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Record Unit 7172
Hartley H. T. Jackson Papers,
circa 1883-1976

By Richard V. Szary and Michael B. Senseney


Introduction

Historical Note

Descriptive Entry

Series Descriptions

  Series 1. CORRESPONDENCE AND RELATED MATERIALS CONCERNING ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMITTEES, CIRCA 1936-1959.

  Series 2. CORRESPONDENCE, NOTES AND RELATED MATERIALS CONCERNING OFFICIAL AND PROFESSIONAL WORK AND PUBLICATIONS, CIRCA 1914-1967.

  Series 3. LANTERN SLIDE PLATES OF FIELD TRIPS AND ALASKA, CIRCA 1889-1929.

  Series 4. ADD ACQUISITION, CIRCA 1863-1976.



INTRODUCTION

This finding aid was digitized with funds generously provided by the Smithsonian Institution Women's Committee.

The papers of Hartley H. T. Jackson (Record Unit 7172) were received by the Smithsonian Archives in two accessions. The first accession was transferred from the Bird and Mammal Laboratories, United States Department of Interior, in 1973; an additional collection was donated by Dr. Francis Barkalow in 1981.


HISTORICAL NOTE

Hartley H. T. Jackson (1881-1976) was a native of Milton, Wisconsin where he started his studies in zoology at age 11. In his early years he became acquainted with Ludwig Kumlien, later his college teacher, and Ned Hollister, then a Wisconsin naturalist. Following his graduation in 1904 from Milton College he taught science in Missouri, Wisconsin and Illinois before taking a graduate scholarship at the University of Wisconsin, where he received his Master's degree in 1909. While at Wisconsin, Jackson taught laboratory zoology and identified, arranged and catalogued the Department's bird collection. During the summers he worked with the Wisconsin Geological and Natural History Survey.

In 1910, the Bureau of Biological Survey offered Jackson a position on its research staff, and he was placed in charge of the Bureau's mammal collection. In 1924 he became chief of the Division of Biological Investigations and in 1936 was placed in charge of the Section of Wildlife Surveys, later Biological Surveys. He remained in that position until 1951 when the Section was merged with that of Distribution and Migration of Birds, and he became mammalogist in the new Section of Distribution of Birds and Mammals.

Jackson was one of the founders of the American Society of Mammalogists and served as chairman of its organizing committee in 1919. He has also served the Society as corresponding secretary, 1919-25; editor of the Journal of Mammalogy, 1925-29; and president; 1938-40.

His primary research interests were the mammalogy of his native state, the life zone concept of Clinton Hart Merriam, and the taxonomy of mammals and mammal distribution. He published extensively, his major work being the Mammals of Wisconsin, 1961.


DESCRIPTIVE ENTRY

This collection documents the professional career and personal life of Hartley H. T. Jackson. Particularly well represented are materials documenting his career with the Bureau of Biological Survey; his research and publications on mammals; his membership in and work with professional groups and committees; and his family life. Smaller amounts of records concern his early interest in natural history and his education.

The papers include correspondence with professional associates, family members, and friends; correspondence, maps, lists, reports, and related materials documenting his government career; correspondence, photographs, awards, and other records concerning his affiliations with professional organizations, especially the American Society of Mammalogists, the Baird Ornithological Club, and the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences; photographs of Jackson, his family and friends, professional colleagues, Bureau of Biological Survey field work, and other career related subjects; lantern slides of naturalists, field trips, and Alaska; a set of publications of Jackson, and related records concerning his book Mammals of Wisconsin; a diary written in 1908; biographical information on Jackson; and various materials collected by Jackson, which include pen and ink drawings by Luis Agassiz Fuertes.


SERIES DESCRIPTIONS

SERIES 1.
CORRESPONDENCE AND RELATED MATERIALS CONCERNING ORGANIZATIONS AND COMMITTEES, CIRCA 1936-1959.

