | | "Fisheries Center - Interior" | 1966, undated |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 18 prints, mostly 8" x 10" with a few 5" x 7"
and 6 1/2" x 8" showing the University of Washington Fisheries Center. |
| 25/10 | | "Fisheries Center - Old" | 1965, 1969, undated |
| Scope and Content: Nine prints (mostly 8" x 10", several 5" x 7") and one proof.
Subjects include Donaldson with Charles Odegaard, Joseph McCarthy, Stafford
Warren, Charles Dunham and Neil O. Hines with a copy of
Proving Ground, and a photo of a
poster promoting the School of Fisheries. |
| 25/11 | | "Hybrids" | 1971, undated |
| Scope and Content: One 4" x 10" print showing a rainbow-steelhead hybrid; five
strips of 1" x 1.5" images of fish (showing comparative measurements) and
Donaldson in lab. |
| 25/12 | | "Indians" | undated |
| Scope and Content: Two contact sheets labeled "Fisheries Quinault Indi[an] Res."
and "Indians of LaConner and Tulalup [sic] Wash."; one 8" x 10" print of
Donaldson at the Quinault facility. |
| 25/13 | | "King Olav's Visit, May 2, 1968" | 1968 |
| Scope and Content: Three contact sheets and one 5" x 7" print. |
| 25/14 | | "Lake Rehabilitation, Opening Day of Fishing
Season" | 1951-1953, undated |
| Scope and Content: Ten 8" x 10" prints of recreational fishing at Big Twin Lake,
Okanogan County; Green Lake, King County; Pass Lake, Skagit County; Jamieson
Lake, Douglas County (features Seattle Game Commissioner Richard Seward); Lake
Tanwax, Pierce County; also scrap fish "brought to the surface by the state
game department" during the rehabilitation of Liberty Lake, Spokane County
prior to its replanting with rainbow trout. |
| 25/15 | | "Lauren - Lab - Eniwetok" | 1957 |
| Scope and Content: Nine 8 1/2" x 11" prints, some labeled, of Donaldson and other
University of Washington scientists in and on the beach behind the EMBL
Laboratory "awaiting transportation to return to the U.S." |
| 25/16 | | "
Life Magazine 1961" | 1949, 1951, 1961 |
| Scope and Content: Twelve 8" x 10" prints of Donaldson and others with trout and
trout eggs. |
| 26/1 | | "
Look Magazine" | 1962 |
| Scope and Content: Thirteen 8" x 10" prints of Donaldson and students in
laboratory and at Fisheries ponds, and close-ups of salmon. |
| 26/2 | | "Marion Lake, B.C. 7/vii 67" | 1967 |
| Scope and Content: Five 8" x 10" prints, views of lake and shots of Donaldson and
other researchers. |
| 26/3 | | "Ponds" | undated |
| Scope and Content: Eight 8" x 10" prints and several contact sheets and proofs
with aerial views of the Fisheries holding pond, and shots of Donaldson and
students at the pond; one 8" x 10" print is labeled "Fish Spawning Facilities
on Turtle Rock Island Above Rocky Reach Dam." |
| 26/4 | | "Radiation Facility" | undated |
| Scope and Content: Four prints (8" x 10" and 5" x 7") and one proof sheet showing
facility and a student examining trays. |
| 26/5-6 | | "Rainbow Trout" | undated |
| Scope and Content: Undated, but probably 1970s. Approximately forty prints, most
8" x 10" and 5" x 7", several in color; ten contact sheets; three 4" x 6" color
and one 3 7/8" x 7 7/8" black-and-white negatives. Images of Donaldson,
students, and various aspects of trout operations. |
| 26/7-8 | | "Rainbow Trout Experiment" | 1971 |
| Scope and Content: Color prints (about twenty-five 5" x 7", 5" x 5" and 8.5" x
11") recording the results of a feeding experiment. Photos show whole fish,
partially-dissected fish and fish halves. 5.5mm x 5.5mm negatives of these
prints and of lab operations are present, as well as notes of the different
feeding plans. |
| 28/2, 40/16 | | Rainbow Trout Spawning Operations | 1966 |
| Scope and Content: Prints and contact sheets of photographs by James Sneddon;
oversize prints in boxes 28 and 40. |
| 26/9, 40/17 | | South Pacific | 1957 |
| Scope and Content: Four prints, 8" x 10" and slightly larger and smaller;
Donaldson on a beach, scientists on rocks at the shore, a large sea turtle, and
the supply room on Eniwetok; one oversize print of Donaldson and scientists on
beach and two of nuclear blasts (mushroom clouds) in Box 40. |
| 26/10, 28/3 | | Fish and Fishing | undated |
