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Manuscript Group 344
Papers, 1949-1990
5 cubic feet
The papers of Harry Caldwell were donated to the University of Idaho library by Dr. Caldwell and his wife Shirley between January 1987 and February 1991. They were processed by Judith Nielsen in August 1991.
Harry Caldwell, professor of geography at the University of Idaho for 35 years, was born October 31, 1920, in Worcester, Massachusetts. He received his B.A and Ph.D degrees from Clark University in 1941 and 1951, and his M.A. from the University of Nebraska in 1946. He married Shirley Grossman in 1946; they had two children. During World War II he served for three years in the Army Air Corps Weather Service in Alaska and Canada.
He taught briefly at Nebraska Wesleyan and Texas A & M before coming to the University of Idaho as the first full time geographer in 1948. While at the university he served on a number of committees, including Faculty Council, the Borah Foundation Committee, Library Committee and Budget Liaison Committee. He also helped initiate programs in urban studies, the Freshman experimental year, the University Year in Action, the In-Service Training Committee, the MAT Social Studies program, and the Black studies program.
In addition to his teaching responsibilities he served as a consultant for the Stanford Research Institute in Thailand, the U.S. Air Force, the Board of Regents, and was a planning consultant for the cities of Lewiston, Kamiah, Orofino, and Post Falls.
He was president of the University of Idaho American Association of University Professors, Sigma Xi, Northwest Science Association, and vice-president of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers. He was also a charter member of the Idaho Academy of Science.
After suffering an almost total hearing loss in 1983 he decided to take an early retirement. He then became actively involved in helping hearing impaired individuals. He formed the Palouse area group of Shhh (Self Help for Hard of Hearing Persons, and at the Shhh national convention in 1989 was awarded the "Spirit of Shhh" award in recognition of his work. He also served on the Governor's Task Force for the Hearing Impaired and was instrumental in placing amplified listening devices in pay phones, governmental offices, and at the University of Idaho and Washington State University.
Caldwell died December 25, 1990 following a 5 year battle with cancer.
The papers of Harry Caldwell span the years 1941 to 1990, with the bulk of the material covering the years 1950 to 1985.
Included are materials reflecting his involvement with University of Idaho committees and the Geography Department, professional research and consulting activities, personal material including his work with Shhh, an organization for the hearing impaired, and a folder documenting the development of his cancer. The final series contains slides taken on trips throughout the Northwest and around the world.
The papers were received over several years and were in no perceived order, therefore a series order was imposed during processing.
The first series reflects Caldwell's involvement in university affairs and contains minutes and reports of the various university committees on which he served, minutes of the meetings of the geography department as well as other departmental material, and notes used in his teaching.
The second series contains publications by Caldwell, reprints and photocopies of other articles concerning different aspects of geography, maps and research notes.
The professional activities series contains directories and convention programs for geographical societies, city planning activities in which he was involved as a consultant, and material relating to several workshops he gave.
The personal papers include correspondence, his official university curriculum vita and several self-evaluations, newspaper articles about him, theses of his graduate students, material concerning deafness, hearing devices, and a history of his hearing loss as well as a history of his cancer. The final series contains a group of slides taken on trips throughout the Northwest and around the world.
Most published material was removed from the collection and set aside for review; only items with notes were retained. Material in loose-leaf binders was removed to file folders, and the slides were transferred from metal storage boxes to archival slide storage pages. In this way the collection was reduced by 2 cubic feet.
I. University Related Activities, 1951-1983 1 II. Research Material, 1949-1990 1-2 III. Professional Activities, 1935-1986 2-3 IV. Personal, 1951-1990 3-4 V. Slides, 1951-1977 4-5
