Archives West Finding Aid

These accessions consist of professional papers of historian David H. Stratton.

MS.1999.33:

David Stratton professional papers. Includes files related to major historic preservation projects, research and teaching, and other professional activities.

Preliminary inventory:

Box 1. Brief vita, and beginning of county files (A-G)

Box 2-5. County files continued. Beginning of a new alphabetical sequence: inventory of historic places.

Box 6-9. Inventory of historic places continued. New sequence: categories.

Box 10-13. Another alphabetical sequence (places). New sequence: Washington State Advisory Council on Historic Preservation files. Boxes of slides.

Box 14. District histories (bound), and more historic preservation files.

Box 15-18. Hells Canyon National Recreation Area project files. Box 18 includes Chinese Massacre files.

Box 19. Washington State Advisory Council on Historic Preservation files.

Box 20-21. Washington State Historical Society files.

Box 22-31. Washington Centennial Commission files.

Box 32-33. Grants, Professional agencies, etc.

Box 34. WSU committees.

Box 35. DHS research.

Box 36. WSU, Pacific NW history instruction and reference material (includes course packs).

Box 37. WSU grants and proposals.

Box 38. WSU centennial.

Box 39. WSU committees and activities.

Box 40. Washington centennial memorabilia.

Loose material: binders with copies of theses and other manuscripts by others.

Box 41. Atlases and other large printed items.

Box 43-45. Student papers.

MS.2000.04:

David Stratton papers, 1977-1990. (5 boxes; 5 linear feet)

MS.2005.04:

This collection contains David Stratton's Hells Canyon reports. (1 box; 1 linear foot)

MS.2015.13:

Professional papers of David Stratton, historian and Washington State University professor. Primarily collected research materials related to his research on Albert Fall and the Teapot Dome scandal (reproductions and some original documents). Circa 1890s-1990s. (17 containers; 22 linear feet)

Preliminary inventory:

Boxes 1 and 16. Jouett Fall Elliott files (daughter of Albert Fall). Photographs, scrapbooks, and correspondence.

Boxes 2-13. Fall and Teapot Dome Project files. Mostly reproduced archival materials, along with some original documents (Albert Fall press clipping books and scrapbook).

Boxes 14-15: Miscellaneous papers: correspondence files (Pacific Northwest Quarterly, University of Washington Press, Eastern Washington State Historical Society, Western History Association); Wranglers file (mainly programs); publications edited by David Stratton; thesis by Carpenter about the Medicine Creek Treaty.

Box 17: Maps of Tucumcari and vicinity (rolled).

Container 18: Bound volume: Forest atlas of the national forests of the United States. Wallowa (Oregon) folio. United States Forest Service, 1917. Extensive annotations showing 1917 grazing allotments.

MS.2019.12:

David Stratton papers, 1962-2013. (3 boxes; 3 linear feet)