| Scope and Content: Four prints of various sizes, one negative, two sets (one
Japanese) of printed cards with photographs of fish varieties; several oversize
prints in Box 28. |
| 26/11 | | Laboratory Photos: Fish and Fish Tissues | undated |
| Scope and Content: Eight 5" x 7" prints. |
| 26/12 | | Colleagues, Occasions and Visits | 1941, 1968, 1985, undated |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 50 variously-sized prints and several contact
sheets. Mostly undated but from the 1940s to the 1980s, with the more recent
snapshots in color. Subjects include the Bikini 25th reunion; unidentified
gathering at the Donaldson home; Washington Department of Game function; a
birthday picnic; students and faculty of the University of Oregon Marine
Station at Coos Bay; Donaldson's retirement party; Kinuko Kada, Cowlitz
Hatchery dedication; W.A. Stevenson (mayor of Howick, Auckland, New Zealand);
Jeffrey and Max Silverstein; other unidentified colleagues, students and
friends |
| 26/13 | | Promotional Photographs | 1965, undated |
| Scope and Content: Five 8" x 10" prints of staged fishing scenes, showing adults
and children admiring their own and one another's catches, some taken by Josef
Scaylea and some are from the National Publicity Studios in Wellington, New
Zealand. |
| 26/14 | | Maps and Diagrams | undated |
| Scope and Content: Puget Sound (negative), Columbia River basin and an
unidentified diagram. |
| 26/15-17 | | Illustrations from
Fish of Rare Breeding by Neil O.
Hines | undated |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 45 images covering various aspects of
Donaldson's work, focusing on salmon and trout breeding. |
| 26/18 | | Miscellaneous | 1994, undated |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 15 prints, including images of volleyball and
racquetball (or squash) games, unidentified aerial views, cows, roses, and the
Fraser River delta. |
| | Slides | |
| Arrangement: Titles in quotations marks are Donaldson's. Slides in glass
mounts are stored separately in Boxes 31 and 32. |
| Scope and Content: All slides (except most diagrams and charts) are color images
unless otherwise indicated. Subjects are similar (and in some cases identical)
to images in photograph files: trout and salmon in various stages of
development; Donaldson and students engaged in operations at the Fisheries pond
and in the laboratory; various commercial and other fish hatcheries and other
facilities; many of the duplicates are slides of photos taken by James Sneddon
and other University of Washington photographers. Many (particularly slides
from the South Pacific) have detailed labels. |
| 27/1, 31 | | "South Pacific #1 and Alamagordo" | 1949-1968 |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 50 slides. Photographs taken on Rongelap, Bikini
and Likiep Atolls, Boro Island, Perry Island, Leroy Island. Subjects include
the project scientists; groups of the islands' inhabitants; beaches;
vegetation; the Ran-Annim; copra boats and
copra-making; women hanging out washing; children doing handstands on the
beach; a Rongelap village; dissecting Tridacnas;
charts and diagrams; "umbrella" (a mushroom cloud); sick and burned birds and
dead terns on Leroy Island; Donaldson in the brush amid blast and burn damage
on Leroy; a slide labeled "Rongelap native" showing an inhabitant holding a
board labeled "Rong. No. 39" |
| 27/2 | | "South Pacific and Alamagordo"; "South
Pacific" | 1949-1964, undated |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 20 slides. Photographs taken on Likiep, Bikini,
Rongelap and Arji; images include "A village scene"; two scientists holding up
a large fish; the "Oak shot" detonation; concentric butterflyfish (
chaetodon) from Perry Island; a coconut crab;
coconut trees and stumps; "Dead plants in 'hot' zone" |
| 27/3-7 | | "Tarawa Kapingi Kusai" | 1954-1958, undated |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 80 slides. Subjects include village scenes;
project scientists at work; vegetation; landscapes; Japanese airstrip, tanks
and guns on Tarawa; local inhabitants including Chief Likanet of Kapingi Atoll;
an island cemetery; collecting fish samples; "Local belles Ponape 5/56";
