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Alfred D. Collier Collection

 Collection
Identifier: SHL014

Scope and Contents note

The collection includes Collier’s extensive logging photograph collection; photographs, documents and letters documenting his World War I military service and family history materials.

Series I: Logging and Local History Images consists of several thousand prints and negatives. Topics include logging, lumber mills, railroads, Collier memorial State Park and Logging Museum, Klamath Falls, Oregon and Klamath County, Oregon. Prints are generally described at the item level. The negatives are not described.

Series II: World War I includes several hundred images documenting Collier’s military training, his battlefield service in France and his service in the Occupation of Germany (1917 to 1919). Collier’s letters to his family, his Army training manuals and notebooks complete the series.

Series III: Family History includes newspaper clippings, correspondence, and, photographs of the Collier family dating from late nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century.

Dates

  • 1880-1982

Creator

Conditions Governing Access note

The collection is open for research use. Please contact the library in advance with requests to use audio visual materials in this collection.

Conditions Governing Use note

Before materials from the Shaw Historical Library may be quoted in print or otherwise reproduced in whole or in part in any publication, exhibit, broadcast or other manner, the user must obtain permission from the owner of the physical property and the holder of the copyright. Copyright status for collections in the Shaw Historical Library varies. Reproduction of any item must contain a complete citation to the original. Responsibility for any use rests exclusively with the user.

Biographical / Historical

Alfred Douglas “Cap” Collier was a noted twentieth century lumberman and philanthropist in Klamath County, Oregon. With his brother Andrew, in 1945 Alfred Collier founded Collier Memorial State Park and Logging Museum in honor of their parents through donations to the state of Oregon of land and later a collection of logging equipment.

Alfred Collier was born on December 14, 1892 in Eugene, Oregon. He graduated from the University of Oregon with a degree in Civil Engineering in 1914. Collier served as an engineer in the American Expeditionary Force. He was commissioned as a 1st lieutenant in 1917, promoted to Captain in 1918 for his service in combat in France and was an acting major when the Armistice was declared. He was honorably discharged in 1919.

After his discharge Collier married Ethel Foster on July 17, 1919 and moved to Klamath County, Oregon. He started the Swan Lake Logging Company and then founded Swan Lake Moulding Company in 1923. Collier was instrumental in the founding of First Federal Savings and Loan in Klamath Falls, Oregon. Collier served on several local government committees and boards, with a special interest in roads and transportation. He received the first Outstanding Businessman of the Year award from the Klamath County Chamber of Commerce in 1971.

Alfred and Ethel Collier had three children: Eleanor M., Richard McCornack and Dorothy Virginia. Collier died on September 6, 1985.

Extent

43 boxes

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

The collection includes Collier’s extensive logging photograph collection; photographs, documents and letters documenting his World War I military service and family history materials. Alfred D. “Cap” Collier was a noted twentieth century lumberman and philanthropist in Klamath County, Oregon.

Arrangement note

Arranged in three series, Series I: Series I: Logging and Local History Images, Series II: World War I and Series III: Family History.

Location note

Shaw Historical Library

Immediate Source of Acquisition note

Donated to the Shaw Historical Library by Eleanor M. Collier Ehlers, daughter of Alfred D. Collier

Title
Guide to the Alfred D. Collier Collection 1880-1982
Author
Finding aid prepared by Anne Hiller Clark and Barbara Ditman
Date
2012
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
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Language of description note
Finding aid written in: English English
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Repository Details

Part of the Oregon Institute of Technology Libraries, Shaw Historical Library Repository

Contact:
3201 Campus Drive
Klamath Falls OR 97603 United States
5418851965