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Joe Smith Papers, 1890-1962
Overview of the Collection
- Creator
- Smith, Joe, 1872-1962
- Title
- Joe Smith Papers
- Dates
- 1890-1962 (inclusive)18901962
- Quantity
- 10.90 cubic feet (25 boxes)
- Collection Number
- 0252 (Accession No. 0252-001)
- Summary
- Farmer, Populist politician, and journalist in Eastern Washington and Seattle
- Repository
-
University of Washington Libraries, Special Collections
Special Collections
University of Washington Libraries
Box 352900
Seattle, WA
98195-2900
Telephone: 2065431929
Fax: 2065431931
speccoll@uw.edu - Access Restrictions
-
Open to all users.
- Languages
- English
- Sponsor
- Funding for encoding this finding aid was partially provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Biographical NoteReturn to Top
Joe Smith was a wheat farmer, a political activist for Populist and Progressive causes, and a prominent newspaper reporter. Although successful as a journalist, Smith never won any of his several bids for public office.
Smith was born in Missouri in 1872. His family moved to Endicott, Washington, in 1883 to homestead. His father, Lillis F. Smith, slowly expanded his landholdings and became one of the larger wheat farmers in the Palouse. In 1889, at the age of 16, Joe Smith began keeping a meticulously detailed diary while working on his father's farm. Smith was sent back to the family home in 1889. While there, he attended Missouri State University (now the University of Missouri) from 1890 to 1892. Although Smith's activities during this period were principally confined to the University and his studies there, he did make one train trip through the West; at which time he recorded his impressions of such western towns as Kansas City, Ogden, and Salt Lake City. Following a major fire on the Missouri State campus in 1892, Smith returned to Endicott. It would be several years before he completed his formal education, and then it would be taken at the Washington Agricultral College of Washington State University in Pullman. During these years, he still worked on the farm occasionally, even through a severe agricultural depression.
Smith began writing for the Spokane Spokesman-Herald and smaller Eastern Washington papers in the mid 1890s. The agricultural depression of the 1890s drove Smith to join the Populist Party. He served as a Populist precinct committeeman and campaign worker, as well as writing newspaper stories friendly to the Populists. His diaries thus describe in detail politics in the Palouse country during the 1890s.
When the Spanish-American War broke out in 1898, Smith volunteered for the Army. He also agreed to cover the war for the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. He saw action in 17 battles in the Philippines during the war and the subsequent Philippine Insurrection of 1899. Smith entered the Army as a sergeant major, and left in 1899 as a first lieutenant.
The articles published in the P-I established Smith's reputation as an excellent journalist. Smith settled in Seattle when he returned from the Philippines and married Emma Fonner in 1899. He worked for a myriad of papers; the P-I, Seattle Times, Seattle Star, and Seattle Union Record all hired Smith at one point or another. He covered Seattle politics and also reported on every session of the state legislature in Olympia from 1901 to 1919. He also covered most gubernatorial campaigns for this period. In addition, Smith edited and published a horticultural catalog, Joe's Seed Bulletin, for more than 40 years beginning in the 1910s. Smith, however, failed in his 1917 attempt to start his own weekly paper, called Joemma Jottings, in tiny Longbranch, Washington.
Joe Smith was also a political activist. He worked in the movement for passing the initiative and referendum laws. He served as chairman of the Direct Legislation Committee in 1907 and then as Secretary-Treasurer of the Seattle Direct Legislation League for several years starting in 1908. Also in 1908, he was secretary of the LaFollette Presidential Committee. He supported a number of other Progressive causes, including strengthening the power of Seattle City Light. Smith was one of the founders of the Seattle Municipal League, a powerful civic reform group created in 1910. When Mayor Hiram Gill expanded Seattle's "vice district" Smith played a very active role in the Municipal League's successful effort to recall Gill in 1911. Gill's replacement, Mayor George Dilling, picked Smith as his personal secretary. Smith and Dilling, however, soon had a falling out. Smith quit and then ran, unsuccessfully, for City Council in 1911. Smith joined the Progressive Party when it split off from the Republicans in 1912. He helped run Theodore Roosevelt's campaign in Seattle.
There is a gap in the Smith Papers from 1920 until the mid 1930s. During this time, Smith continued to work as a reporter and as editor of Joe's Seed Bulletin. In addition, Smith had switched political parties, becoming a Democrat, at some point during this period. In 1936 Smith ran unsuccessfully for the state legislature. In 1940 he sought, but did not obtain, the Democratic nomination for governor. Smith went into semi-retirement in 1941. He wrote a few articles in the 1940s and 1950s, mostly opinion pieces and reminiscences. He also began an autobiography but never finished it. Joe Smith died in 1962.