Box 1 of 21
Folder1   Material concerning the American Society of Mammalogists including correspondence concerning meetings, editorial matters for the Journal of Mammalogy and organizational matters. Correspondents include Ira N. Gabrielson, Arno B. Cammerer, George Hines Lowery, Jr., William John Hamilton, Jr., Walter P. Taylor, A. Remington Kellogg, Eugene Raymond Hall, Alfred Brazier Howell, William B. Davis, Viola Shelly Schantz, Edward Alphonso Goldman, Tappan Gregory, Tracy I. Storer, Donald Frederick Hoffmeister and Harold Elmer Anthony, 1936, 1939-50, 1953. Also includes program for 1959 Annual Meeting giving account of the formation of the group and pictures of the founders and past presidents, minutes of Board of Directors (1943), financial statement (1943) and issuances to members. Jackson was a founder and was president of the Society from 1938 to 1940.
Folder2   Material concerning committees of the War Production Board including the Committee on Conservation and Preservation of Agricultural Products, Food Supplies and Livestock, Committee on Rodent and Predatory Control and the Animal Traps, Cages, Rodent Devices, etc., Simplification, Substitution and Conservation Conference Committee of which Jackson was a member. Includes correspondence with Edwin R. Kalmbach, minutes and reports, 1943.
Folder3   Correspondence, 1946-47, and material concerning the raising of funds for the Edward Alphonso Goldman Memorial issue of the Journal of Mammalogy.
Folder4   Material concerning the Baird Ornithological Club including notices of meetings, 1948-49.
Folder5   Correspondence and material concerning the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, 1954-56. Correspondents include Walter E. Scott.

SERIES 2.
CORRESPONDENCE, NOTES AND RELATED MATERIALS CONCERNING OFFICIAL AND PROFESSIONAL WORK AND PUBLICATIONS, CIRCA 1914-1967.

Box 1 of 21
Folder6   Maps of life zones of North America and the United States prepared by Clinton Hart Merriam, Vernon Orlando Bailey, Edward Wilson Nelson and Edward Alexander Preble, 1897, 1910.
Folder7   Material concerning the work of Dr. Charles A. Campbell in cultivating bats in order to eradicate malarial mosquitoes. Includes copies of statements by Campbell, residents of the area where he experimented and a Bureau of Biological Survey entomologist who examined his work, correspondence of Leland Ossian Howard, William Campbell Gorgas, Edward Wilson Nelson and Henry Wetherbee Henshaw evaluating Campbell's work and a photo of his experimental roost, 1914-16.
Folder8   Correspondence of Edward Wilson Nelson, Hartley H.T. Jackson and William Bonar Bell concerning cooperative work with Wisconsin on a biological survey of that state, 1917, 1933.
Folder9   Correspondence of Jackson concerning inspection of specimens, observations of mammals, removal of skunk odor, and with the Edward Alphonso Goldman family. Correspondents include Ned Hollister, 1918, 1922-23, 1927, 1938-47, 1951-52, 1954-55, 1962.
Folder10   Material concerning the distribution of mammals including statistics, distributional maps, charts and correspondence of Edward Alphonso Goldman, 1933-34, 1938-41, 1947-49.
Folder11   Material concerning the preparation of Civil Service tests for biology-related positions, 1935, 1938-43.
Folders12-13   Material concerning Bureau of Biological Survey work in Alaska. Includes memoranda, reports, project proposals, and correspondence, 1935-43. Correspondents include Stanley Paul Young, William Bonar Bell, Lawrence J. Palmer, Frank Dufresne, Frederick C. Lincoln, Ira N. Gabrielson, Winney E. Crouch and Olaus Johan Murie.

Box 2 of 21
Folders1-2   Photographs of Alaska including portraits of Eskimos, wildlife, scenery, Juneau, Nome, St. Michael, Ruby.
Folder3   Travel itineraries of Hartley H.T. Jackson, 1936.
Folder4   Material concerning Bureau of Biological Survey program of wildlife research, 1938, 1940, 1942-44.
Folder5   Statement by Jackson on the term "mammal," 1939.
Folder6   "Published Writings of Arthur Holmes Howell (1872-1940)" by H.H.T. Jackson, 1967 from University of Kansas Museum of Natural History, Miscellaneous publications No.47, pp. 1-15.

SERIES 3.
LANTERN SLIDE PLATES OF FIELD TRIPS AND ALASKA, CIRCA 1889-1929.

