Empire State Forest Products Association records, 1917-1961.
Collection Number: 1280

Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Cornell University Library


DESCRIPTIVE SUMMARY

Title:
Empire State Forest Products Association records, 1917-1961.
Repository:
Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections
Collection Number:
1280
Abstract:
Minutes and reports of annual meetings and committees, financial reports, membership lists, circular letters, surveys, pamphlets, articles, scrapbook and photographs. Also, material concerning forest fires, pest damage and control, and legislation affecting the forest industry, the "Keep New York Green" Committee and use of wood as fuel during World War I. Includes Arthur B. Recknagel papers (formerly collection #1891). Monthly reports, minutes, printed material, and a transcript of an interview with Recknagel concerning his career in forestry education and management. Also, letters from Bernard Recknagel from the University of Virginia to his father, 1932, 1934; University of Virginia commencement program, 1934; funeral program and condolence letters on the death of Mary Thomas Miller Recknagel, Sept. 23, 1945.
Creator:
Empire State Forest Products Association
Recknagel, Arthur Bernard, 1883-1962.
Quanitities:
4 cubic feet.
Language:
Collection material in English

ORGANIZATIONAL HISTORY

The Empire State Forest Products Association was formed by lumbermen and paper companies in 1906 "to promote the interests of its members and to protect, perpetuate, and increase the forest growth of the State through the establishment of a rational and constructive system of forestry." The group continued as an advocacy organization dedicated to the practice of forestry and the production of forest products on privately-owned land in New York State.

RELATED MATERIALS

Related collection: Northeastern Wood Utilization Council. Records, #1964.

INFORMATION FOR USERS

Cite As:

Empire State Forest Products Association. Records, #1280. Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library.

Scope and content

Minutes and reports of annual meetings and committees, financial reports, membership lists, circular letters, surveys, pamphlets, articles, scrapbook and photographs. Also, material concerning forest fires, pest damage and control, and legislation affecting the forest industry, the "Keep New York Green" Committee and use of wood as fuel during World War I.

Scope and content

Includes Arthur B. Recknagel papers (formerly collection #1891). Monthly reports, minutes, printed material, and a transcript of an interview with Recknagel concerning his career in forestry education and management.Included are Recknagel's monthly reports for the St. Regis Paper Company and related materials on the management of St. Regis lands, research, conservation, government policies, and other matters of interest to the forest products industry; snapshots of the St. Regis River area and forest operations in New Hampshire; pamphlets, reports, minutes, programs, clippings, and other mimeographed and printed materials concerning forestry management in general and meetings of various forestry and conservation associations, including the Forestry Committee of the American Paper and Pulp Association, the Forest Industries Council, the Society of American Foresters, the Fourth American Forest Congress, and the Western Forestry and Conservation Association; and a transcript of an interview (1958) in which Recknagel discusses his work with the U.S. Forest Service, his career at Cornell, and related subjects.

Scope and content

Also, letters from Bernard Recknagel from the University of Virginia to his father, 1932, 1934; University of Virginia commencement program, 1934; funeral program and condolence letters on the death of Mary Thomas Miller Recknagel, Sept. 23, 1945.

SUBJECTS

Names:
Recknagel, Arthur Bernard, 1883-1962.
Empire State Forest Products Association. "Keep New York Green" Committee
American Paper and Pulp Association. Forestry Committee
Cornell University. College of Forestry
Forest Industries Council
Society of American Foresters
St. Regis Paper Company
United States. Forest Service
Western Forest and Conservation Association
Empire State Forest Products Association
American Forest Congress
Empire State Forest Products Association
Places:
St. Regis River (N.Y.) -- Description -- Views.
Subjects:
World War, 1914-1918.
Paper industry -- New York (State)
Forests and forestry -- New York (State)
Forests and forestry -- New Hampshire.
Forests and forestry -- Economic aspects.
Trees -- Diseases and pests.
College teachers.
Foresters.
Lumbering.
Logging.
Fuelwood.
Forestry law and legislation.
Forests and forestry.
Forestry schools and education.
Forest products industry -- Law and legislation.
Forest products industry -- New York (State)
Forest management.
Forest fires -- Prevention and control.
Forest conservation.
Conservation of natural resources.
Form and Genre Terms:
Scrapbooks.
Photographs.
Oral histories.

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