Content DescriptionReturn to Top
Smith's diaries are the single largest portion of the accession. There are 280 volumes in all; they cover 1889-97, 1911, and 1946. The diaries describe in detail agricultural practices and Populist politics in the Palouse. The diary for 1911 contains material on Mayor Gill's recall and Mayor Dilling's administration. The years 1897-1910, 1919-20, and 1941 are documented by notebooks rather than diaries. Some notebook entries are similar to Smith's diary entries--very descriptive and well thought out. However, most entries in the notebooks are brief and sometimes cryptic notes that Smith took on the progress of various bills in the state legislature and during interviews with state legislators. The notebooks also contain notes on Seattle politics and on interviews Smith conducted on non-political subjects.
The correspondence series contains additional material on Seattle and Washington politics. The letters cover the period from 1892 to 1957. Incoming and outgoing letters have been interfiled and arranged chronologically. This accession also contains a number of Smith's writings and publications. The writings are mostly newspaper articles, drafts of his autobiography, and reminiscences. His newspaper articles are on both political and agricultural topics. The accession also has small subject series that document the activities of Seattle City Light, the public power campaign in Washington during the 1930s and 1940s, and Smith's campaigns for public office. It also contains Smith's financial records and several photographs.
All material relating to the Spanish-American War and the Philippine Insurrection is kept in a separate subgroup. These include some correspondence, Smith's diary from 1898, his reports, his published articles, muster rolls for Smith's company, and a transcript of a court martial.
Other Descriptive InformationReturn to Top
The repository has copies of Joe's Seed Bulletin from the 1950s, as well as a few issues of Joemma Jottings from 1917. It also holds a copy of Smith's posthumously published memoir of his childhood in Endicott, Washington: Joe Smith, Bunch Grass Pioneer (Fairfield, WA: Ye Galleon Press, 1986).
Use of the CollectionReturn to Top
Restrictions on Use
The creator's literary rights have not been transferred to the University of Washington Libraries.
Administrative InformationReturn to Top
Acquisition Information
The Smith Papers were purchased from Shorey's Book Store in 1962.
Processing Note
The collection was reprocessed in 1996.
Fifteen photographs have been transferred to the Joe Smith Photograph Collection in the division.
Abel, Don G | 3/18 |
The Aberdeen Bulletin | 1/11 |
Adams, William George | 2/8 |
Allen, Clay | 2/20, See also: U.S. Attorney |
Allen, Hugh | 2/12, 2/14 |
Alling, Horatio | 1/10 |
AFL. Central Labor Council of Seattle and Vicinity | 2/15, 1/21 |
American Red Cross, Seattle Chapter | 2/23, 3/1 |
Anderson, Alfred O | 2/7 |
Andrews, James H | See: Roosevelt (F. D.) Non-Partisan League |
Anti-Saloon League of Washington | 1/21 2/5 |
Arnold, Evert | 3/7 |
Ashlock, J. L | 3/13 |
Ault, Harry E. B | See: AFL. Central Labor Council of Seattle and Vicinity |
Averill, Cyrus E | 1/10 |
Baltimore, J. Wayne | 1/6 |
Beaton. K. C | 1/20, 1/22, See also: The Seattle Star |
Beaton, Welford | 1/21 |
Beebe, Albert H | 2/5 |
Bellingham. Mayor | 1/22 |
Berkeley, California. Mayor | 2/18 |
Big Bend Empire, Douglas Co., Wash | 1/11 |
Black, Alfred L | 1/13 |
Black, W. W | 2/4 |
Blake, James G | 2/7 |
Blethen, Alden J | See: the Seattle Times |
Boettiger, Anna Roosevelt | 3/14 |