Box 3 of 21
Folder1   Lantern slide plates of Charles S. Sheldon; William King Gregory; Foster Ellenborough Lascelles Beal, Albert Kenrick Fisher, Arthur Holmes Howell, Harry Church Oberholser, Mrs. Morrison and Sylvester Dwight Judd; Leonhard Stejneger, Frank Hall Knowlton, Vernon Orlando Bailey, Clinton Hart Merriam, Elizabeth Gosnell Merriam on the San Francisco Mountain Expedition, 1889; Joseph Harvey Riley and Ned Hollister, 1911; Alfred Brazier Howell, 1916; Frank Stephens, Hollister Jones, Joseph S. Dixon and Joseph Grinnell, 15 May 1910 on the bank of the Colorado River, near Pilot Knob, California; Adolph H. Schultz and O.R. Langworthy, 1928; Glover Morrill Allen, 1927 and Witmer Stone, 1926.
Folder2   Lantern slide plates of William J. Morden, 1926; Hartley H.T. Jackson (cracked); B. Brown and Henry Fairfield Osborn, 1897; Ernst Huber, 1928; William J. Norden, 1926; "Jo Mailliard's Wings of Bohemia," James T. Clark, 1926; Edmund Heller; Edmund Heller; Peterson, Wortman, Granger and Thomson, 1895.
Folder3   Lantern slide plates of Walter P. Taylor and Harold C. Bryant, 24 July 1910 at Parker Creek, Warner Mountains, Modoc County, California on the Warner Mountain field trip; Harold Elmer Anthony, 1915; Vernon Orlando Bailey, Wilfred Hudson Osgood, Edward William Nelson and Albert Kenrick Fisher; Theodore Sherman Palmer, 1891; Gerrit Smith Miller, Jr., 1897; A. Remington Kellogg and Marcus H. Hanna, 1916; Edward Alexander Preble and Mollie Harper, ca. 1928; Vernon Orlando Bailey, Clinton Hart Merriam, Theodore Sherman Palmer and Albert Kenrick Fisher, 1891; Vernon Orlando Bailey; Hartley H.T. Jackson and Wilfred Hudson Osgood, 1929.
Folder4   Lantern slide plates of Fishing for tom cods on sea ice - Unalakleet, Alaska; Chief of Biological Survey photographing reindeer; Winter reindeer camp, inland from Kotzebue Sound, Alaska, March 1917; Sperm Whale, Whaling Station, Alaska; Eskimo Fish Caches at the mouth of Neukiuk River, Alaska; Walrus hunting on sea ice, Bering Straits--Siberian side; Moose feeding on fallen birch treetop, Kenai Peninsula, Alaska; Dead Walrus on ice off Nome, Bering Sea, Alaska; Arthur Holmes Howell studying boll-weevil in Texas and unidentified scenery.

SERIES 4.
ADD ACQUISITION, CIRCA 1863-1976.

Box 2 of 21

PHOTOGRAPHS OF HARTLEY H. T. JACKSON, FAMILY AND FRIENDS.

Folders7-13   Hartley H. T. Jackson, circa 1880-1970

Box 4 of 21
Folders1-9   Hartley H. T. Jackson, circa 1880-1970

Box 5 of 21
Folders1-5   Anna Marcia Jackson, circa 1880-1950
Folders6-7   Hartley H. T. & Anna Marcia Jackson, circa 1910-1950

Box 6 of 21
Folders1-8   Relatives & Friends, circa 1870-1910

Box 7 of 21
Folders1-6   Relatives & Friends, circa 1890-1940
Folders7-8   Relatives & Friends, circa 1940-1970
Folder9   Photographs colored by Anna Marcia Jackson, circa 1938
Folder10   Film Index of photographs taken by Jackson

