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Cage 609
Jacqueline Packard Papers, 1927-1984

The Washington State University Libraries received the Jacqueline Packard Papers from Richard T. Bingham, of Moscow, Idaho, in May 1990. Packard had previously given them to Bingham, with the understanding that he donate them to the WSU Libraries. The Jaqueline Packard Papers were accessioned as MS90-27. Robert W. Hadlow processed the collection in March and April 1994.

BIOGRAPHY

Jaqueline Packard was an undergraduate at the State College of Washington in the mid-1930s. Beginning in 1937, she pursued a master's of science degree in botany at the State College. Much of this collection surrounds her thesis project: "A Sketch of the Vascular Flora of the Seven Devils Mountains, Idaho County, Idaho." Moore never completed her M.S. degree. She married William Rice Moore, a 1939 WSC graduate in forestry. The Moores shortly moved to Texas.

ARRANGEMENT AND DESCRIPTION

There is no particular arrangement to the Jaqueline Packard Papers. Most of the collection is plant lists and plant identification labels that Moore assembled while a graduate student in botany at the State College of Washington in the 1930s. It also includes correspondence about the the collection, plant identification labels for several other collections, and papers documenting William Rice Moore's plant collection. Also found is a detailed outline of Packard's intended master's thesis project and several snapshot photographs of her 1937 botanical expedition to Idaho's Seven Devils country.

CONTAINER LIST

BOX  FOLDER   DESCRIPTION

 1     1     Correspondence with Richard T. Bingham
       2     Nez Perce Material
       3     St. John's Collection
       4     St. John--Key to Symbols
       5     Map--Seven Devils Mountains, by J. Packard, 1937
       6     Thesis Outline
       7     Journal, 13-20 June 1937, Seven Devils country, Idaho
       8     Unidentified Plant List
       9     Seven Devils Country Plant List, 1937
      10     1938 Collection, Partial List
      11     Plants of the Seven Devils List
      12     Incomplete List of Plants from Seven Devils Country
      13     McGaffen Cow Camp [1937]
      14     Fred G. Meyer Collection
      15     Gerald Munro Collection
      16     William Rice Moore Collection
      17     William Rice Moore's Plant Collection Field Notebook,
               1936-38 and 1 page for 1940
      18     Rough Draft Plant Specimen Labels--Snake River and
               McGaffee Cow Camp, also Granite Creek 1936 and 1938,
               --W. R. Moore
      19     Rough Draft Plant Labels--North Idaho--St. Joe Nat'l
               Forest plus List of Plants, 1937-40--W.R. Moore
      20     Washington--Whitman and Walla Walla counties, some from
               Puget Sound--W. R. Moore
      21     Plant Collection Notes and Field Labels, 1937-39,
               Seven Devils Mountains and Snake River, part 1
      22     Plant Collection Notes and Field Labels, 1937-39,
               Seven Devils Mountains and Snake River, part 2
      23     J. Packard's Note File on H. St. John and Wm Mullen
               Collections, 1927
      24     C. W. Sharsmith's labels, apparently copied by J. Packard
      25     Lincoln Constance's labels, apparently copied by J. Packard
      26     Copies of Esther Hibbs' labels, made by J. Packard, Aug. 1937
      27     Gerald Munro's original field labels obtained by J. Packard
      28     Verne Comstock's original field labels obtained by J. Packard
      29     Miscellaneous Notes
      30     Eleven snapshots from J. Packard's trip to the Seven Devils
               Country, Idaho, and the Hibbs family cabin, June 1937