Northeastern Wood Utilization Council records, 1942-1959.
Collection Number: 1964
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library
DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY
Title:
Northeastern Wood Utilization Council records, 1942-1959.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
1964
Abstract:
Letters and other papers relating to the Council.
Creator:
Northeastern Wood Utilization Council (U.S.)
Quanitities:
1.5 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English
Letters and other papers from the files of Edgar Heermance, Henry W. Hicock, and A.B.
Recknagel, officers of the Council (1942-58); papers pertaining to the dissolution
of the Council (1958-59); pamphlets and miscellaneous material relating to Council
activities and the forest products industry (1942-59); and incomplete runs of WOOD
NOTES and THE COUNCIL BULLETIN.
Related collection: Arthur Bernard Recknagel. Papers, #1891.
Related collection: Empire State Forest Products Association. Records, #1280.
INFORMATION FOR USERS
Northeastern Wood Utilization Council. Records, #1964. Division of Rare and Manuscript
Collections, Cornell University Library.
Names:
Heermance, Edgar L. (Edgar Laing), 1876-1953.
Hicock, Henry W.
Recknagel, Arthur Bernard, 1883-1962.
Subjects:
Lumber trade.
Forests and forestry -- Economic aspects.
CONTAINER LIST
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Container
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Description
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Date
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Scope and Contents
All the material in the collection may not be covered by this guide.
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Series I. Letters and manuscripts
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| Box 1 |
Complete set of the minutes of the Northeastern Wood Utilization Council
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1942-1957 | |
| Box 1 |
An incomplete set of duplicate minutes of the Council
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date unknown | |
| Box 1 |
Correspondence relating to the Council's activities while A. B. Recknagel was Executive
Secretary of the Organization
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1952-1953 | |
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Scope and Contents
Printed circular of the Council; mimeographed report "Effect of Chemical Girdling
on Bark Separation" by E. C. Ehrhart, May 16, 1951; seven printed pamphlets; and a
number of reprints from various magazines concerning wood utilization.
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| Box 1 |
Four Folders containing ancillary material relating to the Council's activities
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date unknown | |
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Scope and Contents
See donor's one page list marked "#10", on file in acc. Folder.
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| Box 1 |
Summary of Papers, Reports, and Discussions of Third Meeting, Northeastern Wood Preservation
Conference
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1955-11-17-1955-11-18 | |
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Scope and Contents
Held at New Haven, Connecticut, Nov 17-18, 1955
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| Box 1 |
Two typed copies of report The Objectives of the Northeastern Wood Utilization Council
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1952-01-31 | |
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Scope and Contents
By Henry I. Baldwin, Jan. 31, 1952
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I.a. Material from the files of Edgar Heermance, Secretary of the Council
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1942-1953 | ||
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Correspondence relating to the Council's activities
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1942 | |
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Scope and Contents
List of Council members, 1942; Minutes of Greenfield meeting, April 9, 1942; Mimeographed
manuscript, Production of Wood Gas as a Domestic Fuel, by R. A. Caughey, June 12,
1942; Council's receipts and expenditures, 1942.
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| Box 1 |
Correspondence relating to the Council's activities
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1943 | |
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Scope and Contents
Minutes of June 10, 1943; mimeographed release from the National Research Council
and Society of American Foresters.
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| Box 1 |
Contains correspondence relating to Council activities
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1944 | |
| Box 1 |
Contains correspondence relating to Council activities
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1945 | |
| Box 1 |
Contains correspondence relating to Council activities
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1946 | |
| Box 1 |
Contains correspondence relating to Council activities
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1947 | |
| Box 1 |
Contains correspondence relating to Council activities
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1948 | |
| Box 1 |
Contains correspondence relating to Council activities
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1949 | |
| Box 1 |
Contains correspondence relating to Council activities
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1949-03-04-1951-05-10 | |
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Scope and Contents
Minutes of Springfield meeting, Nov. 17, 1950; provisional draft of program, Wood
fuel Conference, Philadelphia, May 10, 1951; printed coy of the articles of Association,
Northeastern Wood Utilization Council, Inc.; minutes of Council meeting, May 11, 1950;
index to Wood Notes nos. 1-9; minutes of council meeting, March 4, 1949; printed circulars
of the Council announcing conferences and activities, 1949-1950.
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| Box 1 |
Correspondence relating to Council activities
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1950-1954 | |
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I.b. Material from the files of Henry W. Hicock, secretary of the Northeastern Wood
Utilization Council
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1954-1958 | ||
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Scope and Contents
All folder titles in this sub-series are original.