Photographs of Professional Colleagues

Folder11   John Merton Aldrich, 1941
Folder12   Joel Asaph Allen, circa 1885
Folder13   Harold Elmer Anthony, 1915
Folder14   Vernon Orlando Bailey, Wilfred Hudson Osgood, Edward William Nelson, Albert Kenrick Fisher, undated
Folder15   Vernon Orlando & Florence Merriam Bailey, circa 1920, 1924-1926, 1928-1929, 1935 and undated
Folder16   Herbert Spencer Barber, undated
Folder17   Foster Ellenborough Lascelles Beal, 1916
Folder18   Sidney Fay Blake, 1925
Folder19   Mr. & Mrs. Herbert W. Brandt & sons, circa 1923
Folder20   Lily Carrasco, 1935
Folder21   James T. Clark, undated
Folder22   Professor Wells Woodbridge Cooke, circa 1915
Folder23   Frederick Vernon Coville, 1921
Folder24   Ed Crobb, 1917
Folder25   Albert Kenrick Fisher, 1921
Folder26   A. D. Gallott, 1912
Folder27   Marshall C. Gardner, 1947
Folder28   James H. Gaut, circa 1904
Folder29   Mr. & Mrs. Edward Alphonso Goldman, circa 1936, 1937 and undated
Folder30   William King Gregory, circa 1910
Folder31   Arthur Hardisty, undated
Folder32   Mr. & Mrs. Francis Harper, 1925
Folder33   Edmund Heller, undated
Folder34   Walter Cleaveland Henderson, circa 1926
Folder35   E. J. Holbrook, 1930
Folder36   Ned Hollister & Joseph Harvey Riley, circa 1911, 1921, 1922, 1924, and undated
Folder37   Arthur Holmes Howell, undated
Folder38   Koob & Karlberg, undated
Folder39   Ludwig Kumlien, 1894 (Accession 06-172)
Folder40   John Lawrence, 1930
Folder41   B. V. Lilly, undated
Folder42   John Alden Loring, 1893
Folder43   Marcus Ward Lyon, Jr. 1922
Folder44   Joseph Mailliard, undated
Folder45   John Malloch, A. Remington Kellogg, Wesley Frank Kubichek, F. H. Mahlman, Franklin Metcalf, H. L. Vierecke, Waldo Lee McAtee, Elsie Bealle, Charles C. Sperry, undated
Folder46   William M. Mann, 1926, 1941
Folder47   Waldo Lee McAtee, 1926
Folder48   Clinton Hart Merriam, circa 1947
Folder49   Mr. & Mrs. Clinton Hart Merriam, Frank Hall Knowlton, Leonhard Stejneger, Vernon Orlando Bailey, undated
Folder50   Gerrit Smith Miller, Jr. circa 1943
Folder51   J. Paul Miller, 1937
Folder52   John D. Mitchell, 1916
Folder53   Olaus Johan Murie, 1940
Folder54   Arnold Lars Nelson, circa 1935
Folder55   Donald John Nicholson, 1937
Folder56   Ortenburger, undated

Box 8 of 21
Folder1   Henry Fairfield Osborn & Barnum Brown, 1897
Folder2   Wilfred Hudson Osgood, undated
Folder3   Lawrence J. Palmer, 1940
Folder4   Ralph Simon Palmer, 1945
Folder5   H. E. Peck, circa 1913
Folder6   O. A. Peterson, J.L. Wortman, Walter Granger, Albert Thomson, circa 1895
Folder7   Arthur J. Poole, circa 1921
Folder8   Daniel Irvin Rasmussen, Anna Marcia Jackson, Ruby Marshall, William H. Marshall, 1938
Folder9   Artie Richards, circa 1912
Folder10   Percy Leroy Ricker, 1921
Folder11   Mrs. Robert Ridgway, 1926
Folder12   Albert C. Rogers, undated
Folder13   Mr. Ruddington & Col. Sheldon, undated
Folder14   W. M. Rush, 1916
Folder15   Sigvald Salvesen, circa 1926
Folder16   Dr. Scheffer, 1944
Folder17   F. J. W. Schmidt, 1927
Folder18   Elmer R. Scholl, 1947
Folder19   Ernest Thompson Seton, undated
Folder20   Margaret R. Shaw, circa 1941
Folder21   William T. Shaw & George G. Cantwell, 1950
Folder22   Carolyn Sheldon, 1937
Folder23   Harry H. Sheldon, 1919
Folder24   William E. Snyder, 1902
Folder25   Leonhard Stejneger, 1937
Folder26   Witmer Stone, undated
Folder27   Katheryne C. Tabb & Viola Shelly Schantz, circa 1947
Folder28   Walter P. Taylor, 1916
Folder29   John B. Vrooman, 1916
Folder30   George Wagner, undated
Folder31   Alex Walker, undated
Folder32   Ernest Pillsbury Walker, 1930
Folder33   Alexander Wetmore, circa 1913, 1917, 1922, 1967, and undated
Folder34   Fay Holloway Wetmore, Flo Gidley, Mabel Hollister, Mary Oberholser, undated
Folder35   Elmer Williams, 1930
Folder36   W. W. Worthington, undated
Folder37   Unidentified

