Archives West Finding Aid

This series consists of 43 folders arranged in alphabetical order. The folders contain research notes, newspaper clippings, transcripts of interviews, and correspondence. Listed below are the folder headings with a brief description of the contents of each. The file cards for this series contain a more detailed list of the contents of each folder.

The first part of this series consists of a photocopy of the final typescript which includes corrections and notes for placement of the illustrations, and a copy of both the first and second printings of the book. Correspondence with the University Press of Idaho and other miscellaneous correspondence, several newspaper clippings, notes, and autographs and reviews comprise the second part.

The photographs in this collection consist of original prints, copies of originals, and negatives; there are also a few slides. Some prints are black and white, others are colored. The file cards prepared as an index to the photographs give a detailed description of the physical nature of the items.

The first two folders contain some of the pictures used as illustrations in North of the Narrows--these are numbered to agree with the figure numbers in the book, which accounts for the missing numbers in the following list. The remaining photographs were arranged by subject, e.g., people, animals, Shipman Point Dedication, etc., and numbered consecutively from 114 to 317. There are some pictures in the collection which have no apparent relationship to the book or the Priest Lake area, these have not been cataloged.

The cassette tapes are in two groups, the first are the interviews for North of the Narrows, the second those for Claude Simpson's projected book "Panhandle Personalities." In addition to the interviews there are also six tapes of old Edison records.

Warren P. "Uppy" Upham came to Priest Lake from Maine about 1932. He worked as a Forest Service timber cruiser from the summer of 1932 until some time in the 1950's when he retired to La Jolla, California. The diaries and photograph albums in this series were given to Claude Simpson by Mrs. Upham in 1980.

The 15 diaries span the years 1943-1962 and contain daily notes on his activities, cruising notes, and records of car repairs

There are five photograph albums containing approximately 723 snap shots. The earlier ones were taken on a trip from New England to the West Coast in 1926 and the later ones on a trip to Alaska in 1946. There are pictures of Priest Lake, a log drive on the Clearwater, some of Montana, the Jasper Highway in Canada, and the American Southwest. Some albums have poetic captions to the pictures, some no captions at all. .The file cards for this series give a general description of the contents of each album.

In September 2007 Laura Guedes processed and added 2.0 c.f. of materials to this manuscript group. These materials were donated to the University of Idaho Library by the Simpsons on four occasions between 1984 and 1987. The materials in these four accessions were combined and have become an addendum to Manuscript Group 115. All materials in this section are classified into the four Series established in the previous inventory. They are conditioned in boxes 4 and 5.

All the photographs are identified and numbered consecutively, following the order of the photographs identified in the previous inventory, from 318 to 662. The negatives have been listed but not numbered.