Boettiger, John | See: Seattle Post-Intelligencer |
Bone, Homer T | 3/7, 3/9, 3/11, 3/12, 3/15, 3/17 |
Brady, J. H | 1/20 |
Brainerd, Erastus | See: U.S. Food Administration |
Bremerton. Mayor | See: Croxton, A. L. |
Brewer, Reece L | 2/12, 2/13, 2/14 |
Bridges, Robert | 2/20 |
The Brooklyn Daily Eagle | 1/9, 1/13 |
Broome, Carl W | 3/10 |
Brown, L. Frank | 2/6 |
Bryan, Enoch A | 1/14 |
Bryan, James W | 2/20 |
Buck, Storey | 1/5, 1/12, 1/21, 2/8, See also: Lewiston Abstract Company |
Buckett, N. W | 1/10, 3/7, 3/10, 3/12, 4/4 |
Buick, Dorothea Smith [daughter] | |
Burdette, Robert J | 4/14 |
Butte, Montana. Mayor | 2/18 |
Byers, Horace G | |
Case, Charles R | 2/20 |
Case, Otto A | 2/15 |
Central Labor Council of Seattle and Vicinity | See: AFL. Central Labor Council... |
Chadwick, Stephen James | 2/14 |
Chamber of Commerce, Bellingham | 2/11 |
Chamber of Commerce, Pullman | 3/17 |
Chambers, H. M | 2/15, 2/16 |
Cheney. Light Department | 3/16 |
Chicago American | 1/5 |
The Citizen, Seattle | 2/7 |
Clark, G. F | 2/20 |
Clark, S. W | 1/11 |
Clise, Charles F | 3/8 |
Clise, H. R | 1/14 |
Coffee, John Main | 3/9 |
Cole, Irving T | 1/13 |
Cole, William | 3/12 |
Collier's Weekly | 1/9, 1/13, 2/13, 2/15, 2/16 |
Columbia County Dispatch, Dayton, Wash | 4/4 |
Coman, Edwin T | 2/20 |
The Commercial West | 1/5, 1/6, 1/9 |
Connolly, C. P | 1/21, 1/22, 2/2, See also: Collier's |
Cotterell, William | 8/2, 4/4 |
Cotterill, George F | 1/20, 1/21, 2/21, 2/20 |
Cox, D. H | 2/1 |
Crandall, E. B | 2/7 |
Croxton, A. L | 1/8 |
Crow, Denton N | 1/8, See also: The Outburst |
Curtis, Al. H | 2/16 |
Cushman, Francis W | 1/12 |
Daggett, Floyd L | ? |
Dalton, C. C | 1/20 |
Davies, D. Thomas | 2/7 |
Dawson, Lewis R | 2/22 |
Democratic Party. National Committee | 3/9 |
Democratic Party. Washington State Central Committee | 1/11 |
Democratic Patty. Washington. King County. Young Democratic Clubs of King County | 3/8, 3/16 |
Dempsey, T. H | 9/14 |
The Denver Republican | 1/9 |
Des Moines, Iowa. Mayor | 2/18 |
The Detroit Free Press | 1/9 |
Dill, Clarence C | 3/8 |
Dilling, George W | 2/7, 2/8, 2/20 |
Direct Legislation League of Washington. Joint Legislative Committee | 2/11 |
The Direct Primary League of the State of Washington | 1/19 |
Dow, Lorenzo | 2/15 |
Durham, N. W | 1/16, 2/23, 2/9, 2/11, 2/14, 2/19, 2/20, See also: Spokesman-Review |
Dutton (E. P.) & Company, Inc | 3/18 |
Eagles' State Old Age Pension Committee | 3/8 |
Erford, Roy | 3/26 |
Erickson, E. G | 2/9 |
Erickson, Oliver T | 2/10 |
Evening Telegram, Portland | 1/5, 1/6 |
Everett. Mayor | 1/22 |
Fagan, Willie L | 1/3 |
Field, M. E | 1/20 |
The Financier | 1/9 |
Flett, William H | 2/8 |
Florida. Comptroller's Office | 3/5 |
Fortas, Abe | See: U.S. Interior Department. Secretary |
Forty-mill Tax Limit Committee | 3/8 |
France, C. J | 2/10 |
Frazier, Minnie B | 2/8, 2/17 |
Frederick and Nelson, Inc | 1/10 |
Freeman, Miller | 2/9 |
Fullerton, Mark A | 2/20 |
Galehouse, J. D | 2/8 |
Gill, Hiram C | 2/21, 2/20 |
Glen, Robert | 3/18 |
Godenrath, Percy F | 1/1, 1/3, 1/9 |
Goodyear, William | 1/6, 1/10, 1/18, 1/20, 3/17 |
Grambs, W. J | 1/14 |
Great Northern Railway Line | 1/5 |
Griffiths, Austin E | 2/19, See also: King County Poindexter (Miles) Senatorial Club |
Hahn, J. M | 2/8 |
Sale, Andrew | 2/19 |
Hall, E. E | 1/19 |
Hansen, Niels A | 3/15 |
Hanson, Ole | 1/15, See also: Seattle. Mayor |
Hapgood, Norman | 2/1 |
The Harmony Club of Seattle | 1/10 |
Harper's Weekly | 1/4 |
Hassler, W. E | 2/7 |
Hay, Marion E | 1/22, 2/1, 2/13, 2/14, 2/15, See also: Washington. Governor |
Heifner, C. G | 1/11 |