Photographs Relating to the Professional Career of Hartley H. T. Jackson

Folder38   Mammals, circa 1900-1950
Folder39   Birds, circa 1900-1950
Folder40   Birds eggs, circa 1910-1930
Folders41-42   Landscapes, circa 1900-1950

Box 9 of 21
Folder1   Landscapes, circa 1900-1950
Folder2   Album of Landscapes and Birds eggs, undated
Folder3   Reptiles, circa 1920-1940
Folder4   NMNH Building (interior)
Folders5-7   Photographs of United States Biological Survey Staff and Field Work. #1 - #8591

Box 10 of 21
Folders1-10   Photographs of United States Biological Survey Staff and Field Work. #8613 - #61903
Folders11-14   Photographs of United States Biological Survey Staff and Field Work. #53668 - #61903
Folder15   Biological Survey Staff, 1933
Folder16   Miscellaneous identified photographs, circa 1900-1940
Folder17   Zoological Staff (U.S. National Museum), 1949
Folder18   Wisconsin Society for Ornithology, 1947

Box 11 of 21

Box 12 of 21

Box 13 of 21
Folder1   Baird Ornithological Club of Washington D.C., 1948
Folder2   American Society of Mammalogists, 1925, 1938, 1950
Folder3   National Convention of Mammalogists, 1940
Folder4   American Ornithologists' Union, 1883, 1895, 1899, 1910
Folders5-9   Miscellaneous unidentified photographs, circa 1900-1970

Box 14 of 21
Folders1-3   Miscellaneous identified photographs, circa 1900-1970
Folders4-5   Negatives

Professional Correspondence

Folder6   A, general correspondence
Folders7-9   American Society of Mammalogists, 1926-1976

Box 15 of 21
Folder1   John Warren Aldrich, 1961, 1969, 1972-1974
Folder2   B, general correspondence
Folder3   C, general correspondence
Folder4   D, general correspondence
Folder5   William C. Daland, 1912-1916
Folder6   E, general correspondence
Folder7   F, general correspondence
Folder8   Albert Kenrick Fisher, 1902-1905
Folder9   G, general correspondence
Folder10   H, general correspondence
Folder11   F. Gregory Hall, 1917, 1919, 1921
Folder12   Richard P. Harland, 1974
Folder13   Henry Wetherbee Henshaw - Qualifications statement for Chief of United States Biological Survey 1911
Folder14   Ned Hollister, 1902-1904, 1906, 1908, 1910
Folder15   Samuel J. Holmes, 1910-1911
Folder16   Robert Day Hoyt, 1902-1905
Folder17   J, general correspondence
Folder18   K, general correspondence
Folder19   L, general correspondence
Folder20   Roxie Collie Laybourne, 1972-1974
Folder21   M, general correspondence
Folder22   Waldo Lee McAtee, 1942-1946
Folder23   Clinton Hart Merriam, 1888-1890, 1902, 1904-1905, 1907, 1910, 1914
Folder24   Correspondence relating to bill for Protection of Game in Alaska, (includes some correspondence from Clinton Hart Merriam)
Folder25   Richard A. Muttkowski, 1914
Folder26   N, general correspondence
Folder27   Edward William Nelson, 1907, 1912
Folder28   H. V. Ogden, 1904
Folder29   P, general correspondence
Folder30   R, general correspondence
Folder31   S, general correspondence
Folder32   Arlie William Schorger, 1945, 1969-1970
Folder33   Henry H. Severin, 1910-1912
Folder34   Victor Ernest Shelford, 1914
Folder35   T, general correspondence
Folder36   John Thompson, 1898-1899, 1925
Folder37   U, general correspondence
Folder38   W, general correspondence
Folder39   George Wagner, 1910-1914
Folder40   Edward Royal Warren, 1907-1908
Folder41   Alexander Wetmore, 1912
Folder42   William D. Zeedyk, 1973

