Cull A. White Papers, 1885-1970

Overview of the Collection

Creator
White, Cull A., 1889-1964.
Title
Cull A. White Papers
Dates
1885-1970 (inclusive)
Quantity
2 Linear feet of shelf space, (4 Boxes)
Collection Number
Cage 203 (collection)
Summary
Correspondence, clippings, transcripts of tape recordings, donor file, and other papers mostly related to Native American and pioneer history in central Washington State.
Repository
Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Access Restrictions

This collection is open and available for research use.

Languages
English

Biographical NoteReturn to Top

Cull A. White was born on December 17, 1889 in Omaha, Nebraska. He later attended Miami University, in Ohio. White moved to Washington in 1909. Other than a brief time in military service during the first world war, White made this state his lifetime home. He was associated with the Coffin Brothers Sheep Company of Yakima from 1918 to 1936. White also worked for the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation as an inspector at Grand Coulee Dam. He died on August 21, 1964 at his home in Elmer City. Throughout the 1950s and early 1960s White researched and wrote about the history of the peoples of north-central Washington. He focussed on the lives of Indians, especially the descendants of Chief Moses and Chief Kamiakin, and the lives of whites who inhabited the region in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Content DescriptionReturn to Top

The papers of Cull A. White consist of manuscripts and notes by White and others on the history of Indians and whites who lived in north-central Washington in the late nineteenth century. They include White's incoming and outgoing correspondence on this subject, and the personal correspondence of other parties.

Use of the CollectionReturn to Top

Restrictions on Use

Copyright restrictions may apply.

Preferred Citation

[Item description]

Cull A. White Papers, 1885-1970 (Cage 203)

Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections, Washington State University Libraries, Pullman, WA.

Administrative InformationReturn to Top

Arrangement

The papers were received with no particular filing arrangement in use. Subsequently, Library staff arranged the papers into six series, arranged alphabetically within each: Series 1. Notes and Manuscripts by White; Series 2. Manuscripts and published material by other authors; Series 3. Incoming correspondence, correspondence of others; Series 4. Newspaper clippings; Series 5. White's notepads and horn; Series 6. Miscellaneous correspondence, manuscripts, and newspaper clippings

Acquisition Information

In the 1950s Cull A. White donated his papers and photographs to the WSU Libraries. Katherine Hartley of Freeland, Washington donated an addition to the collection in June 1983 (MS83-22).

Processing Note

In 1991, Ling Jinqi and Robert W. Hadlow reprocessed the Cull A White Papers, at which time the photographs were separated into a distinct collection, PC 86.

Separated Materials

Cull A. White Photographs and Negatives, 1861-1950 (PC 86)

Related Materials

Lucullus Virgil McWhorter Papers, 1848-1945 (Cage 55)

Frank S. Matsura Photographs, 1907-1913 (PC 35)

Nez Perce Photographs, circa 1877-1905 (PC 83)

Lucullus Virgil McWhorter Photographs, circa 1868-1950 (PC 85)

Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top

Series 1. Notes and Manuscripts by White Return to Top

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
1 1
Arcasa, Isabel Friedlander
6 items.
1 2
Bergevin Bros. Resuce Virginia City; Montana Territory, 1865
1 item.
1 3
Brown, Charley,
1 item.
1 4
Burge, Milt
13 items.
1 5
Chinese Source Material
3 items.
1 6
Columbia Joe
1 item.
1 7
Colville Tribe
2 items.
1 8
Condon, Wild Goose Bill Samuel Wilbur Condit
2 items.
1 9
Conversation between Mr. Mrs. Pete Wheeler, Cull White, John Brown, Made July, 1961
1 item.
1 10
Covington, John Calvert "Virginia Bill"
8 items.
1 11
Curlew, Billy
7 items.
1 12
Damman, Art, Wagon Trip to the Dalles
1 item.
1 13
Dolan, P. H.
1 item.
1 14
Drumheller, Jerome
3 items.
1 15
Dunn, William and Dunn, Millie Harshman Marriage Return, January 20th 1892
1 item.
1 16
Father Davis Recalls Church's History in Pacific Northwest
1 item.
1 17
Ft. Okanogan Museum Dedication, Aug. 27, 1960
1 item.
1 18
Gathering No Moss Bergevin Bros.
2 items.
1 19
George, Coxit (Coxit George)
5 items.
1 20
Grant County History
1 item.
1 21
Green Foot Sophy, Return Journey of Green Foot Sophy After Her Escape From Blackfeet Captors
1 item.
1 22
Hutchinson, Sam and Ben
4 items.
1 23
James, Jim, Funeral of Chief Jim James
1 item.
1 24
Joseph (Chief Joseph)
4 items.
1 25
Lynch, Jenny McDonald
12 items.
1 26
Miscellaneous Notes--part 1
34 items.
1 27
Miscellaneous Notes--part 2
67 items.
1 28
Miscellaneous Notes--part 3
20items.
1 29
Miscellaneous Notes--part 4
72 items.
1 30
Miscellaneous Notes--part 5
24 items.
1 31
Miscellaneous Notes--part 6
91 items.
1 32
Moore, Clara
2 items.
2 33
Moses (Chief Moses)
14 items.
2 34
Moses, Mary
1 item.
2 35
Moses, Peter Dan
12 items.
2 36
Olney, Nathan and Cyrus
1 item.
2 37
Osborne, Charley
17 items.
2 38
Research Among Indians, with Dr. Robert Ruby Moses Lake Prof. John Arthur Brown, Wenatchee
1 item.
2 39
St. Mary's Mission, Omak, Washington
5 items.
2 40
Sensentzqh Sin Scintq, Sin-Sintq older sister of Chief Moses
1 item.
2 41
The Sheriff's Star
1 item.
2 42
Shotwell, Harry
3 items.
2 43
Smith, Hiram F., 'Okanogan Smith' and 'Smith's Point'
1 item.
2 44
Strawmen and U.S. Marshals . . .
2 items.
2 45
Thorp Children
3 items.
2 46
Tucker, Dave
1 item.
2 47
Unidentified Manuscript
1 item.
2 48
Wood, Erskine Craig
3 items.

Series 2. Manuscripts and published material by other authorsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
2 49
Alcorn, Rowena L., Art Exhibit: Portrait of Nez Perce Indians, 1962 June-September
1 item.
2 50
Bergevin, Clem, Canadians and French Aided In This Section
1 item.
2 51
Case, Robert O., Christmas Eve at Whitman's Mission
1 item.
2 52
Clark, Ella E. Dry Falls of the Columbia and The Grand Coulee Dam, poems
2 items.
2 53
Constitution and By-Laws of the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation
1 item.
2 54
Davin, Mrs. Lionel, The Early History of Frenchtown
1 item.
2 55
Descendants of Frenchtown, Frenchtown Rendezvous, April 24, 1949
1 item.
2 56
Fruit in Kittitas
1 item.
2 57
Hibben, Frank, Buffalo Hunt: Oklahoma City Style
1 item.
2 58
Historical Monuments and Markers and Their Respective Locations in the State of Washington, up to 1949
1 item.
2 59
Jerome-Grubbs, Ferne, poems
2 items.
2 60
Kingston, C. S., "Samuel Wilbur Condit: Frontiersman
1 item.
2 61
Kreitz, Mabel Patrick, "'Thunder Rolling In the Mountains', Presenting the Indian's point of view on the removal of Chief Joseph's body . . .
1 item.
2 62
Lehighton, Caroline C., excerpt from Life at Puget Sound by Lehighton
1 item.
2 63
Lewis, William, S., Lured West by Hudson's Bay Company,
1 item.
2 64
Lugenbeel, Major Pinkney, Letter to Commissioners of Spokane County
1 item.
 July 1861
2 65
The Madre D'Oro, vol. 1, no. 1, journal
1 item.
2 66
Palmer, Mrs. Lou, Narrative of James Longmire, A Pioneer of 1853
3 items.
2 67
Petition-- Land Needs of the Colville Indians
2 items.
2 68
The Pilgrimage to Old Fort Okanogan
1 item.
2 69
Pingston, Captain Alfred T., Diary of Steamer 'Alpha'
2 items.
2 70
Richardson, Albert D., Beyond the Mississippi
1 item.
2 71
Sagebrush Annie, Riding the Range, 1906
1 item.
2 72
Schoenberg, Wilfred, S.J., Jesuits in Montana 1840-1960
1 item.
2 73
Snyder, Charles and Mary Gillel, Marriage Certificate, 1874 Nevember 29
2 items.
2 74
Storch, Carl Friedrich Rudolph, Auszug aus dem Geburts und Taufbuche, 1867
1 item.
2 75
Treaty with the Yakima
1 item.
 1855
2 76
United States Indian Service, correspondence
5 items.
2 77
United States, Congress, 88th, 1st session, S-1442, a bill to close roll of Colville Indian Reservation, 1963 May 2
1 item.
2 78
United States, Congress, House, Committee on Indian Affairs, Letter to All Indian Members of the Reservation, 1944 June 10
1 item.
2 79
United States, Department of the Interior, Office of Indian Affairs, Indians at Work, July 1939.
1 item.
2 80
Walla Walla, 1856-1952, Historical Landmarks pamphlet
3 items.
2 81
Walla Walla: Cradle of Pacific Northwest History, brochure
1 item.
2 82
Washington at a Glance
1 item.
2 83
Washington, Secretary of State, Monuments in the State of Washington
1 item.
2 84
Weaver, Harold, A Tour of the Old Indian Camp Grounds of Central Washington
1 item.
2 85
Winans, William P. letter
1 item.
2 86
Wood, C. E. S. An Indian Horse-Race, "as it appeared in Century Magazine, January 1887, vol. 33, pp. 447-450"
3 items.