Donaldson "trading with natives" on Tarawa; island inhabitants engaged in
various occupations. |
| 27/8-9 | | "Color Photo's J.H.M. 863 dupl. set" | 1959-1967 |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 145 slides. Mostly images of coconut plantings;
also other vegetation (living and dead); radiation soil pits; aerial views;
scientists taking samples; white tern and other birds; some underwater
photographs; photos taken on Gejen, Kabelle, Bikini, Eniwetok, Rongelap, Naen
and Lomuilal |
| 27/10 | | "So[uth] Pacific, Chariot" | 1950-1965 |
| Scope and Content: 27 slides. Photos taken on Enyu, Namu and Bikini including
scenes on ship and on islands, vegetation, sample collecting, etc.; also photos
of Donaldson and others at Alamagordo (?) in 1950, showing crater area, Oscuro
Peak, trinitite, rattlesnakes; several photos taken in Alaska, including
"Chariot 1960--Chariot Site from Crowbill Mt." |
| 27/11-12 | | "South Pacific 1962" | 1946-1962 |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 150 slides, primarily of Donaldson's 1962 trip
to the South Pacific, but also older images of vegetation, local inhabitants,
etc. from Ponape. Locations include Tongatapu, Tonga, Penrhyn, Fiji, Malden and
Christmas Islands, and Rarotonga, New Zealand; subjects include birds; fish
collecting; survey scientists including Barnes, Olson, Slacks and Lusk;
schoolchildren and a girls' basketball team at Rarotonga; local buildings and
inhabitants; C-124 airplane. |
| 27/13, 31 | | "South Pacific Extras" | 1946-1967, undated |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 45 slides. Images are similar to other slides of
the South Pacific, but includes one 1954 slide from Rongelap showing a child,
in profile, with a board labeled "Rong. No. 75"; the child's face seems to have
some kind of discoloration or mark. |
| 27/14 | | "Chronic Irradiation Hanford and Col[umbia]
R[iver]." | 1977, undated |
| Scope and Content: 32 slides. Mostly charts, graphs and displays concerning
salmon spawning and mortality, reactor effluents, etc. many marked "From R.F.
Foster" and "Battle" (presumably Battelle); a few images of boats and indoor
and outdoor equipment. |
| 27/15, 32 | | "Samish Chinook spawning, tissues etc.; silver salmon;
steelhead trout;
Life magazine chinook;
Life tissue shots
etc." | 1950, undated |
| Scope and Content: 33 slides. |
| 29/1-2 | | Fern Lake | undated |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 125 slides, primarily charts and graphs relating
to the experiments at Fern Lake; some images of the lake, equipment,
vegetation, etc. |
| 29/3 | | "Spawning Field Trips 1953 Spring" | 1953 |
| Scope and Content: 12 slides; one is labeled "Senator Reed B.C. being made an
indian chief Adams River" |
| 29/4 | | "Steelhead Spawning February 23, 1971" (James
Sneddon) | 1971 |
| Scope and Content: 22 slides. |
| 29/5 | | "Packing Eggs for Shipment" | undated |
| Scope and Content: 25 slides. |
| 29/6 | | "Hybrids 1969" | 1969 |
| Scope and Content: 14 slides of hybrid trout. |
| 29/7 | | "Trout" | 1965, 1973 |
| Scope and Content: 21 slides. |
| 29/8 | | "Sneddon Rainbow 1962" | 1962 |
| Scope and Content: 8 slides. |
| 29/9 | | "Fish - Trout Spawning and Eggs" (James
Sneddon) | 1958 |
| Scope and Content: 25 slides. |
| 29/10 | | "Fish Marking 1964 Col[umbia] R[iver] - Army
Quince" | 1961, 1964 |
| Scope and Content: 16 slides. |
| 29/11 | | "Extra" (fish) | 1965-1971, undated |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 35 slides. |
| 29/12 | | "Ore-Aqua" | 1979, 1981 |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 45 slides. Includes images of Oregon Aqua-Foods
facilities, equipment and procedures at Coos Bay and Newport. |
| 29/13 | | "Sea Pool" | 1969 |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 50 images of the commercial fishery: location,
facility and fish taken at Clam Bay. |
| 29/14 | | "Photos of NMFS - Manchester; Domsea - Manchester;
Seattle City View; University of Washington etc. Ron Hardy 2/15/85" | 1985 |
| 29/15 | | Commercial Fish Farms | 1973-1977, undated |
| 29/16 | | "Nutrition - Food Processing" | 1962, 1981, undated |