Henry, Edward E | 3/16 |
Hepfinger's Western Washington Exhibit Co | 1/9 |
Herbert, Frank | 2/7, 2/9 |
Herrin (H. M.) and Company, Seattle | 1/15, 1/16 |
Hevetson, J. W | 1/14 |
Hill, Knute | 3/12 |
Hodgdon, G. N | 2/22 |
Holland, E. O | See: Washington. State College. President |
Horton (Dexter) and Co. [bankers] | 1/8, 1/11, 1/15 |
Houghton, E. L | 1/11 |
Houser, W. L | See: Progressive Republican League of Washington |
Howard, Annie | 3/12, 3/14, 3/19, 4/4 |
Howell, I. M | See: Washington. State Department |
Hubbard, Elbert | 1/8 |
Hubbard, James I | 1/5 |
Hull, H. L | 1/19 |
Humphrey, William E | 1/15 |
Ickes, Harold | See: U.S. Interior Department. Secretary |
Idaho. University. Library | 4/3 |
Indianapolis. Mayor | 2/18 |
Jefferson Square Improvement Club, Tacoma | 2/15 |
Johnson, Claudius O | 3/12, 3/18, 3/19 |
Johnson, Lee A | 1/20 |
Johnson, LeRoy | 2/17, 2/19 |
Jones, Newton | See: Everett. Mayor |
Justice, J. R | 2/14 |
Kaufman, W. H | 2/9 |
Kegley, C. B | See: Patrons of Husbandry |
Kelley, H. G | 2/10 |
Kiefer, Daniel | 1/14, 2/1 |
King, Charles | 1/8, 1/11 |
King, Judson | 2/17 |
King County. Prosecuting Attorney | 2/23, 3/7 |
King County Poindexter (Miles) Senatorial Club | 2/2 |
Kistler, A | 2/19 |
Kitsap County. Abstractor and Searcher of Records | |
Kitsap County. Assessor | 1/11 |
Knappen, K. G | 2/7 |
Kraft, A. A | 2/16 |
Kruegel, William C | 3/13, 3/14 |
LaFollette (Robert M.) Presidential Committee | 1/17, 1/19 |
LaFollette, William L | 1/18, 2/4, 2/15 |
Larimer, D. K | 1/18, 2/2, 2/3, 2/4 |
Lava, David F | 1/21 |
League of Women Voters of Seattle | 3/8, 4/4 |
Leslie's Weekly | See: Sleicher, John A. |
Levine, David | 3/11, 3/14 |
Lewis, Malvin S | 3/12 |
Lewis, William H | 1/20 |
Lewiston Abstract Company | 1/15, See also: Buck, Storey |
Life | 3/19 |
Lincoln County Times, Davenport, Wash | 1/11 |
Lister, Ernest | 2/20 |
Liuck, John W | See: Tacoma. Mayor |
Local Option League | 2/1 |
McEldowney, J. E | 1/5, 4/4 |
McGraw, John H | 1/10 |
McKenna, D. F | 2/19 |
MacKey, Annie | 2/7 |
McLean, Henry A | 2/16 |
Madrona-Denny Blaine Community Club | 3/15 |
Magnuson, Warren G | 3/5, 3/7, 3/8, 3/11 4/1, 4/3 |
Mann, H. C | |
Martin, C. M | 2/17 |
Martin, Clarence D | See: Washington. Governor |
Marvin, Frederic R | 1/6 |
Mathews, William | 1/14, 2/11 |
Mattos, J. P. de | See: Bellingham. Mayor |
Meacham (George F.) & Company | 1/14 |
Mears, W. A | 1/12 |
Meridian Improvement Club | 3/16 |
Metropolitan Press Printing Company | 2/10, 2/18 |
Meyers, Charles E | 2/7 |
Millard, William J | 3/19 |
Miller, Charles H | 2/19 |
Miller, John F | See: Seattle. Mayor |
Mills, Jesse T | 1/20 |
Minneapolis Times | 1/6 |
Missouri. University. Librarian | 3/14, 3/19 |
Moore, O. C | 2/14 |
Moore, U. G | 2/7 |
Morgan, James H | 3/19 |
The Municipal League of Seattle | 2/8, 2/9, 3/8, 3/15, 3/16, 3/18 |
Municipal Ownership Campaign Committee | 4/4 |
Neterer, Jeremiah | 2/20 |
New York Central Lines | 1/6, 1/9 |
New York Commercial | 1/12 |
New York Evening Post | 1/5, 1/8, 1/9, 1/12, 1/10 |
Norris, George W | 3/11 |
The North American | 1/5 |
O'Gorman, Tom A | 3/10 |
The Olympian | See: Warren, W. H. |
The Opportunity Company | 1/9, 1/12, 1/10 |
Oregon Daily Journal | 1/6 |
The Oregonian | 1/6 |
O'Shea, John H | 3/8 |
The Outburst, Spokane | 1/10, See also: Crow, Denton M. |
The Outlook Company | 1/12 |
Pacific Coast Company | 1/6 |
Pacific Monthly | 1/5, 1/9, 1/12, 1/10, 1/11, 1/13 |
Parker, Adele M. [Adella] | 2/9, 4/4 |
Parker, W. E | 1/14 |
Parry Investment Company, Seattle | 1/11 |
Patriotic Mothers' Council | 3/8 |