Series 3. Incoming correspondence, correspondence of othersReturn to Top

Container(s) Description Dates
Box Folder
3 87
Bills of Sale, Livestock
3 items.
3 88
Converse, Mrs. George L., Letter from E. O. Holland President Emeritus, WSC, 1949 March 21
1 item.
3 89
Curlew, Billy, correspondence
82 items.
3 90
Huggins, E. L., U.S. Indian Service, Camp Wenachiem sic
1 item.
 5-18-1885
3 91
Kingston, Mrs. C. S., Letter from J. E. Sykes
1 item.
 10-15-51
3 92
White, Cull A., incoming correspondence
35 items.

Series 4. Newspaper clippings Return to Top

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
3 93
Brown, Judge William Compton
1 item.
3 94
Curlew, Billy
1 item.
3 95
Grand Coulee Dam September 9, 1933
1 item.
3 96
Indian Chiefs
2 items.
3 97
James, Jim (Chief Jim James)
5 items.
3 98
Last Survivors Recall Nez Perce Retreat
1 item.
3 99
Miscellaneous Newspaper Clippings
10 items.
3 100
Moses, Peter Dan
1 item.
3 101
Palisades Potlatch
1 item.
3 102
St. Mary's Mission, near Omak
3 items.
3 103
Sensentzqh (Sin Scinto)
1 item.

Series 5. White's notepads and horn Return to Top

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
3 104
Notepads--Cull A. White, part 1
7 items.
3 105
Notepads--Cull A. White, part 2
6 items.
3 106
Notepads--Cull A. White, part 3
5 items.
3 107
Animal Horn
1 item.

Series 6. Miscellaneous correspondence, manuscripts, and newspaper clippingsReturn to Top

Container(s) Description
Box Folder
4 108
Manuscripts
13 items.
4 109
Miscellaneous Notes, Clippings, Letters
29 items.
4 110
Correspondence, Clippings
72 items.
4 111
Correspondence with Mary Avery, WSU Archivist
27 items.
4 112
Miscellaneous Photographs, Clippings
8 items.
4 113
Oral History on Reel-to-Reel Cassette Tape
2 items.

Names and SubjectsReturn to Top

Subject Terms

  • Frontier and pioneer life -- Washington (State) -- Sources.
  • Indians of North America -- Washington (State)
  • Indians of North America -- Washington (State) -- History.

Personal Names

  • White, Cull A., 1889-1964 -- Archives.

Finding aid prepared by Ling Jinqi and Robert W. Hadlow
2021

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