| Scope and Content: 15 slides, mostly showing various pieces of equipment used in
the production of fish feed. |
| 29/17 | | Unlabeled Box (primarily hatcheries) | 1962-1968, undated |
| Scope and Content: 46 slides, mostly images of the Cowlitz Hatchery; also the
Alsea hatchery, "Lauren's class spring 1965," Fraser River, Adams River, and
slides marked "Michigan 1966." |
| 29/18 | | "1960 Mt. Baker Eugene-Nov. 60" | 1952-1961 |
| Scope and Content: 23 slides. Also includes two images from the 1982
Seattle Times Salmon Derby. |
| 29/19 | | "Baker Lake Spring 1966" | 1966 |
| Scope and Content: 40 slides, including shots of Baker Lake, Mt. Baker, dam and
machinery. |
| 29/20 | | "Echo Lake Photos by Jim Sneddon April
20,1958" | 1958 |
| Scope and Content: 25 slides of trout, eggs and spawning. |
| 29/21 | | "Planting Salmon Ft. Lawton May 1969" | 1969 |
| Scope and Content: 31 slides including aerial view, people working in pond,
etc. |
| 29/22 | | "Atlantic Salmon misc. Maine Coast, Plymouth Rock,
Martha's Vineyard, Mass." | 1972, undated |
| Scope and Content: 20 slides, including images of scenery, harbor views, town
scenes and groups of people, possibly from a conference or meeting. |
| 29/23 | | "Woods Hole, St. Andrews 1972" | 1972 |
| Scope and Content: 7 slides, mostly images of Matamek River and Falls. |
| 29/24 | | "Hells Gate - Fraser R. 2. Rocky Reach Dam - spawning
Chinook 3. Indian fishing at [Cowlitz?] Falls" | 1953-1962 |
| Scope and Content: Fish ladder at Hell's Gate; bridge over Fraser River; Chukchi
Sea from Crowbill Mountain (marked "Chariot"); Adams River; Cowlitz
Hatchery. |
| 29/25 | | "Canada - Aug. 1984 - Locks - Rapid Rush" | 1984 |
| Scope and Content: 19 slides, including aerial views, rivers and lakeshores, a
group at a picnic table. |
| 29/26 | | "Hells Canyon Dam - Bonneville - Eastern
Ore[gon]" | undated |
| Scope and Content: 15 slides of Hell's Canyon Dam and the surrounding area,
including aerial views. |
| 29/27 | | "Horsefly trip Oct. 1976" | 1960-1976, undated |
| Scope and Content: 25 slides. Includes 1976 images of Horsefly River, Bulkley
River, Seaton Creek, Hell's Gate and Babine Lake Spawning Channel. Also one
slide marked "Coho - Lake Michigan 1967," and several slides labeled "Chariot
1960," captioned "Butchering Beluga Whale Kivalina," "Drying fish and whale
meat Kivalina" and "Eskimo children eating blubber." |
| 29/28 | | "Spring Creek Lewiston Mont[ana] May 10,
1976" | 1976 |
| Scope and Content: 12 slides. |
| 29/29 | | "Aquarium Slides" | 1966-1967, undated |
| Scope and Content: 14 slides. Images include "Flamingo Dance, Namegawa Island
[Japan]," facilities at Tokyo Fisheries University, and the Bergen
Aquarium. |
| 29/30 | | "Chinook 1-40" "Chinook 41-80" | 1978 |
| Scope and Content: 80 slides of embryonic salmon development, from fertilization
to hatching. |
| 29/31 | | "History of Fish Culture" and "Artificial Production -
History of Fish Culture - Slides of Old Hatchery Pictures" | 1958, 1975, undated |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 50 lecture slides, primarily reproductions of
historical photos (1890-1940) of hatcheries including Kalama, Dungeness,
Bonneville, Hood River, Spring Creek, Wizard Falls, McKensie and Union
Hatcheries. Also images of prominent individuals in the field of aquaculture,
including Clarence F. Pautzke, R. Burrows and [?] Ryckman. Procedures shown
include seining salmon, grading salmon, spawning salmon, processing fish feed,
"anaesthetizing salmon with club" and preparing salmon carcasses. |
| 30/1-2 | | "Salmon [Story?]" | 1954-1981, undated |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 130 slides illustrating various aspects of
salmon breeding and raising, including images of fish, fish pieces, and fish
facilities including the University of Washington, Ore-Aqua, Domsea, Cowlitz
Hatchery, Wenatchee River, Adams River, Fidalgo Fish Company, Lummi Indian
Reservation, and Japan, Sweden, Norway, Iceland. |
| 30/3-4 | | "Aquaculture" | 1958-1981, undated |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 130 slides, very similar in content to the
previous item. |
| 30/5 | | "Salmon Aquaculture Box II slides 41-80 Col[umbia]