1 1 American Association of University Professors, 1965-1978 8 2 Committees: Borah Foundation, 1955-1973 11 3 Budget Liaison, 1976-1979 15 4 Faculty Affairs, 1981-1982 77 5 Freshman Experimental Program, 1971 3 6 In-service Training, 1957-1966 9 7 Land Use Planning, 1974-1975 36 8 Social Science Coordinating Committee, 1967-1974 7 9 University Curriculum Committee: Interdisciplinary Studies, 1970-1978 14 10 Other committees and reports, 1963-1977 29 11-12 Community Development Center: University Year in Action, 1972-1978 44 13 University of Idaho consulting policy evolution, 1978 1 14 Correspondence and letters of recommendation, 1958-1983 130 15-21 Geography department files: memos, minutes, etc., 1958-1982 335 22 Teaching: Cultural geography, 1966-1971 26 23 Earth science curriculum project, 1968 5 24 Political geography, 1965-1981 43 25 Proxemics, hidden dimensions, 1960-1969 4 26 Recreational geography and the history of recreation, 1951-1982 118 27 Urban geography lecture notes, n.d. 5 28 Urban studies, official papers, 1968-1972 43
29-30 Research proposals and forms, 1959-1979 58 31-32 Publications of Harry Caldwell, 1949-1976 12 33 Asia material, 1963-1975 31 34 Chinese culture, 1937 1 35 College population study, 1971 13 2 36 Conservation education, 1949 1 37 Cultural geography, 1970 5 38 Economic geography, 1967-1971 6 39 Geography, General, 1949-1980 10 40 Geography, Europe, 1957-1960 3 41 Geography, Idaho, n.d. 2 42 Idaho history, culture, and population, 1972 12 43 Idaho road network maps, 1962-1972 9 44 Idaho skyway maps, 1952-1962 3 45 Idaho state energy plan, 1981 1 46 Idaho tomorrow, 1974 2 47 Idaho will grow, 1958 1 48 Irrigation, 1945-1971 6 49 Lake Tahoe recreation planning seminar, 1972 4 50 Man's role in changing the face of the earth, 1955 1 51 Maps, 1939-1963 4 52 Medical geography, 1952 1 53 Moscow area, Idaho, 1972 1 54 Planning and control manual, 1958 1 55-57 Population problems, 1956-1985 10 58 World population data sheets, 1988-1990 5 59 Problems in the Idaho batholith, n.d. 2 60-61 Quality of life, 1965-1978 6 62 Regional earth resources data application center, 1972-1973 9 63 Tavern location study, 1971-1975 15 64 Tourism, 1934-1981 4 65 U.S. Board of Geographical Names, Idaho decisions, 1934-1982 88 66 West Coast Airlines history, n.d. 1 67 Zimmerly Airline, 1946 1 68 The Idaho Compass, 1971 1 69 Day, Henry. "Mining highlights of the Coeur d'Alene district," 1963 1 70 Air Force Engineering & Service. Community information brochures, n.d. 4 71 Humphrey, David C. "Utilization of the middle fork of the Salmon River as a wild river...", 1969 1 72 Payne, Richard D. "An inventory of recreation home developments in Idaho," 1976 1 73 U.S. Geological survey. Mineral and water resources of Idaho, 1964
74 Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, 1935-1986 3 75 World Directory of Geographers, 1952 1 76 Air Force study of productivity, 1980-1981 21 77 Boise project planning reports and maps, 1973-1974 40 3 78 Boise general plan study map, n.d. 1 79 Kamiah planning file, 1958-1959 2 80 Latah County planning, 1958 4 81 Lewiston comprehensive planning series, 1976 2 82-83 Lewiston consulting, zoning, subdivision maps, 1979 11 84 Moscow, Idaho. City planning, 1956-1965 4 85-86 Post Falls planning file, 1957-1958 6 87 Workshop: College of Idaho regional studies, 1982 8 88 Workshop: Shoreline development of Lake Coeur d'Alene, 1976 3 89 Title VIII workshops, Correspondence, 1970-1971 10
90-93 Correspondence, 1951-1989 144 94 Vita, self-evaluations, etc., 1975-1980 14 95 Articles about Harry Caldwell, 1958-1984 3 96 Memorial service program, 1990 1 97 Reel to reel tape recordings, n.d. 4 98 Photographs from the American Geographical Society transcontinental excursion of 1912 8 99 Brochure from Moscow, USSR, n.d. 1 100-106 Graduate student theses, 1969-1976 7 107-110 Shhh (Self help for hard of hearing people), journal, 1981-1989 45 4 111 Shhh Palouse group newsletter, 1981-1989 47 112-113 Shhh conventions, 1986, 1989 2 114 "Harry's hearing history, 1951-1953" 18 115-116 Hearing file, 1984-1989 73 117 Supplemental hearing file (partial facial paralysis), 1982-1983 56 118 Assistive listening devices, 1986 8 119 Hearing systems, 1984-1986 35 120 Governors Task Force for Hearing Impaired Citizens, 1988-1989 38 121 "The hurt that does not show," 1984 1 122 Stereo exercises for the eye, n.d. 3 123 "Harry's medical history on cancer," 1984-1989 12 124 Letters of condolence (photocopies), 1990-1991 2
125 New York City, 1968; U.S. Steel, Pittsburgh; Mammoth Cave, Ky.; Plymouth Rock, 1957; Limestone quarry in northern Pennsylvania, 1955; Yellowstone Park. 98 126 Glacier Park, 1967; Air views - Minneapolis to Ohio, 1968; Vermont, 1973; Oregon, 1953-1966; Colorado, 1963, 1968 120 127 Washington, 1959-1964; California, 1954-1964; Bellingham, 1962; Cheney, 1964; Marmes rock shelter, 1968; Pea viners, 1961 120 128 Seattle, 1890s; Pacific marineland, 1958; Disneyland, 1964; British Columbia and Alberta, 1962-1965, Berkeley art show; Yosemite 98 129 South American trip, summer 1976 120 130 Turkey, Iran, Afghanistan, India, 1967 120 5 131 India, Malaya, Singapore, Egypt, 1967 120 132 Thailand, Sarawak, Brunei, 1967 120 133 Sabah, Indonesia, Philippines, Taiwan, 1967 120 134 Taiwan, Japan, 1967 120 135 Holland, Belgium, France, 1960-1971 120 136 France, Spain, Switzerland, Monaco, Italy, Norway, 1960-1971 120 137 Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Finland, Yugoslavia, Portugal, Soviet Union, 1960-1971 120 138 Mexico, n.d. 40 139 Italy, Iran, Soviet Union, 1967 33 140-143 Idaho scenes and other slides, 1951-1977 493
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