Box 16 of 21

Personal Correspondence and Diary

Folders1-2   Correspondence with friends and relatives, 1863-1975
Folder3   Hartley H. T. & Anna Marcia Jackson, post cards, 1908-1923
Folder4   Correspondence to Mrs. Stephanie Hall, 1969-1970
Folder5   Christmas cards with letters
Folder6   Diary, 1908
Folder7   Anna Marcia Jackson correspondence, 1901

Biographical Information on Hartley H. T. Jackson

Folders8-10   Biographical information, circa 1889-1975

Box 17 of 21
Folder1   Biographical information, undated

Material Relating to MAMMALS OF WISCONSIN.

Folder2   Mammals of Wisconsin, Correspondence and related materials
Folder3   Mammals of Wisconsin, correspondence regarding advertising, sales & publicity
Folder4   Mammals of Wisconsin, Reviews
Folder5   Mammals of Wisconsin, related materials. See also Boxes 20-21.

Memberships and Awards

Folder6   Department of the Interior Meritorious Service Award, 1951
Folder7   Milton College, Shaw Memorial Library - Alumni Association Directors' Club Medal
Folder8   The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters Medal 1870-1970

Box 18 of 21
Folder1   Wisconsin Society for Ornithology, Membership plaque
Folder2   Wisconsin Society for Ornithology, Inc. Membership List as of January 17, 1976.
Folder3   American Ornithologists' Union Committee ribbon, undated
Folder4   Washington Academy of Sciences, Membership certificates, 1915, 1931
Folder5   The American Society of Mammalogists, Membership certificates, 1942, 1952
Folder6   Biological Society of Washington, Membership certificate, 1952
Folder7   The Ecological Society of America, Membership certificate, 1916
Folder8   The Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts and Letters, Membership certificate, undated
Folder9   American Association for the Advancement of Science, Membership certificate, 1914
Folder10   Constitution of the Pacific Coast Mammalogical Club, 1904
Folder11   Constitution & By-Laws of the Orophilian Lyceum of Milton College, undated

Specimen lists of Other Naturalists

Folder12   Specimen lists of A. S. Allen 1890
Folder13   Specimen lists of Charles F. Carr 1890
Folder14   Specimen lists of Ludwig Kumlein 1890
Folder15   Specimen lists of H. L. Skavlem 1890
Folder16   Specimen lists of J. R. Slonaker 1892
Folder17   Specimen lists of Reuben Myron Strong 1890
Folder18   Specimen lists of Annabell C. Whitcomb 1893

Collected Materials

Folders19-20   Notes and articles on mammals by Jackson
Folder21   Map of proposals for Wichita Mts. Wildlife Refuge
Folder22   Notebook kept by Jackson from Lecture Course in Bionomics at University of Wisconsin 1908-1909
Folder23   Miscellaneous Illustrations
Folder24   Miscellaneous Maps
Folder25   The Saturday Lectures - Joint Commission of the Anthropological, Biological, Chemical, National Geographic, & Philosophical Societies of Washington 1888-1889. Correspondence relating to scheduling speakers.
Folder26   Base Maps of Wisconsin for the Biological Survey

Box 19 of 21
Folder1   Prints of Canadian mammals by Allan C. Brooks
Folder2   Charts of mammal distribution, catalogue & journal
Folder3   Bird pen and ink drawings by Luis Agassiz Fuertes
Folder4   Prints of birds drawn by Robert Ridgway

Publications of Hartley H. T. Jackson

Folder5   Bibliography of H. H. T. Jackson, 1897-1966
Folders6-8   Publications of Jackson, #1 - #684

Box 20 of 21
Folders1-6   Publications of Jackson, #685 - #961
Folder7   Material concerning the Mammals of Wisconsin. Includes correspondence with the University of Wisconsin Press and others concerning publication matters, corrections, and illustrations.

Box 21 of 21
Folders1-2   Correspondence, advertising, and reviews relating to Mammals of Wisconsin


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