Patrons of Husbandry | 1/19, 2/11, See also: Kegley, C. B. |
Paulhamus, W. H | 1/16, 1/19 |
Pearce, Charles C | 2/17 |
Peaslee, George W. R | 1/9 |
Peck, E. G | 1/19 |
Peterson, Fred H | 1/11 |
Pigott, H. C | 2/2, 2/5, 2/10, 3/20, See also: Metropolitan Press Printing Company |
Pigott (H. C.) Printing Concern | 2/23 |
Piles, S. H | 1/18 |
Poindexter, Elizabeth Gale | 2/7 |
Poindexter, Miles C | 1/21, 2/1, 2/2, 2/3, 2/4, 2/5, 2/6, 2/7, 2/8, 2/9 |
Poindexter (Miles C.) Senatorial Club of Pierce County | 2/10, 2/12, 2/14, See also: Read, Jesse H. |
Portland. Mayor | 2/18 |
Post, Louis F | 2/7, 2/9 |
Powell, John H | 2/20 |
Powell, Mildred T | 4/1 |
Powell, W. W | 1/17, See also: LaFollette Presidential Committee |
Progressive Republican League | 2/9, 2/11, 2/12, 2/13, 2/14, 2/15, 2/17, 2/18 |
Public Ownership League of America | 3/8 |
The Public Welfare League, Inc | 2/8 |
Puget Sound Power and Light Company | 3/10, 3/11, 3/17 |
Pullman Herald | 3/17 |
Railway and Marine News | 1/12 |
Raush, Thomas A | 2/18 |
Raver, Paul J | See: U.S. Bonneville Power Administration |
Bead, Jesse | 2/13, See also: Poindexter (Miles C.) Senatorial Club of Pierce County |
Rebur, E. L | 1/20 |
Reed, C. S | 1/22 |
Reed, Joseph | 2/9 |
Republican Party. Washington. Central Committee | 1/20 |
Republican Party. Washington. King County Young Men's Republican Club of King County | 1/15 |
Republican Party. Washington. McBride Republican Club | 1/20, 1/21 |
Republican Party. Washington. Whatcom County. Central Committee | 2/7, 2/11, 2/12 |
Reynolds, Charles A | 1/15 |
Rice, Earl G | 3/2 |
Riley, J. E | 2/7 |
Bobbins, J. C | 1/16 |
Roe, H. G | 1/19 |
Rogers, John R | 1/4 |
Roosevelt, Franklin D | 3/4 |
Roosevelt (Franklin D.) Non-Partisan League | 3/9 |
Rosenhaupt, Harry | 2/18 |
Ross, James Delmage | See: Seattle. Lighting Department |
St. Paul Globe | 1/5 |
San Francisco Chronicle | 1/5 |
The Saturday Inspector, Spokane | 1/9 |
The Saturday Review, Seattle | 2/3 |
The Scandinavian American Bank | 1/14, 3/3 |
Schwellenbach, Lewis B | 3/7 |
Seattle. Finance Department | 3/7 |
Seattle. Lighting Department | 3/4, 3/6, 3/7, 3/11, 3/14 |
Seattle. Mayor | 1/22, 3/1 |
Seattle Direct Legislation League | 1/17 |
Seattle Post-Intelligencer | 3/6, 3/9, 3/13, 3/16 |
Seattle Quiz Congress | 2/17, 2/19 |
Seattle Real Estate Board | 3/5 |
The Seattle Star | 1/14, 3/16, 4/1, See also: Beaton, K. C. |
Seattle Telephone Users' League | 3/8 |
Seattle Times | 1/9, 1/11, 2/5, 3/16 |
The Seattle Weekly News | 2/7 |
Shaffer, C. Will | 2/5 |
Shahour, M. J | 2/11 |
Shanks (W. L.) and Shoemaker (A. W.) Company [real estate] | 1/15 |
Shaw, Harry B | 1/5, 1/6 |
Sheffield, William | 1/4 |
Sherman, Clay & Company | 1/15 |
Simmons, Arthur | 2/7 |
Sleicher, John A | 1/4 |
[Slulson], Helen D | 2/8 |
Smith, C. A | 3/20 |
Smith, Elva Deane [sister] | 2/18, 4/4 |
Smith, Jennet [mother] | 3/2 |
Smith, Lillis F. [father] | 1/13, 1/16, 2/10 |
Snohomish County Tribune | See: Brewer, Reece L. |
Snyder, Edgard C | 2/21 |
Spear, Lillian Sylten | 3/12 |
Spokane and Eastern Trust Company | 1/15 |
Spokane Chronicle | 1/6, 1/12, 4/4 |
Spokesman-Review, Spokane | 1/5, 1/8, 1/12, 1/10, 1/11, 1/13, 1/14, 1/15, 1/18, 1/19 1/20, 1/21, 1/22, 2/1, 2/2, 2/3, 2/4, 2/10, 3/18 3/19, 4/3 |
Square Deal Club | 2/15 |
The Statesman. Walla Walla | See: McEldowney, J. |
Stockbridge, Frank Parker | 2/10 |
Strong, Anna Louise | 2/22 |
Summers, J. W | See: Local Option League |
Tacoma. Mayor | 1/22 |
Tacoma Daily News | 1/7, 1/12, 1/10, 1/11 |
Tanner, W | 1/20, 2/20 |
Thomas, Paul | 3/14 |
Thompson, F. W | 2/17 |
The Times-Mirror Company, Los Angeles | 1/9 |
