Overview of the Collection
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Repository Name:
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Washington State University Libraries
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special
Collections
New Holland Library
Pullman, WA 99164-5610 USA
(509) 335-6691
http://www.wsulibs.wsu.edu/holland/masc/masc.htm
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Collection Number:
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Cage
316
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Creator:
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Cusick, William Conklin
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Title:
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William Conklin
Cusick Papers
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Dates:
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1906-1924 (inclusive)
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Quantity:
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1 container.
.5 linear feet of shelf space.
24 items.
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Languages:
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Collection materials are in
English
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Summary:
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Drafts of botanical surveys, ca.
1900-1910; field books and catalogs of botanical collections in the Wallowa and
Blue Mountains area of Oregon; correspondence with C.V. Piper; and a
biographical sketch of Cusick by W.W. Eggleston.
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Biographical Note
William C. Cusick was born in Illinois in 1842 and emigrated to Oregon
while a youth. He had a modest "collegiate" education and worked as a teacher
for a time. Most of his adult life he spent as a rancher in the area of the
Wallowa Mountains. He began botanical collecting and distribution sometime in
the 1870s, encouraged by Harvard’s Asa Gray. Most of his plants came from the
area of the Wallowa and Blue Mountains and were arranged in two successive
herbariums, one of which he transferred to the University of Oregon, while the
second went to Washington State University.
Encouraged by C. V. Piper, Cusick’s second herbarium project included
extensive and exhaustive botanical surveys of the area in the two mountain
ranges. Unlike his earlier efforts, this second phase did not include large
distributions of plants. Cusick died in 1922.
Content Description
Cusick’s extant papers consist primarily of his field books, which
doubled as the catalog for the second herbarium, and the draft list of the
floral surveys he conducted about 1910. A few surviving items of correspondence
are included.
Arrangement
The Cusick papers are arranged to content, with the meager extant
correspondence segregated. The field books follow Cusick’s numbering
system.
Administrative Information
Custodial History The papers of William C. Cusick, 1842-1922, of Union County, Oregon,
were acquired by the Washington State University Herbarium about 1921, along
with Cusick’s
Second Herbarium
Acquisition Information The materials in this collection of botanical documents were
transferred to the Washington State University Library in 1975 from the
university’s Ownbey Herbarium.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access This collection is open for research use.
Preferred Citation [Item Description]. Cage
316, William Conklin
Cusick Papers. Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.
Related Information
Bibliography Cusick’s life and botanical experiences are discussed in Irwin F.
Lange,
Pioneer Botanists of the Pacific Northwest, Oregon
Historical Quarterly, 57 (1956) 115-118 and Harold St. John,
William Conklin Cusick, Rhodora, 25 (1923) 101-105.
Subjects
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
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| Cusick, William Conklin, 1842-1924 --Archives (creator) |
| Eggleston, W. W. (Willard Webster), b. 1863 |
| Piper, Charles V. (Charles Vancouver),
1867-1926 |
| Botany --
Research--Oregon |
| Botanists--Oregon --
Correspondence |
Detailed Description of the Collection
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
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Correspondence, letters from C. V.
Piper, 1914-1921
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Biographical Sketch of Cusick by
Willard W. Eggleston, 1924
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A Catalogue of Grasses of Eastern Oregon, 1908
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A List, From Memory, of the Plants to be Seen Near at Hand
in Crossing the Canyon of the Immaha Near its Source, 1911
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An Annotated List of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of
Northeastern Oregon: Wallawa, Union, Baker and Umatilla
Counties, 1909
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Distribution of Characteristic Alpine and Hudsonian Plants
of the Wallowa Mountains, undated
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Distribution of Characteristic Alpine and Hudsonian Plants
of the Wallowa Mountains, undated
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Field Books/Catalogs, 1906-1916
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Container(s)
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Description
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Specimen Number
2739-2783
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Specimen Number
3060-3145
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Specimen Number
3150-3339
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Specimen Number
3340-3420
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Specimen Number 1(3509) - 51
(3560)
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Specimen Number
3422-3709
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Specimen Number
3710-4038
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Specimen Number
4039-4241
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Specimen Number
4242-4435
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Specimen Number
4436-4522
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Specimen Number
4546-4783
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Specimen Number
4604-4883
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Specimen Number
4884-4935
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