Norman Thomas collection, 1900-1964 (bulk 1954-1964).

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Norman Thomas collection, 1900-1964 (bulk 1954-1964).

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Thomas' notes, research material, and draft manuscripts for the history of the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, Timber and Men. The collection covers a wide range of subjects concerning the timber industry including advertisements, articles, bibliographies, biographies, blueprints, broadcasts, bulletins, committee records, conferences, corporation information, correspondence, ephemera, genealogies, invitations, histories, legislation, maps, meetings, memoranda, memorials, newsletters, newspapers, notes, pamphlets, photographs, reports, statistics, union activities, West Coast Lumber Association records, and Weyerhaeuser branch operation information. Emphasis is placed on Weyerhaeuser's practices in Washington State but Thomas did research on other facets of the company's operations, especially in Minnesota. Collection also includes materials concerning the logging industry in the Pacific Northwest, biographies, railroad companies, and union activities; together with Thomas' records of the founding of Charles Wright Academy in Tacoma, Wash., in 1959.

4 linear ft.

Washington State Historical Society

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SNAC Resource ID: 8044858

Washington State Historical Society

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Thomas, Norman F.

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Historian and educator; b. Norman Francis Thomas, 1917. From the description of Norman Thomas collection, 1900-1964 (bulk 1954-1964). (Washington State Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 70924921 ...

Charles Wright Academy (Tacoma, Wash.)

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Weyerhaeuser Company

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Weyerhaeuser Timber Company

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The Weyerhaeuser Company, founded in 1900 as the Weyerhaeuser Timber Company, is one of the largest forest product companies in the world. Weyerhaueser had timber and logging operations in Klamath County until the mid-1990s. Timber cruising is a process for measuring forest stands to determine number and species of trees, average tree size and volume, and timber quality. From the description of Klamath County timber cruising records, 1952-1955. (Eugene Public Library). WorldCat recor...

Hidy, Ralph W. (Ralph Willard), 1905-1977

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Ralph Hidy taught at Wheaton College from 1932 to 1947. He took a leave of absence from 1941-1946 to serve in the U.S. Army intelligence force based in Boston. Hidy then served as Senior Research Associate for the Business History Foundation for three years, leaving in 1950 to take a position as Professor of History at New York University and Editor of the Business History Series of the N.Y.U. Press. In 1957, Hidy came to the Harvard Business School as the Isidor Straus Professor of Business His...