Tindall, Philip | 3/18 |
Todd, Hugh C | 1/22, 2/3, 2/4 |
Toledo, Ohio. Mayor | 2/18 |
Town Talk Publishing Company | 1/5 |
Trafton's News and Advertising Bureau | 1/4, 1/5 |
Trimble, William P | 2/7 |
Troy, Smith | 3/9, See also: Washington. Attorney General |
Tucker, Wilmon | 2/7 |
Turnell, J. B | 1/19 |
Turner, George | 1/3 |
Tworoger, Philip | 2/10 |
Unger, J. C | 3/9 |
U.S. Agriculture Department. Bureau of Plant Industry | 3/17 |
U.S. Attorney | 2/23 |
U.S. Attorney General | 3/1, 3/7 |
U.S. Bonneville Power Administration | 3/7 |
U.S. Food Administration | 2/22 |
U.S. Interior Department. Geological Survey | 2/1 |
U.S. Interior Department. Secretary | 3/9, 3/11, 3/17 |
U.S. War Department | 1/3, 1/20, 2/22 |
U.S. War Department. Spruce Production Division | 2/23, 3/1 |
U.S. Women's Liberty Loan Committee | 3/22 |
Varnum, W S | 2/8 |
Wakefield, Leta [sister] | 2/22 |
Walker, George H | 2/20 |
Wallgren, Monrad C | 3/11 |
Warburton, S | 1/10, 2/20 |
Warrne, W. H | 1/5 |
Washington. Attorney General | 4/12, See also: Troy, Smith |
Washington. Auditor | 1/11, 3/4, 3/6, See also: Yelle, Cliff |
Washington. Commerce and Labor Department | 1/12 |
Washington. Finance, Budget and Business Dept | 3/4 |
Washington. Governor | 1/20, 3/3, 3/8, See also: Hay, Marion E. |
Washington. Inheritance Tax add Escheat Division | 3/5 |
Washington. Insurance Commissioner | ? |
Washington. Department of Licenses | 3/5, 3/6 |
Washington. Liquor Control Board | 3/7 |
Washington. Commission for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition | 1/10 |
Washington. Division of Municipal Corporations | 3/7, 3/14 |
Washington. Commissioner of Public Lands | 2/6, 2/8, 3/9 |
Washington. Public Service Commission | 2/13, 2/14, 2/17, 3/17, 3/15, 3/16 |
Washington. State College. College of Agriculture and Agriculture Experiment Station | 3/13 |
Washington. State College. Library | 3/12, 3/13, 3/19 |
Washington. State Department | 1/11, 2/7 |
Washington. State Department. Secretary | 1/3 |
Washington. State Grain Inspector | 1/6 |
Washington. State Patrol | 3/6 |
Washington. State Reformatory. Superintendent | 3/12 |
Washington. State University. President | 3/12, 3/14, See also: Bryan, Enoch A. |
Washington. Tax Commission | 3/5 |
Washington. Treasurer | 3/5 |
Washington. University. Library | 4/1 |
Washington Association of Realtors | 3/18 |
Washington Logging and Brokerage Company | 1/15 |
Washington Progressive Legislative Committee | 3/18 |
Washington State Federation of Fraternal, Patriotic, City and Country Clubs | 3/8 |
Washington State Taxpayers Association | 3/4 |
Washington State Womans Good Roads Congress | 4/4 |
Watson, J. Howard | 1/8, 1/9, 1/13 |
Wells, E. H | 1/15 |
Wells, William Bittle | See: The Pacific Monthly |
Wernicke, Waldo | 2/7 |
West Coast and Puget Sound Lumberman | 1/6 |
Whedon, D. D | 3/2 |
Winfree, W. H | 2/22 |
Wisconsin. Board of Public Affairs | 2/18 |
Witter, F. P | 1/8 |
Woman's Dilling (George W.) Campaign Headquarters | 2/6 |
Womens Christian Temperance Union of Western Washington | 3/18 |
Woodmen of the World | 1/11 |
Woods, Rufus | 1/21 |
The World, Vancouver, B.C | 1/6 |
Yelle, Cliff | 3/9, See also: Washington. Auditor |
Yerkes, A. K | 1/22 |
Ziebell, Adolph G | 3/11 |
Detailed Description of the CollectionReturn to Top
Personal PapersReturn to Top
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1/1 | Biographical Features |
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General Correspondence See the Name Index to Correspondence for an alphabetical list of
correspondents and the folders in which they appear.