River Ore-Aqua" | 1973-1975, undated |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 35 images of the Ore-Aqua Foods facility. |
| 30/6 | | "Extra" lecture slides | undated |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 45 slides, some marked "K.K. Chew," mostly
relating to oyster farming; also Sheldon Jackson, Japanese shrimp farms and
images of fish. |
| 30/7 | | "Copies of figures in INPF Commission Bulletin #23
1967" | 1977 |
| Scope and Content: 18 slides of maps and charts. |
| 30/8 | | "Japanese [medal], [plaque], etc., presents; Photo by
John Nightingale" | 1972 |
| Scope and Content: 8 slides of Donaldson's Shinkishi Hatai Medal and other
awards, etc. |
| 30/9-10 | | "Extras" | 1954-1979, undated |
| Scope and Content: Approximately 140 slides of miscellaneous subjects relating to
the previous groups; also includes images of "Celebration at Adams River
welcoming the salmon back, mostly Indians" (1954 or 1958). |
| | Negatives | |
| 30/11 | | "Fred Thompson's negatives - shark - Quilcene salmon
meal plant" | undated |
| Scope and Content: Eight 2.5" x 1.5" negatives and three 3.5" x 2.5" prints,
undated but approximately 1930s or 1940s, of the Quilcene plant (interior and
exterior) and of a recently-caught shark being displayed stretched at length on
the ground and also being held by two men to demonstrate its size. |
| 30/12-15 | | Unlabeled negatives | undated |
| Scope and Content: Grouped in folders corresponding to the envelopes in which
they were stored. All were unlabeled, but subjects seem to include fish (three
3" x 4" negatives); University of Washington campus and possibly a Fisheries
picnic or other gathering (15 strips of 35mm negatives); charts and tables
(five 35mm negatives); and an unidentified hatchery (seven 41/4" x 2 3/4"
negatives). |
|
| Box | |
33, 42 | | Film | undated | | Scope and Content: Approximately 90 rolls of 16mm film, mostly unidentified and of
varying lengths, including outtakes and fragments. |
|
| Box/Folder | |
19/30-32 | | Engagement Calendars | 1975-1977 | | 34/1-6 | | Engagement Calendars | 1978-1987 |
| 34/7-12 | | Guest Books | 1945-1971, 1983, 1990 |
| 34/13 | | Travel Journals | 1954-1963 |
| 34/14 | | Address Book | undated |
| 34/15 | | Lists: Bikini Reunion | 1976 |
| 34/16 | | Awards, Honors and Citations | 1971, 1972 |
| Scope and Content: Includes Donaldson's Marine Technology Society Lockheed Award
for Ocean Science and Engineering; a photograph of Donaldson at the University
District (Seattle) Kiwanis Club on January 26, 1959, is present. |
| 40/18 | | Awards, Honors and Citations
OVERSIZE | 1968, 1971, 1986, undated |
|
| Box | |
35 | | Medals, Pins and Commemorative Coins | 1975, undated | | Scope and Content: Includes Donaldson's Shinkishi Hatai Medal from the Government
of Japan. |
| 36 | | Plaques | 1973, 1987 |
|
| Box/Folder | |
19/27-29 | | Notes | 1962-1966, 1977, 1984-1991 | | 34/17 | | Note Cards, Robertson, O. H. | 1947-1961 |
| 34/18 | | Newsletters | 1961-1973, 1985-1988 |
| Scope and Content: Includes (single issues unless otherwise indicated)
Public Power News (3),
The Pacific Northwest Public Power
Bulletin,
The [Rocky Mountain College] Monitor
,
Medical Abstracts,
Egg & Smolt (2) and
Homopiscis Rusticus (for and about
retired members of the American Fisheries Society) |
| 34/19-20 | | Ephemera | 1957-1971, 1981-1989, undated |
| | Clippings | |
| 34/21 | | Chronological | 1934-1950 |
| 37/1-10 | | Chronological | 1951-1992, undated |
| 37/11-12 | | By Topic | 1968-1971, 1984, undated |
| Scope and Content: Topics include the Seattle Aquarium, Bikini and Eniwetok, Fern
Lake, Michigan Coho, "Indian Programs," Pennsylvania, Minnesota, New York and
Miscellaneous (includes one positive review of the University of Washington
Fisheries Building). |
| 40/19 | | International Pacific Fisheries Commission
OVERSIZE | 1945 |
| 37/13 | | Fortune | 1963 |
| 37/14 | | Harper's | 1965, 1973 |
| 37/15 | | Time | 1964 |
| 37/16 | | Western Conservation
Journal | 1960 |
| 37/17 | | Department of Commerce and Economic Development,
Olympia, Washington | undated |
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