Portrait of Lyle F. Watts. The page reads, "Our New Chief, Lyle F. Watts, Regional Forester R-9, March, 1936." Photos #2009-3080-01 through 2009-3080-107 were originally mounted in a leather bound binder with the gold embossed title, Picture Memories of Region Nine. Region nine, based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, covered twenty states in the Eastern Region: Maine, Illinois, Ohio, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri, Indiana, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Maryland, New York, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Vermont, New Hampshire, Delaware, and New Jersey. Mr.