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| Box 1 |
Close-Out of Council Business
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1957-1959 | |
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Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence relating to the Council's dissolution and financial transactions
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| Box 1 |
Notices
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1957 | |
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Scope and Contents
Contains mimeographed notices and circulars relating to Council activities
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| Box 1 |
Charcoal Conference
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1957-11-20 | |
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Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence and mimeographed notices relating to the Council's participation
in the Charcoal Conference
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| Box 1 |
Bulletins, Reports, etc. 1947-1948
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1946-1948 | |
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Scope and Contents
Contains mimeographed material relating to Council activities 1947; printed circular
Developing The World's Forest Resources; extra copies of Wood Notes Nos. 2,3,5,6,11,24,30,31;
three reprints Organized Marketing and Integrated Logging, by Edgar Heermance, 1946;
Problems in the Utilization of Wood Waste, by Robert Aries, 1947, Wood Flour Production,
by Robert Aries, 1947
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| Box 1 |
Minutes of Meetings
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1942-1947 | |
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Scope and Contents
Contains copies of the minutes of the Council's meetings; copy of Wood Notes, # 4
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| Box 1 |
The Northeastern Logger
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1956-1958 | |
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Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence relating to The Northeastern Logger and its financial transactions
with the Council
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| Box 1 |
W. C. MacAdam
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1956-1958 | |
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Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence between William C. MacAdam and the Council's secretary Henry
Hicock relating to Council activities
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| Box 1 |
C. R. Lockard
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1956 | |
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Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence between Lockard and Hicock relating to Council activities
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| Box 1 |
A. B. Recknagel
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1956-1958 | |
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Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence between Recknagel and Hicock relating to Council activities
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| Box 1 |
Legal Papers
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date unknown | |
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Scope and Contents
Contains pamphlet Articles of Association and By-laws, and typed statement Amendment
to Articles of Association, The Northeastern Wood Utilization Council, Inc.
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| Box 1 |
Financial Reports
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1955-1958 | |
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Scope and Contents
Contains financial statements concerning the Council's affairs
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| Box 1 |
No title
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date unknown | |
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Scope and Contents
Contains mimeographed, typed and reprinted copies of 7 papers by Robert Aries, Technical
Director of the Council. Cutlets for Wood Waste, Possibilities of the Wood-Chemical
Industries in the Northeast, The Status and Future of "Improved" Woods, Why Cellulose?,
New Products of Wood; Marketing research - Partner of Technical Research; Marketing
Research
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| Box 1 |
N. E. Wd. Utiliz. Council - Nov. 20, 1957 & Subsequently
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1957-1958 | |
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Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence relating to the business and financial activities of the Council,
1957-1958
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| Box 1 |
N. E. Wd. Council Inventory
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1953-1956 | |
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Scope and Contents
Contains inventory statements for the years 1953-1956
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| Box 1 |
Wood Preservation Conference Nov. 55 and Bulletins #44, 45
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1956-1957 | |
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Scope and Contents
Does not contain material indicated in title, contains instead business correspondence,
1956; correspondence between Recknagel and Prof. Hans Glaser, Munich, Germany, while
Glaser was on a FAO mission in Iran, 1957
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I.c. Unclassified material
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date unknown | ||
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Scope and Contents
Two folders contain the unclassified material a-k
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| Box 1 |
Alternative Budgets
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1952 | |
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Scope and Contents
Northeastern Wood Utilization Council
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| Box 1 |
Report of the Sub-committee on Forest Research
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1953-11 | |
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Scope and Contents
New England Council, Committee on Forestry and Forest Industries. Typed copy
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| Box 1 |
Correspondence relating to Council activity
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1954-1955 | |
| Box 1 |
Contents Files from Hicock list
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1959-08-28 | |
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Scope and Contents
Three page list
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| Box 1 |
Bulletins of the Northeastern Wood Utilization Council
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date unknown | |
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Scope and Contents
nos. 13 (two copies), 16, 17
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| Box 1 |
List of Material relating to the Northeastern Wood Utilization Council
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1956-09-17 | |
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Scope and Contents
Three page list
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| Box 1 |
Woodsman Use that Tree
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1949 | |
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Scope and Contents
Essay by Edgar Laing Heermance. Carbon Copy
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| Box 1 |
Wood Notes
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date unknown | |
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Scope and Contents
number 28. Typed draft
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| Box 1 |
Northeastern Wood Utilization Council
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1950-01-26 | |
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Scope and Contents
Black folder, containing minutes of the Council's Jan. 26, 1950 meeting
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| Box 1 |
Hardwood Pulping Pamphlets
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1954-09-14 | |
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Scope and Contents
Two pamphlets published by the Council concerning Hardwood Pulping Conference Sept.
14, 1954
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| Box 1 |
"The Toxicity to Plants of Wood Preservatives and Their Solvents"
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date unknown | |
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Scope and Contents
Circular 189, published by the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New Haven
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| Box 1 |
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
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1954-06 | |
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Scope and Contents
Monthly Review
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| Box 1 |
Forest Statistics
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date unknown | |
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Scope and Contents
Four pages
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| Box 1 |
Report and Photos
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1950 | |
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Scope and Contents
Folder contains 4 glossy prints of forestry techniques and report on portable pulp-wood
chipper, National Container Corporation of Wisconsin
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Series II. Printed Items
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| Box 1 |
Wood Notes
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1955-1956 | |
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Scope and Contents
Wood Notes nos. 1-39 (except # 15), typed draft of Wood Notes no. 28; special supplement
to Wood Notes no. 28, February 1955; special bulletin, June 1956; program of meeting
at New Haven, Nov. 17-18, 1955; circular to the Heads of Forest Schools, Forest Products
Laboratories and Research Agencies in Wood Utilization advertising Wood Notes, June
25, 1956; Index to Wood Notes nos 1-20
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| Box 1 |
Northeastern Wood Utilization Council Bulletin
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1959-10-06 | |
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Scope and Contents
Nos. 9-45 (excluding nos. 10, 11, 13, 16, 17, 24, and 34 which are missing). Recknagel
letter of October 6, 1959 states that only nos. 10, 21, and 24 are missing (??)
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| Box 1 |
The Use of Sawmill Waste for Pulp in Eastern Canada
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1953 | |
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Scope and Contents
Department of Resources and Development, Canada. Forestry Branch Bulletin no. 108
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