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1/2-22 | Correspondence |
1892-1909 |
2/1-23 | Correspondence |
1909-1918 |
3/1-19 | Correspondence |
1918-1942 |
4/1-3 | Correspondence |
1943-1957 |
4/4 | Undated and Incomplete Letters |
undated |
Box/Folder | ||
4/5 | Financial Records |
undated |
4/6 | Legal Documents |
undated |
4/7 | Court Papers |
undated |
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23/1 | Certificates |
1891-1898 |
Box/Folder | ||
4/8 | Certificates |
1898-1899 |
4/9 | Resolutions |
undated |
4/10 | Notes |
undated |
Diaries |
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5/1-26 | Diaries 46 items
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1890-1891 |
6/1-24 | Diaries 46 items
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1891-1892 |
7/1-27 | Diaries 61 items
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1892-1896 |
8/1-31 | Diaries 90 items
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1896 |
9/1-17 | Diaries 47 items
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1896-1897 |
9/18 | Diaries |
1911, 1946 |
Notebooks |
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9/19-28 | Notebooks 17 items
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1892-1904 |
10/1-2 | Notebooks 14 items
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1906, 1910 |
10/3 | Notebooks |
1919 |
10/4 | Notebooks |
1919, 1920 |
10/5 | Notebooks |
1941 |
10/6 | Notebooks 4 items
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undated |
10/7-8 | Loose-leaf |
1898-1906 |
10/9 | Loose-leaf |
1901 |
10/10-11 | Loose-leaf |
1901-1909 |
10/12-13 | Loose-leaf |
1906 |
10/14-15 | Loose-leaf |
1907-1909 |
Box/Folder | ||
10/16 | Publications |
undated |
Speeches and Writings |
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Box/Folder | ||
11/1 | [Untitled Speech] |
June 4, 1896 |
11/2 | "Military Essay" |
1896 |
11/3 | Fragments |
undated |
11/4 | "The Army Correspondent" |
February 4, 1904 |
11/5 | "The Glory of the Daffodil" |
1928 |
11/6 | "Reminiscences of a Newspaper Reporter" |
June 15, 1936 |
11/7-23 | "Joe's Dope" (Autobiography) Chapter 1-13 |
undated |
11/24-27 | "Bunch Grass Pioneer," Version A, Chapters 1-4
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undated |
12/1-2 | "Bunch Grass Pioneer," Version B |
undated |
12/3 | "The Life and Misbehavior of Claude Smith"
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1960 |
12/4 | Biographical Odds and Ends |
undated |
12/5-6 | "Pullman, Fifty Years Ago" |
undated |
12/7 | "Seattle, Fifty Years Ago," Version A |
November 14, 1949 |
12/8-9 | "Seattle, Fifty Years Ago," Version B |
1949 |
12/10-13 | "Joe's Radio Memos" |
October 19, 1956-February 1957 |
12/14 | "The Trail of the Serpent: A Little History of the
Supreme Court" |
undated |
12/15 | "The Ballad of Yukon Jake" |
undated |
12/16-17 | "Statesmen I Have Met" |
undated |
12/18 | Elberton |
undated |
12/19 | Palouse Country |
undated |
12/20 | Campaigning |
undated |
12/21-22 | Economics |
undated |
12/23 | Toast |
1899 |
12/23 | "The War" (Poem) |
undated |
12/24 | Political |
1895-1906 |
13/1-2 | Political |
1903-1910 |
13/3 | Work for Young Republicans |
undated |
13/4-7 | Political |
1911-1912 |
13/8 | 37th District Representative/State Legislature
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1936 |
13/9 | Political |
1937-1939 |
13/10 | Speeches for Gubernatorial Campaign |
1940 |
13/11 | Political |
1940 |
13/12 | "The Measure of Wendel Wilke" |
1940 |
13/13 | City Light Issue |
1940-1941 |
13/14 | Mayoralty Campaign Finance Question |
1941 |
13/15-19 | Miscellany |
undated |
22 | Duplicates |
undated |
Box/Folder | ||
13/20 | Speeches and Writings of Others |
undated |
21 | Notecards |
undated |
Subject Series |
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14/1-7 | Seattle City Light |
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14/8-9 | Electric Power |
1936-1942 |
14/10 | Joe Smith Campaign |
1910 |
14/11 | Joe Smith Campaign for Representative 37th District
State |
undated |
14/11 | Legislature |
