Archival Resources in Wisconsin: Descriptive Finding Aids

Container	Title
	Series: 9/25/10-7: Diaries and Journals View digitized contents of this series. Scope and Content Note: This series contains most of the diaries and journals kept by Mr. Leopold, all donated by Mrs. Aldo Leopold.
box 001	Diaries and Journals: United States Forest Service Diaries and Miscellaneous, 1899-1927 View digitized contents of this box.
box 001 folder 001	Drawings, 1899-1913 View digitized contents of this folder. Note: Contains about 46 pen and pencil drawings, several of them dated. A few of the earliest drawings are initialed R.A.L. (The 'R' stands for Rand, Leopold's given first name, which he never used even as a child and never mentioned thereafter.)
box 001 folder 002	Journal, 1903 View digitized contents of this folder. Note AL kept this journal as a student at Lawrenceville, NJ. The journal encompasses entries made during visits to Estes Park, Colorado, and Yellowstone National Park. Entries include ornithological notes, lists, and sketches. 85p
box 001 folder 003	Record [August, 1903] View digitized contents of this folder. Note This journal was apparently AL's field journal for his trip to Estes Park and Yellowstone National Park in 1903. Some notes formed the basis for entries in his 1903 journal (folder 002, above). This particular journal was never explicitly described in the printed finding aid.
box 001 folder 004	Ornithological Lists and Notes, 1902-3 View digitized contents of this folder. Note Included are small notebooks in which AL recorded some of his earliest ornithological observations (principally bird lists). The contents of this folder were formerly divided into two folders in the original, printed finding aid; however, the finding aid did not explicitly identify which items belonged to which folder. During the digitization process in February 2008 the small notebooks and bird lists were combined into a single folder.
box 001 folder 005	Ornithological Journal, 1904 View digitized contents of this folder. Note: 26p
box 001 folder 006	Untitled Ornithological Journal, 1904-1906 View digitized contents of this folder. Note Includes entries made at Lawrenceville Preparatory School, 1904-05; Marquette Island, Michigan, 10 Aug.-25 Sept. 1905; and New Haven, 1906. 45p
box 001 folder 007	USFS Diary: April 14-July 31, 1909 View digitized contents of this folder. Note The Forest Service required its members to keep daily records of their activities in official diaries (folders 007 through 013). AL's entries were usually minimal, and do not seem to include every week or month. Some of the notebooks are unbound and portions may be missing. 9p (unbound)
box 001 folder 008	USFS Diary: August 1909 View digitized contents of this folder. Note Entries from Sept.-Oct. 1909 are absent; these were apparently removed during the investigation of AL's conduct on the 1909 Apache Forest reconnaissance. 15p (unbound)
box 001 folder 009	USFS Diary: December 1909 View digitized contents of this folder. Note: 2p (unbound)
box 001 folder 010	USFS Diary: Aldo Leopold Diary, 1910 View digitized contents of this folder. Note: 100p; Springerville
box 001 folder 011	USFS Diary: Official Diary, 1911 View digitized contents of this folder. Note: 100p, January-September 1 [1911]
box 001 folder 012	USFS Diary: Official Diary of Aldo Leopold, Forest Supervisor -- November 1912-April 1913 View digitized contents of this folder. Note: 35 p, Carson National Forest, Tres Piedras, New Mexico
box 001 folder 013	USFS Diary: Official Diary, Aldo Leopold, Forest Supervisor -- September 14, 1914-December 2, 1916 View digitized contents of this folder. Note Of note is the gap between the notebooks in folders 012 and 013: illness kept AL inactive from Apr. 1913 to Sept. 1914. 175p, Albuquerque, New Mexico
box 001 folder 014	Field Notes and Miscellaneous Cards View digitized contents of this folder. Note: Items which were in AL's pockets at the time of his death: a small notebook and miscellaneous identification cards.
box 001 folder 015	Personal Notebook View digitized contents of this folder. Note: Contains selected quotations from books and articles that Leopold read over the years--primarily from c. 1914 to the early 1930s. The notebook is an excellent source of insight into the works and authors that influenced Leopold during these years. Many of the quotations he eventually wove into his own books and articles, sometimes repeatedly.
box 001 folder 016	Archery Journal View digitized contents of this folder. Note Contains results of archery tournaments in which the Leopold family participated, along with photographs, sketches, notes on constructing archery equipment, newspaper clippings, and correspondence, including some with Herbert Stoddard. 135p, ca. 1926-1933
box 001 folder 017	Archery Folder View digitized contents of this folder. Note More items related to archery. 15 items, 1927-1935
box 001 folder 018	Ornithological Record, 1904 View digitized contents of this folder. Note Contains observations from Lawrenceville and Burlington. This journal had not been described in the original, printed finding aid.
box 002	Diaries and Journals: Hunting Journals, 1917-1945 View digitized contents of this box. Note: Used by Luna Leopold in editing Round River: From the Journals of Aldo Leopold , published in 1953. These diaries and journals include day-by-day accounts of hunting and other wilderness or field trips, usually entered in pencil by AL (and occasionally by other members of the family or party), although sometimes in typed form. Also included are photographs, many with negatives, maps, and miscellaneous records, and a few clippings and reprints.
box 002 folder 001	New Mexico Journal, 1917-1924 View digitized contents of this folder. Note: 400 p.
box 002 folder 002	Wisconsin Journal, 1924-1935 View digitized contents of this folder. Note: In addition to excursions within the state, hunting trips in the Southwest and elsewhere in the country are included in the "Wisconsin" journals (folders 002 and 003).
box 002 folder 003	Wisconsin Journal, 1936-1945 View digitized contents of this folder. Note: 134p
box 003	Diaries and Journals: Shack Journals, 1935-1948 View digitized contents of this box. Note: The Shack Journals constitute a detailed record of the activities of the Leopold family and their guests at a farm AL purchased in 1935 on the Wisconsin River near Baraboo. The volumes contain phenological observations, birdsong notes, Shack lists, planting records, maps, photographs, and even indexes. According to Robert McCabe, AL would make most of his field notes in a small black address book which he always carried in his shirt pocket, then make journal entries when he returned to the Shack. McCabe collected about 12 discarded address books, 1944-46, most of the pages of which are crossed out to indicate that the material had been entered in the journal.
box 003 folder 001	Leopold Shack Journal, 1935-1942 View digitized contents of this folder. Note: 300p
box 003 folder 002	Leopold Shack Journal, 1942-1945 View digitized contents of this folder. Note: 400p
box 003 folder 003	Leopold Shack Journal, 1946-1948 View digitized contents of this folder. Note Also contains AL's hunting journal from the same years, which had previously been kept separately. The last entry in AL's hand is 21 Apr. 1948, the morning he died. 300p
box 003 folder 004	Shack Journal, 2 July 1948-1 August 1971 View digitized contents of this folder. Note: After AL's death, his family, friends, and associates maintained the journal. Included are entries by Bill Vogt, Durwood Allen, Fraser Darling, Olaus and Margaret Murie, and Joseph Hickey.