undated |
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23/2 | Pigott Printing Co. |
1917 |
Box/Folder | ||
14/12-13 | Pigott Printing Co. |
1917-1921 |
Ephemera |
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16/1-2 | Miscellaneous |
undated |
16/3 | Campaign Miscellany |
undated |
16/4 | Puget Sound Power and Light - Annual Reports
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1934-1941 |
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23/3 | The Seattle Mail and Herald |
January 17, 1903 |
Box/Folder | ||
16/5-10 | Political |
1904-1908 |
17/1-16 | Political |
1910-1942, undated |
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23/4-5 | Political |
1904-1917, 1940-1950 |
Box/Folder | ||
17/17 | Reports - Washington.Emergency Relief Administration
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1933 |
Publications |
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Box/Folder | ||
17/18 | The Dilettante |
1900 |
17/19 | Direct Trader |
1917 |
17/20 | Joemma Jottings |
1917 |
17/21-22 | Joemma Bulletin |
1923-1926 |
17/23-24 | Joe's Bulb Bulletin |
1927-1929 |
17/23-24 | Joe's Seed Bulletin |
1940-1941 |
17/25 | Joe's Bulletin |
1954 |
18/1 | Seattle Composing Stick |
undated |
18/2-5 | Washington State Publications & Legislation
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1933-1943 |
Box/Folder | ||
19-20 | Clippings |
1899-1962 |
21 | Campaign Cards |
undated |
Spanish-American War and Philippine Insurrection Return to Top
Container(s) | Description | Dates |
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Box/Folder | ||
24/1-3 | General Correspondence |
October 25-December 3, 1898 |
24/4-7 | Diary |
undated |
24/4-8 | Notes-Philippine Insurrection |
undated |
24/9-10 | Notebooks |
undated |
24/11-13, 25/1-2 | Reports |
1898-1899 |
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23/6 | Transcripts-Charges Against Col. Fife, First Washington
Volunteers |
1898 |
Box/Folder | ||
25/4-6 | Rosters |
undated |
25/7-9 | Muster Rolls |
undated |
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23/6 | Rosters |
undated |
23/6 | Muster Rolls |
undated |
Box/Folder | ||
25/10 | Lists |
undated |
Speeches and Writings |
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25/11 | "Old Buck" and "Buck Harlan" (Philippine Insurrection)
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undated |
25/12 | "The Corporal of the Third Squad" |
undated |
25/13-18, 26/1-9 | "The Story of the First Washington Volunteers"
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undated |
26/10 | "Christmas at Manila a Year Ago" |
1899 |
26/11 | "The Corporal of the Third Squad" |
undated |
26/11 | "The Battle of February Fifth, A Personal Narrative"
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undated |
26/12 | "Dauntless Washington Troops Fight To the Death (
Post Intelligencer)" |
1899 |
Box/Folder | ||
26/13 | Speeches and Writings of Others |
undated |
26/14-15 | Ephemera |
undated |
Memorabilia |
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Box/Folder | ||
26/16 | Purple Heart |
undated |
26/16 | Banner |
undated |
26/17 | Miscellaneous |
undated |
Names and SubjectsReturn to Top
Subject Terms
- Agriculture--Palouse River Valley (Idaho and Wash.)
- Journalists--Washington (State)
- Personal Papers/Corporate Records (University of Washington)
- Political activists--Washington (State)
- Populism--Palouse River Valley (Idaho and Wash.)
- Progressivism (United States politics)
- Spanish-American War, 1898--Journalists
- War correspondents--Washington (State)--Seattle
- Wheat farmers--Palouse River Valley (Idaho and Wash.)
Personal Names
- Dilling, George W
- Gill, Hiram
- Smith, Joe, 1872-1962--Archives
Corporate Names
- Populist Party (Wash.)
Geographical Names
- Palouse (Wash.)--Politics and government
- Philippines--History--Revolution, 1896-1898--Journalists
- Seattle (Wash.)--Politics and government
- Washington (State)--Politics and government
Form or Genre Terms
- Diaries
- Notebooks
- Photographs
Titles within the Collection
- Joe's seed bulletin